Comment by breppp

Hamas was not elected with the help of Nethanyahu, the Prime Minister at the time was Ariel Sharon.

Israel supported the PA who wanted to postpone the elections due to the obvious Hamas victory yet Bush pressured to have these in order to democratize the middle east.

The end result was a Hamas victory and subsequent blockade policy which was supported by the Quartet

https://ecfr.eu/publication/back-to-democracy-europe-hamas-a...