An Interview With a Hamas Spokesman The Egyptian al-Ahram Weekly recently printed a telephone interview with Hamas spokesman and leader Khaled Mesh’al from Damascus. Mesh’al survived an Israeli assassination attempt while in Jordan in 1997. Meshal was asked about the call, articulated recently by the PLO leader Abu Mazen, for “demilitarizing the uprising....” He responded, “it is not accepted by the Palestinians. Abu-Mazen's words come at a time when the Palestinians are suffering deeply from the brutality of the Israeli forces.... Israeli forces have also started mutilating the bodies of our martyrs, as they did in Beit Hanoun. Is this...
