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Person Biography:(required) <p>Khaled Meshaal, 51, has been a senior political leader of Hamas, a Palestinian resistance movement, since 1995.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;">Currently living in exile in the Syrian capital of Damascus, he is a key engineer of Hamas' policy towards Israel.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;">But while he is a hero to many Palestinians, he is viewed by Israel, the US and other Western nations as the leader of an organisation committed to the Jewish state's destruction.<br /><br />"It is true that in reality, there will be an entity or a state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land," Meshaal has said.<br /><br />"But I won't deal with it in terms of recognising or admitting it."</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><strong>Political beginnings</strong> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;">Born in 1956 from a Palestinian family in the West Bank, Meshaal was forced to live most of his life outside the Palestinian territories.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">After Israel invaded the West Bank in 1967, Meshaal and his family left their village near Ramallah.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Like many at the time, thousands of Palestinians fled their hometown, fearful of the treatment they expected from their Israeli occupiers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span>Meshaal's father found work i<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">n the Gulf state of Kuwait,</span> when the country was known for being a hotbed of Arab nationalism and pro-Palestinian sentiment.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Soon after, Khaled Meshaal joined the Muslim Brotherhood, an influential political Muslim group.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">He later enrolled as a student of Kuwait University, studied physics and founded a student group called the List of the Islamic Right.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Once Hamas was founded in 1987 after the first intifada (uprising), Meshaal led the Kuwait chapter of the organisation, but left the country when Iraq invaded in 1990. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Meshaal moved to the Jordanian capital, Amman, where he became head of the Hamas branch.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Assassination plot</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">In 1997, Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israeli prime minister, sent a two-man hit squad to kill Meshaal. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The agents attempted to inject a slow-acting lethal chemical into his ear on a public street, but the operation was botched and the men were soon arrested. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;">King Hussein, leader of Jordan, was outraged by the attack and rushed to negotiate a deal whereby Netanyahu sent over the antidote to the chemical.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;">Netanyahu had to release more than 40 Palestinians from Israeli prisons to secure the release of the two men who attacked Meshaal.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;">Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas' historic founder who served nine years in jail, was among the Palestinians released.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;">Yassin was killed in 2004 in an Israeli air raid on Gaza, while <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Abdel Aziz Rantissi, who co-founded Hamas with Yassin, was also killed by the Israeli military in the same year.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Meshaal's reputation as a committed figure within the Hamas leadership was cemented after the leaders were assassinated.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">But he cannot return to the Palestinian territories for fear that he will be arrested or killed by Israeli authorities. As a result, he has lived in self-imposed exile since 2001.</span></span></p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">'War of necessity'</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Meshaal says that Hamas' policy is a direct reaction to Israel's invasion and subsequent occupation of Palestinian territories.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">In an interview conducted by Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, Meshaal asked: "Which came first, occupation or resistance?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;">"Israel started the occupation and as a reaction, came the resistance," he said.</p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">  <div> <div class="Tmp_News_Body2"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;">He has accused the Israeli political and military leadership "of perpetrating the real Holocaust against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank".</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"Hamas cannot be blamed, nor can the Palestinian resistance, for defending themselves in a war of necessity, not of race."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">But Israel sees Meshaal as the leader of a terrorist organisation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"The international community should try Khaled Mashaal for his involvement in murder and terror," Shimon Peres, currently the Israeli president, said in June 2006.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span></p> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;">And after Hamas won a landslide majority in the 2006 Palestinian government elections, Israeli and Western governments refused to deal with a Hamas-led government.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Hamas' victory also fuelled a continuing power struggle against Palestinian Fatah, led by Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority (PA).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Meshaal refuses to see Abbas, whose Fatah organisation has relations with the US, a key Israeli ally, as a representative of all Palestinians.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"Mahmoud Abbas is not a mediator. He is a Palestinian citizen and the Palestinian president, thus he can by no means act as a mediator between us and the Israelis. We do not seek mediation," he said.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah, Hamas, together with all other factions are supposed to be on the same side and Israel on the other."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Palestinian differences</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Abbas later formed a national-unity government led by Ismail Haniya, a prominent Hamas leader, but the West refused to recognise Hamas cabinet members.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">An international political boycott against Hamas aggravated an existing rivalry between Hamas and Fatah.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The struggle for power culminated in Hamas militarily taking over Palestinian institutions in the Gaza Strip in June 2007.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Hamas' takeover of Gaza has left a legacy of distrust between it and its rival.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"There are those who stabbed our democracy and preferred the military coup to the path of national dialogue," Abbas said in November 2007. "Hamas cannot erase Arafat's achievements."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The deadly fighting in Gaza between Hamas and Fatah highlighted the differences between the policies that the two organisations each adopt towards Israel.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">While Abbas' Fatah organisation has entered US-brokered negotiations with Israel towards an eventual Palestinian state, Hamas refuses to recognise the Jewish state.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">In response to Hamas' position, Israel and the Middle East quartet of peace negotiators - the US, the EU, Russia and the United Nations - have not invite Hamas to participate in peace talks.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">And while Hamas-linked fighters continue to fire rockets into Israeli territory, Israeli leaders say they are justified in treating Hamas as a military threat, rather than a potential partner in a lasting peace.</span></p> </span><span class="formsValidation"></span></span></span></div> <span class="DetaildSuammary"></span></div> <div style="width: 50px; float: left;">Source:</div> <div style="float: left;">Al Jazeera</div> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;"> </p> </p> </p> <p> </p>

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