It was an entire thing. Undermine the PLO by by making them agree to utopian plans of which Israel has no intention of upholding on their side, support Hamas in turn so that they win the election. Use this a pretext to justify unconditional support for the Israeli project.
Israel and the U.S. also empowered Hamas in the 80s because they didn’t want the secular leftist PLO gaining any more traction
Yeah they were literally funneling money to the founder of Hamas, this is textbook blowback.
It was an entire thing. Undermine the PLO by by making them agree to utopian plans of which Israel has no intention of upholding on their side, support Hamas in turn so that they win the election. Use this a pretext to justify unconditional support for the Israeli project.
Don’t forget the sidelining of the PFLP as well, the only thing that scares them more than a liberated Palestine is a Marxist liberated Palestine.
fuck we are getting a blowback season from this aren’t we?
Oh how they loved to shit all over Yasir Arafat