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submitted 7 months ago by NIB@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

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[-] ZMoney@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

Gotta love the wording in this article "Hamas, which is committed to the destruction of Israel..."

It's because the "state" of Israel is inseparable from a military blockade that imposes a starvation regime and illegally settles lands in the West Bank in direct defiance of the UN. It's like saying I'm committed to the destruction of the US because I'm committed to ending criminal wars of aggression, unconstitutional mass surveillance, and a prison system with 2 million residents.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Made up tripe should be treated as such, and people who believe in any kind of religious doctrine are delusion and deranged. We shouldn’t trust religious people with positions of authority or power, look at where this has gotten humanity.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Fully agree.

And to be crystal clear - that applies across all religions. It’s all bullshit and none of it should influence people in positions of power in any government.

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