Hamas top dog Mashal: ‘Without October 7, we will not take Palestine back. It is the path of jihad.’
He means that they’re determined to murder more Israelis, and will do so as soon as they get the chance.
Head Of Hamas Abroad Khaled Mashal: Only Jihad Will Restore Our Rights; A Small Number Of Our Prisoners Were Freed By The Oslo Accords – But This Ceasefire Deal Freed Thousands; Palestinians Will Not Leave Gaza Or The West Bank For An ‘Alternative Homeland’; The Future Will Be Decided On The Battlefield, Not In The Capitals Of The West Or East
MEMRI, March 10, 2025:
Head of Hamas abroad Khaled Mashal rejected Trump’s Gaza relocation plan at an event for released Hamas prisoners in Egypt and uploaded to Hamas’s Telegram channel on March 10, 2025. He said that it is the “path of jihad and resistance” that will take back people’s homeland, restore honor, and liberate the prisoners. Mashal stressed that Palestinian rights will be drawn up on the battlefield, not determined in foreign capital cities. He rejected the notion that Palestinians would find an “alternative” homeland, have a political regime imposed upon them, or surrender their weapons.
Khaled Mashal: “The danger is no longer limited to Gaza and the West Bank – Egypt is in danger, and so are Jordan and Saudi Arabia. After all, some leaders in the region or in the world are thinking about the deportation of the Palestinians to some of these countries.
Is he saying that Palestinians are a threat to whatever country they are in?
“Without October 6 [1973], Sinai would not have returned [to Egypt], and without October 7 [2023], we will not take Palestine back. It is the path of Jihad and resistance that can take one’s homeland back, restore honor and freedom, and liberate the prisoners. The Oslo Accords brought about the release of a small number of prisoners, but the [ceasefire] deal and the Al-Aqsa Flood have brought back thousands of our people’s prisoners, with the help of Allah.
“The world, in its big capitals, respects only the strong, so we want our nation’s leaders to be strong.
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“Therefore, I would like to make it clear that Gaza will only belong to its people. No one will leave Gaza or the West Bank to an ‘alternative’ homeland.
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“The people of Palestine will only be governed by themselves. No political regime will be imposed upon the people of Palestine. The weapons of the people will not be taken from them, so long as they are under occupation. The future will not be drawn up in the capital cities of the West or East. The [people’s] rights will be drawn up on the battlefield. These rights will not be restored in the Security Council, but in the recruitment office. Two thousand verbal shells are not worth one made of steel.”
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Egypt Now Willing to Take in Half a Million Gazans
While both Egypt and Jordan initially rejected President Trump’s plan for Gaza, according to which both countries would take in more than two million residents of Gaza who would leave the Strip while its reconstruction was going on, it seems that Egypt is now willing to take in half a million Gazans “temporarily.” More on this offer, and why it was made, can be found here:
Egypt willing to temporarily absorb half a million evacuated Gazans – Lebanese report
Jerusalem Post, March 21, 2025:
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that his country was ready to temporarily host half a million Gazans who would be evacuated from the Gaza Strip, according to a Friday report by Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.
According to the report, the Gazans would be allocated a city in the north of the Sinai Peninsula.
Does this mean these Gazans would be housed in a city that is already in existence, or would a new city be built to accommodate them? Would new housing be built for them, or would a brand-new city be constructed for them in northern Sinai, as Egypt has managed to do in building New Cairo in the Western Desert?
The comment reportedly came during a conference held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on the situation in the Middle East, in which the Egyptian leader was present, among other attendees.
According to the report, the temporary relocation offer has raised concerns with Jordan, which has previously taken a strong stance against such a move….
This offer by Egypt raises many questions. For Jordan, it is alarming, because it increases pressure on it to do the same, and to admit large numbers of Gazans whose increased presence would make the Palestinians, already more than 60% of Jordan’s population, rise to 70-75% of the total. This could threaten the rule of the Hashemite King Abdullah, who remembers how his father King Hussein had been challenged by Palestinians before, by the terrorists of Black September who tried to overthrow him in 1970.
It is also not clear what this offer means by “temporary” resettlement. Would it last the entire time that the reconstruction of Gaza is going on, or would the Gazans be expected to go back before then? Trump’s plan mentions a period of five years during which the Gazans would be expected to remain outside the Strip. For what period does El Sisi plan to house those half-million Gazans?
Was the offer made in good faith, or merely as a way for Egypt to curry favor with President Trump, with El-Sisi expecting no more than a handful of Gazans — certainly not half-a-million — to take up his offer?
Did the Trump administration put pressure on El-Sisi to make the offer, by threatening to cut off all aid to Egypt? Has it done the same with Jordan, or does it recognize that King Abdullah is in a different situation from El-Sisi, and worries about a still larger Palestinian population overwhelming the Jordanians in his kingdom?
Who would pay for the new housing in the northern Sinai? One assumes that the rich oil states of the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait, would be called on, rather than the United States. Trump has no interest in committing tens of billions of dollars to such a project. Has such a commitment from those states to provide necessary funds to Egypt been received?
Many questions remain. But it’s a sign that Trump’s plan for Gaza, though widely ridiculed when first proposed, is having a salutary effect.
Islamic Republic of Iran sentences three converts to Christianity, including pregnant woman, to years in prison
Shi’ite Islam, like Sunni Islam, prescribes the death penalty for apostasy:
Shaykh al-Kulayni narrates a sahíh (correct) hadith from `Ammãr as-Sãbãti who said: I heard (Imam) Abu `Abdullãh (as-Sãdiq) (a.s.) saying, “A Muslim from among the Muslims who renounces Islam and rejects the prophethood of Muhammad and considers him untrue, then verily his blood is lawful (mubãh) for anyone who hears that from him, his wife is to be separated from him the day he became murtad [apostate], his wealth will be divided among his heirs, and his wife will observe the `idda of a widow (i.e., four months). The Imam is obliged to kill him, and not ask him to seek forgiveness.” (Furu al-Kãfi, vol. 7, p. 257)
The Islamic Republic of Iran might not carry out this sentence in the absence of the Imam, but they’re not likely to be lenient and kind to the converts, either.
Three Christians including pregnant woman sentenced to over 40 years in prison
Article 18, March 10, 2025:
Three Christian converts including a woman pregnant with her first child have been sentenced to over 40 years in prison on charges related to their religious beliefs and worship meetings.
Abbas Soori, Mehran Shamloui and Narges Nasri, who is approximately halfway through her pregnancy, were sentenced by notorious Revolutionary Court judge Iman Afshari on 8 March – International Women’s Day.
Narges, who is 37 years old, received the stiffest sentence – 10 years for “propaganda activities contrary to Islamic law”, five for membership of an “opposition group” (house-church) and an additional one year for “propaganda against the state” – for having posted on social media in support of the Women, Life, Freedom movement.
Abbas, 48, received a total of 15 years in prison – 10 years for “propaganda activities” and five for membership of an “opposition group” – while Mehran, 37, received an eight-year sentence for the first charge and two years and eight months for the second.
All three were also sentenced to years of deprivation of social rights, such as to health, employment or education – 15 years each for Narges and Abbas, and 11 years for Mehran – while Narges and Abbas were fined 330 million tomans ($3,500) each, and Mehran 250 million ($2,750). Narges and Abbas were also banned from membership of any group, residing in their home province of Tehran or leaving Iran for two years after their release.
The three Christians were arrested on 3 November 2024 during concurrent raids by intelligence agents on their homes in Tehran, during which personal belongings including Bibles, crosses and musical instruments were confiscated. (Mehran is a musician, and the equipment the agents confiscated from him was worth around $5,500.)
The Christians were then transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison, which is under the control of the Ministry of Intelligence.
They were released on bail equivalent to more than $20,000 each a month later, following a series of lengthy and intensive interrogations.
Their court hearing took place on 15 February at Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, where they were officially charged with “membership of opposition groups”, “propaganda against the system” and “propaganda activities contrary to Islamic law through foreign relations,” under Articles 499, 500 and 500 bis, respectively….
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