Ever since the Hamas terror attacks against Israel on October 7, concerns have been raised about George Soros’ long-standing agenda in the region.
Sixteen years ago, Soros wrote an op-ed urging both the United States and Israel to “open the door” to Hamas.
Soros criticized the then-Bush administration for supporting the Israeli government’s refusal to recognize a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas, calling it a blunder in the Middle East. He argued that this blunder hinders any progress towards a peace settlement, which is crucial in preventing conflicts in the greater Middle East.
Soros and others had the intention of using Hamas to promote a more multicultural society in Israel. Since the 1970s, Hamas has been actively radicalizing the Gaza Strip.
Following the recent bloodbath attacks launched by Hamas against Israel, Soros has been linked to funding groups like Al-Shabaka, which reportedly celebrated the attacks. Between 2017 and 2021, Soros provided $550,000 in funding to Al-Shabaka alone.
In a statement, Al-Shabaka said that “breaching” the “boundaries” of Israel’s borders in this way “expands the Palestinian imaginary for possibilities of both resistance and collective freedom.”
Historian Victor Davis Hanson says that ever since Hamas was “elected” to run Gaza using a “one election, one-time” formula, “it has bragged nonstop that its agenda was to erase Israel off the face of the earth.”
The Toronto Sun’s top editor claimed “doesn’t want peace; it wants Israel.”
Hamas “never wanted peace with what it calls ‘the Zionist entity’,” he noted
Hamas, which was officially established in 1988, clearly states in its founding charter that it has no intention of engaging in negotiations with Israel. Instead, this extremist organization is solely focused on its objective of eradicating the Jewish state.
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it,” the charter stipulates.
In his op-ed published in 2007, Soros criticized Israel and the U.S. for their refusal to engage with the Palestinian government, which included Hamas in its coalition.
“Both Israel and the U.S. seem frozen in their unwillingness to negotiate with a Palestinian Authority that includes Hamas,” Soros wrote.
“The sticking point is Hamas’s unwillingness to recognize the existence of Israel, but that could be made a condition for an eventual settlement rather than a precondition for negotiations.”
Soros has been using his vast wealth to attack Israel for years.
In fact, “‘[N]o single person has done more to damage Israel’s standing in the world, especially among so-called progressives, than George Soros,’” according to Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz.
Israel Heritage Foundation Chairman Farley Weiss wrote that “[N]o one has financed more destructive attacks on Israel and the American Jewish community than [George] Soros.
“He is, at best, a self-hating Jew, and shouldn’t be let off the hook because of his ancestry.”
