Summary
Former Hamas politburo chairman whose interview on Arab television Moses presents for Hamas’s millenarian position on violent resistance (More than Genocide, line 147).
Details
- As Moses presents the interview: Mashal suggested anticolonial struggles can last over a century and cost millions of lives; admitted Hamas had not consulted Palestinian Gazans about the October 7 attack yet insinuated they must pay the price of national liberation — “no nation is liberated without sacrifices”; and, asked about the massacre of Israeli civilians, replied civilian casualties occur in war and Hamas is “not responsible for them,” refusing to acknowledge the atrocities committed by Hamas forces (line 147).