Who Represents The Palestinian People?
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Hamas has been declared a terrorist group by dozens of countries, including the United States. And many Palestinians in Gaza think the political party is corrupt. The Palestinian Liberation Organization, which controls the West Bank and is led by Mahmoud Abbas, has condemned Hamas's violence.
It's been over 15 years since the last parliamentary election that brought Hamas to power, one that many Palestinians weren't old enough to vote in.
We discuss how Palestinian leadership and how war and displacement has shaped the lives of Palestinians.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Terry Gross, the host of Fresh Air. We bring you in-depth long-form |
| 0:05.4 | interviews with actors, directors, musicians, authors, journalists, and more. |
| 0:09.8 | Listen to our Peabody Award-winning Air Podcast from W HY and NPR. Since Hamas's deadly attack on Israel earlier this month, a lot has been said about the |
| 0:28.8 | military and political group and plenty of people have asked about the degree to which Hamas represents the Palestinian people. |
| 0:35.0 | Several countries, including the United States, and the European Union, have designated Hamas, which has been the de facto authority in Gaza since 2005, a terrorist group. |
| 0:44.6 | According to a poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey research, |
| 0:48.9 | 73% of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank say there is corruption in Hamas and in the Palestinian Authority. |
| 0:56.7 | The Palestinian Authority controls the occupied West Bank, it's led by Mahmoud Abbas, |
| 1:00.5 | who has condemned Hamas's violence. |
| 1:03.0 | Meanwhile Abbas and the PA have faced criticism for their rule of the occupied West Bank. |
| 1:08.0 | Last week, following the deadly explosion at a hospital in Gaza which left hundreds dead, |
| 1:12.0 | protesters took to the West Bank in |
| 1:14.6 | defiance of Abbas's government. |
| 1:16.5 | I ask President Abbas to respond or to cancel his meeting with Biden and to come back and when Biden will enforce Israel to stop its |
| 1:27.2 | aggression he can meet with them. |
| 1:29.0 | Laboss did cancel his planned meeting with President Joe Biden. |
| 1:31.9 | Here's what he had to say about it. |
| 1:34.0 | In light of the calamity that occurred and out of concern for our people, |
| 1:39.0 | I have decided to cut short my visit and return to my homeland to be with my people in this great ordeal. |
| 1:45.3 | Palestinians have not voted in a parliamentary election since 2006 and the majority of Palestinians today were not |
| 1:50.9 | old enough to vote in the elections that brought Hamas to power in |
| 1:54.0 | Gaza. So how do we get here with this leadership divide? Who do |
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