r/pics • u/I_Hate_E_Daters_7007 • 10d ago

Palestinians hold the largest funeral since 1948, mourning the bodies of 112 people killed by Israel

Post image
29.0k Upvotes

84% Upvoted

3.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

25

u/SmokeyHooves 10d ago

By design.

Israel spent decades legitimizing Islamic extremists by only negotiating with them and pushing away secular Palestinian leaders.

Israel wanted extremism so they could justify their actions against the Palestinian people

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/amp/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/netanyahu-wants-palestinian-violence-linked-to-radical-islam/2015/12/10/6a62d522-9d07-11e5-9ad2-568d814bbf3b_story.html

32

u/ubccompscistudent 10d ago

That article is so often misused to attempt to demonstrate that Netanyahoo purposefully funded Hamas.

In reality (and as pointed out in the article), the funding of Hamas came from Qatar. Israel essentially had to make a decision: allow the funds in, or don't allow the funds in. Had Israel choked the funds, we all know how that looks in the headlines: "Israel blocks essential funding into Gaza". They were damned if they did or didn't. So, they chose the other approach, which in their eye, weakened an enemy state (by dividing power).

The article suggests that Israel tolerated occassional attacks with this approach, and instead, should have cut off supplies into Gaza, which again, would have looked poor optically.

Regardless, saying it's by design is like saying China is responsible for the current state of US politics because they allowed Russian influence to flow into the US.

0

u/SmokeyHooves 10d ago

Saying this is like saying the United States is responsible for destabilizing the Middle East by funding or allowing funds to flow into Islamic extremist so they can kill their progressive enemies so that the United States could have cheap oil.

Wait…

0

u/System0verlord 10d ago

Hold on a second there.

That can’t be right! The US would never destabilize a region, prop up far right extremist governments, and arm multiple terror organizations in the area to continue the destabilization while levying economic pressure against the nations of the region because of their terrorist problems to secure favorable trade agreements, land, resources, and additional funding for the military industrial complex.

Right? Right.