Mohamed Deif explained it clearly and simply. Nothing complicated.
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HAMAS wishes to jihad Israel into non existence. HAMAS will kill all Israelis if possible.
Antisemitism
Ideology
The 1988 Charter claimed that the Jews deserved God's/Allah's enmity and wrath because they received the Scriptures but violated its sacred texts, disbelieved the signs of Allah, and slew their own prophets.
[36] It quotes a saying of Muhammad from a
hadith:
The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, 'O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.' Only the Gharkad tree would not do that, because it is one of the trees of the Jews.
— Related by
al-Bukhari and
Muslim.
[1]
Criticism by American analysts
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of
The Atlantic magazine, criticized the founding charter of Hamas by labelling it as a "genocidal" document and compared it to
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Referring to the charter in an article in
The New Yorker magizine, American commentator
Philip Gourevitch accused Hamas leadership of having "genocidal" intentions against Jews.
[8][9] According to
Bruce Hoffman, the Hamas Charter exhibits "genocidal intentions".
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Militant Jihad
The 1988 Charter went further in detailing how Jihad against the Jews was a duty. "The day that enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In face of the Jews' usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised. To do this requires the diffusion of Islamic consciousness among the masses, both on the regional, Arab and Islamic levels. It is necessary to instill the spirit of Jihad in the heart of the nation so that they would confront the enemies and join the ranks of the fighters."
[1]
Antisemitic canards
The 1988 charter contained references to
antisemitic canards, such as the assertion that through shrewd manipulation of imperial countries and secret societies, Jews were behind a wide range of events and disasters going as far back in history as the
French Revolution.
With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money, they formed secret societies, such as Freemason, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to control imperialistic countries and instigate them to colonize many countries in order to enable them to exploit their resources and spread corruption there.
[1]
It continued by accusing the Jews of engineering World War I as a pretext to
abolish the Caliphate, create the
League of Nations, and influence the
British government into drafting the
Balfour Declaration.
[1] It echoed
Nazi propaganda in claiming that Jews profited during
World War II.
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Equivalence of anti-Zionism and antisemitism
Historian
Jeffrey Herf argued that unlike the PLO, which has distinguished their national
struggle against Zionism from general antisemitism, Hamas, in their 1988 covenant, purposefully fused these two struggles into one against the Jews and their country.
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In contrast, the 2017 covenant denies the connection in its only direct mention of Jews:
Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.
Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage.
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