The bros: Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, meets with Hamas’s top leader, Ismail Haniyeh, on December 20, 2023, in Doha, Qatar.

Dollar Diplomacy

Israel and the U.S. had a plan to cut off funding to Hamas, but they chose instead to buy peace by facilitating prosperity for the terrorist organization

By Jennifer Gould

One of the first things that Israel did on the morning of October 8 was to bomb the Hamas-owned National Islamic Bank in Gaza.

Following the October 7 slaughter of more than 1,200 people and the seizure of around 240 hostages, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas. But killing Hamas military fighters and their commanders on the ground is only one part of the challenge.