• @Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
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    179 hours ago

    In a more direct way, there is video evidence of Israeli soldiers delivering briefcases full of money to Hamas leaders. Netanyahu and his cronies want Hamas to be in charge of Palestine, because the last thing he needs is a competent and legitimate Palestinian government.

    • AbsentBird
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      19 minutes ago

      Isn’t that the Qatar money the above comment was talking about?

      • @RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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        157 hours ago

        A quote from Netanyahu: “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas… This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas

        I already knew that Israel facilitated transfers of funds from other sources, but I didn’t know that they also did direct funding and transfers. According to that wiki article, Israel was at least certainly doing that in the 1980s and 90s. Not that it really matters, Israel soliciting other parties to give money to Hamas or Israel directly giving money to Hamas, there’s little difference really.

        I can’t find anything right away about video evidence, but I wouldn’t be surprised at this point. I’d love a source for that as well.