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A picture I took yesterday at a demonstration in #Jerusalem:
https://tooot.im/deck/@tzafrir/114455460519068781
The text in Hebrew is a pun: הקטאר הטרויאני: the second word is the adjective "Trojan". The first word, קטאר, means Qatar. But sounds like the related word קטר: locomotive[*]. The colors are those of the Qatari flag. The silhouette is that of Prime Minister #Netanyahu.
Later on there were two actors, one with a fact mask of Netayahu and another dressed as a "Qatari Emir". I wrote before about this local #Qatargate:
https://cohens.org.il/social/tzafrir/p/1743448078.070798
Protesters are upset that while Qatar is considered to be a patron of #Hamas and generally of quite a few extreme Islamist groups, the Israeli government chooses it as a partner all too often.
[*] A bit of etymology: the word stems for an ancient word that is related to steam. As it happens, the the Arabic word for "train" is similar: قطار, vs. the name of the country that is قطر. It seems both words were coined in the era of steam trains.
Well, you know, in 2011 #Hamas sided the rebels. But in 2017 or so they decided to cross sides and sided with Iran and with the Syrian government. Not to mention their long-time alliance with the old regime.
They bet the wrong horse.
But Hamas != Palestinians. Hamas is the tyranny that ruled the Palestinian state of Gaza for at least 16 years.
The ceasefire agreement between #Israel and #Hamas is one that was brokered between two parties that were not really interested in having one.
Both the Hamas and the current Israeli government were interested in keeping the war, as this is the only way for them to not be fully exposed as failures and deposed.
Indeed, the #Netanyahu government has already helped making sure as much as they could that there's no Palestinian alternative to the Hamas.