g_money99999
They only time that I can think of it being accurate to say that Israel "let Hamas get strong" was in the 1980s. Israel supported the political wing of Hamas in the 1980s as part of a divide and rule strategy to weaken Fatah. You have to remember that at the time, Israel was under greater pressure to agree to a two state solution with Fatah.
I haven't seen any evidence that Israel supported Hamas when it took over Gaza in 2007 for example, or anytime afterwards.
MICBKID
For 2007, it’s not a public strategy that Israel says but many ministers have said “Hamas is an asset, and Fatah is a liability”, “Hamas helps us the most in delegitimization of the Palestinian cause”, “Funding Gaza is the surest way to prevent a Palestinian state”. All this points to Israel’s interest in keeping Gaza as a proto-state outside of Palestine
Algebrace
To back up your point, here's an article from Israel Times about the issue:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
tl;dr, Hamas was propped up to counter the moderates in Palestine to ensure Palestine would never be able to achieve statehood. Then it backfired.
RKU69
Yeah, there are a lot of op-eds now flying around the Israeli press lamenting the "Netanyahu doctrine" of ensuring that Hamas can remain strong comparatively to other factions, and using that as an excuse to completely stonewall any political dialogue or negotiation with Palestinians.
Former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami
wrote this harshly worded op-ed:
By ruling out any political process in Palestine and boldly asserting, in his government’s binding guidelines, that ‘the Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel’, Netanyahu’s fanatical government made bloodshed inevitable.
Admittedly, blood flowed in Palestine even when peace-seekers such as Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak were in office. But Netanyahu recklessly invited violence by paying his coalition partners any price for their support. He let them grab Palestinian lands, expand illegal settlements, scorn Muslim sensibilities regarding the sacred mosques on the Temple Mount, and promote suicidal delusions about the reconstruction of the biblical Temple in Jerusalem (in itself a recipe for what could be the mother of all Muslim jihads). Meanwhile, he also sidelined the more moderate Palestinian leadership of Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, effectively beefing up the radical Hamas in Gaza.
According to Netanyahu’s twisted logic, strong Islamist rule in Gaza would be the ultimate argument against a political solution in Palestine. By rewarding the extremists and castigating the moderates, Netanyahu believed that he, unlike the soft leftists, had finally found the solution to the Palestine conflict. The Abraham Accords, which normalised Israel’s relations with four Arab states (and will probably soon include Saudi Arabia), blinded him to the Palestinian volcano beneath his feet.
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on se että miten Israel yllätettiin? Onko Mossad ja muut organisaatiot tosiaan lahonneet entisistä loiston päivistä? Vai pelaako bibi jotain 4D shakkia putlerin tapaan? Israelissa ilmeisesti kaipaillaan bibin lipastamia shekeleitä ja ehkä pikku sattumukset rajalla vievät vaalikarjan mielenkiinnon pois näistä ahvääreistä? Asia selviää ehkä myöhemmin, tai sitten ei.
toivottavasti joku käy heitteleen sinne edes sian verellä täytettyjä vesi-ilmapalloja tms. noitten mölyävien apinoitten sekaan...prkl sentään