George Soros once slammed US, Israel for not working with Hamas

By Ronny Reyes and Jon Levine

Published Oct. 12, 2023, 7:27 p.m. ET

Billionaire Democratic donor George Soros once slammed the US for supporting Israel and not recognizing Hamas after the terrorist group won control of the Gaza Strip.

In a 2007 Financial Times op-ed, Soros chastised the Bush administration’s commitment to Israel, calling on the US and the Jewish state to work together with Hamas, whose forces killed more than 900 people across the Gaza border on Saturday.

A year after Hamas won an election to govern Gaza, Soros said it was wrong for the US to align itself with Israel in refuting the terrorist group’s authority and installing a blockade around the Palestinian territory.

“Israel, with strong US backing, refused to recognize the democratically elected Hamas government and withheld payment of the millions in taxes collected by the Israelis on its behalf,” Soros wrote, suggesting the move was a blunder that only caused Irsaeli-Palestinian relations to worsen.

“If Israel had accepted the results of the election, that might have strengthened the more moderate political wing,” he added. “Unfortunately, the ideology of the ‘war on terror’ does not permit such subtle distinctions.”

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