Reid: Netanyahu Has Done a Lot to ‘Prop up’ Hamas ... Turning Hamas to a

REID: “For someone whose current mission in life is to eradicate Hamas, Bibi has actually done a lot to prop up the militant group. It may sound like a head scratcher until you remember that his prime directive has always been a vehement opposition to a two-state solution. Bolstering Hamas rule in Gaza helped undermine the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Divide and conquer was the plan. As well as empowering Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and the far right and in some cases racist religious parties currently in his governing coalition. That’s to say nothing of his current legal problems, pending indictments against him and his wife for corruption and his push to essentially take control of Israel’s Supreme Court. And if all of that sounds Trump-illy, familiar, an Israeli newspaper, haarietz described him as this, for over a decade, Netanyahu has lent a hand in various ways to the growing military and political power of Hamas. Netanyahu is the one who turned Hamas from a terror organization to a semistate body, releasing Palestinian prisoners, allowing cash transfers with the knowledge that much of the material will be designated with terrorism. All created symbiosis flowering of fundamentalist terrorism and the preservation of Netanyahu’s.”