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Netanyahu supporting hamas
Documented Israeli policy under Netanyahu actively facilitated Qatari cash transfers to Hamas for over a decade — a strategy his own Shin Bet directors warned against in writing. A TIME investigation found this funding covered roughly half the Hamas military wing's budget. Netanyahu's 2019 Likud conference statement — 'anyone who wants to thwart a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas' — was recorded and reported by multiple Israeli outlets before he later called it a misquote.
Evidence
- The core documented record: between 2011 and 2023, Netanyahu's governments not only authorized but actively encouraged Qatari officials to transfer tens of millions of dollars in cash suitcases into Gaza, per Middle East Eye (November 2026) and a TIME investigation reported by Ynet (October 2026).
- Former Shin Bet directors Nadav Argaman and Ronen Bar both explicitly opposed the policy and submitted warnings.
- The strategic logic was articulated by Netanyahu himself at a 2019 Likud conference, per the Wikipedia sourced record: keeping Hamas strong in Gaza 'isolates' Palestinians in Gaza from the West Bank, preventing a unified Palestinian Authority negotiating partner — and therefore blocking a two-state settlement.
- Franceinfo's investigative unit (October 2026) independently corroborated the intelligence-warning angle, reporting that Israeli intelligence alerts were systematically disregarded.
- The combined funding — through official channels and a separate covert channel Qatar ran directly to Hamas — covered an estimated half of Hamas's entire military wing budget.