Why Bibi Paid Hamas

Why did Bibi pay Hamas over $1.8 billion using Qatari money? Why did the payments continue even though Israel clearly knew the money was going to Hamas' military arm? 

I can think of at least seven reasons. It allowed Israel to:

1. Genocide Gaza, the only area with higher TFR than Israel
2. Got Bibi out of corruption trials which threatened to bring down his government and put him in jail.
3. Gave Mossad the excuse to blow up Hezbollah pagers before Hezbollah traded the aging equipment out for newer equipment.
4. Permanently makes the Golan Heights part of Israel "for all eternity" after Israeli bombing campaign completely destroyed Syrian military (Operation Arrow of Bashan)
5. Invade Lebanon, razing Christian and Muslim villages on the border, and thus de facto annexing Lebanese territory.
6. Increase illegal settler activity in the West Bank, even though the West Bank had fuck all to do with any of this.
7. Kill Iranian leadership, whose activities Bibi had been actively lying about for 30 years just to get to this day.

Israel has long demonstrated its willingness to murder Jews as long as those Jewish corpses advanced Israeli national interests. This is the driving ideology behind the Hannibal Directive, a policy developed in 1986 and used on October 7. 

When invoking the Hannibal Directive, the Israeli government orders the IDF to kill Jews in order to reduce the problems the Israeli government might otherwise have to face. 

As Golda Meier would have said if she were capable of being honest, "We will not have peace until Jews love their children more than they love their politics."



For Further Reading
2021 Gaza TFR 3.44
2021 Israel TFR 2.98
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/pse/west-bank-and-gaza/fertility-rate

B'Tselem's Gaza Genocide Report
https://www.btselem.org/publications/202507_our_genocide
Physicians for Human Rights Genocide Report
https://www.phr.org.il/en/genocide-in-gaza-eng/

Bibi's official residence becomes a fortress
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/world/middleeast/netanyahu-balfour-corruption.html

Naim Qassem says Lebanese terror group ‘didn’t know the supply chain had been exposed,’ suggests operatives’ growing suspicions about the beepers led Israel to detonate them

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-chief-admits-to-wildly-underestimating-israeli-capabilities-before-pager-blasts/

December 9, 2024 (Netanyahu press conference): He strongly reaffirmed Israeli sovereignty, stating that “the Golan Heights will be an inseparable part of the State of Israel forever” (also rendered as “for eternity”). https://www.gov.il/en/pages/spoke-press091224 The Jerusalem Post (December 2024): “Israel taking action again [in] Syrian shows lesson learned from Oct. 7.” It argued that Israel would no longer “sit back and allow an enemy bent on destroying it to build up immediately on its border,” https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-833228

Israel plans to double its population in the occupied Golan Heights amid intensive airstrikes in Syria

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-syria-tartus-golan-heights-bombing-rcna184324

Times of Israel (March 23–24, 2026): Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (March 23, 2026): “The new Israeli border must be the Litani.” He said the campaign against Hezbollah “needs to end with a different reality entirely… with the change of Israel’s borders,” https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-says-litani-river-should-be-israels-new-border-with-lebanon/ 86 new outposts were established in 2025 alone (roughly 1–2 per week), according to EU and Peace Now data. The government approved plans for 54 new official settlements in 2025 (excluding East Jerusalem) — the highest number ever recorded in a single year. * https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-10-23/ty-article-static/.premium/erased-israeli-settlers-brutal-war-on-palestinian-communities-in-the-west-bank/00000199-4787-d6e0-a7fb-cfcfd0400000
* https://www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-07-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israeli-settler-outposts-now-control-nearly-fifth-of-west-bank-report-says/0000019f-3c51-d07c-af9f-fc5dd64c0000

Israel targets, may have killed dozens of Iranian leaders (February 28, 2026) https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888302