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@AlisonW Hamas is a Frankenstein's Monster of Bibi's own making: he (and Likud) deliberately fostered them in Gaza as an opposition to the less extreme Fatah, who run the West Bank. (Bibi is especially hostile to Fatah as they emerged from the PLO, which his formative experiences centred on fighting. Big irony because Likud emerged from the Irgun who were themselves a radical anti-colonial terrorist group who opposed the more mainstream Haganah prior to Israeli independence.)