and with that simple declaration by Ghazi Hamad, peace between Israelis and Palestinians should be close at hand, right? Wait, there’s more.
Senior officials in the Islamic group Hamas are indicating a willingness to negotiate a long-term truce with Israel as long as the borders of Gaza are opened to the rest of the world.
“We want to be part of the international community,” Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad told The Associated Press at the Gaza-Egypt border, where he was coordinating Arab aid shipments. “I think Hamas has no interest now to increase the number of crises in Gaza or to challenge the world.”
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“A dialogue with Hamas as a terror organization would be a strategic mistake, because Israel advocates dialogue with the moderates and displaying toughness against the extremists,” Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told the Maariv daily this week.
Israel’s position is based on the fact that Hamas refuses to recognize its right to exist. However, the three Hamas leaders interviewed said they would accept statehood in just the West Bank and Gaza and would give up their “resistance” against Israel if that were achieved.
“We accept a state in the ’67 borders,” said Hamad. “We are not talking about the destruction of Israel.”
How long will it take to derail this show of goodwill from Hamas? What kind of conditions will be placed on them that would not be worthy of consideration by any nationalist movement, forcing them to reject the idea of peace with their implacable opponent, Israel? At first glance this should signal the end of all hostilities between the two parties, but in reality, this is only the beginning.
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then why is the distruction of Israel and the murder of all jews still in their charter?
The answer to your question was very eloquently addressed here:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/will-ap-ever-stop-lying-for-israel/
And when reporting that Hamas is “dedicated to [Israel’s] destruction,” AP omits Hamas’ peaceful and quite rational overtures these last few years, contradicting that sensationalistic and Orwellian inversion of reality. And what are the authoritative legal grounds for requiring Hamas to “recognize” Israel? There are none. And morally speaking, how can a stateless group of individuals be held at bay over their refusal to recognize an already established state? If anything, the roles should be reversed. Does Israel recognize statehood for Palestinians? Is Israel dedicated to the destruction of Palestine? Historical and ongoing facts on the ground (as opposed to loosely-interpreted and mostly irrelevant words in a charter) scream, “duh!”
You can check out the links in the above paragraph at the link I posted. I think that link says it all.
while i’m here in Israel on the reciving end of those rockets sent over by hamas and it’s other branches, I’ll take it as I see it and not take the word of folks who aren’t even in the area , have never been in the area and are to CS to ever come into the area.
The folks in your friendly group Hamas have a habit of smiling for the camera but forcing folks tro join with threats of death and worse and in the cases of those that refuse to join well lets say that in the future there are going to be a few mass graves full of them