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Originally Posted by RainMaker
If Steve Bannon had tweeted in 2017 that we bombed a hospital in Syria to kill terrorists, then backtracked and blamed jihadists when it turned out to be getting bad press, people would have absolutely believed that it happened.
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No they wouldn't. Bannon lies to lie for one thing. Secondly, this was a reaction to a tweet, not exposing some grand scheme. It is posts this guy does all the time, tweaking posts that the opposition is posting. This would be like Bannon reposting a tweet about George Floyd right after his death and going "We got another criminal off the streets."
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Originally Posted by RainMaker
This isn't going to end when Hamas is out of power. This started long before Hamas was even a thing. People who are imprisoned won't just stop fighting for freedom. And the daily atrocities happening in the West Bank have nothing to do with Hamas either.
And again, Hamas is what Netanyahu wanted. He propped them up over the years to weaken Fatah. He knew that put Israeli citizens at risk, but it was worth the sacrifice their lives to prevent a 2-state solution. If he wanted to destroy Hamas right now, he'd be bombing Qatar.
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Netanyahu probably is done whatever happens here. Unless some Grand Peace comes out of this (which there is a greater chance that the moon is made of cheese), his government is done. They are guilty of catastrophic failures across the board. I don't see any way he survives this.
As for "ending with Hamas", of course it doesn't. The only silver lining here is much the ground of any peace there has come after these big upheavals. Hopefully this will lead to a more moderate Israeli government and some real forward progress on some type of agreement. But it is going to get much uglier before it gets better, if it doesn't grow into greater regional fighting which would be beyond catastrophic.