A common tactic of the Israel haters brigade is to claim Hamas no longer stands by their charter – which calls for the destruction of Israel.
For instance:
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/understanding-hamas
The Charter, however, is not representative of Hamas in its current form. There are more contemporary Hamas documents, such as their 2006 election manifesto, which describes Hamas’s broader vision for Palestinian society and which author Khaled Hroub states, “could be said that the document was designed to carry out exactly the kinds of reform that had been demanded by Western governments and financial institutions.” Still, US and EU officials continue to be obtusely obsessed with Hamas’s Charter.
And this:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2010/09/21/voice-of-israel-hamas-accepts-israel-within-1967-borders/
An Arab newspaper (via Google Translation) quoted this passage from the report which contains a very interesting new opening by Hamas:
There is no opposition to the idea of a Palestinian state in 1967 borders and Jerusalem as its capital in order to achieve security for the Palestinian people and the return of refugees and compensation for their suffering and the release of all prisoners within the prisons…
While I don’t pretend to be an expert on Hamas, the italicized clause seems to be a new development in Hamas’ thinking about the Right of Return. This formulation is quite close to that of the Geneva Initiative, which calls for the Right of Return to be realized through a hybrid implementation: the physical return of a pre-agreed number of refugees to Israel proper and compensation paid to those who choose not to return.
Now, as for the Habarists who dredge up the Hamas covenant in order to rebut any glimmer of pragmatism within Hamas, I’ll take a semi-annual report written in 2010 over a document written by an anonymous scribe in 1988 in terms of telling me the current thinking of this movement. By the way, this isn’t the first time senior Hamas officials have said this as you can see from the results of this Google search.
So let’s make this very simple: from their official Twitter account:
Besides the termination of Israel, that link also contains some pretty vile antisemitism.
