Hamas' completely reasonable demand – Job

I find it completely understandable. Once a sovereign Palestinian state becomes a reality, Hamas will disband its armed wing and become prepared to enter into a long-term ceasefire with Israel. This is what a senior political official in the organization said, quoted by the Human Rights Forum. As long as there is occupation and colonialism, it is logical that there will be resistance. One thing leads to another.

As long as Israel kills people, Hamas will do so too, although Hamas is far from being able to retaliate in kind. Studying victim statistics over the past fifteen years. As long as Israel holds thousands of Palestinians captive without a fair trial, Hamas will also hold people hostage, something Hamas cannot normally do, but has been able to do since October 7, 2023.

There is no peace without justice. But sharing land on an equal basis is not in Israel's dictionary. For those who look directly, the demand for a sovereign state is not at all strange. Be careful: this will only be a small part of the original pre-1948 Palestine! But my common sense may not be correct enough in the eyes of many respectable but ill-informed Dutch people who believe that Israel is a nice, comfortable country and that the Palestinians are a scary people.

Moreover, in the long run, the two-state solution does not seem fair to me at all. The Palestinians then get much less land per capita than the Israelis: they get the remaining pieces of barren land from Israel's last option. Anyone who truly wants peace and justice must ultimately choose land sharing rather than the impossibility of dividing the land fairly.