The ‘middle ground’ for Hamas is “kill all the jews in their land and destroy the Israeli state”.
In the original charter Hamas doesn’t even mention the Jewish people, they just say they want the Palestinian land back. And in the updated charter Hamas agrees to the 1967 borders and a 2 state system.
It’s the PIJ who hasn’t accepted a 2 state system.
I understand that Hamas tried to fool the world with the charter revision but lets look back at the classics. Classics such as
“The Jews are the most despicable and contemptible nation to crawl upon the face of the Earth, because they have displayed hostility to Allah. Allah will kill the Jews in the hell of the world to come, just like they killed the believers in the hell of this world.” - Atallah Abu Al-Subh, 2011
Or
“The movement participates in politics and diplomacy and all types of work, but it insists on the choice of jihad and resistance. This choice is Hamas’s greater and first strategy… This is Hamas. Hamas is not changing its skin.” - Khaled Mashaal, 2017
Or what about this great one
“The Jews are the cancer spreading all over the world…the Jews are a virus like AIDS hitting humankind…Jews are responsible for all wars and conflicts” - Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris, 2005
How about this
“There are Jews everywhere. We must attack every Jew on planet Earth! We must slaughter and kill them, with Allah’s help. We will lacerate and tear them to pieces.” - Fathi Hammad, 2019
Theres just so many to pick from
“the Quran tells us to remove the jews in their entirety… Removing the Jews from the land they occupied in 1948 is an immutable principle because it appears in the Book of Allah.” - Mahmoud Zatar, 2017
Do you honestly think the real goal is to move back to the green line or is it to just overthrow all of Israel and basically mass murder of Jews?
1st quote talks about the nation and not the Jewish peoples. “God will punish you in the afterlife” is not an actionable threat.
2nd quote is a response to an assassination an Israeli spy was eventually tried and allegedly confessed. If you’re not racist “jihad” just means “fighting”. Again nothing about “Kill all jews”
3rd quote How is this dude connected to Hamas? I can’t even find evidence of him being alive after 2006. This quote is gross and I won’t defend it but I ask that people keep in mind the context, Gaza was being invaded by Israel, not the other way around.
5th quote is not actually featured verbatim in the article. You paraphrased everything before the “…”. But again it’s just saying Hamas wants the land back and came a month before the new charter
In the original charter Hamas doesn’t even mention the Jewish people, they just say they want the Palestinian land back. And in the updated charter Hamas agrees to the 1967 borders and a 2 state system.
It’s the PIJ who hasn’t accepted a 2 state system.
I understand that Hamas tried to fool the world with the charter revision but lets look back at the classics. Classics such as
Or
Or what about this great one
How about this
Theres just so many to pick from
Do you honestly think the real goal is to move back to the green line or is it to just overthrow all of Israel and basically mass murder of Jews?
I appreciate the sources
1st quote talks about the nation and not the Jewish peoples. “God will punish you in the afterlife” is not an actionable threat.
2nd quote is a response to an assassination an Israeli spy was eventually tried and allegedly confessed. If you’re not racist “jihad” just means “fighting”. Again nothing about “Kill all jews”
3rd quote How is this dude connected to Hamas? I can’t even find evidence of him being alive after 2006. This quote is gross and I won’t defend it but I ask that people keep in mind the context, Gaza was being invaded by Israel, not the other way around.
4th quote is from an unreliable far right news organization with a history of lying to support Israel and make Muslims look bad. Here is a more reliable source where Hamas condemns Hammad’s words https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2019-07-16/ty-article/hamas-rebuffs-leaders-call-for-worldwide-attacks-on-jews/0000017f-db37-db22-a17f-ffb70cac0000
5th quote is not actually featured verbatim in the article. You paraphrased everything before the “…”. But again it’s just saying Hamas wants the land back and came a month before the new charter