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Why would Israel keep Hamas since the 90's while the PLO and Islamic Jihad did the same thing only worse?
Where the hell are you bringing these conspiracy theories from?
Hm. They actually seem to be kinda right. According to this article and this one, which source Israeli government officials from the time, they helped them since the 80's and basically helped make Hamas a thing. They did it to make the Muslim Brotherhood -based organization which ended up being Hamas and the more secular PLO fight each other, to basically drive a wedge in the Palestinians.
Well... shit... it IS like Al-Queda. What a grim mistake, and surprise.
Right?! I wouldn't have believed the other person either if it weren't for sources from pretty reputable news organizations. And it's interesting that basically the same mistakes were made with these two different groups (Israel and Hamas, the US and Al-Queda). I bet it's probably been done more in South America or Africa or something.
EDIT: But for others reading, no, it doesn't make Hamas (or Al-Queda) the good guys. It just means there are multiple bad guys all around. But you can't make me feel bad about being distraught from Hamas killing civilians. There were babies and other innocents in there who never did anything wrong to Palestinians, and rape is a war crime that I can never just look over.
Because they need a predictable boogieman.
What theory, it's objective fact.
@ventrasqwal answered fully, holy shit... I didn't know this.
Yeah it's fucked, the entire history of the area is fucked because three 2000 year old toddlers can't get along and stop being mean during story time.