• Nix@merv.news
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    1 year ago

    Their charter doesnt state that. It was changed in 2017. Their current charter clearly states their conflict isn’t with Jewish people.

    “Palestine is a land that was seized by a racist, anti-human and colonial Zionist project that was founded on a false promise (the Balfour Declaration),”

    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. “

    https://palwatch.org/storage/documents/hamas new policy document 010517.pdf

    Netanyahu helped Hamas get their funding so the moderate party in Palestine would get less support

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/israel-gaza-netanyahu/675597/

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        Because the narrative that Israel is white colonizers oppressing poor brown locals is the predominant American liberal narrative for how power is structured everywhere in the world, even if it is of course never that simple.