Statehood For Peace & Freedom
There is no substitute for Palestinian statehood.
The road to peace in the Middle East runs through Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the White House and the U.N. Security Council.
How can Palestinian statehood bring peace?
In order to solve a problem one must correctly identify the problem.
Israel and the U.S. has mischaracterized Palestinians as a "problem" to be solved by state-sponsored violence, murder, starvation, IDF kidnappings, occupation, mass imprisonment of two million Palestinians from cradle-to-grave and Israeli theft of Palestinian land.
The seminal and pivotal lie that Israel has used to justify their war crimes, land theft, state-sponsored terrorism is the lie: "Hamas hates Jews and won't stop attacking us Jews until they kill all the Jews, therefore we must free the "Good Palestinians" by killing all the "Bad Palestinians," (Hamas) to defend the State of Israel.
Netanyahu demands that Hamas disarm themselves, turn in their guns and live another 75 years under US-backed Israeli mass imprisonment from cradle-to-grave.
Netanyahu is lying when he and others claim that "Good Palestinians" want to live free of Hamas and need Israel to save us "Good Palestinians" from the "Bad Palestinians."
Netanyahu wants the world to believe that Palestinians want to live under another 75 years of Israeli occupation, mass imprisonment, IDF kidnappings, state-sponsored poverty and forced starvation, military attack operations, military blockades from the land, sea and air.
And what makes a "Bad Palestinian" according to Israeli officials?
Any Palestinian who takes up arms to fight for Palestinian freedom from US-backed Israeli occupation.
PROBLEM IS, Netanyahu, Israeli officials and a majority of Israelis do not believe in, follow, respect or comply with international law, the Geneva Conventions and basic human rights.
Netanyahu has repeatedly publicly stated that Israel will never comply with U.N. Resolution 242 under any circumstances.
On June 4, 1967 Israel invaded the Palestinian territories and Syria and began a 75 year ongoing illegal military occupation.
On November 22, 1967 when the Oakland Raiders defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 44-22, the world community came together at the United Nations to vote on a resolution my friend Professor Francis Boyle wrote, known as U.N. Res. 242, ordering Israel to fully withdraw from the Palestinian territories and to recognize Palestinians Right of Return to their homeland that Israel sits on.
To this day Israel has never complied with U.N. Res. 242, nor has Israel ever complied with an additional 76 U.N. resolutions Israel remains in violation of as of today.
Netanyahu, Israeli officials and a majority of Israelis do not believe the Palestinian people have a right to exist on Palestinian land; nor do Israelis recognize the legal right of a civilian population to form and maintain armed resistance groups.
Why was this Geneva necessary?
To give legal lawful authority to any civilian population who is invaded by an Occupying Power to form and maintain armed resistance groups to evict the Occupying Power from the Occupied.
PROBLEM IS, Netanyahu and Israeli officials will never support statehood for the Palestinian people.
The U.S. and Israel never present the US-backed Israel occupation and mass imprisonment as unlawful and unethical; but presents the US-backed Occupation as legal, routine and necessary.
The U.S. and Israel has never recognized Palestinians' right to exist, right to land ownership, right to fight for freedom from Occupation and mass imprisonment.
THE SOLUTION IS for the U.S. to finally vote for Palestinian statehood at the U.N. Security Council.
THE SOLUTION IS for the White House to realize that Israel will never, ever agree to Palestinian statehood - not because Israel wants to live side-by-side in peace with Palestinians, but because a majority of Israelis religiously believe that Palestinians are simply troublemaking squatters living on Jewish land in need of eviction and expulsion; and for some Israelis, in need of extermination.
What About Hamas?
Here's the deal with Hamas - you certainly don't know if you're like most westerners who consume corporate media.
Hamas was formed in the eighties as a direct result of Israel military expansionism by force.
Now I'm going to start talking about some things most people outside of Israel, Palestine, Iran have never heard of, and that's the technique that Israeli Prime ministers have traditionally used to incite conflict between the IDF and Palestinian resistance forces.
Since the formation of the State of Israel, Israelis have expanded the size and borders of the State of Israel 250%. How do you think they did it? They did it by inciting conflict, inciting war.
The Israelis always wanted war with Palestinians because of Israel superior military force, Israelis knew they would capture more land each time they launched an IDF military operation.
So how did Israelis incite war with Palestinians?
By "SWATTING THE HORNET'S NEST."
What the hell is "Swatting the Hornet's Nest?"
"Swatting the Hornet's Nest" is a technique used by virtually every Israeli Prime Minister, including Ariel Sharon, to incite war with Palestinians - Hamas in particular.
"Swatting the Hornet's Nest" is when an Israeli PM orders Israeli police (and settlers) to go to the al Aqsa mosque to beat, hogtie and arrest worshippers during prayer service.
This is not an exaggeration, but a well-known fact and is on video:
The Problem and The Solution
Israeli police beat and arrest worshippers during Ramadan on September 17, 2023:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was charged with felony bribery, fraud and corruption on November 21, 2019 and on November 28, 2019 Netanyahu dispatched 134 armed settlers to the al Aqsa mosque ("Swatting the Hornet's Nest") to try to start a new conflict with Hamas so Netanyahu could create a longterm distraction from his criminal charges and the criminal proceedings before him.
In fact, Netanyahu kept swatting the hornet's nest while Hamas kept warning Netanyahu he must stop the al Aqsa mosque raids - or else!
For over two years Netanyahu kept swatting the hornet's nest yet Hamas took no military action, but kept warning Netanyahu to stop the mosque raids and arrests.
Then sometime in 2022 Hamas created an animated video of their attack plans and sent it to Netanyahu and told Netanyahu if you don't stop the mosque raids, here's what we're going to do.
Hamas provided Netanyahu their warning in book form and in a Hamas video.
Then on September 17, 2023 - just about 21 days before October 7, 2023, Netanyahu dispatched Israeli police and armed settlers once again to the al Aqsa Mosque to beat, hogtie and arrest worshippers.
Finally the dam burst on October 7, 2023 as Hamas warned Netanyahu it would if Netanyahu didn't stop the al Aqsa mosque raids.
You never hear about Netanyahu swatting the hornet's nest in the western media, nor do you hear what Hamas representatives and leaders actually say themselves.
Since NAKBA 1948 reporters have asked Palestinian leaders, Why do you hate Jews?
The answer has always been the same: Palestinians don't hate Jews because they're Jews, they hate anyone killing our people and stealing our land.
Hamas leader Sinwar was asked in interviews, Why does Hamas attack Jews? Why do you hate Jews?
Sinwar replied that Hamas does not attack Jews because they are Jews; religion has nothing to do with it. Hamas attacks Israeli Jews because Israeli Jews kill our people and steal our land.
In 2017 Hamas drastically changed their charter from the total destruction of the State of Israel to a policy of non-violent, peaceful co-existence based on Palestinian statehood on the pre-invasion 1967 borders that were in place the day before Israel invaded Palestine on June 5, 1967.
Thirty years after it was founded, Hamas is replacing its anti-Semitic and violent charter with a comprehensively revised document modifying several of its extreme and rejectionist positions.
While several of these strategic changes are not completely new - they have at times been talked about by Hamas leaders, but later retracted or contradicted - expressly including them in its charter constitutes something quite unprecedented.
No matter what immediate effect these changes will have on Hamas's behaviour, from a broader strategic perspective, this is a big deal.
The main reason for this is because the internal process required within Hamas to get all its different parts to unite and ratify these changes is simply enormous.
The resolve and energy necessary to carry through this type of internal process is in itself proof of the importance attached to this change within Hamas.
Moreover, the actual group of individuals who have initiated and pushed through this enterprise have put their future in the organisation at stake, as well as their lives if it were to fail.
To stand up in one of Hamas's shura councils, surrounded by extremists, and argue that the time has come to depart from the organisation's original plan as set out by its founding fathers cannot have been easy.
To most members, this idea at first glance would have appeared tantamount to surrender - and to the more conservative ones, to heresy.
Moving Hamas from its position of utter rejection of Israel to achieving a consensus about the necessity for change, this group of individuals have engaged in several years of contentious internal debate.
The process has also included extensive secret communication between Hamas's different organisational units in all of its four physically separated parts: Gaza, the West Bank, the prisons and the diaspora.
At numerous times, Hamas's leadership has circulated various drafts of the document for comments, amendments and reservations from all of the different parts and units.
In addition to the difficult nature of the process in itself, the actual content of these changes also underlines the magnitude of all this.
The new charter will include redresses of several of the group's most controversial standpoints, including:
A Palestinian state - Hamas will now agree on a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders. While not explicitly saying what will be on the other side of these borders, this acknowledges the existence of a foreign entity on the other side.
Hamas will also say that it backs any peace agreement that can be reached between Israel and the Palestinian leadership, if it can be approved in a popular referendum.
Armed struggle - As opposed to its former calls for the indiscriminate use of violence, Hamas will now state that, while it still considers the use of force to be its legitimate right, its focus will instead be on non-violent and popular resistance activities.
Non-Muslims - Hamas's new charter will relate to other religions, Judaism and Christianity in particular, in more conciliatory language.
As opposed to the explicitly anti-Semitic references in the former document, Hamas will now say that religious minorities constitute an integral component of Palestinian society.
Regarding Jews, the document will specify that Hamas's struggle concerns only those individuals who operate in and have settled beyond pre-1967 lines.
Relations with other Islamic organizations - Hamas will state that it does not have any organizational ties to other Islamic organizations.
Due to its former close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, this statement marks a new chapter in the history of Hamas.
Having recently been accused of conspiring with the Brotherhood against the Egyptian regime, as well as cooperating with global Salafi-Jihadi groups in Sinai, this is an attempt on the part of Hamas to deal with this.
By doing so, however, Hamas will be regarded as a traitor by other extreme Islamist groups and risk a new wave of defections from its military ranks.
In spite of all this, it is important to keep in mind that so far we are only talking about changes that have been made on paper.
In addition, the reason behind these changes is not due to any profound longing for peace and democracy on the part of Hamas.
Rather, it is all about real politics and flexibly adapting to the situation at hand.
What we are seeing is nothing but a highly skilled political actor struggling to keep pace with changing political realities.
At the end of the day, Hamas has not yet relinquished its arms and is still calling for the destruction of Israel beyond the pre-1967 lines.
But, importantly - no matter what Hamas's potentially ignoble intentions behind changing its charter may be - these changes are now a fait accompli, inked into its key ideological document and left there for the next generation of Hamsawis to deal with.
This shows that Hamas is indeed capable of change - and has realized that there will never be a Palestinian state spanning all the way "between the river and the sea."
While this might not lead to any palpable results for Israelis immediately, eventually it will.
For now, let us nevertheless recognize what has just happened. For the first time ever, the enemy just blinked.
Hamas Presents New Charter Supporting Palestinian State Along 1967 Borders
Vowing to continue to strive to liberate all of Palestinian lands, Hamas says fight is with Zionism, not Jews | Hosting Doha hotel canceled, prompting delays | Israel blasted new charter as smoke screen for group's real intentions.
In 2017 hardly anyone noticed Hamas drastic policy change, but Israel's Haaretz newspaper noticed and wrote about the charter change:
After some initial delays, Hamas presented its new charter on Monday, as Israel was marking its Independence Day.
As was expected, Hamas' new charter accepts the possibility of a Palestinian state along the 1967 "Green Line" border, considered by some a moderation of the Gaza group's position.
Israel responded to the charter even before Hamas' press conference, saying it did not represent any real change by the Gaza group.
Hamas was expected to present the charter at the Intercontinental hotel in the Qatari capital of Doha, but the hotel canceled, prompting Hamas to scramble to find an alternative location, eventually holding the event at the Doha Sheraton.
Hamas' leader in exile, Khaled Meshal, said at the press conferences that "Hamas objects to any plan offering an alternative homeland" for the Palestinians.
He said the group "will not give up any parcel of Palestinian land and strives to liberate all of the Palestinian lands."
However, in a sign of alleged moderation, he said "Hamas is willing to negotiate a sovereign and independent state with Jerusalem as its capital" as the basis for a deal with Israel.
Meshal also said that "Hamas' struggle is not with Jews or their faith, but is a struggle against Zionism and its agressions."
The group also vowed "not to recognize the Zionist entity," saying that "opposition to the occupation through any means is a basic right that includes an armed struggle."
He also said the group would not give up on the right of return for Palestinians who fled or were exiled when Israel was established in 1948, a key point of contention in negotiations for Israelis and Palestinians.
Smoke screen
Israel responded by saying that "Hamas' document is a smoke screen. We see Hamas continuing to invest all of its resources not just in preparing for war with Israel, but also in educating the children of Gaza to want to destroy Israel," a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said.
"The day Hamas stops digging tunnels and diverts its resources to civilian infrastructure and stop educating children to hate Israelis, that would be real change," the statement said.
Earlier, David Keyes, a spokesman for Netanyahu, said "Hamas is attempting to fool the world but it will not succeed... They dig terror tunnels and have launched thousands upon thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians," he said. "This is the real Hamas."
New charter
Ahead of the charter's publication Hamas sources had in recent weeks reported its main provisions. These provisions, they say, summarize positions enunciated throughout the years by senior Hamas officials, including the group’s founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
In contrast to the organization’s original 1988 charter, it was expected to call for a battle against Israel rather than a war of extermination against all Jews.
The document, which contains 11 chapters with 41 articles, was also expected to effectively declare Hamas’ independence from its parent movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.
It does not mention any affiliation to the Muslim Brotherhood and asserts that Hamas, as a Palestinian liberation movement, will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.
Ismail Haniyeh, the Gaza-based deputy head of Hamas’ political bureau, said at an event in the Strip on Sunday that “the new document will undermine neither our principles nor our strategy.
Jerusalem, the right of return, Palestinian unity and the resistance forces are fundamental principles. The changes relate to regional developments, and suit the era.”
Hamas sources said the organization decided to officially unveil the document now because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and his planned White House meeting later this week with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Enemy Just Blinked: Why Hamas's New Charter Is a Big Deal
The revisions to Hamas’ infamously anti-Semitic and pro-violence founding document is unprecedented evidence that even an extremist organization is capable of change.
Statehood for Peace and Freedom means if Trump and the U.S. vote for statehood at the U.N. Security Council, permanent peace between Israelis and Palestinians can happen.
Freedom refers to Palestinian freedom from US-backed Israeli Occupation, murder, IDF kidnappings, state-sponsored poverty and starvation, regular Israeli military attacks and operations and Israeli mass imprisonment of two million Palestinians.
Since 2017 Hamas has offered to disband Hamas and all Palestinian resistance groups in exchange for statehood on the pre-invasion 1967 borders.
In 2017 Hamas changed their original charter from the "total destruction of the State of Israel" to a policy of peaceful co-existence based on Palestinian statehood on the June 4, 1967 borders.
Since 2017 Western media has worked hard to hide from the West the fact that Hamas was now seeking permanent peace based on statehood and no longer sought the total destruction of the State of Israel.
Since October 7 Hamas has repeated their offer of permanent peace based on Palestinian statehood, offering to completely disband Hamas in exchange for statehood.
Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump are aware of Hamas offer of peace based on statehood, but Trump is having diffuclty processing this information thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu in his ear and Trump's slow to comprehend nature.
Trump is doing the same thing Biden did: break federal law to send US arms to Israel, despite Israel using our American weapons in the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity.
It is a federal crime for the U.S. Government, any U.S. President, any U.S. senator and Congressperson to send U.S. arms to any government who utilizes our American provided weapons in the commission of war crimes or in any offensive capacity whatsoever.
Israeli soldiers fly over and stand on Palestinian soil and kill Palestinians with weapons MADE-IN-THE-USA, yet Israel claims the IDF is using American weapons in a "defensive capacity only." Bullshit.
The truth is Israel will never agree or support Palestinian statehood precisely because Netanyahu and a majority of Israelis support the expansion of the state of Israel and their "Greater Israel" national goal of stealing every inch of Palestinian land with no regard for international law, human rights, or Palestinians right to be free of Israeli occupation, mass imprisonment, air, land and sea blockades and land theft.
Therefore if President Trump wants to "win a nobel Peace Prize" then he can EARN a Nobel Peace Prize by voting for Palestinian statehood at the U.N. Security Council.
Problem is Donald Trump has no idea what to say when Netanyahu leans on Trump and says, "You can't let them have statehood - Hamas will destroy the State of Israel because Hamas hates Jews and will never stop attacking and killing Jews.
Of course Netanyahu ignores Hamas offer of permanent peace between Israel and Palestinians based on statehood on the pre-invasion 1967 borders.
Netanyahu and Israel has consistently ignored and violated U.N. Res. 242 ordering Israel to fully withdraw to the pre-invasion 1967 borders and for Israel to recognize Palestinians Right of Return to their homeland.
If President Trump does not vote for Palestinian statehood at the U.N. Security Council, Netanyahu and Israel will continue to illegally occupy the Palestinian territories, will continue to mass murder Palestinian men, women, children and babies, will continue to mass imprison over two million Palestinians; will continue to kidnap Palestinians from their homes and hold them hostage in Israeli custody, and will continue to act to illegally annex Gaza and the West Bank.
If President Trump does not vote for Palestinian statehood at the U.N. Security Council, Netanyahu and Israel will continue to control Palestinian borders, control and restrict the flow of goods, food and aid in and out of Gaza, continue to starve and shoot Palestinians to death till the end of Trump's second term and beyond 2028, thanks to the DNC, Barack Obama and his DNC candidates.
Recognize the fact that literally every person near Trump is telling him to never vote for Palestinian statehood and never stop arming Israel.
Literally every Republican Senator, every Trump adviser and aide are telling Trump to never vote for Palestinian statehood.
AIPAC has already told Trump that he cannot vote for statehood at the U.N. Security Council because he would be responsible for the destruction of the State of Israel.
Trump's ego would have to buck the Ziosystem to vote for Palestinan statehood.
Does Trump have enough ego power to buck the Ziosystem long enough to vote for Palestinian statehood?
The short answer is yes, if Trump sees voting for Palestinian statehood as his ticket to winning a Nobel Peace Prize; otherwise Trump is simply Biden 2.0.
If Trump Is Ever To Be Known as "The Great Peacemaker" Trump Must Vote For Palestinian Statehood.
Every American should urge Trump to ignore Netanyahu and vote for Palestinian statehood at the U.N. Security Council.
https://progressives.substack.com/p/if-trump-is-ever-to-be-known-as-the
"Greater Israel" Project
A majority of Israeli Jews believe that Jews own all the land "from the river to the sea" and support Israeli expansionism they call the Greater Israel project.
This is state-sponsored land theft literally on a Biblical scale.
A majority of Israelis believe that Israel literally owns all the Arab and Muslim land "from the river to the sea" and that Palestinians are simply troublemaking squatters living on Jewish land and borrowed time.
A majority of Israelis polled OPPOSE Palestinian statehood, OPPOSE ending the Occupation, OPPOSE sending food and aid into Gaza and support a "Jews Only" apartheid state.
Israeli government officials are actually atheist Zionist Supremacists posing as Jews who practice Judaism.
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