{"id":12344,"date":"2023-12-04T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12344"},"modified":"2023-12-04T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:46:56","slug":"netanyahu-dont-accuse-me-of-boosting-hamas-with-qatari-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12344","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu: Don\u2019t accuse me of boosting Hamas with Qatari money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Most incriminatingly, Netanyahu himself<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maariv.co.il\/journalists\/opinions\/Article-1008080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;said in&nbsp;2019&nbsp;<\/a>at a Likud party conference: \u201cAnyone who wants to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state needs to support strengthening Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu on Tuesday, however, dismissed those charges, claiming he only allowed Qatari money to flow into Gaza to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe, not to strengthen the arm of the administration there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to avoid a civilian humanitarian collapse \u2014 disease, rampant hunger and other things that would have created an impossible humanitarian situation,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why successive Israeli governments allowed this money to go in, not in order to strengthen Hamas. We didn\u2019t want to strengthen Hamas at all. We wanted to weaken it and degrade its capabilities as far as we could.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-qatar-money-war-israel-gaza-palestine\/\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-qatar-money-war-israel-gaza-palestine\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most incriminatingly, Netanyahu himself said in 2019 at a Likud party conference: \u201cAnyone who wants to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state needs to support strengthening Hamas.\u201d<br \/>\nNetanyahu on Tuesday, however, dismissed those charges, claiming he only allowed Qatari money to flow into Gaza to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe, not to strengthen the arm of the administration there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to avoid a civilian humanitarian collapse \u2014 disease, rampant hunger and other things that would have created an impossible humanitarian situation,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why successive Israeli governments allowed this money to go in, not in order to strengthen Hamas. We didn\u2019t want to strengthen Hamas at all. We wanted to weaken it and degrade its capabilities as far as we could.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-qatar-money-war-israel-gaza-palestine\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,1301,194,391,389,108,115,158],"class_list":["post-12344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12345,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions\/12345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}