Isaac Chotiner speaks with Tareq Baconi, of the Palestinian think tank Al-Shabaka, about Hamas’s attack on Israel and the history of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
How do you make sense of the timing of this attack? What happened in the past weekend has really shifted the paradigm of how we understand the dynamic between Hamas and Israel, specifically, but more broadly between Israel and the Palestinians.
What has been this Israeli government’s policy toward Hamas, specifically? There were reports in the Israeli press about Netanyahu expressing the belief that strengthening Hamas would weaken the Palestinian Authority, and thereby prevent a Palestinian state.
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