'Arrogance' & 'Bullshit:' Top Insiders on Netanyahu's Catastrophic Oct. 7 and Gaza War

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6. Hamas has very little support in the West.

All Palestinians are not Hamas. Israel estimated at the beginning of this war that Hamas fighters numbered around 30,000. Israel claims to gave killed 15,000. There is no way that the Hamas Fighter Brigade has any power to eliminate Israel, nor would the West allow them to do so. Hamas talks a big game but has no real power. They are funded by Iran more as an annoyance for Israel and the West rather than an intent yo start a regional war.

Over the decades of conflict, both sides have made mistakes and stupid decisions. But it is Netanyahu who encouraged Hamas to keep the government of Gaza separated from the West Bank and unable to form a state. It is Netanyahu who has encouraged right-wing Israeli settlers to murder Palestinians in the West Bank to illegally take their lands. It is Netanyahu who has encouraged the hard right and abandoned the centrists and progressives in Israel. And now he is creating hatred for Israel around the world because of his disproportionate killing of innocent Palestinians. I do not excuse the Hamas fighters, but nor do I excuse Netanyahu for trying to turn Israel into the equivalent of a MAGA nation.