Latest Khaled Mashal Quotes from Interviews

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• Hamas' leadership needs new blood. I will continue to serve my people. But the presidency of the Palestinian Autonomous Authority is not a free, sovereign position - it is an office that is confined by the occupation. That's why this position is not interesting for Hamas.

  Khaled Mashal

  People, Interesting, Office

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• There are some who support us and others who are on the other side. They bow to pressure from the international community. But there is no reason for any of them to be against our Palestinian concerns. We don't interfere in any of the domestic policies of other countries. We are a national movement and we are concentrating on our conflict and the battle against the Israeli occupation.

  Khaled Mashal

  Country, Support, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Good relations with Egypt are extremely important to us. Egypt is our neighbor and the largest Arab country. The people in all Muslim countries are on our side.

  Khaled Mashal

  Country, People, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The anger of the people in the Gaza Strip is mainly directed toward those who are responsible for the dire living conditions, for the occupation and the blockade. But, yes, for sure, as is the case everywhere, there are some who oppose the government. But they are very few compared to the close to 2 million inhabitants of Gaza suffering under Israel, the occupying power.

  Khaled Mashal

  People, Suffering, Responsible

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I like to use my own language. Political movements are like living creatures - they develop. Each document expresses the times, the different stages and is part of the natural development.

  Khaled Mashal

  Political, Different, Language

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.

  Khaled Mashal

  School, Army, Sophisticated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• We target the Israeli occupation, not civilians. We are defending ourselves with the simple military means that we have at our disposal. We are keen to develop and to get accurate, sophisticated weaponry in order to precisely target Israeli military installations.

  Khaled Mashal

  Military, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• This is not violence, this is legitimate resistance. This is our people's right to resist Israeli occupation.

  Khaled Mashal

  Violence, Israeli

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The international community has been extracting concessions from the weaker side suffering under the occupation. For decades, this strategy has done absolutely nothing for the Palestinians. Now they are demanding that Hamas go the same route. We will not accept that. Extracting concessions is not the key to achieving peace. Pressure must be exerted on the occupier.

  Khaled Mashal

  Community, Suffering, Done

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas have recognized Israel's right to exist. The Israeli government has never recognized our right to a sovereign state and self-determination.

  Khaled Mashal

  Israeli, Arafat

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The Palestinian issue is a national, political issue. It's not to be seen as an economic issue that would be solved or addressed by some economic approach that makes the living standard of the people under occupation better. The Palestinian people are fed up with talks that have been going on for years. We are looking for peace, but we are not looking for a new peace process. This process will fail.

  Khaled Mashal

  People, Political, Failing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Our political document shows that we are prepared in the context of a national consensus to accept a state on the lines of the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as the capital and fulfilling the right of return for refugees. That does not mean that this document recognizes the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation. Nor does it mean that we will cede any part of the Palestinian territories.

  Khaled Mashal

  Mean, Political, Accepting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• In principle, Hamas is not keen to be part of an unjust negotiation process in which the only things that comes out of it are new concessions for our people. Why should we negotiate? Unfortunately, even with the Donald Trump administration, I don't see any real vision toward achieving just peace.

  Khaled Mashal

  Real, People, Vision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Any approach that doesn't acknowledge the Palestinians' legitimate rights is doomed to fail. That also applies to any strategy that ignores the fact that Hamas is a part of the Palestinian resistance.

  Khaled Mashal

  Failing, Strategy, Palestinian

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Regrettably, what we are now seeing is that the new U.S. government with Donald trump is stuck in the same old, partisan thinking patterns in terms of our resistance. That is a mistake.

  Khaled Mashal

  Mistake, Thinking, Stuck

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• We are witnessing a new American president, Donald Trump, who speaks differently than his predecessors. If he is serious enough, he could pick up the opportunity that is available to create real peace in this region. With a new approach, he could achieve what all previous approaches have failed to.

  Khaled Mashal

  Real, Opportunity, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• What Hamas and the Palestinian people are doing is legitimate resistance against the Israeli occupation. Our resistance is confined to the territories inside Palestine and only targets the Israeli occupation. We are not blood-mongering killers who kill innocent people around the world.

  Khaled Mashal

  People, World, Innocent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• We reject President Donald Trump's view. It was a mistake to say that 'the Islamic world divided into "good" and "evil"', a major wrongdoing.

  Khaled Mashal

  Mistake, Islamic, Evil

  Source: www.spiegel.de