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Originally Posted by Big Sarge
I know it isn't. Hamas calls for genocide. <snip>
I don't understand why you would endorse a group whose mission is to destroy others based upon religion or race.
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Sarge, I think you need to take a fresh look at your views.
Maybe things are not exactly the way you are posting.
Again from Wikipedia:
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In an April 2008 meeting between Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and former US President Jimmy Carter,
an understanding was reached in which Hamas agreed it would respect the creation of a Palestinian state
in the territory seized by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, provided this were ratified
by the Palestinian people in a referendum.
Hamas later publicly offered a long-term truce with Israel if Israel agreed
to return to its 1967 borders and grant the "right of return" to all Palestinian refugees.[58]
In November 2008, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh re-stated that Hamas
was willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders,
and offered Israel a long-term truce
"if Israel recognized the Palestinians' national rights."[59]
In 2009, in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Haniyeh repeated his group's support
for a two-state settlement based on 1967 borders: "We would never thwart efforts
to create an independent Palestinian state with borders [from] June 4, 1967,
with Jerusalem as its capital."[60]
On 1 December 2010, Ismail Haniyeh again repeated that,
"We accept a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital,
the release of Palestinian prisoners, and the resolution of the issue of refugees", and that
"Hamas will respect the results [of a referendum] regardless of
whether it differs with its ideology and principles".[61]
In February 2012, according to the Palestinian authority, Hamas forswore the use of violence.
Evidence for this was provided by an eruption of violence from Islamic Jihad
in March 2012 after an Israeli assassination of a Jihad leader,
during which Hamas refrained from attacking Israel.[62]
"Israel
—despite its mantra that because Hamas is sovereign in Gaza it is responsible for what goes on there —almost seems to understand,"
wrote Israeli journalists Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel,
"and has not bombed Hamas offices or installations."[63]
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Ummm... that last paragraph needs to be updated with "...until November, 2012"
I'm not saying Hamas is as white as snow, either.
It's just not as sharply defined as you seem to present.