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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/05/can-we-be-sure-british-aid-wont-help-hamas/
Can We Be Sure UK Aid Won't Help Hamas?
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - Along with the rest of the international community, we in Britain have been played for fools. For decades, the West has been funneling billions into Gaza, despite the opacity of its expenditure. In fact, much of the expenditure is far from opaque. Since 2014, Hamas has been building terror tunnels under its civilians worth hundreds of millions of dollars, with command centers beneath hospitals. As we signed cheque after cheque, how much vetting work was being done to ensure Hamas couldn't take advantage to fund their rockets? In our hubris, the international community gambled that economic security would win peace. This proved to be a devastating foreign policy miscalculation. Hamas has been hiding in plain sight. In fact, it hasn't even been hiding. It has made no secret of its genocidal intentions. We have been propping up this system. The writer is editor of the Jewish Chronicle-UK.