That was what Netanyahu said out loud but he’s also a known liar. You’re ignoring the other statements with their true intentions.
As far back as December 2012, Mr. Netanyahu told the prominent Israeli journalist Dan Margalit that it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Mr. Margalit, in an interview, said that Mr. Netanyahu told him that having two strong rivals, including Hamas, would lessen pressure on him to negotiate toward a Palestinian state.
Shlomo Brom, a retired general and former deputy to Israel’s national security adviser, said an empowered Hamas helped Mr. Netanyahu avoid negotiating over a Palestinian state.
“One effective way to prevent a two-state solution is to divide between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank,” he said in an interview. The division gives Mr. Netanyahu an excuse to disengage from peace talks, Mr. Brom said, adding that he can say, “I have no partner.”
Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right politician who is now Mr. Netanyahu’s finance minister, put it bluntly in 2015, the year he was elected to Parliament.
“The Palestinian Authority is a burden,” he said. “Hamas is an asset.”
Hamas is the ruling body in Gaza. Where do you think donations go? Who do you think is receiving them on the other end?
This was the first step of easing restrictions as a show of good faith. It was literally allowing money that people had donated to Gaza enter Gaza.
Hamas agreed to cool the rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, and Israel agreed to begin easing border restrictions.
Don’t take it from me, here is AP News:
That was what Netanyahu said out loud but he’s also a known liar. You’re ignoring the other statements with their true intentions.
There’s video clips and everything.