The Iran-backed Hamas terror group is again trying to dupe gullible Westerners, including the Biden administration and the European Union, into believing that it has accepted the "two-state solution."
The Hamas official would not have dared to utter similar nonsense to an Arab media outlet. He knows that here his lies are directed at English-speaking audiences, who tend to swallow whole the baloney spouted by Israel's enemies.
The Hamas official wants everyone to believe that his group is ready to stop killing Jews for a period of five years "or more" if it gets the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. He just forgot to mention that there was an official truce between Israel and Hamas until October 7, when the terror group Hamas initiated the current war.
The Hamas official also forgot to mention that Hamas has repeatedly violated several truces and ceasefire agreements reached with Israel over the past 17 years. The truces and ceasefires were always used by Hamas to regroup and rearm in preparation for the next round of attacking Israel.
Hamas will never abandon its weapons or dismantle its armed group, especially after the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The mere talk about a Palestinian state these days is regarded as a reward for Hamas's genocidal assault on Israel. It sends the message to Hamas that after you murdered so many Jews, the international community will reward you by giving you a state. It reaffirms that terrorism works.
Where do we sign up?
The secret that the AP and the US administration do not want you to know is that Hamas does not actually want the Gaza Strip or the West Bank or east Jerusalem. Hamas wants to eliminate Israel and replace it with an Iran-backed Islamist terror state.
If Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are given a state next to Israel, they will absolutely continue to pursue their goal of killing Jews and obliterating Israel. Hamas official Ghazi Hamad has clearly said that the terror group will repeat the October 7 attack, time and again, until Israel is annihilated.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has repeatedly clarified that his group's acceptance of a Palestinian state does not mean that it will abandon its goal of destroying Israel.
"The lines below are for the next person who comes to me with 'Hamas agreed to two state solution.' It DID NOT! Hamas outlines this scenario fully in its Charter as amended in 2017....
Hamas will likely then stock as much rockets and drones possible for the next round of war to destroy Israel.... Prophet Muhammad is said to have entered into a 10-year truce with the infidels. He conquered them a few years into the truce. Hamas imagines a similar scenario with Israel." — Hussain Abdul-Hussain, X, April 25, 2024.
Hamas is well aware of the credulity of the international community. It knows that it can engage in all forms of propaganda and win friends in the West. It also knows that the best vehicle to advance its goal of killing Jews and destroying Israel is a "two-state solution."
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Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has repeatedly clarified that his group's acceptance of a Palestinian state does not mean that it will abandon its goal of destroying Israel.
Earlier this year, Mashaal said:
"I would like to say two things about the two-state solution. First, we have nothing to do with the two-state solution. We reject this notion, because it means you would get a promise for a [Palestinian] state, yet you are required to recognize the legitimacy of the other state, which is the Zionist entity. This is unacceptable. We demand to be liberated, to get rid of the occupation, and to have our independence, and our state. [Israel] is my enemy. It is not my concern...
"Obviously, the position of Hamas, and the position of the vast majority of the Palestinian people, especially following October 7, I believe that the dream and the hope for Palestine from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea, and from the north to the south, has been renewed...
"Hamas agreed to a completely independent [Palestinian] state, with the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital, with the right of Return included – without recognizing the legitimacy of the Zionist entity."
Commenting on the false assumption that Hamas had agreed to a "two-state solution," Hussain Abdul-Hussain, a research fellow with The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote:
"The lines below are for the next person who comes to me with "Hamas agreed to two state solution." It DID NOT!
"Hamas outlines this scenario fully in its Charter as amended in 2017. Israel hands over all of West Bank, East Jerusalem and West Bank (1967 land) to Palestinians and agrees to return of 5.9 million Palestinians to Israel (1948 land). A sovereign independent Palestinian state is declared, with a national unity cabinet (Hamas + PLO) and a platform for the liberation of the rest of Palestine. Since 1948 is still under occupation, the Palestinian state cannot recognize Israel.
"The Hamas militia then becomes "resistance" that enjoys national Palestinian consensus. i.e. Hamas in 1967 Palestine becomes like Hezbollah in Lebanon, its own statelet with its own army dominating a much weaker state. Hamas will likely then stock as much rockets and drones possible for the next round of war to destroy Israel, maybe after the truce with Israel (10 years) is over.
"Prophet Muhammad is said to have entered into a 10 year truce with the infidels. He conquered them a few years into the truce. Hamas imagines a similar scenario with Israel.
"Even better, with return of 6 million Palestinians to Israel, add 2 million Arabs to them, 8 million Arabs will eventually outnumber 8 million Jews. Palestinians in Israel can then take over Israel through elections. Jews become a minority. The two Palestines are unified as one. Israel is annihilated, Zionism is over, and "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.""
Hamas is well aware of the credulity of the international community. It knows that it can engage in all forms of propaganda and win friends in the West. It also knows that the best vehicle to advance its goal of killing Jews and destroying Israel is a "two-state solution."
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Bassam Tawil is an Arab Muslim based in the Middle East.
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Pictured: Hamad is interviewed on October 24, 2023 on LBC TV (Lebanon). (Image source: MEMRI)
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