According to Ben Bartee, the reason Israel supports Hamas is because the Israeli government actively and directly took part in the formation and support of Hamas.
More than any foreign foe could ever aspire to, Bibi Netanyahu and his intellectual ilk pose an existential threat to the survival of the Israeli state and, if the world is drawn into its geopolitical melodrama, the entire planet.
Even those who believe themselves to be "informed" may not be aware that Hamas is in big part an invention of the Israeli state, in large part because MSNBC/CIA-funded Washington Post would never tell them.
This is not meant to imply the "creation of the Israeli state" in the abstract sense that "Israel forced the birth of Hamas-style militancy through its Apartheid policies in the Gaza Strip," though that is undoubtedly true.
I actually mean to imply that, in order to forward its own political agenda, the Israeli government actively and directly took part in the formation and suppo...