Yes you can. Three examples: russia can unilaterally declare peace with Ukraine and stop the war; China can unilaterally declare peace with Taiwan and stop threatening to invade them; North Korea can unilaterally declare peace with South and maybe not reintegrate because Kim doesn’t want to give up his privileges but at least the sabre rattling can stop. So Hamas can similarly unilaterally declare peace with Israel, remove the “all Israel must die” from its constitution and start on the path toward some meaningful peace. But that’s difficult, and firing rockets is easy, so lEt’S fIrE RoCkEtS!!11!1!! And by not firing rockets at Israel they can show the world exactly how hostile Israel are towards them without the excuse of responding to their attacks, although the obvious problem with that is that it would be “not at all” which would prove the hostilities have all been exclusively caused by Hamas.
Exactly how to declare peace: we’re going to put our big boy trousers on now and just choose to end all the tit for tat. Yes we all know they just did that really mean thing but it has to end one way or another and we’re choosing to end it now by choosing a peaceful response. If the old enemy insist on continuing to attack then we will still refuse to fight and we can show the international community how awful they really are and how we’re trying our best.
But unfortunately we all know that Kim’s, Xi’s, putin’s and Hamas’ big boy trouser hangars are all empty.
Yes you can. Three examples: russia can unilaterally declare peace with Ukraine and stop the war; China can unilaterally declare peace with Taiwan and stop threatening to invade them; North Korea can unilaterally declare peace with South and maybe not reintegrate because Kim doesn’t want to give up his privileges but at least the sabre rattling can stop. So Hamas can similarly unilaterally declare peace with Israel, remove the “all Israel must die” from its constitution and start on the path toward some meaningful peace. But that’s difficult, and firing rockets is easy, so lEt’S fIrE RoCkEtS!!11!1!! And by not firing rockets at Israel they can show the world exactly how hostile Israel are towards them without the excuse of responding to their attacks, although the obvious problem with that is that it would be “not at all” which would prove the hostilities have all been exclusively caused by Hamas.
Exactly how to declare peace: we’re going to put our big boy trousers on now and just choose to end all the tit for tat. Yes we all know they just did that really mean thing but it has to end one way or another and we’re choosing to end it now by choosing a peaceful response. If the old enemy insist on continuing to attack then we will still refuse to fight and we can show the international community how awful they really are and how we’re trying our best.
But unfortunately we all know that Kim’s, Xi’s, putin’s and Hamas’ big boy trouser hangars are all empty.