> Israel funds Hamas

Funded. Past tense. We funded the Mujahideen, once, and then got bombed by their successors.

The Taliban had very little overlap in membership with the Mujahedeen. They were their successors in the sense that they overthrew them.

The Mujahedeen did not morph into or rebrand as the Taliban. In fact they became the Northern Alliance, opposed to the Taliban.

> Taliban had very little overlap in membership with the Mujahedeen

Taliban didn't bomb America. Al Qaeda did. I believe bin Laden was in the Mujahideen.

Apologies, I thought you were referring to the Taliban.I've had previous conversations with people who had that misunderstanding.

Bin Laden claimed that neither he nor his specific group of Arab foreign fighters (which became the genesis of Al Qaeda) received funding from the US. Though the reality was that the US funded proxies which funded the Afghan Mujahedeen, so it's possible he may have indirectly benefited. Bin Laden was independently wealthy and largely self funded his group though.

To be clear, I don't think we funded bin Laden in proximity to 9/11. Just that we funded elements where bin Laden trained, and was likely--to some degree--radicalised, and then that blew back on us. October 7th looks like Israel's 9/11 in more than one way.

Israel's territory is still expanding, and Palestine's is still shrinking, so it seems to be working out pretty fine. All those countries recognising Palestine don't have the balls to actually conduct any kind of military intervention against Israel.

You really need to google “Netanyahu. Hamas. Qatar”. Pick your favourite news source. You’re in for some surprises.

> Considering that more and more countries are recognising Palestine

Would note that none of the recent recognitions, to my knowledge, said anything about borders. A Palestinian state that solely exists in the West Bank would be consistent with these statements.

Doesn't prove anything, and it definitely doesn't prove he gave Hamas weapons so they would be victims of a terror attack.

Hell, we in the West have given Gaza (and indirectly, we knew it would go to Hamas) so much money. Did we support terrorism? How did we know that they would use our money to buy weapons to murder people in Israel instead of building good things?

For me this is more showing an utter incompetence both from Nethanyau and our Western leaders who totally didn't see how they outsmarted us for years. Why do you think our leaders can control everything and know everything? They can make mistakes out of incompetence.

I guess this strategy sometimes works in other countries, and sometimes they screw you :)