Good question Brook, I'm not too familiar but it looks like some According to Wikipedia there have been many events or gestures over the years..
..why would Hamas stop firing rockets into Israel, though, what other goals do they have other than destroying Israel? Ever hear any of their leadership state that their goal is a two state solution?
According to Tristan Dunning, Israel has never responded to repeated offers by Hamas over subsequent years for a quid pro quo moratorium on attacks against civilians.[183] It has engaged in several tadi'a (periods of calm), and proposed a number of ceasefires.[183] In January 2004, Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin, prior to his assassination, said that the group would end armed resistance against Israel for a 10-year hudna[k] in exchange for a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and that restoring Palestinians' "historical rights" (relating to the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight) "would be left for future generations". His views were quickly echoed by senior Hamas official Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, who added that Hamas envisaged a "phased liberation".[185] Israel's response was to assassinate Yassin in March in a targeted Israeli air strike, and then al-Rantisi in a similar air strike in April.[186
In 2006, Hamas won the Palestinian legislative election by campaigning on Palestinian armed resistance against the Israeli occupation,[58] thus securing a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council.[59] The following year, in 2007, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip from rival Palestinian faction Fatah,[60][61] which it has governed since separately from the Palestinian National Authority. This was followed by an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip with Egyptian support, and multiple wars with Israel, including in 2008–09, 2012, 2014, and 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas
Continuing with Wiki, this part seems to not be consistent with the destroy Israel narrative: While initially seeking a state in all of Mandatory Palestine, Hamas began acquiescing to 1967 borders in the agreements it signed with Fatah in 2005, 2006 and 2007.[66][67][68] In 2017, Hamas released a new charter that supported a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders without recognizing Israel.[69][70][71][72][73] Hamas's repeated offers of a truce (for a period of 10–100 years[74]) based on the 1967 borders are seen by many as being consistent with a two-state solution,[75][76][77][78] while others state that Hamas retains the long-term objective of establishing one state in former Mandatory Palestine.[79][80] While the 1988 Hamas charter was widely described as antisemitic,[81][82][83] Hamas's 2017 charter removed the antisemitic language and said Hamas's struggle was with Zionists, not Jews.[84][85][86][87] Hamas promotes Palestinian nationalism in an Islamic context.[88]
In 2018, a motion at the United Nations to condemn Hamas was rejected.[e][95][96]
Hamas is an acronym "Islamic Resistance Movement" - This acronym, HMS, was later glossed in the 1988 Hamas Covenant[97] by the Arabic word ?amas (????) which itself means "zeal", "strength", or "bravery".[98]
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The accusations aimed at Netanyahu go beyond merely failing to foresee or prevent the Hamas attack of October 7, however. Many accuse him of deliberately empowering the group for decades as part of a strategy to sabotage a two-state solution based on the principle of land for peace.
"There's been a lot of criticism of Netanyahu in Israel for instating a policy for many years of strengthening Hamas and keeping Gaza on the brink while weakening the Palestinian Authority," said Mairav Zonszein of the International Crisis Group. "And we've seen that happening very clearly on the ground."
"(Hamas and Netanyahu) are mutually reinforcing, in the sense that they provide each other with a way to continue to use force and rejectionism as opposed to making sacrifices and compromises in order to reach some kind of resolution," Zonszein told CBC News from Tel Aviv. 'Keep Hamas alive and kicking'
This symbiotic relationship between Netanyahu and Hamas has been remarked on for years, by both friends and enemies, hawks and doves.
Yuval Diskin, former head of Israel's Shin Bet security service, told the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth in 2013 that "if we look at it over the years, one of the main people contributing to Hamas's strengthening has been Bibi Netanyahu, since his first term as prime minister." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/netanyahu-israel-gaza-hamas-1.7010035
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