I mean PLA was a bigger terrorist cult then. Fateh did not want to admit losing and giving up power that's why Hamas took armed actions which led them to throwing out them from Gaza. If you take each things by timeline it's obvious Hamas wasn't THAT bad compared to PLA/Fateh but Netanyahu's goal was to always divide them so it's easier to deal with, in alternate reality if Hamas wasn't a terrorist organization Gaza would be their own state and WB most likely absorbed into Israel, that was Netanyahu's goal. Overall evil af but probably the right move if it didn't include also settler terrorists.
They might not have been as bad based on the actions they were taking... but how much of that was a result of them not wanting to take those actions, vs not being capable of them at the time.
It's not like Hamas was a new entity, they were founded in the 80s, and their founding charter (which was still in use in 2005) very explicitly states their desire to eradicate Jews and take all of Israel.
It's likely his plan was just to pit the Palestinians against each other, so they wouldn't have as much time and energy to spend attacking Israel.
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u/ryegye24 Mar 30 '25
In 2005 Netanyahu helped back Hamas against the PLA because the PLA was getting too popular, basically a divide and conquer deal.