European Union foreign ministers are due to discuss the proposed suspension of EU aid to the Palestinian territories.
  • drolex
    1005·
    1 year ago

    And the irony is that Israel allowed Hamas to be funded by Arabic countries 25 years ago when it was a way to weaken Arafat and the PLO. Everything in this area is fucked beyond parody. No authority on either side has any idea about morality.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      401·
      1 year ago

      Netanyahu actually said something very similar, that the best way to destabilise the Palestinian Authority was to finance Hamas.

    • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
      391·
      1 year ago

      The same parallels with how the US funded what would later become Al Qaeda to fuck with the Soviets. Then they did 9/11.

    • flossdaily@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s not ironic at all. Arafat and the PLO were TERRORISTS with no interest in peace whatsoever, and who had a stranglehold on all political power.

      It’s not like Israel had a non-terrorist faction to work with.