Palestine Party leader
Khaled Meshaal
خالد مشعلSenior Hamas political-bureau figure; chairman of the Hamas political bureau 1996–2017 and head of Hamas's diaspora office since 2021. Survived a Mossad poisoning attempt in Amman in 1997. Based in Doha.
Inherited position
Until Khaled Meshaal is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.
Briefs about Hamas
Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Hamas to other parties. 5 briefs on file.
- Hamas vs. Fatah PS The Palestinian split. Fatah's secular-nationalist PLO doctrine vs Hamas's Islamist resistance frame — the same national project across very different registers.
- Hamas vs. Freedom and Justice Party EG Brotherhood electoral vs Brotherhood armed. Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's 2011 electoral vehicle against the Palestinian Brotherhood branch that became Hamas. Same religious-political tradition, two political ecologies.
- Hamas vs. Hezbollah LB The axis of resistance, by sect. Iranian-backed Shia Islamist party-army against Muslim Brotherhood-rooted Sunni Islamist resistance movement. Allies against the same adversary, doctrinally distinct in almost every other respect.
- Hamas vs. Likud IL The headline cleavage. Israel's Jewish-nationalist mainstream right against the Palestinian Islamist resistance movement. Two parties that don't recognise the other's right to exist on the same land.
- Hamas vs. Palestinian Islamic Jihad PS Palestinian armed Islamism, by lineage. Hamas's Brotherhood roots against PIJ's Khomeinist-revolutionary doctrine. Allied in the field, doctrinally distinct in origin.
Other politicians in Hamas
Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →
On the record
Quotes attributed to Khaled Meshaal that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.
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I have come to Gaza, and I say from Gaza, with Gaza, and to Gaza: there is no compromise on Palestine, from the river to the sea, from the north to the south.
لقد جئت إلى غزة، وأقول من غزة ومع غزة وإلى غزة: لا تفريط في فلسطين، من النهر إلى البحر، من الشمال إلى الجنوب.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Manifesto Arabic 2017-05-01 Hamas — “A Document of General Principles and Policies” (the 2017 revised charter), presented by Khaled Meshaal, Doha, 1 May 2017 (Hamas's official English text)
Preamble: Palestine is the land of the Arab Palestinian people […]. Palestine is a land that was seized by a racist, anti-human and colonial Zionist project that was founded on a false promise (the Balfour Declaration)…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Khaled Meshaal [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/khaled-meshaal
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Khaled Meshaal." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/khaled-meshaal.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-khaled-meshaal,
title = {{Khaled Meshaal}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/khaled-meshaal},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.