Hamas top dog: ‘An evil has distanced itself from us with the end of the Trump administration’
NOV 9, 2020 11:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER
Now they can go back to getting paid by American taxpayers for targeting Israeli civilians in jihad attacks.
“Palestinians celebrate Trump’s defeat: ‘An evil has distanced itself from us,’” by Aaron Boxerman, Times of Israel, November 7, 2020:
…Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh hailed Trump’s defeat in the presidential race, calling the outgoing president’s administration “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,” said Haniyeh, whose Gaza-ruling terror group seeks Israel’s elimination.
“We call on President-elect Joe Biden to perform a historic correction to American policies which wronged our people, and which made the United States an accomplice to injustice and aggression, and which harmed regional and global stability,” Haniyeh added.
Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashaal also expressed relief over Trump’s electoral loss without congratulating the new president-elect. “An evil has distanced itself from us with the end of the Trump administration,” commented Mashaal, who led Hamas’s political bureau from 1996 to 2017.
Mashaal said that he hoped that recent efforts to effect internal Palestinian reconciliation would continue despite Biden’s election. A recent bid to unite Abbas’s Fatah faction with the Hamas terror group has stalled in recent weeks as Ramallah waited for the results of the election.
“We hope from President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority that they will be more careful and not hurry to agree to return to the pointless path of negotiations with the election of Biden,” Mashaal said….
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