by Antiwar dot Com at Antiwar via The GrayZone
The Israeli government’s move to ship rifles to a criminal gang tied to ISIS has drawn parallels with Tel Aviv’s prior strategy of funding Hamas to undermine the Palestinian Authority.
Israeli opposition leader and former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was arming a gang in southern Gaza that’s affiliated with ISIS, a charge that has been confirmed by Israeli officials.
“The Israeli government is giving weapons to a group of criminals and felons, identified with the Islamic State, at the direction of the prime minister,” Lieberman said. “To my knowledge, this did not go through approval by the cabinet.”
Liberman compared the arming of the criminal gang to Netanyahu’s previous strategy of propping up Hamas as a counter to the Palestinian Authority. “No one can guarantee that these weapons will not be directed at Israel. We have no way of monitoring or tracking them,” he said.…
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