<sod>The foundational document, the  [[Hamas Charter]]  (''mīthāq ḥarakat'' 18 August 1988), declared all of Palestine [[waqf]] property endowed by God to Muslims,<ref name ="Weimann">Gabriel Weimann,[https://books.google.com/books?id=19iCbNOoYmIC&pg=PA82 ''Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges,'']  [[United States Institute of Peace|US Institute of Peace Press]], 2006  p.82.</ref> with religious coexistence under Islam's wing.<ref>Jim Zanotti, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ajKhf9y93nkC&pg=PA15 '' Hamas: Background and Issues for Congress,''] DIANE Publishing, 2011 p.15.</ref> Like the [[Likud|Likud party platform]], it rejects a [[two-state solution]],<ref>[[Peter Beinart]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=v0U1fjErMGkC&pg=PT231 ''The Crisis of Zionism,''] Melbourne University Press 2012   p.219 n.53.</ref>  envisaging no peaceful solution to the conflict apart from [[jihad]].<ref>Zanotti, p.15.</ref><ref>Roberts [https://books.google.com/books?id=xveCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 p.68 ]:'The Charter condemns world Zionism and the efforts to isolate Palestine, defines the mission of the organization, and locates that mission within Palestinian, Arab and Islamic elements. It does not condemn the West or non-Muslims, but does condemn aggression against the Palestinian people, arguing for a defensive  jihad. It also calls for fraternal relations with the other Palestinian nationalist groups'.</ref> The [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] passages,  widely cited as characterizing Hamas despite later policy changes in the organization regarding Israel,<ref>According to [[Khaled Hroub]],''Hamas: A Beginner's Guide,'' Pluto Press 2006 [https://books.google.com/books?id=-XsW4-8VVJ4C&pg=PA33 p.33]: 'The Charter was written in early 1988 by one individual and was made public without appropriate general Hamas consultation, revision or consensus, to the regret of Hamas's leaders in later years. The author of the Charter was one of the 'old guard' of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gaza Strip, completely cut off from the outside world. All kinds of confusions and conflations between Judaism and Zionism found their way into the Charter, to the disservice of Hamas ever since, as this document has managed to brand it with charges of 'anti-Semitism' and a naïve world-view' Hamas leaders and spokespeople have rarely referred to the Charter or quoted from it, evidence that it has come to be seen as a burden rather than an intellectual platform that embraces the movement's principles.'</ref><ref>[[Khaled Hroub]], 'A "New Hamas" through its new documents', [[Journal of Palestine Studies]], vol. 35, No. 4, Summer 2006, Issue 140, pp. 6-28, p.6, cited Michael Schulz, 'Hamas Between Sharia Rule and Demo-Islam,' in Ashok Swain, Ramses Amer, Joakim Öjendal  (eds.),[https://books.google.com/books?id=cTXekQIjsLgC&pg=PA202 ''Globalization and Challenges to Building Peace,'']  pp.195-2011:'Hamas continues to be characterized with reference to its 1988 charter drawn up less than a year after the movement was established in direct response to the outbreak of the third intifada and when its raison d'être was armed resistance to the occupation. Yet when its election and post-election documents are compared to the charter, it becomes clear that what is being promoted is a profondly different organization'</ref> and the Jews,<ref>'The non-Zionist Jew is one who belongs to the Jewish culture, whether as a believer in the Jewish faith or simply by accident of birth, but  . .(who) takes no part in aggressive actions against our land and our nation...Hamas will not adopt a hostile position in practice against anyone because of his ideas or his creed but will adopt such a position if those ideas and creed are translated into hostile or damaging actions against our people.' (1990)[[Khaled Hroub]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=-XsW4-8VVJ4C&pg=PA31  p.34].</ref> have never been revoked.<ref>Giandomenico Picco, Gabrielle Rifkind, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WVnXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA47  ''The Fog of Peace''], [[I.B.Tauris]], 2014 pp.47-48</ref><eod>
<sod>The foundational document, the  [[Hamas Charter]]  (''mīthāq ḥarakat'' 18 August 1988), declared all of Palestine [[waqf]] property endowed by God to Muslims,<ref name ="Weimann">Gabriel Weimann,[https://books.google.com/books?id=19iCbNOoYmIC&pg=PA82 ''Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges,'']  [[United States Institute of Peace|US Institute of Peace Press]], 2006  p.82.</ref> with religious coexistence under Islam's wing.<ref>Jim Zanotti, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ajKhf9y93nkC&pg=PA15 '' Hamas: Background and Issues for Congress,''] DIANE Publishing, 2011 p.15.</ref> It rejects a [[two-state solution]], envisaging no peaceful solution to the conflict apart from [[jihad]].<ref>Zanotti, p.15.</ref><ref>Roberts [https://books.google.com/books?id=xveCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 p.68 ]:'The Charter condemns world Zionism and the efforts to isolate Palestine, defines the mission of the organization, and locates that mission within Palestinian, Arab and Islamic elements. It does not condemn the West or non-Muslims, but does condemn aggression against the Palestinian people, arguing for a defensive  jihad. It also calls for fraternal relations with the other Palestinian nationalist groups'.</ref> The [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] passages,  widely cited as characterizing Hamas despite later policy changes in the organization regarding Israel,<ref>According to [[Khaled Hroub]],''Hamas: A Beginner's Guide,'' Pluto Press 2006 [https://books.google.com/books?id=-XsW4-8VVJ4C&pg=PA33 p.33]: 'The Charter was written in early 1988 by one individual and was made public without appropriate general Hamas consultation, revision or consensus, to the regret of Hamas's leaders in later years. The author of the Charter was one of the 'old guard' of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gaza Strip, completely cut off from the outside world. All kinds of confusions and conflations between Judaism and Zionism found their way into the Charter, to the disservice of Hamas ever since, as this document has managed to brand it with charges of 'anti-Semitism' and a naïve world-view' Hamas leaders and spokespeople have rarely referred to the Charter or quoted from it, evidence that it has come to be seen as a burden rather than an intellectual platform that embraces the movement's principles.'</ref><ref>[[Khaled Hroub]], 'A "New Hamas" through its new documents', [[Journal of Palestine Studies]], vol. 35, No. 4, Summer 2006, Issue 140, pp. 6-28, p.6, cited Michael Schulz, 'Hamas Between Sharia Rule and Demo-Islam,' in Ashok Swain, Ramses Amer, Joakim Öjendal  (eds.),[https://books.google.com/books?id=cTXekQIjsLgC&pg=PA202 ''Globalization and Challenges to Building Peace,'']  pp.195-2011:'Hamas continues to be characterized with reference to its 1988 charter drawn up less than a year after the movement was established in direct response to the outbreak of the third intifada and when its raison d'être was armed resistance to the occupation. Yet when its election and post-election documents are compared to the charter, it becomes clear that what is being promoted is a profondly different organization'</ref> and the Jews,<ref>'The non-Zionist Jew is one who belongs to the Jewish culture, whether as a believer in the Jewish faith or simply by accident of birth, but  . .(who) takes no part in aggressive actions against our land and our nation...Hamas will not adopt a hostile position in practice against anyone because of his ideas or his creed but will adopt such a position if those ideas and creed are translated into hostile or damaging actions against our people.' (1990)[[Khaled Hroub]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=-XsW4-8VVJ4C&pg=PA31  p.34].</ref> have never been revoked.<ref>Giandomenico Picco, Gabrielle Rifkind, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WVnXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA47  ''The Fog of Peace''], [[I.B.Tauris]], 2014 pp.47-48</ref><eod>