Challenger, et al,
In the case of the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute, I'm not at all sure this is anywhere close to the truth.
Makes no difference. If HAMAS disappeared tomorrow, the Zionist Paradise would just invent another enemy in order to prevent them negotiating a peace settlement so they can grab more land.
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First, the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) is just one in a long line of Palestinian extremist that believe the world owes them something, and are attempting to achieve by force, what they were unable to achieve through a "good faith" negotiation effort.
Whether we talk about the Enemy Officer of the Ottoman Empire who remade himself into the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who orchestrated the 1929 Riots), or Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
(who founded the Palestinian Black Hand), or the German trained Waffen SS Paratrooper who co-founded the Holy War Army (Hasan Salama), or the former Ottoman Army General who be Prime Minister of the All Palestine Government (Ahmed Hilmi Pasha), or the graduate --- Military Academy of the Ottoman Empire (Istanbul) Fawzi al-Qawuqji and founder of the Arab Liberation Army, or Fathi Shaqaqi founder of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and who advocated the establishment of a sovereign,
Islamic state within the territory to which the Mandate applied --- pre-1948
boundaries; rejecting the political process, citing the objectives can only be achieved through military means
(essentially the mantra of HAMAS in 1988); the evolutionary pattern of behaviors is pretty conclusive ---- more of the same will follow.
Whether we talk about the pre-HAMAS Palestinian extremist and enemies of the Western Powers in WWI and WWII, or if we talk about the contemporary Palestinian extremists, the established pattern of Palestinian history is that they will merely create another organization that advocated conflict and looks upon the Western Powers as their enemy. This not so latent pattern has the symptom of constituents that advocate the armed struggle by any means or jihadism.
It is not about the "grab more land" scenario --- it is about the Palestinian philosophy that Jihad is the only solution. And this philosophy represents a threat to regional peace and security.
Most Respectfully,
R