🦅 May 2, 2024: Gatestone Institute > The United Abominations! Hamas will not lay down its weapons; it is committed to continuing the Jihad (holy war) against Israel, regardless of whether Israel ever withdraws from the West Bank and east Jerusalem or not.

by Bassam Tawil
May 2, 2024 at 5:00 am

The political leadership of Hamas is also undoubtedly aware that without its weapons, other rival factions such as Fatah would instantly seize the opportunity to get rid of Hamas.

Al-Hayya said that Hamas would accept “a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the return of Palestinian refugees in accordance with the international resolutions.” If that happens, he said, the group’s military wing would dissolve. Hamas, he added, will then turn into a political party.

The “return of Palestinian refugees” means flooding Israel with more than five million Arabs, most of whom are currently living in “refugee camps” run by the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA). This would turn the Jews living in Israel, which already has two million Arab citizens into a minority in their own country. Israel, in other words, will cease to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people.

What Hamas is actually saying is that it wants two Palestinian states – one inside Israel, and the second in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.
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