So far, it's only a draft that a few in the know have managed to see. We don't know when Hamas' revised charter will be published and what its status will be. Will it supplant the existing Hamas charter, whose status is also unclear? Will the new document be binding for Hamas operatives and leader from here on out? Will it be nothing more than a position paper, which won't replace the charter, but will coexist with it for the convenience of Hamas' leaders, who can use the new document outside but the old charter among themselves? One thing is clear. The new document will present a challenge for Israel, since some of those who have rejected Hamas thus far will want to see the organization change. Hamas -- which has been in serious trouble since the Muslim Brotherhood was ousted from power in Egypt by now-President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi -- whose chances of returning to a unity government with Fatah appear slim; which failed to rebuild Gaza after Operation Protective Edge in 2014; and which is the target of harsh criticism from Palestinians, is in desperate need of a dramatic move. According to the draft document, the organization no longer sees Jews as monkeys or pigs. It has nothing against Jews who are not Zionists or Israelis, has no interest in intervening in other countries' affairs (a wink to Egypt), it sees the Palestine Liberation Organization as the organization that represents Palestinians, and is even prepared -- for now -- to see the establishment of a Palestinian state according to the 1967 borders, without any mention of who would be on the other side of said border. I was "moved" to tears. But Hamas wouldn't dream of declaring that the Palestinian struggle for independence will be free from violence from now on; it does not recognize Israel; and it does not recognize the agreements to which the PLO is a signatory, mainly the 1993 Oslo Accords and the 1995 Interim Agreement (Oslo II) on Gaza and the West Bank. It could be that Hamas is in a similar situation to the one the PLO was in the 1970s, when it expressed its willingness to accept something less than all the territory west of Jordan while emphasizing that it was a gradual plan in which it would take for itself every territory from which Israel withdrew. But more than 40 years have passed since then, and if Hamas wants to be a legitimate political movement, it cannot allow itself another 40 years of wordplay and legitimized violence. Israel will need to explain that the document changes nothing in its attitude toward the violent Islamist organization, which clings to the path of terrorism. The past few Israeli governments have not made the same mistake of rejecting the PLO outright, and have expressed their willingness to hold talks with Hamas under certain conditions, the first of which is that the group forgoes the use of force. Israel must explain that as far as it is concerned, so long as Hamas does not relinquish that option, and continues to claim that violence is a legitimate means of obtaining independence, no word games will change its status among those who understand how dangerous the group is and refuse to see it as a legitimate partner in any moves toward peace.