The media are falling all over it. (For example). A new "policy paper" from Hamas, four years (!) in the making, says it's not after Jews in particular, but the "Zionist project" (Israel).
It won't try to kill Jews around the world. It will "accept" a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders which include the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
That is it will call off genocide. At least for now. It'll kill the Jews, oh yes, but slowly now.
That is, it will "accept" a "Two state solution" (TSS). At least for now.
But..... but.... wasn't a TSS the solution that was being blocked by the evil Israeli Jew-Zionist state? That's surely why the pro-Palestinian Left has brought pressure non-stop to Israel to make concessions,, to press it to "restart" the "peace process? Sure sounded like it. But here you have it revealed -- something that was never hidden -- that Hamas, half of the government-to-be in a new Palestine State has only just now -- as of Monday, two days ago -- come on board with the TSS.
But that's not the end of it. Oh no, not when you're dealing with the loony fringes of Palestinian demands.
Hamas make clear that they're going to keep on fighting to take over the whole of what they call Palestine -- that is, the whole of Israel. "Palestine will be free. From the river to the sea".
Now, why on earth would Israel want to start talking to Hamas on that basis? Yet the pressure is already on from the western media: talk to Hamas now. They've made concessions. Their line is "softer". Like hell.
Israel of course is not buying it. They say it's a "smokescreen". And of course it is. But many will be blinded by the smoke.
Thank goodness Israel has the "war smarts". It's not dumb. And it's not suicidal.**
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For ref: here is a part of Article 7 of the Hamas Charter of 1988. It has not been abrogated (yet) by the new "policy paper", as far as I know.
Pretty horrid isn't it?
But rarely is it mentioned by those who so readily find fault with Israel.
As far as I can tell it's still valid, though the new policy paper may mitigate it.
Quote:
The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!
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** An Israel official said: "Instead of trying to destroy us in one go, they [Hamas/PA] will do it in two goes," and the charter is "cosmetics and nothing more". (Rory Jones in the Wall Street Journal, early May)
** An Israel official said: "Instead of trying to destroy us in one go, they [Hamas/PA] will do it in two goes," and the charter is "cosmetics and nothing more". (Rory Jones in the Wall Street Journal, early May)
