Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established

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Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established
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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.

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If that’s what you want to take from what I said then that’s fine, but no, I’m not racist or genocidal.

Islam is evil. Not all its followers are. And if people weren’t so scared of being labeled racist we might have an honest discussion about its problems. Hamas needs to be fought just like Nazis did. Naziism needed to be destroyed, not Germans, despite Nazi ideas proliferating through Germany.

There is no historical context worth discussing. Hamas wants to kill Jews and always will.

Listen to Sam Harris. Or continue to defend jihad. Whatever

So, you are racist and on par with the Nazis in my mind. Your calling for the continued genocide of human beings because of their religion. That's genocide pal. But instead of telling you to fuck off, I want to explore your mind. I want to get how you got here. Just so we have an understanding. I'm not trying to convince you. I just have questions for you as a human being.

Is it Islam in specific or religion in general? I assume just Islam as you didn't mention others but I wanna check.

What is your Religion if any?

And what about Islam specifically that is ubiquitous to the whole religion do you find so evil that other major religions don't?

Just Islam. Don’t see any others religions doing jihad these days. But they’re all nonsensical

Can you answer the other questions?

Nope, I’m done with this conversation. I’m a racist bigot with no compassion for the poor terrorists. You got me. You win

It ain't about winning. I told you, I do not believe that I can or will change your mind. We are miles down a comment chain, no one but us will read this. This is me wanting to understand you. Do you not want to just talk about what you believe? You gotta be yelling and arguing about it? Arguing over. Tell me what you believe and why. I'm asking you to just calmly explain.

Listen to Sam Harris. My views are identical, but he is much more capable at explaining than I could ever hope to be. Try the making sense podcast episode 362.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense-with-sam-harris/id733163012?i=1000651919029

I'm not interested in him or his ideas. I'm interested in you and your ideas and how you reconcile them. I understand the ideology but you are not ideology. Your a person with complex and conflicting ideas

You’re*

His ideas match mine completely but you aren’t interested because you cannot respond to him with insults so you want me to try to explain them with my poor cogency.

No conflict here, maybe just poor communication skills

His ideas do not match yours completely because you are two separate human beings. I am interested with your ideology but in this context I am interested in how you as a person came to this ideology. I'm curious of your life's context that has led you here and he cannot tell me that.

I do not want to hear you explain your ideas because I want to understand your ideas, I want to hear them so that I can understand how you interpreted that ideology and then ask questions. Once again, not to prove to you that your wrong but I want to know how you reconcile those ideas with other basic ones. I cannot get that information from him. Only from you.

I got the insults out of the way, the argument is over. Now I just have questions.