{"id":37417,"date":"2021-05-21T05:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=37417"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:51:54","slug":"israeli-party-leader-hamas-is-a-strategic-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/21\/israeli-party-leader-hamas-is-a-strategic-asset\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Party Leader: Hamas is a Strategic Asset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe P.A. is a liability and Hamas is an asset. On the international playing field, in this game of the delegitimization think about for a second, the P.A. is a liability and Hamas is an asset. It\u2019s 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\u2019ll need an American veto or we won\u2019t need one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not sure at all that given the current situation given the current facts that the central playing field we\u2019re 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\u2019t think we need to be afraid of that [Hamas taking over].\u201d \u2014 Bezalel Smotrich, leader of Israel&#8217;s Religious Zionist Party<\/p>\n<p><em>Translation by Kalmen Barkin from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KnessetT\/status\/1394583134344200192\">this video<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"iw\" dir=\"rtl\">&quot;\u05d7\u05de\u05d0\u05e1 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05e0\u05db\u05e1&quot; &#8211; \u05db\u05da \u05d4\u05d2\u05d3\u05d9\u05e8 \u05d1\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d7&quot;\u05db \u05d1\u05e6\u05dc\u05d0\u05dc \u05e1\u05de\u05d5\u05d8\u05e8\u05d9\u05e5&#39; \u05d0\u05ea \u05d0\u05e8\u05d2\u05d5\u05df \u05d4\u05d8\u05e8\u05d5\u05e8, \u05d1\u05d4\u05ea\u05d9\u05d9\u05d7\u05e1\u05d5 \u05dc\u05de\u05d0\u05d1\u05e7 \u05d1\u05d6\u05d9\u05e8\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d1\u05d9\u05e0\u05dc\u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05d9\u05ea  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%9C%D7%90_%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%97?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u05d4\u05d0\u05e8\u05db\u05d9\u05d5\u05df_\u05dc\u05d0_\u05e9\u05d5\u05db\u05d7<\/a>: &quot;\u05d1\u05de\u05d2\u05e8\u05e9 \u05d4\u05d1\u05d9\u05e0\u05dc\u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05d9, \u05d1\u05de\u05e9\u05d7\u05e7 \u05d4\u05d3\u05d4-\u05dc\u05d2\u05d9\u05d8\u05d9\u05de\u05e6\u05d9\u05d4 &#8211; \u05d4\u05e8\u05e9\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05e4\u05dc\u05e1\u05d8\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05d9\u05d0 \u05e0\u05d8\u05dc \u05d5\u05d7\u05de\u05d0\u05e1 \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05e0\u05db\u05e1. <\/p>\n<p>\u05e6\u05e4\u05d5 \u05d1\u05e7\u05d8\u05e2 \u05de\u05ea\u05d5\u05da <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%9F%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%97?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u05d0\u05d5\u05dc\u05e4\u05df\u05e4\u05ea\u05d5\u05d7<\/a>, \u05e9\u05d5\u05d3\u05e8 \u05d1-<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%AA99?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u05db\u05e0\u05e1\u05ea99<\/a> \u05d1\u05d0\u05d5\u05e7\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1\u05e8 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q5aYNNYmh8\">pic.twitter.com\/q5aYNNYmh8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u05e2\u05e8\u05d5\u05e5 \u05db\u05e0\u05e1\u05ea (@KnessetT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KnessetT\/status\/1394583134344200192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe P.A. is a liability and Hamas is an asset. On the international playing field, in this game of the delegitimization think about for a second, the P.A. is a liability and Hamas is an asset. It\u2019s a terrorist organization. Nobody will recognize it, nobody will give it status at the ICC and nobody will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-37417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37421,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37417\/revisions\/37421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37417"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=37417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}