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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]
I don't speak for Hamas, [b]you can ask them why they don't have an updated charter[/b]  on their website even though they have already said all their demands are available on the site. You are free to choose what to question, just like I am, my question wasnt directed at you.  I don't speak for you, you are free to speak for yourself[/quote]

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That's a bit disingenuous, don't you think? Especially since you have plenty of guesses about other things.

If you had to guess why Hamas "has no charter" right now, why would you guess it is? Too busy?
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To be honest,  my guess is [b]they don't have a charter because there might be some disagreements among their members and they can't agree on what their charter should be[/b]. They will of course not admit internal discord publicly because that would weaken their organization in the eyes of their "ennemies". Hamas is a huge organization, but this is just my guess, do not quote me on it,  I do not have any insider info on the issue[/quote]

Ding ding ding! I think you are entirely correct. I also think it's not going too far to say that at least some of the disagreement is over [i]whether they should kill all the Jews or not. [/i]

Now, do you really not think that it impairs diplomatic relations when the elected party cannot amongst themselves even agree to simply [i]not killing Jews[/i]?

See why Israel might be a wee bit hesitant about accepting Hamas as a partner in peace? [/quote]

I never said Hamas was the perfect party to lead the Palestinians. But the same goes for Israel, why should they be trusted? For more than two decades, Palestinians and Israelis have been engaged in a so-called peace process, which aims to establish a Palestinian state on the occupied territories, the small areas from which Israel is legally required to withdraw. But that peace process failed time and again because Israel was never serious about allowing a viable Palestinian state to exist, and insisted on swallowing up more and more Palestinian land through relentless settlement expansion, in direct violation of international law. More recently, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu candidly(though only in Hebrew) ruled out the possibility of allowing a sovereign Palestinian state to exist.

But because global perceptions are important, Israel is always looking for a way to deflect responsibility for the failure of the peace process onto the Palestinians. One of the talking points used to that end is theclaim that there is “no partner for peace” on the Palestinian side because the leadership was divided. So when Hamas and the Palestinian Authority agreed to end their division in recent months, Netanyahu’s government freaked out and demanded Western governments boycott the new united Palestinian leadership. When, to Netanyahu’s bitter disappointment, the U.S. insisted on dealing with the new Palestinian government anyway, Israel seems to have opted for a direct confrontation with Hamas to break up the unity government. One can see the cynical exploitation of the teens’ kidnapping to this end simply by looking at the Jerusalem Post headline, which reads: “Netanyahu to Kerry: PA’s Hamas-backed unity government to blame for missing teens.” Evidence for this sort of nonsense, of course, is nowhere to be seen.

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