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Hamas spokesman - Ghazi Hamad

Hamas spokesman - Ghazi Hamad

The movement’s rhetoric is unbending, but do the Palestinian people long for new ideas?

The Interview · BBC World Service

May 22, 201923m 23s

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Show Notes

The movement’s rhetoric is unbending, but do the Palestinian people long for new ideas? Stephen Sackur interviews Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for Hamas. The surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence in Gaza earlier this month was relatively short-lived, and the status-quo remains intact. But Hamas’s internal grip on Gaza is threatened by rising economic discontent and the Trump Administration will soon unveil a peace plan built on economic incentives for the Palestinian people. Could change be afoot?