Indeed. The Hamas charter reiterates the framework for the settler, colonial waqf project that has defined islamo-history. That history is one of war, rapine and conquest to spread the fascist ideology invented by Mo' (swish). The Hamas charter is simply restating the elements of islamo-entitlement that have driven the Peaceful Inner Strugglers ™ since the invention of Islamism.P F Tinmore, et al,
I'm not at all sure that religion was truly ever a grave issue or concern between the parties of the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The establishment of a Jewish National Home (JNH) was an objective a century ago when the Balfour Agreement.; followed closely by the Faisal–Weizmann Agreement. Their was a clear understanding then, that both the Arabs and Jewish peoples --- "mindful of the racial kinship and ancient bonds existing between the Arabs and the Jewish people, and realizing that the surest means of working out the consummation of their natural aspirations is through the closest possible collaboration in the development of the Arab State and Palestine," (Agreement Between Emir Feisal and Dr. Weizmann).
(COMMENT)Of course that does not explain all of the Palestine supporters who are Christians.Indeed. They were fighting to throw off the shackles of religious oppression, as opposed to the Arab-Moslem terrorists who seek to impose a politico-religious ideology that is oppressive and fascist at its core.Good points. The American revolutionaries were not poor and uneducated either.Indeed, such silliness speaks to your ignorance regarding the
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STUDY: Poverty doesn’t drive terrorism
STUDY: Poverty doesn't drive terrorism - The American Mirror
“We looked both at the micro level, the individual, and at the macro level, the state of the nation from which the terrorist originates. In both cases, we find the opposite to be true. People do not go into terrorism because of poverty,” said Prof. Claude Berrebi, a public policy scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, whose 2007 policy paper— “Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy”—presents a statistical analysis of the determinants of participation in terrorist activities by members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations between the late 1980s and May 2002.
Berrebi found that among the 285 Palestinian terrorists analyzed in his study, 16 percent—compared to 31 percent of Palestinians in general—were characterized as “poor.” Second, among the 208 terrorists for whom Berrebi had access to information about their education, 96 percent (200) had at least a high school education and 65 percent (135) had some kind of higher education, compared to 51 percent and 15 percent, respectively, of members of the general Palestinian population with the same age, sex, and religion.
I thought the distribution of the religious groups was interest.
• Israeli Factbook
• West Bank Factbook:
Religions:
Muslim 80-85% (predominantly Sunni), Jewish 12-14%, Christian 1-2.5% (mainly Greek Orthodox), other, unaffiliated, unspecified <1%
Israel's population concentration of Jewish people (75%) is nearly the same as the West Bank Muslim content (80-85%); with the inverse of Muslim 17.5% in Israel and a Jewish content of 12-14% in the West Bank. Similarly, the Christian content in Israel (2%) is so not different from that in the West Bank (1-2.5%).
The cause of the continued dispute in the on-going Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is about power and influence. The religious and ethnic divides are merely justifications for the continuation; with Terrorism, Jihadism, Islamic Radicalism, non-secular insurgents, and other asymmetric resources used as an accelerant. The more effective the accelerant the more dramatic the propaganda in the media becomes, the more encouraging -- which in turn furthers fuels the violence that comes forth.
The worse the economic conditions are in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the more flammable the population becomes. The more the Palestinian Leadership concentrate on the furtherance of a hostile engagement, the more likely poverty will increase and development will decline.
Most Respectfully,
RThe cause of the continued dispute in the on-going Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is about power and influence.
No it isn't. It is about settler colonialism, dispossession, and all of the violence required to implement and maintain the project.