The comments by Khalil al-Hayya came amid a stalemate in months of cease-fire talks. But it's unlikely Israel would consider such a scenario.

A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    352·
    8 months ago

    I think Israeli leadership has already made the decision that all of that region is their land and they’re not sharing it with anybody, or if they do, it’ll be smaller reservations, similar to American Indian reservations in the US. They just want the Palestinians to eventually fade away. Violent groups like Hamas just help them more than anything because it gets Israelis riled up and gives their military an excuse to go in and carve out even more territory, so I’m sure they don’t even care about this, they’re like, “Why would we want you to lay down your arms?”

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      8 months ago

      I think Israeli leadership has already made the decision that all of that region is their land and they’re not sharing it with anybody

      Left unchecked, this is only going to be the beginning.

      Jordan condemns far-right Israeli minister over “Greater Israel” map

      Jordan accused far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of violating the peace agreement between the two countries after he gave a speech in Paris at a podium featuring a map that included Jordan and the occupied West Bank as part of Israel and said the Palestinian people were “an invention.”

      https://currentaffairs.adda247.com/greater-israel-map/

      The term “Greater Israel“ has been a contentious and debated concept related to the State of Israel and its territorial boundaries. This article explores the controversial idea of a “Greater Israel” and the various interpretations surrounding it. The concept of a “Greater Israel”, according to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, is a Jewish State stretching “from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.”

      • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        And they pretend to be outraged when they hear “from the river to the sea.”

        That map is disgusting.

    • nifty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      it’ll be smaller reservations, similar to American Indian reservations in the US.

      The genocide of Native Americans happened when the world was less civilized, people as a whole were less aware and more disconnected. Allowing genocide in any era is unacceptable, it shouldn’t happen now.