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Source: http://www.tunisia-live.net/2011/11/15/hamas-representative-addresses-tunisian-political-rally/
Tunisia: Islamist Prime Minister Nominee Calls for Restored Caliphate, Liberation of Jerusalem
(TunisiaLive) Mischa Benoit-Lavelle - The Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda invited Houda Naim, a Hamas member of the Palestinian Legislative Council based in Gaza, to speak at a rally in Sousse on Sunday, the first time a member of Hamas has addressed the Tunisian public. Naim stated her hope that the "liberation" of Tunisia would lead to the liberation of Palestine. At the event, Ennahda's general secretary Hammadi Jebali, recently proposed by the party to be the new prime minister of Tunisia, declared that the occasion was "a divine moment in a new state, and in, hopefully, a 6th caliphate," referring to the historical system of Islamic monarchies. Jebali also echoed Naim's words, stating, "The liberation of Tunisia will, God willing, bring about the liberation of Jerusalem."