• Rolder@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    The same Hamas whose charter explicitly calls for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people? Sure.

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      11 months ago

      Go read it. No seriously. Stop letting Israel tell you what it says, and actually go read it.

      Here’s the link.

      They clearly do not like Zionism and would love to have the entire region back. But they lay out their demands for peace pretty clearly.

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        11 months ago

        And then you look at their original 1988 charter,

        https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

        Where they say…

        Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if obstacles, placed by those who are the lackeys of Zionism in the way of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

        “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

        Or,

        “ Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). “

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        11 months ago

        Also in the linked 2017 charter they state

        1. The following are considered null and void: the Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate Document, the UN Palestine Partition Resolution, and whatever resolutions and measures that derive from them or are similar to them. The establishment of “Israel” is entirely illegal and contravenes the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and goes against their will and the will of the Ummah; it is also in violation of human rights that are guaranteed by international conventions, foremost among them is the right to self-determination.

        Which certainly sounds like them wanting to destroy Israel.