Without the Second Intifada, you mean. That's the moment when Israel's political left was obliterated according to domestic polling, and it hasn't yet recovered.
That is some grand A nonsense. Netanyahu was first elected in 1996. Hamas was a minor force. Back then it was all about Yasser Arafat.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKRFGS_Woww
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...
- https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-security-forces-escor...
His goal in helping them take over was to foment a political split between the Palestinians in order to try to head off any possibility of a two state solution.
They provided what he thought of as the ideal justification for a hitler style ethnic cleansing on Oct 7.
Fast forward to Benji saying that the best way to ensure funding for Israel is by having a strong Hamas, and things never change.
It is a crazy situation they got there
You are mischaracterizing it. Willfully. That makes you a liar.
The "briefcases full of cash" were money from Qatar to pay the civil servants to keep the society going because PA wouldn't pay them (given that they were just thrown off the roofs in Gaza by victorious Hamas following a short civil war).
Now where that money went is a different conversation. But you are making it look like Netanyahu went into Israel's treasury, filled briefcases full of cash and had someone deliver it to Hamas. You are willfully lying.
>Now where that money went is a different conversation
This is precisely the conversation we were having.
>But you are making it look like Netanyahu went into Israel's treasury
I neither said nor implied that. That is a lie. I know that the ultimate source was Qatar. Netanyahu nonetheless delivered it for precisely the reasons I gave.
These facts are public and well known, hence why I used the term "famously".
People do things with the best of intentions. Sometimes it doesn't work. How you went from there to Netanyahu supports the very entity he spent his entire life fighting - that's quite a reach even for the smooth brained pali supporters.
> defend a state that is racist to its very core.
The Jews wouldn't need a state if they weren't being ethnically cleansed, genocided, resettled, etc... throughout history at the whims of their Muslim or Christian rulers or "neighbors".
But as it is, we have wannabe genocidal maniacs running around the world wanting to kill every Jew and, inexplicably supported by the likes of you. So yes, Israel is not only needed - it's required.
Sure man, whatever you tell yourself to sleep at night.
What's next, an ICBM hidden as a mosque tower?
Just think for a second in rational terms, who funded this if - as the IDF claims - every person entering and leaving the Gaza strip was thoroughly controlled?
Where did the suitcases of cash and weapons come from?
Just something to think about.
Hint: It's an artificial conflict, and both sides (Hamas and IDF) rely to consolidate their power on each other. Without Hamas, there can be no Natanyahu.