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In 1988, another Muslim organization, Hamas, was founded. For Hamas’s followers, a central religious obligation was the liberation of all of historic Palestine from “Zionist occupation,” claiming that the land “from the river to the sea” was a Muslim waqf, or “endowment.” They vowed to wage holy war, or jihad, against Israel.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

44See, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you, “Like mother, like daughter.” 45You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46Your elder sister is Samaria,
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Across Gaza, what’s being destroyed is not just infrastructure. The scale and intent of the destruction points to a deeper strategy that aims to displace the Gaza strip’s population and ensure that what was once home can never be reclaimed. That kind of violence has a name: domicide .
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #121
Instead of using the billions of dollars provided by the international community through the years to build schools or hospitals or a better life for their people, Hamas uses the money to build fancy tunnels in order to carry out attacks on Israel. To buy ammunition and drones. They use civilians as human shields, and set up military command bases
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