A senior Hamas official publicly admitted that his terror group would not accept a two-state solution — and boasted that the October 7 attack proved the possibility of expanding Palestinian territory and eliminating Israel.
Khaled Mashal – a key figure who helps run the terrorist organization from Qatar – claimed in a videotaped interview with Kuwaiti podcaster Amar Taki last week that the people of Gaza and Israel cannot coexist, a sentiment he said had been made all too clear after October 7.
“I would like to say two things about the two-state solution. First, we have nothing to do with the two-state solution,” the 67-year-old terrorist said in a translation provided by MEMRI TV. “We reject this notion, because it means you will get a promise for a [Palestinian] country, but you are required to recognize the legitimacy of another country, the Zionist entity.
“This is unacceptable,” he added. “We demand to be freed, to get rid of the occupation and to get our independence and our country.”
Khaled Mashal, a senior Hamas official, touted his terror group’s October 7 massacre as the first step in eliminating Israel. An Israeli soldier walks by a house destroyed in the October 7 attack on Kibbutz Be’eri. AP
Mashal also admitted that Hamas is not an organization that will only govern Gaza after it came to power in 2007 but an organization that will destroy the Jewish state.
The Hamas leader said his group’s October 7 attack on Israel, which claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, was a clear indication that his group could do just that.
“I believe that the dream and hope for Palestine from the river to the sea and from the north to the south has been renewed,” he said, referring to the chants calling for the elimination of Israel. “This has also become a slogan chanted in the US and in Western capitals by the American and Western public.
The October 7 attack saw more than 1,200 people killed and around 240 others kidnapped. AP Families of those still held captive in Gaza have called for a ceasefire to free their loved ones. Reuters
“The Palestinian consensus — or near consensus — is that we will not give up our rights to Palestine as a whole, from [Jordan] the river [Mediterranean] sea, and from Rosh HaNikra to Eilat or the Gulf of Aqaba,” added Mashal.
“I believe that Oct. 7 has increased this confidence, has reduced disagreements and has changed the idea of liberating Palestine from the river to the sea into a realistic idea that has already begun,” he said. “It’s not something [merely] expected or expected. It is part of the plan, part of the agenda, and we are on the verge of it, God willing.”
Mashal’s adamant rejection of any peace between Israel and Hamas shows that the war in Gaza will not end until one of the groups is destroyed.
Smoke billows over Rafah as fighting continues in Gaza. AFP via Getty Images
Israel has vowed to eliminate Hamas, besieged Gaza and has already killed more than 25,000 Palestinians, according to the local terrorist-run health ministry. Entire cities in Gaza have been destroyed in the fighting.
Meanwhile, Mashal and his Hamas cronies live in luxury in Qatar while their people languish in poverty and are treated like human shields.
Mashal alone is worth more than $4 billion, according to the Israeli government.
A Palestinian woman cries as she holds an injured child in Gaza, where the death toll has reportedly exceeded 25,000. AP
He has particularly been a target of the Israeli army in the past.
In 1997, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to assassinate Mashal by having elite Israeli Mossad agents spray poison in his ears as he walked through the streets of Amman, Jordan.
Then-US President Bill Clinton, desperate to keep Middle East peace talks afloat, eventually helped convince Netanyahu to give a cure to the dying Mashal, who eventually recovered, according to Time magazine.
Netanyahu himself has repeatedly rejected a two-state solution, most recently denying the possibility of Palestinian sovereignty on Saturday despite American insistence for such a result.
“I will not compromise on Israel’s full security control over all of Jordan’s western territories – and this is against the Palestinian state,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
The prime minister reiterated that the IDF will not stop airstrikes and advances in Gaza until more than 130 hostages are released and Hamas is eliminated.
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