Hamas does not want peace with Israel

When will the West hear what Palestinians say to each other in Arabic rather than the words aimed at the West’s ears, asks Boaz Modai

PALESTINE — from the river to the sea, from the north to the south — is our land and our right. There will be no surrender of even the smallest piece of it. Palestine was and still is Arab and Islamic.”

These were the words of Khaled Mashaal, the chief of Hamas’s political bureau, in Gaza on Saturday at a rally held to celebrate “victory” over Israel in the recent war initiated by Hamas’ rocket blitz on Israel’s southern cities.