Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
Likud have been open about their promotion (and funding) of Hamas for more than 20 years - to undermine Fatah.

It is no secret. The western liberal media have even started reporting on it (and quoting Bibi and other Likud leaders) in recent months.

This is real. Not a theory.
Don't dispute it, but as a means to play people off against each other. Much the same way as the US funded Afghan Islamists against the Soviets.

To suggest it's to create a greater Israel right across the middle East - that's a conspiracy theory. As with them all, there may be elements of truth in it but it's also not reality.