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[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 20 points 22 hours ago

Hamas is an umbrella term that the media and Israel uses to paint a wide spectrum of resistance groups that exist in Gaza as "evil extremist Muslims", but the groups range from religious to secular, from conservative to anarchist.

Hamas itself also ranges from a militant organization to a public administrator of the Gaza strip.

Hamas was initially funded by Israel to exist as a counterfaction to the secular PLO (which had Jews, Christians, and Muslims).

As Hamas became the dominant group and administrative authority, they started getting funds from their (legal) enterprises globally. Hamas has an investing group in Turkey and Qatar. They would receive dividends from those finances as cash that would flow from Qatar to Israel to Gaza with the help of Bibi.

This helps Bibi with many things but at least two big ones are - it allows him to fear monger about "scary hamas" and get further support and extremist rhetoric in Israel. It also averted a full blown humanitarian crisis earlier than the current genocide which would have drawn international attention and poked holes in diplomatic meetings with Gulf states (now Abraham accords). The recent claimed cassus belli of Oct 7 is an excuse for massive expansion into the West Bank while "mowing the lawn" in Gaza for decades.

But I'm sure you knew all that before throwing out your quip.