ISRAEL CAN HAVE PEACE WITH HAMAS ?

The name “Hamas” shows up in the news every day.  Who is Hamas? What do they believe? Who do they represent? The Avalon Project: Hamas Covenant 1988, translated the Hamas charter so that those not familiar with Arabic could better understand who Hamas is and what they believe. Here are some articles directly from the Hamas charter:

 ARTICLE 1:  The Islamic Resistance Movement:  The movement’s program is Islam. From it, it draws its ideas, ways of thinking and understanding of the universe, life and man.  It resorts to it for judgment in all its conduct, and it is inspired by it for guidance of its steps.

 

 

ARTICLE 2:  The Islamic Resistance Movement {Hamas} is one of the wings of the Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine. Moslem Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times. It is characterized by its deep understanding, accurate comprehension and its complete embrace of all Islamic concepts of all aspects of life, culture, creed, politics, economics, education, society, justice, and judgment, the spreading of Islam, education, art, information, science of the occult and conversion to Islam.

 

 

 

ARTICLE 6:  The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.

 

 

ARTICLE 7:  The Islamic resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders.  The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
“The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight 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.”

ARTICLE 8: Allah is its target; the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

Article 9:  As for the objectives:  They are fighting against the false, defeating it, vanquishing it so that justice can prevail, homelands be retrieved and from its mosques would the voice of the mu’azen emerge declaring the establishment of the state of Islam.

 

 ARTICLE 11:  The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf, consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day.  This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia, and the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of conquest, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgment. Any procedure in contradiction to Islamic Sharia, where Palestine is concerned, is null and void.

 

ARTICLE 13: Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitrators. When did the infidels do justice to the believers?  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.

ARTICLE 15: 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.  It is necessary to instill in the minds of the Moslem generations that the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on that basis.

ARTICE 22: You may speak as much as you want about regional and world wars. They (referring to the Jews) were behind World War I, when they were able to destroy the Islamic Caliphate, making financial gains and controlling resources.  They obtained the Balfour Declaration, formed the League of Nations through which they could rule the world.  They were behind World War II, through which they made huge financial gains by trading armaments, and paved the way for the establishment of their state. It was they who instigated the replacement of the League of Nations with the United Nations and the Security Council to enable them to rule the world through them. There is no war going on anywhere, without their finger on it.

 

The imperialistic forces in the Capitalist West and Communist East, support the enemy (the Jews) with all their might, in money and in men. These forces take turns in doing that. The day Islam appears, the forces of infidelity would unite to challenge it, for the infidels are of one nation.

 

ARTICLE 27: The Palestinian Liberation Organization is the closest to the heart of the Islamic Resistance Movement. It contains the father and the brother, the next of kin and  the friend. Our homeland is one, our situation is one, and the enemy is joint enemy to all of us.

 

Secularism completely contradicts religious ideology. Attitudes, conduct and decisions stem from ideologies.  That is why, with all appreciation for the Palestinian Liberation Organization - and what it can develop into – and without belittling its role in the Arab-Israeli conflict, we are unable to exchange the present or future Islamic Palestine with the secular idea.  The Islamic nature of Palestine is part of our religion and whoever takes his religion lightly is a loser.

 

The day the Palestinian Liberation Organization adopts Islam as its way of life, we will become its soldiers, and fuel for its fire that will burn the enemies.

ARTICLE 28: The Zionist invasion is a vicious invasion. It does not refrain from resorting to all methods, using all evil and contemptible ways to achieve its end. It relies greatly on its infiltration and espionage operations on the secret organizations it gave rise to, such as the Freemasons, The Rotary and Lions clubs and other sabotage groups. All these organizations whether secret or open, work in the interest of Zionism and according to its instructions. They aim at undermining societies, destroying values, corrupting consciences, deteriorating character and annihilating Islam.  It is behind the drug trade and alcoholism in all its kinds so as to facilitate its control and expansion.

Israel, Judaism, and Jews, challenge Islam and the Moslem people.  “May the cowards never sleep.”

ARTICLE 31: Under the wing of Islam, it is possible for the followers of the three religions – Islam, Christianity, and Judaism – to coexist in peace and quiet with each other. Peace and quiet would not be possible except under the wing of Islam. Past and present history is the best witness to that. It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region, because the day these followers should take over there will be nothing but carnage, displacement and terror.

 

ARTICLE 32: The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.  “Leaving the circle of struggle with Zionism is high treason, and cursed is he that does it.”

 

ARTICLE 36:  The Islamic resistance Movement adopts Islam as its way of life. Islam is its creed and religion. Whoever takes Islam as his way of life, be it an organization, a grouping, a country or any other body, the Islamic Resistance Movement considers itself as their soldiers and nothing more.