Hamas does now describe itself as part of the *national* liberation struggle. I think the situation is probably somewhere in the middle. Hamas is unlikely ever to win free elections so in the event that one was held it is likely they would be the religious end of a larger coalition.
Comradely, John On Sun, 14 Apr 2024, 04:37 David Walters, <[email protected]> wrote: > This document by the JPLO and the full 2017 Charter of Hamas is a white > wash of Hamas' institutionalized antisemitism. The Charter was re-issued in > 2017. PRIOR to that the 1987 Charter was riddled with gross antisemitic > tropes. Hamas, *publicly, *hated Jews, not just Israeli Jews. Clearly, in > the intervening *40 years* Hamas dropped its antisemitism which in my > opinion was for Western liberal audiences. It seems that Hamas > spokespersons or Imams still tout various antisemitic tropes which emanate > back their Muslim Brotherhood origins as the Gaza branch of the Egyptian > Brotherhood prior to 1967. There simply is no evidence that a > discussion/debate took places to the issuing of this Charter among the > ranks of thousands of Hamas supporters. It *appears* that Hamas issued > textbooks for children in Gaza still contain the "Jews are the enemy of the > Palestinian people" thing and that nothing has really changed from any > ideological/theological POV. > > The JPLO appears to be *apologizing* for Hamas. > > David > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29892): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29892 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105503300/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
