• Aljernon@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    Some people define the two sides as Hamas and Israel which is awkward cause I can’t criticize Hamas for wanting to fight the Israelis but I can criticize them for being a Right Wing organization set up and funded by the Israelis to weaken the PLO and Palestinian unity.

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      2 months ago

      The Israeli funding is a fairly recent development. They were doing fine on russian and Iranian funding for all the decades they were around and shouting “death to Israel”.

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          2 months ago

          Because they’re religious fundamentalists whose entire existence is defined by the fact that they want to destroy Israel. It’s in their charter.

          Political reasons aside - they’re psychopathic fundamentalists.

      • beejboytyson@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        That’s not true. Israeli money has been flowing into the US before the establishment of Israel.