Israel declares state of war after terrorist attacks

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@OysterOmelet

He [Netanyahu] literally approved Qatari money going to Hamas, including to its military wing.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

(square-bracketed name added by me)

I suspect there’s a pretty good deal of agreement among Israelis about that (sorry in advance for the following repostings):

“Both Egypt and Qatar are angry with Hamas and planned to cut ties with them. Suddenly Netanyahu appears as the defender of Hamas, as though it was an environmental organization. This is a policy of submission to terror,” he said, adding that Israel was paying Hamas “protection money” to maintain the calm.

–Times of Israel staff, “Liberman: Netanyahu sent Mossad head, general to Qatar, ‘begged’ it to pay Hamas,” The Times of Israel, February 22, 2020

“Listen, what we’ve created with our own hands is crazy. We’ve created a monster – the strongest force in the region – and they hit us very hard – like nothing before. We now need to change the record and change the discourse of ‘let’s reach a ceasefire or an understanding, or give them more work permits.’ Enough, it’s over. I’ve spent a lot of time in the Gaza Strip, I know it very well. I’ve spent hours with the Hamas leadership. We fell for it. We believed that we could do business with them. That was our greatest mistake and this is the enormous price we’re now paying, primarily since the Shalit deal."

–“‘We’ve created a monster, the strongest force in the region, and they hit us very hard,’” Avi Issacharoff interview, Ynet News, October 15[?], 2023