Hamas chief hails Trump’s defeat to Biden, says outgoing administration ‘extremist’
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh hails Donald Trump’s defeat in the US presidential race, calling the Trump administration’s policy “extremist.”
“Our Palestinian people have suffered in prior decades from the bias of American administrations in favor of the occupation, and the Trump administration was the most extremist when it came to [supporting] the occupation over the national rights of the Palestinian people,” Haniyeh says.
“We call on President-elect Joe Biden to perform a historic reparation to American policies which were unjust to our people, and which made the United States an accomplice to injustice and aggression, and which harmed regional and global stability,” he adds.
Haniyeh also calls on Biden to withdraw Trump’s peace plan and his decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
— Aaron Boxerman