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[–] byte1000@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm glad you've edited you're blog post so now the country of Qatar is mentioned, which was not the case before. At least there's some progress here.

But I believe that your description of the situation is currently still misleading, especially the title "Israel funded Hamas". Again, it might just be a language issue, but It seems like your claim is that Israel took money from its own budget, and gave it to Hamas (directly or indirectly). If that's actually you're claim, there's no source you've cited that actually says that. Is that your claim? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

It's hard for me to tell if you've actually addressed the point I was making, because all you did is adding quotations. So I don't know if you've accepted my correction that it was not Israeli money nor US tax payers’ money, but in fact was Qatari money, just as your sources say.

So to be clear, I'm not arguing about the fact that Netanyahu's strategy was to allow Qatari money to be handed to Hamas in Gaza, for the purpose of preventing peace talks with Fatah's Palestinian Authority. That is obviously true.

[11] Haaretz:

It’s important to remember that without those funds from Qatar (and Iran), Hamas would not have had the money to maintain its reign of terror, and its regime would have been dependent on restraint.

In practice, the injection of cash (as opposed to bank deposits, which are far more accountable) from Qatar, a practice that Netanyahu supported and approved, has served to strengthen the military arm of Hamas since 2012.