A senior Hamas terrorist told a Lebanese news agency run by the allied jihadist group Hezbollah on Thursday that the organization “will not make any compromises” on the destruction of Israel, adding that the Jewish state “has no future in this region. ” he said.
Osama Hamdan, the top representative of Hamas in Lebanon, threatened all who support the existence of Israel, telling Hezbollah: almanar News, “Those who rely on it or put their future in it lose.”
Hamdan’s comments reflect the ideological provisions of Hamas’ Terrorism Charter and statements from Iranian officials since 2023, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism and Hamas’ top financier. Opposition among jihadist groups to Israel’s peaceful existence has become a significant obstacle to left-wing US President Joe Biden’s foreign policy. His officials have repeated with increasing frequency and urgency the need for a “two-state solution.” A sovereign state, Palestine, is established alongside Israel. Those proposing two states have not been clear about who would govern such a state, an issue of particular concern given that Hamas is the government of the “Palestinian” territory of Gaza. It is.
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Mr. Hamdan remarksas a sympathetic observer online. translatedIt also included condemnation of the United States, accusing Washington, D.C., of being “responsible for all conflicts occurring in the region.”
Hamas leaders have done little since the October 7 invasion and massacre to obscure their objective of destroying the state of Israel. most deadly This terrorist attack was the worst in the country’s history, killing an estimated 1,200 people and abducting about 250 people, about half of whom were released. Hamas terrorists carried out mass murders door-to-door in residential areas, in some cases executing entire families in their beds, and in other cases torturing, gang-raping, and mutilating their victims. Hamas calls the attack the “Al-Quds Flood” and celebrates it as a battle victory.
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Mahmoud al-Zahar, another senior Hamas official, said shortly after October 7 that the organization aims to eradicate Israel, Judaism and “betrayal Christianity”, calling for a global victory for jihad. I predicted it.
The Iranian coalition government, which held street parties in Tehran to celebrate the October 7 massacre, has also repeatedly said that Iran does not support Israel’s right to exist and is not interested in a “two-state solution.” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke at a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in November. declared Tehran had a “clear opinion” that it “always takes the Zionist regime into account” [Israel] As a false, usurping, identityless regime. ” Raisi explicitly rejected his suggestion that the two nations coexist.
Held in Tehran, Iran on October 7, 2023 to express solidarity with the Palestinians after Hamas militants launched deadly air, land and sea attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip Iranians attend a rally. (Majid Saidi/Getty Images)
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said in December: “Israel occupies Palestinian land and we believe that a two-state solution will not help resolve the Palestinian issue.”
Mohsen Rezaei, a member of Iran’s Expediency Council, similarly declared that “talks about two states are over.”
“The era of normalization[with Israel]will be over and a new order will emerge in the region,” he continued. “An international anti-Zionist movement will awaken in the world… This movement will transcend nations because of the tremendous crimes that have taken place. Even Hitler did not do such a thing.”
The “horrific crime” that Rezaei referred to was not the one committed by Hamas on October 7, but the Israeli self-defense operation against Hamas in Gaza following the massacre.
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The conflict’s aggressors’ explicit demands to destroy Israel have had little impact on Biden’s foreign policy plans. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spent much of February on a tour of the Middle East, ending with a visit to Israel and declaring Biden’s “commitment” to a “two-state solution.” In Egypt, President Blinken spoke with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and “underscored the United States’ commitment to the establishment of a Palestinian state that provides peace and security to Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
In Qatar, which has long hosted Hamas’s “political office” and brokered contacts with the terrorist organization, Prime Minister Blinken again told the country’s leader that the United States “is committed to achieving lasting peace in the Middle East, including the establishment of an autonomous Palestinian territory.” We are committed to establishing this.” A state that ensures the safety of Israelis and Palestinians alike. ”
Blinken told reporters in Doha that Biden believed that “in parallel with a realistic, time-bound, and irreversible path to a Palestinian state that coexists peacefully with Israel, Israel’s belligerent neighbors have He said that he aims to create conditions for “integration” between the two countries. Security arrangements necessary for the peoples of both countries. ”
Emirate Newspaper is Nationwide observed Blinken left his Middle East tour “empty-handed” on Friday after Israel rejected a “ceasefire” offer from Hamas that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “delusional.” Blinken diplomatically acknowledged that Hamas’ proposal contained “non-starters.”
“The counter-proposal includes an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, a permanent ceasefire, and a reconstruction plan on a three-year timetable. They also envision an exchange of prisoners and hostages between Israel and Hamas. “There is,” he said. Nationwide report.
