...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
announced Tuesday that "any resistance not aimed at liberating Paleostine from the sea to the river cannot be of use," a day after the Paleostinian movement Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", unveiled a new policy document easing its stance on Israel after having called for years for its destruction.
| Do not worry, your Rotundity, Hamas has not changed either goals or methods, only deemphasized certain words during the current hudna. |
"We are with a resistance that only accepts a fully liberated land so that Paleostinians can return to their land in dignity and pride," Hizbullah number two added.
"We are with the resistance in Paleostine and we are with the resistance for the sake of Paleostine. Resistance in Paleostine does not have one form; resistance in Paleostine is taking place through words, prayer, writing, captivity, protests, gunfire, car ramming attacks and stabbings. These are all forms of resistance in Paleostine," Qassem went on to say.
Hamas exiled leader Khaled Meshaal said on Monday: "We in Hamas believe that renewal and reinvention is a necessity."
While the new document does not amount to recognition of Israel as demanded by the international community, Hamas officials say, it formally softens its stance in a few key areas.
Hamas leaders have long spoken of the more limited aim of a Paleostinian state in the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip without explicitly setting this out in their charter.
But after years of internal debate, the new document formally accepts the idea of a state in the territories occupied by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967.
It also says its struggle is not against Jews because of their religion but against Israel as an occupier.
However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the original 1988 charter will not be dropped, just supplemented, in a move some analysts see as a way of maintaining the backing of hardliners.
The new document also continues to speak of liberating historic Paleostine, including areas that are today part of Israel.