November 7, 2024
Netanyahu and Hamas
It’s well-known that Netanyahu preferred to strengthen Hamas over the Palestinian Authority; now, crowds of demonstrators have been shouting this in Israel. We know that opposing extremisms often reinforce each other (the worse, the better, as the communists used to say). But we certainly can’t think of Hamas as an entity created and controlled by Israel; just as the fact that Hitler at one point made a pact with Stalin doesn’t mean he controlled communism.
Sometimes alliances are made even among enemies: after all, shortly after, Russia and America allied against Nazism. Once Nazism was defeated, they returned to being enemies.