Even the Bible says 'an eye for an eye" - which is already against the international law and is Iron Age. Even the Bible does not say "Your entire nation, your entire country for an eye of one Israeli". "Hamas" cannot be an excuse for genocide - and indeed American and Israeli, as well as German, British, French, Italian officials do not mention Hamas - what they say is "finish them all", "flatten Gaza", "kill all Arabs". Hamas, by the way, only calls for a two-state solution, pre-1967 borders, return of all WOMEN AND KIDS PRISONERS (can you only imagine, Israel actually keeps women, kids and teenagers imprisoned indefinitely, without a charge) and abolish the concentration camp of Gaza. Oh but that's too much for Israel to agree on, because how dare these Palestinians pretend that they are human beings like the Whites.
WHAT HAMAS WANTS
(or read it on their own w/site (remove the spaces): https:// h a mas. ps / en/
It is actually way less anti-Israel than Israeli dissidents, who are fed up with the racist "Jewish State".
HAMAS not only does not call for any "destruction of Israel", but actually offered a 10-year truce a while ago, which was ignored. All Hamas leaders who tried to negotiate peace, have bee assassinated by Israel. "The most incessant propaganda says Hamas is committed to the destruction of Israel. Khaled Hroub, the Cambridge University scholar considered a world leading authority on Hamas, says this phrase is "never used or adopted by Hamas, even in its most radical statements". The oft-quoted "anti-Jewish" 1988 Charter was the work of "one individual and made public without appropriate Hamas consensus... The author was one of the 'old guard' "; the document is regarded as an embarrassment and never cited.
Hamas has repeatedly offered a 10-year truce with Israel and has long settled for a two-state solution. When Medea Benjamin, the fearless Jewish American activist, was in Gaza, she carried a letter from Hamas leaders to President Obama that made clear the government of Gaza wanted peace with Israel. It was ignored. I personally know of many such letters carried in good faith, ignored or dismissed." John Pilger. --- here is The Guardian piece on what Hamas wants. From 2006, and it has not changed since. "Gazi Hamad, a Hamas candidate in the Gaza Strip, yesterday said the manifesto reflected the group's position of accepting an interim state based on 1967 borders but leaving a final decision on whether to recognise Israel to future generations.
"Hamas is talking about the end of the occupation as the basis for a state, but at the same time Hamas is still not ready to recognise the right of Israel to exist," he said. "We cannot give up the right of the armed struggle because our territory is occupied in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. That is the territory we are fighting to liberate."
But Mr Hamad said the armed resistance was no longer Hamas's primary strategy. "The policy is to maintain the armed struggle but it is not our first priority. We know that first of all we have to put more effort into resolving the internal problems, dealing with corruption, blackmail, chaos. This is our priority because if we change the situation for the Palestinians it will make our cause stronger." --- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/12/israel
