Unthinking Majority wrote:The cause of the Oct 7 attacks is that Israel exists in any form whatsoever, and Hamas is a jihadist extremist terrorist organization whose raison d'etre is the destruction of Israel via jihad so that Muslims can take control of every inch of land in the region. This comes directly from Hamas' own charter:
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory)."
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"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem)."
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"The day that enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In face of the Jews' usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised. To do this requires the diffusion of Islamic consciousness among the masses, both on the regional, Arab and Islamic levels. It is necessary to instill the spirit of Jihad in the heart of the nation so that they would confront the enemies and join the ranks of the fighters."
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"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
That seems vague and does not necessarily denote killing all the Jews, ir even destroying Israel.
And a few out of context quotes does not disprove the effects of settler colonialism.
They're either lying or horribly naive and uneducated as to what the phrase actually means and are acting essentially as useful idiots for anti-Zionists who wish to destroy Israel, including Hamas:
"From the river to the sea is a political phrase that refers geographically to the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an area historically called Palestine, which today includes Israel and the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_ ... o_the_sea#
From the 2017 Hamas charter update:
"Hamas believes that no part of the land of Palestine shall be compromised or conceded, irrespective of the causes, the circumstances and the pressures and no matter how long the occupation lasts. Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea."
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"Palestine, which extends from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Ras al-Naqurah in the north to Umm al-Rashrash in the south, is an integral territorial unit. It is the land and the home of the Palestinian people. The expulsion and banishment of the Palestinian people from their land and the establishment of the Zionist entity therein do not annul the right of the Palestinian people to their entire land and do not entrench any rights therein for the usurping Zionist entity."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hama ... ument-full
Well, if you think people are lying and secretly hateful, then you should not bother interacting with them, seeing as how you will not interact with what they are explicitly saying,
There is an occupation right now.
People in occupied lands will want to fight for their freedom.
So logically, this can easily be a call for freedom. The claim that it must mean genocide is an inference.