Analysis: How Israeli-US actions kept Hamas in power

They allowed Hamas to run in the 2006 election, which it won.

A 2007 failed Israeli-CIA coup attempted to oust Hamas & install the PLO.

From 2007, Israel imposed an economic blockade on Gazans, making them dependent on Hamas for jobs.

Netanyahu had Qatar & Egypt fund Hamas to ensure political division in order to forestall a Palestinian state.

https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/protests-israeli-netanyahu.html

#hamas #israelfundedhamas #cia #plo #uspol #usimperialism .

Why Hamas resists all foreign demands for surrender
https://thecradle.co/articles/why-hamas-resists-all-foreign-demands-for-surrender
#gazagenocide #genocide #IsraelTerroristState #arabcomplicity #usa #qatar #saudiarabia #egypt #ceasefire
@palestine @israel

Egyptian fears now are that the #UAE is trying to carry out large-scale plans to blow up the Gaza Strip from within by stimulating protests against Hamas and creating confrontations between the people and the resistance. It even amounted to Emirati funding through Israel for any Gazan who wants to demonstrate against Hamas.”

...Surrender would not prevent mass displacement, but would accelerate it. The collapse of #Gaza would send shockwaves through the occupied #WestBank, East #Jerusalem, and the 1948 territories, heralding the final act of the #Palestinian cause.

Hamas has resolved to continue the fight regardless of the cost. “If we are to be eliminated,” one source tells The Cradle, “let it be in an honorable battle, not in exile.” They cite the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacres as a grim lesson: once the Palestine Liberation Organization (#PLO) left Lebanon, the residents of the defenseless camps were butchered. The difference now is that #Hamas is on its own land, among its own people.

Analysis: How Israeli-US actions kept Hamas in power

They allowed Hamas to run in the 2006 election, which it won.

A 2007 failed Israeli-CIA coup attempted to oust Hamas & install the PLO.

From 2007, Israel imposed an economic blockade on Gazans, making them dependent on Hamas for jobs.

Netanyahu had Qatar & Egypt fund Hamas to ensure political division in order to forestall a Palestinian state.

https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/protests-israeli-netanyahu.html

#hamas #israelfundedhamas #cia #plo #uspol #usimperialism .

Analysis: How Israeli-US actions kept Hamas in power

They allowed Hamas to run in the 2006 election, which it won.

A 2007 failed Israeli-CIA coup attempted to oust Hamas & install the PLO.

From 2007, Israel imposed an economic blockade on Gazans, making them dependent on Hamas for jobs.

Netanyahu had Qatar & Egypt fund Hamas to ensure political division in order to forestall a Palestinian state.

https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/protests-israeli-netanyahu.html

#hamas #israelfundedhamas #cia #plo #uspol #usimperialism .

Analysis: How Israeli-US actions kept Hamas in power

They allowed Hamas to run in the 2006 election, which it won.

A 2007 failed Israeli-CIA coup attempted to oust Hamas & install the PLO.

From 2007, Israel imposed an economic blockade on Gazans, making them dependent on Hamas for jobs.

Netanyahu had Qatar & Egypt fund Hamas to ensure political division in order to forestall a Palestinian state.

https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/protests-israeli-netanyahu.html

#hamas #israelfundedhamas #cia #plo #uspol #usimperialism .

#usa #israel #palestine : #gaza / #arableague / #plo / #reconstruction / #diplomacy

„Foreign ministers from #Qatar, #Jordan, #SaudiArabia, #Egypt and the #UnitedArabEmirates, along with the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee, presented the reconstruction plan to Witkoff, agreeing with the U.S. envoy to continue consultations and coordination on this plan as a basis for the reconstruction efforts in Gaza (….).‟

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-13/Arab-FMs-meet-U-S-envoy-on-Gaza-reconstruction-1BHAwKGzIfC/p.html

https://www.addameer.org/news/5502

#Addameer 16 february 2025

The #PalestinianHumanRightsOrganisationsCouncil (#PHROC) calls on the #PLO and the govt to fulfill their legal and national commitments towards prisoners, the wounded and the families of martyrs, and to revoke the president's decision regarding the mechanisms for disbursing their entitlements

#PrisonerSupportandHumanRightsAssociation

#FreePalestineNOW

Today in Labor History December 9, 1987: The First Intifada began in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. It was series of protests, civil disobedience and riots carried out by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and within the state of Israel against Israeli repression including beatings, shootings, killings, house demolitions, uprooting of trees, deportations, extended imprisonments, and detentions without trial. It lasted over 5 years, until September 1993, ultimately being suppressed by Israeli military force. Up to 200 Israelis and nearly 2,000 Palestinians died. Both the Oslo and Madrid conferences and Peace Accords stemmed from the First Intifada, as well as the PLO’s recognition of the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. Another result of these accords was the creation of the collaborationist Palestinian Authority (PA), which currently controls the West Bank, and which had controlled the Gaza Strip, until being ousted by Hamas in the 2006 elections. The PA, which is heavily funded by the U.S. and the E.U.

@david @Nochem @argumento

You didn't answer my questions. You introduced strawman arguments, to precisely avoid answering them.

Are you going to explain why you lied about Medhi Hasan & won't provide evidence to counter my evidence that the #Zionists supported, promoted & funded a group which later became known as #Hamas, as a way to destabilise the #Palestinian authority & the #PLO?

If you believe you've already DIRECTLY answered these questions, you won't have an issue showing where..

@david @Nochem @argumento

You're not paying attention are you?

The #Palestinians are ALREADY integrated into #Israel. Officially, #Palestine no longer exists. Look it up on #Google maps if you can.

I'm also STILL waiting for you to explain why you lied about Medhi Hasan, & won't provide your counter evidence to counter my evidence that the #Zionists were supporting, promoting & funding a group which later became #Hamas, as a way of destabilising the #Palestinian authority & the #PLO...

@david @argumento @Nochem

1/ There was a simple premise to my claim, that as far back as 1969, #Israel were actively encouraging, supporting & funding what is today known as #Hamas, as a way of destabilising the #PLO & the #Palestinian authority.

I couldn't care less when Hamas were officially constituted, as that wasn't they day they suddenly appeared. I've presented my empirical evidence, & you disagree which is fine.

The question remains, where's your evidence to counter mine?

Today in History October 14, 1994: Three terrorists, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, won the Nobel Peace Prize, once again proving the Tom Lehrer quote that the prize has made political satire obsolete.

#Hezbollah didn't exist before #Israel invaded and occupied #Lebanon.

#Hamas didn't exist before Israel repressed the first Intifada.

The #PLO, Fatah and the #PFLP didn't exist before the Nakba.

Want extremism to stop? Stop putting people under extreme circumstances, like ethnic cleansing, murder and occupation.

#israel #palestine #lebanon : #war / #history / #statehood / #plo / #hamas / #hezbollah / #peace / #security

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/09/30/the-terrible-cost-to-israel-of-marginalizing-the-plo_6727728_4.html

Today in Labor History September 16, 1982: Phalangists and Israelis massacred as many as 3,500 Palestinian civilian refugees at the Shatila and Sabra camps in Lebanon. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ordered the Phalangist to clear the camps of PLO fights and then watched and did nothing as they slaughtered civilians. In 1983, the Kahan Commission found that the Israeli military bore indirect responsibility by allowing it to happen under their command. The commission also blamed Ariel Sharon, then Defense Minister, forcing him to resign. This sordid past worked in his favor in the long run, however, as his “toughness” helped him to win the national election for Prime Minister.

@Black_Flag Hey coward, #Hamas didn't exist in 1948 nor was it ever part of the #PLO.

Also no, I just set my followers private, but that wouldve required you to actually read and think before posting...
https://syzito.xyz/@Black_Flag/113109840017717254

"Why a #Palestinians plan (By the #PLO ) to revive #Gaza and democracy (...something they never ever offered) faces doubt and distrust"

"The team of policymakers working around the clock here to overhaul Palestinian governance has a checklist of proposed reforms that are... (WAIT FOR IT!)

...a Western diplomat’s dream.

...But there’s a problem... These would-be reformers lack both money and popular support,"

From CSM
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2024/0820/palestinian-authority-democratic-reform-rebuilding-gaza @palestine

"As #Palestinians resistance factions call for the #PLO to withdraw its recognition of #Israel, #China and #Russia are stepping forward to broker consensus among Palestinian political factions."

The PLO’s Rejection of Israel: A Prerequisite for Palestinian Unity?

https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/07/30/the-plos-rejection-of-israel-a-prerequisite-for-palestinian-unity/ @israel @palestine