Monday night in an interview with PBS host Charlie Rose the political leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal said he would not “coexist” with Israel or recognize the “Jewish state.”

Rose asked, “Do you want to coexist with the state of Israel? Do you want to recognize Israel as a Jewish state?”

Meshaal replied, “No, I said do not want to live with a state of occupiers.”

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