The Hamas charter was adopted in 1988 and possibly no longer accurately reflects the thinking of the current Hamas leadership. If so, it should be repudiated -- and not without fanfare. Anti-Semitism has come to reside in the Middle East. If Israel was always a diversion for the region's rulers, then anti-Semitism is a useful explanation. It is the granddaddy of all conspiracy theories. It seems to account for the region's poverty, its haplessness, its relative weakness vis-a-vis Israel and so much more. If the Jews were behind the French revolution, then why not, too, the collapse of the Arab Spring?
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