CLAIM: Hamas has never agreed to a peaceful two state solution.
RATING:
False
It is true that Hamas’s initial 1988 charter was based on reconquering all of historic Palestine from Israel, and even talks about “obliterating” Israel. However, within a few years Hamas had already started distancing itself from this charter, rarely mentioning it again.
By March 2002, Hamas made it clear that it supported the Arab League's Beirut Declaration (also known as the Arab Peace Initiative), in which all Arab states (including Palestine) offered Israel permanent peace and normalized relations with Israel, in exchange for Israel complying with international law and returning to the pre-1967 borders giving Palestinian refugees the right of return.
Source: Hamas and Civil Society: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector (2011) by Sara Roy, p.210.
Hamas’s latest 2017 charter says that although they still see historic Palestine as belonging to Palestinians, “Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus."
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Keep trying to invent history. The palis didn’t exist until the mid 1960s.
One other fun fact – every group, every political organization, and every government that has ever tried to destroy the Jews has been destroyed. Fun fact #2 Israel has never been stronger.