Thanks for this. Thanks for mentioning Hamas’s 2017 Charter, which includes, “The Islamic Resistance Movement ‘Hamas’ is a Palestinian Islamic national liberation and resistance movement. Its goal is to liberate Palestine and confront the Zionist project. Its frame of reference is Islam, which determines its principles, objectives and me…
Thanks for this. Thanks for mentioning Hamas’s 2017 Charter, which includes, “The Islamic Resistance Movement ‘Hamas’ is a Palestinian Islamic national liberation and resistance movement. Its goal is to liberate Palestine and confront the Zionist project. Its frame of reference is Islam, which determines its principles, objectives and means.”
“Israel is not a state of all its citizens… [but rather] the nation-state of the Jewish people and only them.” - Israel’s then, and again, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (message posted online in March 2019)
Jeremy, can you help us understand how various Hamas leaders understand a secular, humanist, multicultural state? Is that a goal for them? If, instead, Israelis and Palestinians each see people of other religions as inferior or illegitimate, that would seem to me (an atheist) to be a powerful barrier to lasting peace.
Thanks for this. Thanks for mentioning Hamas’s 2017 Charter, which includes, “The Islamic Resistance Movement ‘Hamas’ is a Palestinian Islamic national liberation and resistance movement. Its goal is to liberate Palestine and confront the Zionist project. Its frame of reference is Islam, which determines its principles, objectives and means.”
“Israel is not a state of all its citizens… [but rather] the nation-state of the Jewish people and only them.” - Israel’s then, and again, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (message posted online in March 2019)
Jeremy, can you help us understand how various Hamas leaders understand a secular, humanist, multicultural state? Is that a goal for them? If, instead, Israelis and Palestinians each see people of other religions as inferior or illegitimate, that would seem to me (an atheist) to be a powerful barrier to lasting peace.
Thanks for your reporting.