Osama Hamdan is a senior member of Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement. He is the group's spokesman and a member of its political bureau.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Wander caught up with him at the Al Jazeera Forum to ask how the group defines resistance, what it considers a legitimate target and how far it would go in compromise to achieve peace in the region.
On February 23rd a US foreign service officer named Rachel Schneller appeared on a panel with Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan, right here in Doha, at a Forum I attended that was hosted by the Al Jazeera Cente for Strategic Studies.
According to today's Wall Street Journal, she acknowledged sitting with Hamdan afterwards for a friendly cup of tea, in a meeting that had the blessing of her superiors back at the US state department.
Now that is news.
Below is what I submitted that night from Dubai (I had to travel from Doha that afternoon on business and could not finish the discussion).
![[QODLink]](http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2012/5/24/2012524105149565734_16.jpg "The Brotherhood and Mubarak")
