This is not an April Fool’s joke. The BBC interviews exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, who extols the moderate ways of his organization and compares Israel to the Nazis.
Speaking with Jeremy Bowen, Mashaal says Prime Minister Netanyahu is “the most extreme leader, and the one who likes to shed blood the most.”
The leader of Hamas, which publicly opposes any diplomacy with Israel and rejects any possibility of peace, then goes on to describe Israel’s “extremist leadership” as responsible for “kill[ing] the peace process, the two-state solution and every opportunity for a political solution for the Palestinian cause…
“The Palestinian people are in a movement for national liberation. It is a just cause and it is certainly not terrorism… We are an active resistance with a just cause battling the occupier. We have a moderate ideology and an open mind,” he says.
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