Selected Interviews
Hamas' Meshaal Says Latest US Peace Efforts 'Will Fail'
Interviewed by: Adnan Abu Amer*. Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas' political bureau, said that the efforts of US Secretary of State John Kerry to revive peace talks did not include a serious vision for a just solution to the [Palestinian-Israeli] issue. According to Meshaal, Kerry did not put any pressure on the Israeli side, which occupies Palestinian land. Rather,...
Khalid Meshaal: We do not Exclude Anyone and Will Not Allow Anyone to Exclude Us
In an exclusive interview with "Al-Quds", Chief of Hamas Political Bureau, Khalid Meshaal, said, "If the new Obama Administration is serious about changing the current scene, stopping the bloodshed in the region, and doing away with the injustice imposed on the Palestinians to create true peace, we remind it that true peace is based on justice, equality, and the restoration...
Hamas' Mesh'al Lays Out New Policy Direction
Interviewed by Al-Sabeel Newspaper. Translated by The Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC). Since 1996, Khaled Mesh'al has been the Chairman of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Political Bureau. After the assassination of Hamas leader Abdul 'Aziz Rantisi in 2004 by Israeli forces, Mesh'al became the movement's overall leader. He lives in exile in Damascus, from where he oversees the movement's...
Rebel without a state: Evgeny Lebedev meets Ismail Haniyeh, Prime Minister of Gaza
As prime minister of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh is one of the world's most controversial politicians. He talks to Evgeny Lebedev about the Arab Spring, suicide bombing, the Israeli blockade - and the elusive prospect of peace. Interviewed by Evgeny Lebedev.* "From Jerusalem, the drive to Gaza passes tidy fields and shops selling locally-produced honey. For the final stretch, conifers line...
Interview with Dr. Nabeel Shaath
Interviewed by: Zakia Aqra and Marina Eleftheriadou. CEMMIS: We do know the traditional relationship between Greece and Palestine. How do you see it now in light of the relationship between Israel and Greece? How do you feel about that? Nabeel Shaath: Look, there is a traditional relationship between Palestine and Greece. There is a very special relationship between Palestine and...
Interview with UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk
Interviewed by Dr. Hanan Chehata. In an exclusive and extensive interview with the Middle East Monitor Prof. Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, talks about the on-going intransigence of Israel and its continued failure to abide by international law. In his frank interview Prof. Falk openly points to the ineffectiveness of the...
Egypt\'s Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby || Interview Egypt’s Foreign Mnister on the Way Forward After Mubarak
Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby Interviewed by Lally Weymouth* Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed an agreement this past week in Cairo that was seen as a first step toward unifying rival governments in Gaza and the West Bank. U.S. and Israeli officials are wary that the reconciliation, brokered by Egypt, could undermine any peace efforts, since both countries consider Hamas...
A Dialogue with Hamas: Part Two
In this second part of a two-part interview with Hamas’s Ousama Hamdan, Manuela Paraipan questions him about the organization’s relationship with other regional powers, efforts for reconciliation with Fatah, and Hamas’s potential involvement in the peace process. MP: How are Hamas’s ties with Egypt and Saudi Arabia? Ousama Hamdan: There is much more potential regarding both. The Egyptians know that the resistance...
A Dialogue with Hamas: Part One
In early November 2010, Manuela Paraipan met with the Beirut-based Hamas leader Ousama Hamdan in Damascus. Delegated to speak on Hamas’s behalf, in this extended two-part interview Hamdan engages in an in-depth discussion of the party’s affairs, policies and interests. This dialogue follows Manuela Paraipan’s recently published interview with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and offers additional views and insights into...
