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Saturday, November 7, 2020
Ex-leader of Hamas on Biden’s victory over Trump: ‘An evil has distanced itself from us’
Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashaal hails US President-elect Joe Biden’s victory — or, more appropriately, US President Donald Trump’s election loss.
“An evil has distanced itself from us with the end of the Trump administration,” says Mashaal, who led the terror group from 1996 to 2017.
“We hope from President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority that they will be more careful and not hurry to agree to return to the pointless path of negotiations with the election of Biden,” Mashaal says.
— Aaron Boxerman
Former Chief of Hamas’ political bureau Khaled Meshaal speaks during a conference in the Qatari capital Doha, on May 1, 2017. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)
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