World News

31453 readers

974 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

419

Top Secret: In a 2018 letter, Netanyahu asks Qatar to fund Hamas (www.ynetnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

27 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We've known for years that Netanyahu allowed suitcases full of money across the border into Gaza that could only be going to Hamas.

But him going out and soliciting funding for Hamas...

That's a whole nother thing. I know Netanyhu was already likely on the way out before, but I can't see how the Israelis let him stay in control after this.

He's literally the reason all this is happening because the only way his group maintains power is if voters are scared. So he created a reason for them to be scared.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He's literally the reason all this is happening

There is not just one man behind this, despite how convenient this would be.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed its not one man. It's zionism

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree with you, but you might find the history of Zionism interesting. Before Israel, there was a sizable portion of Zionists that didn't want Israel to exist in the middle east. There were also Zionists that didn't want a 'state'. They thought it was more important to have a safe place for a sizable Jewish population. There's probably a lot of flavors of Zionism that you'd agree with. It's the dominant Israeli Zionism that's horrible.

It's a lot easier to say 'Zionist' though. Just thought I'd share in case you weren't aware.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In the link I provided above it says something very similar:

While it had many strains historically, the Zionism that took hold and stands today is a settler-colonial movement, establishing an apartheid state where Jews have more rights than others. Our own history teaches us how dangerous this can be.

Palestinian dispossession and occupation are by design. [...]

Apart from that when you say There's probably a lot of flavors of Zionism that you'd agree with I must inform you that this is not the case.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

He's not the only man on the ship but he's the one at the helm.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"manufacturing consent is the name of the game" - System of a Down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The bottom line is money - nobody gives a fuck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

4000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Netanyahu allowed suitcases full of money across the border into Gaza

Was so shocked when I read this I took a look and found an Israeli language source