Mahmoud Khalil Says October 7 Was Unavoidable ‘Moment In The Palestinian Struggle’

Columbia University graduate and activist Mahmoud Khalil said on “The Ezra Klein Show” Tuesday that Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel was unavoidable.

Hamas killed around 1,200 civilians, taking over 240 individuals hostage and committing rapes during the attack, leading to the Israel-Hamas war. Khalil said on the show that “it felt frightening that we had to reach this moment in the Palestinian struggle,” prompting host Ezra Klein to ask him to clarify what he meant.

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“I was interning at … the United Nations Relief and Works Agency at the UN at their New York office. And as part of my internship, my research and work was focused on Palestine, on the situation in the West Bank and Gaza,” Khalil said. “And you can see that the situation is not sustainable. You have an Israeli government that’s absolutely ignoring Palestinians.”

“They are trying to make that deal with Saudi and just happy about their Abraham accord without looking at Palestinians as if Palestinians are not part of the equation,” he added. “And they circumvented the Palestinian question.”

Hamas launched its attack to sabotage peace negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, according