Israeli Party Leader: Hamas is a Strategic Asset

 

by Scott Horton 

Posted onMay 21, 2021

“The P.A. is a liability and Hamas is an asset. On the international playing field, in this game of the delegitimization think about it for a second, the P.A. is a liability and Hamas is an asset. It’s a terrorist organization. Nobody will recognize it, nobody will give it status at the ICC and nobody will let them push resolutions at the UN and they’ll need an American veto or we won’t need one.

“I’m not sure at all that given the current situation given the current facts that the central playing field we’re playing in is international there Abu Mazen (Abbas) is costing us serious casualties and Hamas in such a situation would be an asset. I don’t think we need to be afraid of that [Hamas taking over].” — Bezalel Smotrich, leader of Israel’s Religious Zionist Party

Translation by Kalmen Barkin from this video.

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