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doggy
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Both fighting against occupation. Both want the occupier out of their land
What's the difference between the French resistance in WW2 and Hamas?
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Rodriguez
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Badum boom tsh! 
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Rodriguez
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Badum boom tsh!
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Repairmanjack
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You need to study history - and Hamas is a TERRORIST group:
The present conflict can be traced back to the defeat of the Ottoman Turks in World War I. The League of Nations mandated to Britain the formerly Ottoman domains of what today comprise Jordan, Israel, and the West Bank. Inspired by the Zionist movement, thousands of Jews began moving to these areas and revitalizing them, attracting Arabs also to move to what had been a particularly desolate land. The British encouraged this Jewish immigration. In 1923, the British split their “Palestine” mandate into two sections: Palestine (west of the Jordan river) and Transjordan (east of the Jordan). Transjordan (renamed Jordan in 1946) was awarded to the Hashemite dynasty from the Hejaz in what is now Saudi Arabia, and Jews were forbidden to settle there; Palestine was slated to be a new Jewish homeland.
Stoked by the anti-Semitism in the Qur’an (cf. 2:62-65; 5:59-60; 7:166; 9:30) and the traditional Islamic dictum that non-Muslims can never legitimately rule over land that has once belonged to the House of Islam, Arab Muslims began to attack Jews in Palestine. In 1947 the British referred the increasingly violence-ridden area to the United Nations, which drew up a plan to carve a Jewish state and an Arab Muslim state out of Palestine. The Arabs, however, rejected this proposal; any Jewish state, no matter how small, did not square with their Islamic supremacist ideology.
On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was founded. Armies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen initiated hostilities against Israel the next day. At that point these Arab states encouraged any Arabs remaining within Israel — around 400,000 — to leave. The refugee status of these unfortunates was prolonged by the Arab states’ general refusal to allow them to settle in their countries, despite the absence of any serious ethnic or linguistic differences between them and the people of Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. (Jordan did grant Jordanian citizenship to the Arabs of the West Bank when it annexed this territory in 1950.) The Arab states wanted to use the refugee problem as a propaganda weapon against Israel, and thus had no interest in seeing these refugees settled in new homes.
The war ended in 1949 with Israel’s independence secured. Egypt (Gaza) and Jordan (the West Bank) annexed much of the territory of what had been slated by the UN to become a Palestinian Arab Muslim state. Neither Egypt nor Jordan, however, ever made any effort to establish such a state on those territories. Their pressure on Israel, however, continued. In 1964, Yasir Arafat founded the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was dedicated to the total destruction of Israel. He set out to create the notion of a Palestinian nationality, distinct from the nationalities of the surrounding states, to buttress his claim that the Palestinian Arabs deserved a nation-state of their own. In 1967, Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in the Six-Day War and occupied Gaza, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights in southern Syria, as well as Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Israeli General Moshe Dayan pleaded with the Muslim Arabs in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip not to leave those areas; he hoped to persuade them that the Israelis weren’t so bad after all, and thereby put an end to the conflict. This goodwill gesture, however, only exacerbated the ongoing conflict when the Palestinian Arabs in those areas proved themselves to be unable or unwilling to discard the supremacist Islamic ideology that led them to dedicate their efforts to destroy Israel altogether.
In 1982, as part of the Camp David Peace Accord brokered by Jimmy Carter, Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt. Israel continued to occupy the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and Gaza — which ultimately led Arafat to launch two intifadas, or uprisings. The first began in 1987 and continued until 1993; the second began in 2000 and essentially continued until the Gaza withdrawal of 2005.
Who is fighting?
On one side are the Israelis. On the other is the Palestinian Authority, the successor group to the PLO and the recognized governing organization for the Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza. The PA is supported by the neighboring Arab states, which have never relented in their hostility toward Israel. Even Egypt, which is nominally at peace with Israel since the Camp David Accord, continues to tolerate extreme and vicious anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment (along with anti-Americanism) in its mainstream media.
There are also two principal Islamic jihadist groups, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad. Both are listed as terrorist groups by the State Department. Hamas has set itself up as the chief exponent of the jihad ideology and roadblock to peace in the Middle East, declaring in its charter of August 1988 that “nothing is loftier or deeper in Nationalism than waging Jihad against the enemy and
The present conflict can be traced back to the defeat of the Ottoman Turks in World War I. The League of Nations mandated to Britain the formerly Ottoman domains of what today comprise Jordan, Israel, and the West Bank. Inspired by the Zionist movement, thousands of Jews began moving to these areas and revitalizing them, attracting Arabs also to move to what had been a particularly desolate land. The British encouraged this Jewish immigration. In 1923, the British split their “Palestine” mandate into two sections: Palestine (west of the Jordan river) and Transjordan (east of the Jordan). Transjordan (renamed Jordan in 1946) was awarded to the Hashemite dynasty from the Hejaz in what is now Saudi Arabia, and Jews were forbidden to settle there; Palestine was slated to be a new Jewish homeland.
Stoked by the anti-Semitism in the Qur’an (cf. 2:62-65; 5:59-60; 7:166; 9:30) and the traditional Islamic dictum that non-Muslims can never legitimately rule over land that has once belonged to the House of Islam, Arab Muslims began to attack Jews in Palestine. In 1947 the British referred the increasingly violence-ridden area to the United Nations, which drew up a plan to carve a Jewish state and an Arab Muslim state out of Palestine. The Arabs, however, rejected this proposal; any Jewish state, no matter how small, did not square with their Islamic supremacist ideology.
On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was founded. Armies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen initiated hostilities against Israel the next day. At that point these Arab states encouraged any Arabs remaining within Israel — around 400,000 — to leave. The refugee status of these unfortunates was prolonged by the Arab states’ general refusal to allow them to settle in their countries, despite the absence of any serious ethnic or linguistic differences between them and the people of Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. (Jordan did grant Jordanian citizenship to the Arabs of the West Bank when it annexed this territory in 1950.) The Arab states wanted to use the refugee problem as a propaganda weapon against Israel, and thus had no interest in seeing these refugees settled in new homes.
The war ended in 1949 with Israel’s independence secured. Egypt (Gaza) and Jordan (the West Bank) annexed much of the territory of what had been slated by the UN to become a Palestinian Arab Muslim state. Neither Egypt nor Jordan, however, ever made any effort to establish such a state on those territories. Their pressure on Israel, however, continued. In 1964, Yasir Arafat founded the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was dedicated to the total destruction of Israel. He set out to create the notion of a Palestinian nationality, distinct from the nationalities of the surrounding states, to buttress his claim that the Palestinian Arabs deserved a nation-state of their own. In 1967, Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in the Six-Day War and occupied Gaza, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights in southern Syria, as well as Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Israeli General Moshe Dayan pleaded with the Muslim Arabs in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip not to leave those areas; he hoped to persuade them that the Israelis weren’t so bad after all, and thereby put an end to the conflict. This goodwill gesture, however, only exacerbated the ongoing conflict when the Palestinian Arabs in those areas proved themselves to be unable or unwilling to discard the supremacist Islamic ideology that led them to dedicate their efforts to destroy Israel altogether.
In 1982, as part of the Camp David Peace Accord brokered by Jimmy Carter, Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt. Israel continued to occupy the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and Gaza — which ultimately led Arafat to launch two intifadas, or uprisings. The first began in 1987 and continued until 1993; the second began in 2000 and essentially continued until the Gaza withdrawal of 2005.
Who is fighting?
On one side are the Israelis. On the other is the Palestinian Authority, the successor group to the PLO and the recognized governing organization for the Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza. The PA is supported by the neighboring Arab states, which have never relented in their hostility toward Israel. Even Egypt, which is nominally at peace with Israel since the Camp David Accord, continues to tolerate extreme and vicious anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment (along with anti-Americanism) in its mainstream media.
There are also two principal Islamic jihadist groups, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad. Both are listed as terrorist groups by the State Department. Hamas has set itself up as the chief exponent of the jihad ideology and roadblock to peace in the Middle East, declaring in its charter of August 1988 that “nothing is loftier or deeper in Nationalism than waging Jihad against the enemy and