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In 2009, Netanyahu was elected on the basis of a promise.

Under my command, it will act to topple Hamas's rule.

In practice, the right-wing governments he led did exactly the opposite.

There is Hamas; the one who built it was Benjamin Netanyahu, not anyone else.

We refrained from a scorched-earth campaign against Hamas.

Benjamin Netanyahu stopped everything.

He strengthened Hamas and weakened the Palestinian Authority; he is the architect of that strategy.

Behold: the conspiracy to strengthen Hamas.

Netanyahu did everything to weaken the Palestinian Authority.

The Palestinian Authority—they are not involved in terrorism, right?

He avoided meeting with Abu Mazen more than was appropriate.

The political negotiations with the Authority were stopped and have not been renewed since 2014.

Funds to the Authority were frozen.

With Hamas, the situation was the opposite.

In 2011, Netanyahu turned Hamas members into heroes among the Palestinian public.

when he released 1,027 security prisoners.

Among them were guests of Sinwar and Eli Kachi, commander of the Nukhba force.

In 2012, the money also began to flow.

With Netanyahu's approval, Qatar began transferring billions to Hamas.

Funding for salaries, ammunition, tunnels, and drones.

The equation Netanyahu came up with has fallen apart.

Violence against Israel pays off.

So why has Israel's prime minister knowingly strengthened a murderous enemy faction for years?

In 2019, at a Likud faction meeting, he explained it himself,

Whoever wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state must support strengthening Hamas.

Whatever the price, we will always oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state.

We will no longer normalize the Nazi Palestinian Authority.

A state? No.

When the aim is to prevent a political process,

not ones whose most enthusiastic partners in the plan were the settler nationalists.

The Palestinian Authority is a burden, and Hamas is an asset.

Don't let them fool you. The entire right knew and supported it.

Now the people who strengthened and built Hamas,

are calling to dismantle the organization they fostered.

Hamas will grow and strengthen, because the right under Netanyahu wanted a strong Hamas and a weak Palestinian Authority.

We paid the price with more than 1,400 Israelis.