Footage of Hamas torture of Palestinians released (www.i24news.tv)

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The footage, which spans thousands of hours, was reportedly obtained from surveillance cameras installed between 2018 and 2020

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[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

Official Israeli policy was to prop up Hamas as opposed to the Palestinian Authority to delegitimize the Palestinians in the international community. It's much easier to deny statehood to a population when they're being led by an organization that is labelled as terrorists. This isn't some 20 year old quote. But a long standing policy from the top officials in the Israeli government.

[+] gedaliyah@lemmy.world -6 points 2 months ago

This article quotes a number of opinions of prominent commentators, but they've strangely failed to reference the law, directive, or "official policy" as you put it. It could be a careless oversight, or it could be that no such policy exists.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

You clearly didn't bother reading the article.

Yuval Diskin, former head of Israel's Shin Bet security service, told the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth in 2013 that "if we look at it over the years, one of the main people contributing to Hamas's strengthening has been Bibi Netanyahu, since his first term as prime minister."

In August 2019, former prime minister Ehud Barak told Israeli Army Radio that Netanyahu's "strategy is to keep Hamas alive and kicking … even at the price of abandoning the citizens [of the south] … in order to weaken the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah."

The logic underlying this strategy, Barak said, is that "it's easier with Hamas to explain to Israelis that there is no one to sit with and no one to talk to."

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago

You clearly don't understand the difference between a political opinion and official policy.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Buddy you just spent the morning posting a bunch of unsubstantiated claims by the IDF. Now when you have a commentary on how Israel is behaving by ex-senior members of the Israeli government, including a prime minister, you express doubt? Really?

Would you believe it if it comes straight out of the mouth of Netanyahu himself?

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

I'll believe it is "official policy" as soon as you cite an official policy. This is not complicated.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

The current prime minister is not official enough for you? And unsubstantiated claims by the IDF is?

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