Given the Netanyahu government has allowed, even encouraged, thousands of illegal settlements to take place on the West Bank, and displaced Palestinians from their own lands, what else can Iran do but offer support? This is a Netanyahu problem, not a Palestinian problem. He is forcing these wars of attrition.
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Seems to me that the biggest cause of unrest in the West Bank is the brutal and expanding settlements. No greater source of unrest than that. Iran reasonably is offering support to the oppressed.
If there were no Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Iran would still be smuggling arms there, as it has for years in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. Its goal in the West Bank is not Palestinian statehood, but the annihilation of Israel and the extension of Iranian theocratic hegemony in the region.
I think this is a bad take. What Iran is doing is not necessarily to support Palestinians. It is in their own interest to foment instability to grab a hold of power in the Middle East. What they are doing could lead to a global conflict on a large scale. To attribute to settlements and a helpful hand of Iran is totally misleading.
