Supposedly Israel has begged Qatar (and others?) to fund Hamas. If true, presumably Hamas is dependent on Israel’s diplomacy to get funding as otherwise Israel would not be asking others to fund it because it wouldn’t make a difference. So presumably Hamas would recede without Israel’s support.Some people put a manipulation angle to it[1], but the linked article puts a humanitarian angle to it (building infrastructure and keeping the government running).
If we do buy the humanitarian angle, then the question seems not so much “how can we stop Hamas?” but instead “how can we sufficiently quickly build something else in Hamas’ place that it doesn’t lead to mass starvation?”. I don’t know what the answer to this is.
If we don’t buy the humanitarian angle and instead buy the manipulation angle, then it seems like a solution to “how to stop Hamas?” is “Israel should stop ensuring Hamas gets funding”.
Might also be that this is misleading for some reason. I’ve been trying to catch up on the conflict and have changed my mind about lots of stuff in the past few days. Some argue this isn’t really Likud making Qatar fund Hamas, but instead Likud making Qatar fund various autonomously-run institutions in Gaza.
that Likud wants to support Hamas so they have an excuse to agress against Gaza—“anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas”
Supposedly Israel has begged Qatar (and others?) to fund Hamas. If true, presumably Hamas is dependent on Israel’s diplomacy to get funding as otherwise Israel would not be asking others to fund it because it wouldn’t make a difference. So presumably Hamas would recede without Israel’s support.Some people put a manipulation angle to it[1], but the linked article puts a humanitarian angle to it (building infrastructure and keeping the government running).
If we do buy the humanitarian angle, then the question seems not so much “how can we stop Hamas?” but instead “how can we sufficiently quickly build something else in Hamas’ place that it doesn’t lead to mass starvation?”. I don’t know what the answer to this is.
If we don’t buy the humanitarian angle and instead buy the manipulation angle, then it seems like a solution to “how to stop Hamas?” is “Israel should stop ensuring Hamas gets funding”.
Might also be that this is misleading for some reason. I’ve been trying to catch up on the conflict and have changed my mind about lots of stuff in the past few days. Some argue this isn’t really Likud making Qatar fund Hamas, but instead Likud making Qatar fund various autonomously-run institutions in Gaza.
that Likud wants to support Hamas so they have an excuse to agress against Gaza—“anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas”