Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Tunisian Interim President Moncef Marzouki at an election rally, which aired on Hannibal TV and was posted on the Internet on November 15, 2014:
Moncef Marzouki: I hope that sponsoring terrorism and collaborating with Hamas will not be among the distorted accusations leveled at me, because I would like to say clearly that I am honored to have met Khaled Mash'al.
Crowd cheers
From here, from Sfax – from this citadel of Arabism and Islam – I would like to say to heroic, starved, and martyred Gaza, which almost collapses under the destruction, and to our heroes defending Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque… I would like to salute the Palestinian resistance on behalf of all of you here.
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