Netanyahu Says Israel Will Not Back Down Until Gaza Is Emptied of Palestinians

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125. The 2017 charter replaced the original one. It was a significant moderation.

If Israel really wanted peace and a two-state solution, it would have welcomed Hamas' moderation as at least an opening to negotiations. The fact that it ignored it instead points to the hardening of hearts and minds within Israel to the TSS, which really only had a chance prior to the rise of Likud. I'll point out again that the Likud Charter was the first to claim "from the river to the sea" in so many words - it said within that geographical area there will only be Israeli sovereignty.

I still prefer Wiki or my own research to AI. Here are some tidbits on the 2017 charter that I find interesting.

Rejection of antisemitism
In contrast to the 1988 Hamas charter, the 2017 covenant separates the struggle against Zionism from general antisemitism, stating Hamas fights Zionists, not for their Jewishness but because of their "illegal" project:

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, antisemitism 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.[8]

Interviewed about this seeming change in Hamas's ideology, where in the old 1988 Hamas charter the enemy sometimes was labeled as "the Jews" but in the new 2017 charter the enemy is identified only as "Zionists", Khaled Mashal, in his last few days as highest leader of Hamas, declared in early May 2017: in the old charter indeed "the expression ["Jews"] was used", which he now criticized as "not (…) accurate" enough, emphasizing that Hamas' struggle "from the very start" was against "the Israeli occupier … not because they are Jews, (…) not because of their religion, but because (…) they have occupied our land, and attacked our people, and forced them out of their homes."[37]
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Under the heading "The position toward Occupation and Political Solutions" (paragraphs 18 to 23), the document describes the two-state solution, i.e. the creation of an independent Palestinian state in accordance with the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, as a "formula of national consensus", but without giving up the claim to the whole of Palestine, "from the river to the sea", and "without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity."[8] Rickard Lagervall (Jönköping University) viewed this as an "ambiguous formulation".[27] Tareq Baconi (Columbia University, European Council on Foreign Relations) gives two reasons why Hamas didn't explicitly recognize Israel:[35]
- The PLO unilaterally offered Israel recognition without extracting an Israeli commitment to recognize the State of Palestine, thus it weakened its own negotiating position, which Hamas wanted to avoid.[35]
- Secondly, Hamas, and Palestinian society at large, could be willing to recognize the fact Israel now exists, but they cannot legitimize Zionism or legitimize what happened to the Palestinians during Israel's creation.[35]

It really is a much, much more complicated and complex issue than "they want to kill all Jews" and "eradicate Israel". But getting all the nuances and complexities involves first trying to understand and dare I say it - empathize - with the Palestinians' perspective. Not everyone can do it, but some eventually will get there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Hamas_charter