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Hamas no longer calls for annihilation of Israel in its manifesto. They dropped that clause in 2006.
Hamas drops call for destruction of Israel from manifesto | World news | The Guardian
Hamas' leader Khaled Mishal himself said in an interview that Charter of Hamas is "irrelevant" now.
Moreover, have you read the manifesto of Likud Party (The ruling political force of Israel. Netanyahu is the chairman of the party).
The Likud party's official manifesto, written in 1999, openly calls for colonization of Palestinians and declare that Palestinian state can not exist.
It is not so simple. From the same story:
QUOTE: "The manifesto makes no mention of the destruction of the Jewish state and instead takes a more ambiguous position by saying that Hamas had decided to compete in the elections because it would contribute to "the establishment of an independent state whose capital is Jerusalem".
The shift in emphasis comes as Hamas finds itself under pressure from the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and from foreign governments to accept Israel's right to exist and to end its violence if it wants to be accepted as a political partner in a future administration.
The group is expected to emerge as the second largest party after Mr Abbas's Fatah in the next Palestinian parliament. Opinion polls give it more than a third of the popular vote, built on a campaign against Fatah's endemic corruption and mismanagement and failure to contain growing criminality, and by claiming credit for driving the Israeli army and settlers out of Gaza.
But the manifesto continues to emphasise the armed struggle. "Our nation is at a stage of national liberation, and it has the right to act to regain its rights and end the occupation by using all means, including armed resistance," it says." /QUOTE.
This "ambiguous" change while maintaining the armed struggle to create a Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital was merely an election ploy.