Sounds plausible to me, having read many a scientific paper. The editor is saying was the text and the discussion, not the data or the conclusions, that got the article pulled. That and the fact people get easily upset about anything touching Israel/Palestine, no matter which way it spins. Qvit yer kvetching.

Destruction of Israel includes the destruction of the Jewish people of Israel.

Huh? If you read their documents you’ll note they’re not exactly light on the violent rhetoric. Hamas, as I’m sure you would agree, is a collection of psychotic nutcases. Given everything written in the Hamas Charter - all pretty shocking, and not exactly a document designed for sneaky underhanded diplomatic double-speak - if they wanted to say “Smoke out all the Jews, where-ever they are hiding around the world and kill them”, then I think they would have absolutely no interest in putting “between the lines”. We’re not talking about Kabbalah secret code here - they’re crazy, but they’re not THAT crazy.

Destruction of Israel includes the destruction of the Jewish people of Israel.

As far as I can tell, Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad are political organisations, rather than synonyms for “the Palestinian people”.

You’ll be happy to know I did check the 1988 Hamas Charter, and it certainly said that it wants to eliminate Israel as a state, but it doesn’t say it wants to eliminate all Jews as a people. (Only the latter constitutes a desire for genocide.) I also checked Fatah’s 1965 Constitution. What a relic that is! It reaks of the Marxist rhetoric of the time. I don’t think that document means very much these days. Yes, Article 12 does state that one of the primary goals is the “Complete liberation of Palestine and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence,” but again, that it not the same as saying one wants to eliminate the Jewish people from the face of the earth. It is waying it wants to eliminate the Zionist presence in “Palestine” (boundaries unspecified). And anyway, Article 12 (and Article 22, “Opposing any political solution offered as an alternative to demolishing the Zionist occupation in Palestine…”) are obviously out-of-date and redundant now otherwise we wouldn’t be able to explain the Rabin-Arafat accord (and the gazillion other attempts at agreement). As for Islamic Jihad, I couldn’t find a charter for them (which is not really surprising given their relatively insignificant size and (reported) lack of popularity in the Occupied Territories), so I don’t know what IJ thinks - presumably something similar to Hamas since it broke away from there.

So, based on what you suggested here, I don’t see support for the assertion that “they desire a second holocaust”.

As to what’s at the Top of the Palestinian Sermon Hit Parade, I’m afraid I wouldn’t know where to begin to double-check that. I certainly haven’t had the opportunity to go around to a random sample of mosques in the Occupied Territories with my pen and clip-board furiously ticking off the “holocaust statement” box, collating the data, and running the appropriate significance statistical tests. I assume you have, however - I can’t think of any other reason for your confidence about this. Kind Regards.

Sorry, Ant. I am switching sides to be with the intellectuals.

You don’t really need me to substantiate that claim. You already know it.

Amazing how they desire a second holocaust… of their brothers.

So I did a google to see if I could find any old posts to demonstrate this; not one.

Maybe they pulled those too!