The frog, the scorpion, and Hamas

Both Hamas and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have always had the same goal: to thwart the ‘two-state’ peace settlement that would have divided the territory known as Palestine between the Palestinian Arabs and the Zionist Jews.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured at a press conference on the Hill in Ottawa in 2012.

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