According to the Hamas Charter, under what circumstances would Hamas accept peace with Israel?
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In no circumstances.  You must read this article from the L.A. Times.  \nhttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-goldhagen5feb05,0,1890552.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions\n\nBetter still, read the Hamas charter for your self (in the English translation by MEMRI.\nhttp://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD109206
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If the Arabs put down their weapons, there will be peace.\n(If Israel puts down its weapons there will be no more Israel...)
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When/if Israel wants it.
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This is the main obstacle to any peace negotiation. Israel want to keep land that was never part of Israel.
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'Cos the kidnap of the soldier was the perfect excuse to re-invade Gaza.If they don't release the soldier good,if they realese him even better.So of course they won't accept the demands of the militants...
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I wont answer ur question bcs\n\ni would give exemple here :\n\nif one make an Cake ... and onther one came and attack him and took it from him bcs he have more power ...and after days for some REASONS the 2 says ..ok let set and talk ...and the real owner of the cake said ,even all the cake its for me ...but i let u have it but i would have piece from my cake ... and u can keep the rest of it ... but the onther one said OK i will give u piece of ur cake ...but u must do thats and thats and thats!!! \n\nSo thats what is happning here today the Palestinians even b4 1948 they were have all the land and the Israelian occupied it....and now palestinians wanted just littel part of their own land and not all of it ...\n\nAnd now u asking ...do they deserve to be independent and have thier own state!!!!\n\ni will let you and whom reading this question to answer it
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I think my answer to your choppy english is that Hamas is a terror organization.  Yeah, democracy back fired, and there isn't much anyone can do about it.  What we can do is stop all aid and assistance until Hamas recognizes Isreal.  We have to be supporters of Isreal (USA).  If we turn our backs on Isreal, then God will turn his back on us.  If the people of Palestine suffer, so be it.  But they won't.  Iran and other rogue nations will chip in and take up the financial burden.  Hope that helped.
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The Arab countries could / still can have peace anytime they wish. They need to reconcile themselves with the idea of Jews as fellow human beings with a right to peace and independence in the Jewish homeland.
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Your question is not clear in its meaning. If you are asking when will the people living next to Israel have their own state, my answer is as follows.\n\nNations controlling the lands now referred to as the Middle East, after the 1st & 2nd World Wars divided lands and placed them under monarchs and autocrats. Following the 2nd World War the requests for restoration of a Jewish state where all Jews would be allowed entry was accepted, mainly in answer to the Holocaust and to many seeking refuge being denied entry into any other nations. The newly formed United Nations formed a plan to provide both a Jewish & a Palestinian state. When implemented, the Jews accepted the plan and the palestinians (mainly natives of Jordan) rejected the plan as did all the arab nations in the region. They immediately declared war upon Israel and pledged her eventual destruction.\n\nWhen the arab nations and their peoples accept Israel's right to exist, securely and in peace, and renounce terrorism as a political means, then they will have their own state.
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A peaceful resolution or a violent resolution to the conflict. "by any means necessary"
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Yes, but I don't expect it to happen. The US supports Israel, regardless of what they do. They regularly veto resolutions against Israel in the UN. They support Israel, the 6th richest country in the world, with 1/3 third of all foreign aid. The Pro-Israel lobby is the largest lobbying group in Washington. We are not interested in solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because it makes our weapons suppliers a lot of money.\n\nWe overthrow governments to install democracy, but when Palestine democratically elected Hamas, we refuse to deal with them. The hypocrisy is laughable.\n\nWe need to not take sides in the conflict. It is not our fight. Supporting one side while chastising the other is not the way to achieve peace.
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Is peace humanly possible?  Yes.\n\nWill it happen in between Israel and the Palestinians?  Not in the way things are currently being run:\n   - Palestinian's Rulung Party, the Hamas, have demanded control over thier own land for the last 39 years (since 67), now that Israel has removed thier citizens from Gaza, Hamas has celebrated its freedom, but complains that Israel will not let thier people travel to and from... which is funny because they admitt their goal is to eliminate the Israelis alltogether.  \n\nSo if peace was to happen... both sides would have to prove to one another they were serious about peace.  This isn't some perfect world, so it is not like the Israeli governement would be willing to just lay down all thier arms in order to establish peace with the Palestinians... they know the second they do that Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq would attach full-force.  So it will havce to be a slow process of give and take with the Palestinians and the Israelies each giving up thier rights in order to establish peace.  \n\nWith Hamas in control of Palestinian areas, it won't happen though.
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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without ending the deep tensions between the two sides. The territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 war are not included in the Israel country profile, unless otherwise noted. On 25 April 1982, Israel withdrew from the Sinai pursuant to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Israel and Palestinian officials signed on 13 September 1993 a Declaration of Principles (also known as the "Oslo Accords") guiding an interim period of Palestinian self-rule. Outstanding territorial and other disputes with Jordan were resolved in the 26 October 1994 Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace. In addition, on 25 May 2000, Israel withdrew unilaterally from southern Lebanon, which it had occupied since 1982. In keeping with the framework established at the Madrid Conference in October 1991, bilateral negotiations were conducted between Israel and Palestinian representatives and Syria to achieve a permanent settlement. In April 2003, US President BUSH, working in conjunction with the EU, UN, and Russia - the "Quartet" - took the lead in laying out a roadmap to a final settlement of the conflict by 2005, based on reciprocal steps by the two parties leading to two states, Israel and a democratic Palestine. However, progress toward a permanent status agreement was undermined by Palestinian-Israeli violence between September 2000 and February 2005. An agreement reached at Sharm al-Sheikh in February 2005 significantly reduced the violence. The election in January 2005 of Mahmud ABBAS as the new Palestinian leader following the November 2004 death of Yasir ARAFAT, the formation of a Likud-Labor-United Torah Judaism coalition government in January 2005, and the successful Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip (August-September 2005), presented an opportunity for a renewed peace effort. However, internal Israeli political events between October and December 2005 have destabilized the political situation and forced early elections, scheduled for March 2006.\n\n\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/is.html\n\nhttp://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/\n\n\nQuote from Charles Krauthammer - The Weekly Standard, May 11, 1998\n\n"Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store."\n\nThe people of Israel (also called the "Jewish People") trace their origin to Abraham, who established the belief that there is only one God, the creator of the universe (see Old Testament). Abraham, his son Yitshak (Isaac), and grandson Jacob (Israel), are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites. All three patriarchs lived in the Land of Canaan, that later came to be known as the Land of Israel. They and their wives are buried in the Ma'arat HaMachpela, the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in Hebron.\n\nThe name Israel derives from the name given to Jacob (see Old Testament). His 12 sons were the kernels of 12 tribes that later developed into the Jewish nation. The name Jew derives from Yehuda (Judah) one of the 12 sons of Jacob. So, the names Israel, Israeli or Jewish refer to people of the same origin.\n\nThe descendants of Abraham crystallized into a nation at about 1300 BCE after their Exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses (Moshe in Hebrew). Soon after the Exodus, Moses transmitted to the people of this new emerging nation, the Torah, and the Ten Commandments. After 40 years in the Sinai desert, Moses led them to
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The Palestinian people elected Hamas (a terrorist group) as their government.  I think this is called "cause and effect".  You elect terrorists into your government and the people who gave you aide will stop giving.\n\nSeems pretty simple to me.
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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without ending the deep tensions between the two sides. The territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 war are not included in the Israel country profile, unless otherwise noted. On 25 April 1982, Israel withdrew from the Sinai pursuant to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Israel and Palestinian officials signed on 13 September 1993 a Declaration of Principles (also known as the "Oslo accords") guiding an interim period of Palestinian self-rule. Outstanding territorial and other disputes with Jordan were resolved in the 26 October 1994 Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace. In addition, on 25 May 2000, Israel withdrew unilaterally from southern Lebanon, which it had occupied since 1982. In keeping with the framework established at the Madrid Conference in October 1991, bilateral negotiations were conducted between Israel and Palestinian representatives and Syria to achieve a permanent settlement. On 24 June 2002, US President BUSH laid out a "road map" for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which envisions a two-state solution. However, progress toward a permanent status agreement was undermined by Palestinian-Israeli violence between September 2000 and February 2005. An agreement reached at Sharm al-Sheikh in February 2005 significantly reduced the violence. The election in January 2005 of Mahmud ABBAS as the new Palestinian leader following the November 2004 death of Yasir ARAFAT, the formation of a Likud-Labor-United Torah Judaism coalition government in January 2005, and the successful Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip (August-September 2005), presented an opportunity for a renewed peace effort. However, internal Israeli political events between October and December 2005 have destabilized the political situation and forced early elections, scheduled for March 2006.
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The middle east peace conference in Madrid.The purpose of the conference was to serve as an opening forum for the participants and had no power to impose solutions or veto agreements. It inaugurated negotiations on both bilateral tracks and on multilateral tracks that also involved the international community. The Syrian and Lebanese negotiators agreed on a common strategy.\nThe first-ever public bilateral talks between Israel and its neighbors (except Egypt) were aimed at achieving peace treaties between the 3 Arab states and Israel, while the talks with the Palestinians were based on a 2-stage formula, the first consisting of negotiating interim self-government arrangements, to be followed by permanent status negotiations. (This formula was essentially followed in the later Oslo process.)
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I never accepted Bush's idea that democracies will always be peaceful. Democracies are nice, but don't guarantee a country that follows humanitarian values. Unfortunately, Bush told us that democracies will lead to peace, and creating democracies became his top justification for the war.\nNow perhaps we can get back to reason and realize that what we are after is a world with governments that do not promote violence and terrorism and that support human rights. These governments may or may not be democratic, and we should not act as though democracies are the only form of government capable of producing peace.\nHow will the world react? Probably by further isolating the Hamas and doing what we can to overthrow the government.