Former IDF soldier believes Israel is making 'a catastrophic mistake' in Gaza
"my government, in order to prevent a Palestinian state actually facilitated the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars to Hamas and preferred to bolster Hamas and to de-legitimize the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian human rights organizations. They designated Palestinian human rights organizations as a terrorist organization that they categorized Palestinian diplomatic initiatives as Palestinian, as diplomatic terrorism"
"But Hamas, they facilitated the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars, and they also crushed Palestinian hopes of independence, which also fed the fuel of Hamas, because that's what Hamas is the enemy of peace.
And when our government committed itself to preventing a peace process and preventing negotiations, they were actually helping Hamas"