Posted on 02/09/2026 2:49:01 PM PST by Olog-hai
A senior Hamas leader declared that surrendering weapons would “criminalize the resistance” and vowed Gaza would never accept “foreign rule,” openly defying President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace framework as Phase Two of the U.S.-brokered plan moves toward implementation.
Speaking Sunday at the 17th Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Khaled Mashaal — the terror group’s former chief and current head of its diaspora office — flatly rejected the core requirement of Trump’s Gaza plan: disarmament tied to reconstruction and international oversight.
Mashaal praised the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel, arguing that the attack had thrust what he called the “Palestinian cause” back onto the global stage and reaffirmed the movement’s embrace of “resistance.”
He said Palestinians “take pride” in that “resistance,” using the term as a justification for continued violence against Israelis and as a rationale for preserving Hamas’s weapons.
Mashaal urged supporters to “pursue Israel” diplomatically and politically, calling for the Jewish state to be branded a pariah that is “losing its international legitimacy,” pointing to what he described as growing shifts within Western elites, universities, and social media discourse.
The Doha-based terror leader also praised Qatar’s role, describing the country’s backing of the Palestinian cause as “honorable.” …
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“Top Hamas Leader Rejects Trump’s Disarmament Demand”
No doubt Israel has been telling Trump the same since Day 1.
Exactly how long have you been a top leader of Hamas and how did you get to that position? Give your predecessor a phone call for a clue, oh he be dead, how did that happen, oh yeah. Again, When can we have your attention to this matter?
You, senior Hamas leader, are the weakest link. Goodbye.
Time to drop the 24 hour warning leaflets and load the bunker busters.
Give the spec ops boys their warning order.
Destroy Hamas utterly and completely. Need to empty out Gaza of every being. Then start to rebuild. As long as Hamas is active, there will be NO peace because they don’t wan’t peace. The surrounding Islamic countries keep feeding the terrorists money & guns then cry and whine that Gazans are starving. BS to them all.
I predict Mashaal will be killed by his own people very soon. If I were him, I would watch my back. And my front. And both sides. And up. And down.
Since all of the hostages are out now, just flood the tunnels with water. They will all come out and surrender.
Cowabunga it is, then.
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Drone time.
My shocked face.....😴😴😴😴
They’re just gonna have to be killed off. It’s a sad realization I’m not sad about.
I was surprised to read that Hamas currently has a leader. Maybe the next one - after this one is killed - might be more open to negotiation. I give it a week.
Right. Dead man talking. Next.
Okay fine. Level anything still standing as a start. We know there are still plenty of tunnels for a follow up.
“Vows No ‘Foreign Rule’ in Gaza”
Hamas is a foreign rule that came into power in 2007 from the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and others at the start of the first intifada. Hamas violently took over the Gaza Strip in a military coup against the rival Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) in June 2007, gaining full control by June 14, 2007, after several days of intense fighting. It is an anti-Israel organization.
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