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#15 - #18 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-15
In the late 2010s and early 2020s, Israeli officials encouraged Qatar to support Hamas,[8] especially by approving the transfer of large sums of financial aid by Qatar to the organization.
I addressed that but you ignored it, as usual - it wasn't support of Hamas, it was humanitarian aid for Gaza via Qatar:
FTA: Israel has allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza...
Letting UN's Humanitarian Cash Assistance to Gaza program pass through Qatar has been a long-standing negotiated policy.
From 2014 to 2020, U.N. agencies spent nearly $4.5 billion in Gaza, including $600 million in 2020 alone... With Israel's approval, Qatar has provided over $1 billion in reconstruction funds and humanitarian aid for poor Palestinians in the Gaza Strip... **
So, humanitarian aid is a "policy of propping up Hamas"?
You've been peddling this nonsense here for years, despite clear rebuttals.
[9] Several Israeli intelligence officials have cited Qatari money as a contributing factor to the success of Hamas in leading the October 7 attacks in 2023;[10]
en.wikipedia.org
Money is fungible ("money is money"). Hamas, being the Highest Governing Authority in Gaza, was the receiver of any "humanitarian aid" from the USA and EU indirectly (because Hamas is a designated terrorist entity) through UNRWA and UN and was in position to [mis]use the money for any purpose...
Does that mean that USA and EU have a policy of "propping up Hamas" or "making Hamas stronger"? You understand now how ridiculous that line of thought is?
Unless your argument is that Gaza had to be deprived of all humanitarian aid because they are governed by Hamas (BTW, all Arab countries finally ended aid **), it still is absolutely contrary to "policy of making Hamas stronger" - anyone but you understands that.
Netanyahu admits Israel backing 'criminal' groups, rivals of Hamas, in Gaza
www.aljazeera.com
You are again undermining your own argument by providing the article that directly contradicts your assertion that Netanyahu had a policy of "strengthening Hamas" - even al-Jazeera proves you wrong.
Netanyahu doesn't even deny it.
Why would he deny that he wants to weaken Hamas by "supporting" its rivals? Again, that is exactly opposite of "propping up Hamas"!
How come there aren't any articles saying Netanyahu didn't support Hamas?
Because writing one would be stupid and journalists need to at least seem credible... as opposed to posters on blog sites.
Your arguments are now reduced to a challenge of proving the negative. What kind of "logic" is that?
You are such a time-toilet... but I am clarifying your posts here so those reading the thread understood that.
Keep the "faith"!
** www.gatestoneinstitute.org - Why Arabs Are Fed up With the Palestinians - by Khaled Abu Toameh, July 12, 2022 (even before October 7, 2023)
|------- ... The Palestinians are disappointed: their Arab brothers have stopped providing them with financial aid. ... The Arabs are apparently not only fed up with the Palestinian leadership, but also with international organizations and agencies that help the Palestinians. Arab financial aid to the UNRWA has dropped by 90% in the past few years... -------|
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"Here you go Jethro...now's your turn to pick tomatoes in the FL sunshine for $12 per hour."
50 years ago, Jethro used to be able to pick tomatoes for $1.50 an hour and then go buy a 50 cent pack of cigarettes and smoke away his resentment until the following morning.
Now he makes 12 dollars an hour and only has to pay 10 bucks for that same pack.
That's some real progress, I tells ya!