MEMO | September 23, 2015 An opinion poll has suggested that two-thirds of Palestinians believe that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas should resign. They also think that his resignation from the PLO Executive Committee is not “real”. The Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research released the results of a poll on Monday that it […]
The leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, has said the group wants a truce as soon as possible, but with a genuine guarantee to lift the eight-year long siege.
In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s HARDtalk programme, Mr Meshaal said that Palestinians in Gaza wanted to live without the Israeli and Egyptian blockade and open up to the world.
He said the people of Gaza were “being punished with a slow death in the world’s biggest prison”.
He said: “We are eager that the bloodshed should end in Gaza”
“Jerusalem the Red Line”
Hamas chief calls for massive armed resistance to protect it… but how?
by Stuart Littlewood
The other day Hamas’s political chief, Khaled Meshaal, criticised the Palestinian Authority for “criminalizing armed resistance”.
He claimed that, by dropping the armed resistance option, Arab States and the PA had lost the ability to deter Israel and its never-ending violations.
