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Re: by pyuser583 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:41PM (#45456464)
Israel gave Hamas seed funding back in the 1980s. They thought it would weaken the PLO. This was when the US funding the Taliban. Having pet Jihandis' was cool back then.
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Re: by emmelaich on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:33PM (#45458248)
More recently, USA gave ('returned') $1.7 billion to Iran. Of course a large chunk of that has gone to Hamas and Hezbollah and numerous other interests that destabilise Israel and Western powers.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-united-states-iran-an...

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Re: by JumpCrisscross on Friday October 03, 2025 @07:21AM (#45461588)
> Of course a large chunk of that has gone to Hamas and Hezbollah and numerous other interests that destabilise Israel and Western powers

It's really difficult to predict what would have happened had Trump not torn up the nuclear deal. That changed not only the political incentives in Tehran (between moderates, who favoured opening up and co-operating with the West, and hard-liners at the IRGC, who profit from a state of perpetual war), but also its regional posture and thus that of its proxies.

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