How the fire was stoked...

Since Hamas took over Gaza in 2007 — in a free and fair election according to the UN’s Special Rapporteur (piss taker) Francesca Albanese — vast sums of money have been spaffed by the ‘international community’ on aid and development in Gaza, much of which has either ended up back in Qatari or Iranian bank accounts or has been more domestically invested in the infrastructure of terror and repression…

Qatar ($2.5B), US ($1.5B), Germany ($1.2B), Saudi Arabia ($1B), UK ($800M), Sweden ($600M), Norway ($600M), Japan ($500M), Canada ($400M), Netherlands ($400M), France ($300M), Italy ($200M), Belgium ($200M), Switzerland ($200M), Denmark ($200M), Australia ($200M), Kuwait ($600M), UAE ($500M), Turkey ($400M), Algeria ($300M), and Iran ($1.4B to Hamas). Others: Ireland, Spain, Finland.

And if one were looking to find one specific group to blame for the horrors of this present conflict — conspicuously missing from Bono’s recent, equable dishing out of censure between both Israel and the Palestinians — are all these UN-filtered outsiders who, collectively, for a long period of 16 years, were simultaneously ignoring and stoking this fundamentally unstable, combustible situation.