When Hamas Tells You Who They Are, Believe Them

[DemocratSinceBirth]

“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there was still time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe.”

— William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

How many Israelis, or Jews, or anyone else for that matter, have read the 1988 Hamas Covenant or the revised charter that was issued in 2017? With 36 articles of only a few paragraphs’ length each in the former, and 42 concise statements of general principles and objectives in the latter, both are considerably shorter and more digestible than the 782-page original German-language edition of Mein Kampf. Moreover, unlike Hitler’s seminal work, which was not published in English until March 1939, excellent English translations of both the original Hamas Covenant and its successor can easily be found on the internet.

Released on August 18, 1988, the original covenant spells out clearly Hamas’s genocidal intentions. Accordingly, what happened in Israel on Saturday is completely in keeping with Hamas’s explicit aims and stated objectives. It was in fact the inchoate realization of Hamas’s true ambitions.

The most relevant of the document’s 36 articles can be summarized as falling within four main themes:

The complete destruction of Israel as an essential condition for the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of a theocratic state based on Islamic law (Sharia),
The need for both unrestrained and unceasing holy war (jihad) to attain the above objective,
The deliberate disdain for, and dismissal of, any negotiated resolution or political settlement of Jewish and Muslim claims to the Holy Land, and
The reinforcement of historical anti-Semitic tropes and calumnies married to sinister conspiracy theories.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/hamas-covenant-israel-attack-war-genocide/675602/

[ripcord]

1. This is good info but it won't work

Some people will always think of them as freedom fighters and will ignore any information to the contrary. I remember a couple of decades ago it was considered chic for progressive professors to have PLO members lecture at universities. I wonder how the BDS movement will spin this?

[paleotn]

2. Good luck with that.

Lots of apologists around here who seem to overlook cold blooded murder. I wonder why? Easy I suppose sitting fat and happy in safe and secure America.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. In her autobiography

Golda Meir related that it was profoundly "disappointing" (her word) that captured Arab fighters had two books in their backpacks, the Koran and what was at first assumed to be a military manual but was quickly revealed to be an Arabic translation of Mein Kampf. She had hoped that they might be given something more ennobling to read.


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[no_hypocrisy]

4. HAMAS doesn't represent the Palestinians.

Even if it were successful in driving out all the Jews from Israel, HAMAS would not allow Palestinians any more rights.

HAMAS is in it for HAMAS. Period.