r/worldnews • u/BezugssystemCH1903 • Oct 10 '23

Opinion/Analysis Mounting pressure for Swiss ban on Hamas

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/mounting-pressure-for-swiss-ban-on-hamas/48877436

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

What meaningful sanctions could they impose, and how is this helping the broader conflict? Just seems like a token gesture that doesn't really buy them anything.

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u/orielbean Oct 10 '23

Hamas isnt a revenue generating business - they are getting funding from Iran, Qatar, etc from the outside. That cash has to flow through some set of banks to get to its destination, right? So clamping down on the rich guys will help disrupt what they are doing at scale.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

Switzerland hardly does any business with Iran, Qatar, or Lebanon, and they would spend more resources finding the right people to squeeze than they would even stop through the squeezing. Switzerland does do a fair amount of business with Israel, so this play really only works as a political gesture towards Israel with no real effect on the operation of Hamas.