Genocide, from what I have been told by one of the advocates for Israel in this forum, doesn't require that vast numbers of people have already been killed. It's genocide as soon as the first person is killed, if the killing is for the purpose of doing what is defined in the United Nations thus...

[G]enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.


Under the UN's definition (endorsed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, what the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinians is genocide.

Now, on the subject of Hamas and its charter... the hypocrites are the smear mongers on this thread who fail to mention that not only is the US not refusing to talk with Israel because of its genocide against the Palestinians, it is actively supporting it, and even providing it with the weapons it is using to carry out that genocide and also sending US taxpayer money to help finance the apartheid settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Whereas, the US and many Western governments have not only refused to talk with Hamas, they are even preventing the people of Gaza from being able to get basic necessities of life through their support of Israel's blockade of Gaza.

So the hypocrites (and the racist hate mongers) are the people who support Israel's genocide of the Palestinians (the above posters who are using smear tactics to try to silence me, for instance), and the ones who support the blockade of Gaza and the isolation of Hamas, even despite the fact that Hamas is responsible for a fraction of the number of Israeli civilians killed as compared to the number of Palestinian civilians Israel has killed.