Because neither Hamas’s charter or Likud’s for that matter are propaganda pieces aimed at the west, they’re for arabic speakers (or hebrew speakers in the case of Likud) to look at and understand how the organization works and its aims.
Do you think everything foreigners do is a performance for us? When you’re running a local political party, you need to appeal to locals more than anyone else.
Because neither Hamas’s charter or Likud’s for that matter are propaganda pieces aimed at the west, they’re for arabic speakers (or hebrew speakers in the case of Likud) to look at and understand how the organization works and its aims.
Do you think they assume that no westerner will ever be able to read them, because they are in some super secret language?
Do you think everything foreigners do is a performance for us? When you’re running a local political party, you need to appeal to locals more than anyone else.
Do you think Hamas cares about its global image?
It does, but to pretend they wrote their charter for you is silly.
Otherwise, they’d have people joining and thinking that’s what they stand for, and even members using the document for guidance.
Do you think they’d risk saying different things in their communication in Arabic?
Again, their charter, the document their own members look at to guide their aims was written for their own benefit, not yours.
Here’s a translation of the whole thing if you care.
Do you think it would be smart to keep the extreme things in their charter in Arabic if they wanted to present themselves differently to the outside?
This is tiring. I’m going to stop responding to you now.