Apologies for the delayed reply. I play basketball 4x/week and have tennis lessons 2x/week to earn the tasty calories Porto offers.
Here's what Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, said:
""A War of Extermination", which included the quote, with the added words "Personally, I hope the Jews do not force us into this war, because it would be a war of extermination and momentous massacre ..."We shall try to defeat you. I am not sure we'll succeed, but we'll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose Palestine. But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions." On October 11, the editor of Akhbar el-Yom, Mustafa Amin, ran an interview he had obtained from Azzam Pasha to report on the outcome of the summit. The article was entitled "A War of Extermination", and in one passage contained the following words.[1]
I personally wish that the Jews do not drive us to this war, as this will be a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Tartar massacre or the Crusader wars. I believe that the number of volunteers from outside Palestine will be larger than Palestine's Arab population, for I know that volunteers will be arriving to us from [as far as] India, Afghanistan, and China to win the honor of martyrdom for the sake of Palestine ... You might be surprised to learn that hundreds of Englishmen expressed their wish to volunteer in the Arab armies to fight the Jews.
— Mustafa Amin, "A War of Extermination", Akhbar al-Yom, October 11, 1947
In early December 1947 Azzam told a rally of students in Cairo that "The Arabs conquered the Tartars and the Crusaders and they are now ready to defeat the new enemy," echoing sentiments he had expressed to a journalist the previous day.[10]
He also offered the Jews a return to dhimmitude under Muslim rule:
"in his capacity as Secretary General of the Arab League, suggested that the Zionist project be abandoned, and that the Jews could integrate themselves into Arab society on the basis of autonomous entities."
That these armies were incompetent and ill-led despite their British training doesn't change their genocidal intentions and objectives.
You're arguing that, after 1300+ years of such dar-al-dhimmi "integration", Jews should have accepted his offer to live like blacks in the American South. The only explanation I can think of for why you don't take Arabs' exterminationist declarations at their word is the typical western "soft bigotry of low expectations" view that they're just engaging in inflammatory rhetoric and not declaring real intentions, as Grand Mufti Ali Husseini did when he met Hitler in Berlin in November 1941. It's not that Jimmy Carter was a liar. Just deluded as you are about Hamas' real intentions because of his own hubris about his capacity to close a deal as he did between Sadat and Begin. Neither of you take Hamas at its word, as the world failed to do with Hitler's Mein Kampf, an Arabic copy of which was found in a children's room turned into a Hamas operations center: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/copy-of-hitlers-mein-kampf-found-on-body-of-hamas-terrorist-israeli-president/articleshow/105177832.cms?from=mdr
You both need to reread Hamas’ covenant and take it seriously and literally:
“Article 21 is explicit in stating Hamas’s rejection of that landmark agreement: “Hamas affirms that the Oslo Accords and their addenda contravene the governing rules of international law in that they generate commitments that violate the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. Therefore, the Movement rejects these agreements and all that flows from them.” Hamas affirms, instead, its commitment to liberating Palestine by force. “Resisting the occupation with all means and methods is a legitimate right guaranteed by divine laws and by international norms and laws,” the document states. “At the heart of these lies armed resistance, which is regarded as the strategic choice for protecting the principles and the rights of the Palestinian people.”
In contrast Israel's declaration of independence said:
"the State of Israel would be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex." Currently Israel's Arabs are the only Arabs from Morocco to Iraq who enjoy fundamental human rights and a modern, Western European type welfare state. Listen to them answer which government they'd prefer, Israeli or Palestinian (from The Ask Project): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EwEhQtDk-4
They're not dreaming of "from the river to the sea".
BTW, the judge who sent Ehud Olmert to jail for corruption was an Arab. Half of all pharmacists in Israel are Arabs and half the doctors graduating from Israeli med schools are Arab.
