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To: Qone0 who wrote (39666)	12/7/2023 7:37:50 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51032

By themselves, they have no influence on the outcome and have no organization to function in combat. Their sponsors are in it for oil and gas assets, and they provide funding, indoctrination, and training. Qatar and Israel were paying Chechen commanders $ 250,000 a month to wage war in Syria. They were experienced in urban warfare from the Georgian wars in 2000s and brought in a command structure that made them an effective fighting force. The low-level fighters were only getting $ 50/mo. The US has waged so many wars and civil wars in Africa and the Near East that there's plenty of out of work men with some experience in guerrilla warfare. The US and its allies were able to recruit 600,000 men to fight in Syria. The same is going to be true in Gaza because of the high unemployment. The leaders in Hamas are well paid and they have no shortage of desperate men and teens. Because of the desperate situation in Gaza, many of them are common criminals who have very low threshold to committing violent acts on civilians. The same is true in Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, etc. where they commit war crimes. It has nothing to do with religion. Recruiting of criminals for wars is not new. Might want to read up on Nazi Germany's Dirlewanger Brigade or Israel's Hilltop Youth...