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Differences within Palestinians: How Hamas is different from PLO?

1. Extreme demands: Hamas opposed the Oslo agreement, which allowed the formation of the Palestinian Authority. When the PLO recognised Israel, Hamas rejected the two-state solution and vowed to liberate the whole of Palestine “from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea”.

2. Gaining legitimacy of Hamas: In the 2006 legislative elections in the Palestinian territory, Hamas won 74 out of the 132 seats, while the Fatah party, the PLO’s backbone, got only 45 seats. In its election manifesto, Hamas showed, for the first time, signs of moderation. It dropped the call for the destruction of Israel, which was mentioned in the 1988 charter, and said its first priority was to change the situation for Palestinians.

3. Clashes within Palestinian: As tensions rose between Fatah and Hamas in the West Bank, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Hamas government. This led to violent clashes between Fatah and Hamas. Fatah ousted Hamas from the West Bank and Hamas ousted the former from Gaza in 2007. Since then, Hamas is the government in Gaza. While Hamas never gave up its right to armed resistance, it still refuses to recognise Israel but offered hudna (a lasting ceasefire) if Israel returned to the 1967 border.

4. New charter 2017: In 2017, it adopted a new charter from which the anti-Semitic remarks of the original charter were expunged. The new document stated Hamas is not seeking war with the Jewish people — but with Zionism that drives the occupation of Palestine.

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Hamas was basically founded in the face of "Mujama al-Islamiya" (the social-religious charity) with the help of Israel in Gaza Strip. It had primarily two objectives - (1) Building a parallel leadership to PLO and (2) Bring development in the Gaza Strip to normalize tension. Later it became a rival child of Israel's idea of Mujama al-Islamiya.

Once Hillary Clinton had rightly said - "You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them to only bite your neighbour". We can draw a parallel line to Al-Qaeda which was created by USA to defeat Russia and Bhindrawala which was created by Indian National Congress to counter Akali Dal. Later, Al-Qaeda and Bhindrawala backfired at USA and Congress respectively.

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In Satyug, virtue and evil were existing in two different Loks i.e., Dev lok and Asur lok. In Treta yug, both virtue and evil existed in the same lok. For e.g. Lord Rama and Ravana. In Dwapar Yug, both virtue and evil existed in the same family. For e.g. Kaurava and Pandava in Mahabharata. In Kalayug, both virtue and evil exist within the same person i.e., within you.

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How Dr Ambedkar and Gandhi were different in principles?

[1] Dr. Ambedkar wanted a progressive post-war constitution based on a big state with the authority to ensure law and order, separation of powers to prevent overreach and a range of fundamental rights to capture the global move towards universal human rights for all. Gandhi found such a constitution “entirely Western” but grasped its prospect of consensus instinctively.

[2] Dr. Ambedkar believed that India needed a powerful state machinery that could ensure law and order at the margins of the country. Gandhi on the other hand believed that a large state would be too distant from the people.

[3] For Ambedkar, the state would be duty-bound to manage the economy and control industries for the common good. But for Gandhi, self-sustaining villages based on agriculture and cottage industry were the way forward.

[4] Centuries of feudalism, sectarianism and casteism would be uprooted, in Ambedkar’s vision, through fundamental rights to life, liberty and equality for every individual. Gandhi thought differently: history could not be undone by a policy document such as a constitution — it needed individuals to change themselves.

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