by Kyle Anzalone at Libertarian Institute
The Israeli Shin Bet intelligence agency concluded that policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led to Hamas’s successful attack.
The report released last week explained that Netanyahu allowing Qatar to send funds to Hamas propped up the Palestinian group and paved the way for the October 7 attack. It explained. Netanyahu’s “policy of quiet that allowed Hamas’s massive build-up; the flow of Qatari funds and their delivery to Hamas’s military win, [and] the ongoing erosion of Israeli deterrence.”
The long-time Israeli Prime Minister has believed that propping up Hamas in Gaza was key to never having to negotiate a two-state solution by keeping the Palestinians in the Strip and West Bank.
Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich, one of Netanyahu’s media advisers, once bragged that one of Netanyahu’s key successes was disconnecting Gaza from the West Bank, both politically and conceptually. “[Netanyahu] basically smashed the vision of the Palestinian state in these two places… some of the achievement is related to the Qatari money reaching Hamas each month.”
Tel Aviv even pressured Doha to give the cash to Hamas. Netanyahu has previously dispatched high officials, such as Mossad chief Yosi Cohen, to Doha “[begging] the Qataris to keep funneling money into Hamas” as Avigdor Lieberman, the former defense minister put it.
“The effort to cope with a terrorist organisation on the basis of intelligence and defence,…
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