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yeah, no.

saying their days are numbered doesn't automatically = they will cease to exist as a state.

Goals of the HAMAS: (Their own words, translated)

The US should enforce a no-state solution, where a 50-mile circle around Jerusalem belongs to nobody.  Sell it to Disney and call it "Holy Land."  If you want to visit, you'll do so as a tourist a buy a ticket.

Why do people pretend this about a state or two state solution.  Hamas and the Palestinians want to exterminate Jews and erase Israel from existence.  This is not complicated.  The idea that this only began in 1945 is completely illusory.

Goals of the HAMAS: (Their own words, translated)

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'The Islamic  Resistance  Movement  is  a  distinguished  Palestinian

movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and  whose  way  of  life  is

Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah  over  every  inch  of

Palestine.' (Article 6)

On the Destruction of Israel:

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'Israel will exist and  will  continue  to  exist  until  Islam  will

obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.' (Preamble)

The Exclusive Moslem Nature of the Area:
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'The  land  of  Palestine  is  an  Islamic  Waqf  [Holy  Possession]

consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. No  one

can renounce it or any part, or  abandon  it  or  any  part  of  it.'

(Article 11)

'Palestine is  an  Islamic  land...  Since  this  is  the  case,  the

Liberation of Palestine  is  an  individual  duty  for  every  Moslem

wherever he may be.' (Article 13)

The Call to Jihad:
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'The day the enemies usurp part of Moslem  land,  Jihad  becomes  the

individual duty of every Moslem. In the face of the Jews' usurpation,

it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.' (Article 15)