Netanyahu cabinet arms criminals

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The Netanayahu cabinet is distributing weapons to criminal gangs operating in the Gaza strip as to counter Hamas. The gang is even possibly related to terrorist group IS. So the current Isreali government has step even lower than it was.
Is that the type of ally the USA wants? One that arms former enemy IS?

Netanyahu confirms Israel arming clans opposed to Hamas in Gaza

Israel has been criticised for giving weapons to a group of "criminals and felons".

www.bbc.com

Lieberman, who heads the Yisrael Beiteinu party, had told the public broadcaster, Kan, that Netanyahu had unilaterally approved the transfer of weapons to the Abu Shabab clan.

"The Israeli government is giving weapons to a group of criminals and felons, identified with the Islamic State group," Lieberman said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-providing-guns-to-gaza-jihadist-gang-to-bolster-opposition-to-hamas/

Israel has been arming a criminal gang in the Gaza Strip as part of an effort to strengthen opposition to Hamas in the enclave, defense sources confirmed on Thursday following remarks on the matter by former defense minister Avigdor Liberman.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later confirmed the report, saying the move helped save Israeli soldiers’ lives.
Liberman, who heads the opposition Yisrael Beytenu party, told the Kan public broadcaster on Thursday morning that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had unilaterally approved the transfer of weapons to the Abu Shabab clan, an armed gang or militia that is opposed to Hamas’s rule in the Gaza Strip.


“The Israeli government is giving weapons to a group of criminals and felons, identified with Islamic State, at the direction of the prime minister,” Liberman charged. “To my knowledge, this did not go through approval by the cabinet.”
He claimed that Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar was aware of the decision to arm the group, “but I don’t know how much the IDF chief of staff was in on it.”

 

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Is that the type of ally the USA wants?

The US “alliance” with Israel is entirely one sided. We are their ally, they are not ours.

 

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Wow. The 'All Palestinians are Terrorists who want to kill all Jews' crowd have some mental gymnastics in front of them now that Bibi is arming a group linked to terrorism.

The group, which some see as a militia or a criminal gang, has presented itself as an opposition force to Hamas.

It says its aim is to protect trucks bringing aid into Gaza, but critics say it is doing the opposite and is looting them.

But I was told it was Hamas that was looting the aid, and that's why Israel was going to stop giving it. Now it appears to be Israeli mercenaries of a sort.