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Why is this man smiling?

Jan 11, 2015 6:28 pm By Robert Spencer

Abbas smiling

In a sea of morose-looking world leaders, there’s Mahmoud Abbas smiling like the chesire cat. Does jihad murder — and especially murdered Jews — just make him feel ebullient all over?

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  1. Rebecca says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    He’s posing for you, Robert.

  2. Marty says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 6:41 pm

    Some aide should have reminded Abbas to at least try to appear saddened. At least it’s becoming increasingly obvious that this (corrupt and autocratic) “leader” always enjoys the scene of murdered Jews. This is similar to the chortling of the Saudi princes who visited the 9-11 site. They just can’t help themselves.

  3. josepxicot says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    In that photo everybody can watch who are the politicals heats on guilty as they are who give all kind of
    opportunities to our enemies to came and live from our work,in Europe we nee another liders,poor of us.

  4. Mirren10 says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    If Abbas is smiling, then, much as I loathe him, and everything he stands for, he is the only world leader who is in any way honest.

    • RonW says

      Jan 11, 2015 at 7:48 pm

      World leader?

      Surely this was sarcasm… ? That little toad is no more a world leader than I lead the 100 metre dash. I.e. only in my dreams.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 11, 2015 at 9:39 pm

      Mirren, I generally love your comments, but I’m afraid I must disagree here.

      While many of these world “leaders” present have foolishly done much to appease and enable Jihad, I don’t believe that any of them—with the obvious exception of the loathsome Mahmoud Abbas—are actually *smiling* over these hideous JIhad terror attacks.

      • Mirren10 says

        Jan 11, 2015 at 10:42 pm

        ” … I don’t believe that any of them—with the obvious exception of the loathsome Mahmoud Abbas—are actually *smiling* over these hideous JIhad terror attacks.”

        Not *smiling*, no, but I don’t believe any of them are actually being honest, either. After all, they are **responsible** for allowing these scum into civilised societies in the first place, and all of them not only deny what they have done, but attempt to fool the rest of us.

    • Anon says

      Jan 11, 2015 at 9:44 pm

      He’s thinking “while I have some downtime I’ll propose another fake-peace for land grab to some of these dhimmi morons while I’m here.”

  5. Angemon says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 7:03 pm

    Does jihad murder — and especially murdered Jews — just make him feel ebullient all over?

    I wouldn’t be surprised in the least.

    • Alissa says

      Jan 11, 2015 at 11:38 pm

      Exactly! Why is he smiling? Because he’s evil. Why wouldn’t he be smiling? The real question is…
      Why-the-hell-is-he-there-in-the-first-place? Where did civility go? Has the western world gone crazy?
      This islamic (I refuse to capitalize) cancer is destroying our future and I’m pissed about it.

      • PJG says

        Jan 12, 2015 at 1:17 am

        Yes. Who invited him, and why?

        • wtd says

          Jan 12, 2015 at 9:30 am

          Spencer has another post explaining Hollande invited Abbas when it became clear Netanyahu decided to attend.
          Times of Israel provides their take on this exchange:

          “French President Francois Hollande did not want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attend Sunday’s historic march in Paris, believing the Israeli leader’s presence at the rally would be “divisive,” Israeli media reported Sunday.

          Netanyahu initially accepted Paris’s wishes and on Saturday cited security concerns to explain why he would not attend the event, which was organized in a show of solidarity and defiance after terrorist attacks in the French capital, which claimed 17 lives. Among the victims were four Jews at a kosher supermarket and a Muslim police officer.

          However, the Prime Minister changed his mind later Saturday after Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett announced they would join the march, Israel’s Channel 2 news reported.

          When Netanyahu’s office told the Elysee Palace that he would be coming after all, France responded by highlighting that it was extending an invitation to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, according to the report. The French government also announced a planned meeting between Hollande and Abbas Saturday night.

          The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office did not respond to a request for comment on the report.”

  6. jewdog says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 7:10 pm

    Serial killers like to go to the funerals of their victims. That’s well know to the cops. Abbas is a smiling crocodile.
    I think Israel should mediate between the Muslims and France to partition France and Paris between the two national groups.

  7. Leo says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 7:11 pm

    He must feel happy in Paristine. It’s just like home ! Jews, Christians, atheists and blasphemers are getting killed. Infidels are terrified, while their leaders are in full dhimmi “islam has nothing to do with anything” mode. What’s not to like ?

  8. Ernie says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    Mahmoud Abbas is smiling because he has recognition . He feels a big boy , and knows the European Union ( and France included ) will give him The State of Palestine . He feels VICTORY .

    • Tayloch says

      Jan 11, 2015 at 7:32 pm

      So sorry, Ernie! You beat me to the punch!

      • Ernie says

        Jan 12, 2015 at 12:29 am

        Thank you Tayloch !

  9. Tayloch says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    “In a sea of morose-looking world leaders, there’s Mahmoud Abbas smiling like the chesire cat.”

    Here’s my take on the photo, and I believe the explanation lies in two simple points:

    1. The French threatened to invite him (Abu Mazen) if Israeli PM Netanyahu insisted on attending the rally. The invitation thus serves to humiliate Netanyahu with regard to the “Palestinians” in a global “social” forum.

    2. An extension of the first point, the “Palestinians”, via Abu Mazen, have been recognized somewhat formally as a legitimate state, with a legitimate “President”.

    As a political stunt, the whole affair is a win-win for them. As for giving a sh*t about the dead, not so much.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 11, 2015 at 9:46 pm

      Very sharp analysis, Tayloch.

      • Tayloch says

        Jan 11, 2015 at 10:16 pm

        Thank you, my friend! As you, and several others have noted, this is nothing more than a PR ploy to accelerate the cause (plight?) of the “Palestinians” onto the front stage of world opinion.

        The French, to much dismay, just threw wide open the doors to the opinion that “Palestine” is a legit state; a “state” which must be dealt with and resolved immediately.

        Hence the gambit(s) at the UN last month. Q.E.D.

  10. katnis says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    He’s thinking, “I can’t believe these dumb f*cks invited me! Hahahaha!”

  11. Don McKellar says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 9:30 pm

    That bastard is smirking in the other picture, too! He’s having a great time, isn’t he?

    • nothosaur says

      Jan 12, 2015 at 7:40 am

      What other picture?

      I can anticipate that the Abbas defense to this would be that the camera caught only a fraction of a second when he smiled at a friend who waved to him, but he was generally sad.

      If he was caught smiling twice, then that defense is weaker.

  12. Wellington says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 9:47 pm

    Sometimes a picture is indeed truly worth a thousand words.

  13. gravenimage says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 9:56 pm

    Why is this man smiling?

    In a sea of morose-looking world leaders, there’s Mahmoud Abbas smiling like the chesire cat. Does jihad murder — and especially murdered Jews — just make him feel ebullient all over?
    ………………………………………

    *Yes*.

    And that he was invited—and is being treated as a ‘world leader’ just as though he led an actual state instead of a bunch of genocidal terrorists—to twit the Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu makes him almost as happy as the celebration of dead Jews murdered in France by his foul coreligionists does.

  14. Canadian Patriot says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 9:59 pm

    Utterly outrageous!

  15. John says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    Because he is a terrorist who has been invited (by a communist who runs the country) to anti-terrorism meeting.

  16. Jay Boo says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 11:09 pm

    Look there way in the back of the crowd. Is that tall guy Barrack Obama ?
    No sadly, he chose not to come.

    But, wait, that must be the fluent in French John Kerry then.
    No, too bad he chose not to come either.

  17. pumbar says

    Jan 11, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    Possible reasons;

    1. He hasn’t realised he’s left his bomb belt back at the hotel room.
    2. It could be wind?

  18. Arelcao says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:10 am

    Why does Abbas smile? Because one man’s evil tragedy is another man’s sadistic joy.

  19. Rob says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 1:32 am

    ..and he was there at the same time his political associates HAMAS were gloating over the killings.
    There is no excusing the jihadists because of foreign policy, because France kept out of Iraq.
    There is no excusing the jihadists because of Charlie Hebdo, because they shot a policewoman (in the back) who was nowhere near the CH offices.
    Nor can there be any excusing the jihadists for any action of the French state because they shot Jewish shoppers in a supermarket.
    And finally there can be no excusing the jihadists for Muslim exclusion, because they shot and finished off an assimilated Muslim police officer.
    Anywhere the dhimmi left wants to go with their excuses, the jihadis themselves have them cut off.

  20. Xero_G says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 2:18 am

    Smiling because he just realised that Muslims have cleverly positioned themselves (by his presence) to appear to the world as just another one of the “victims” of Jihad.

  21. elizabeth Monaro says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 2:27 am

    I would like to see a call for all muslims to walk / protest against ISIL , perhaps the extremists will take more notice of that.
    I don’t see them caring much about westerners marching, probably just see that as an opportunity to take out a greater number in one go!

  22. Malsipots says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 4:46 am

    Look whom is also sporting a sickening grin two faces to his left, isn’t that the turkish PM, Davutoglu ?

  23. duh_swami says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 7:03 am

    That was not Abbas smiling…That was Abu Mazen the terrorist. Abbas and Abu, inhabit the same body and wear the same suit. A dual personality resembling schizophrenia…Abu stays hidden in political matters but when it is Islam and jihad, particularly against Jews, you can see him beaming…as in the photo…

  24. S Baumann says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 7:38 am

    I believe this is common behavior for serial killers….

  25. Porkistan says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 9:19 am

    Even more sickening that Abbas’s pedosmile or his very presence at this eventm is that he is NOT AN ELECTED LEADER OF ANYTHING. He’s in his 7th year of a 4 year term and there are no plans for legitimate ‘Palestinian’ elections any time soon. If elections were held today Hamas would win, so Israel grudgingly accepts him as the lesser of two evils, but he is a representative of NO ONE.

    France is so venal I bet they would happily accept a Hamas president as well.

  26. Mark says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    No smilling, when he goes to be with his master, satan, in the lake of fire.

  27. Jeff says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    Abbas is celebrating, not mourning. He should he not been allowed to be there. Sickening.

  28. Richard says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 1:04 pm

    The morning after the abhorrent attack at Charlie Hebdo, I took a dazed walk around my hometown. I couldn’t help but notice observing the Muslims were all walking around, smiling like Scrooge on Christmas morning.

    Every last one of them.

    And there is now no shortage of Muslims in my city.

    At first I thought I might have been imagining it, but I wasn’t.

    I can’t help but wonder if anybody else has a similar story?

    Richard

  29. Thompson Gunner says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 2:05 pm

    He is smiling because it was a joke for all Islamist. The French president said “all France has risen up” yet, none of them own a gun to fight with. They hold up pencils…jihadist have to smile…they will bank their guns and weapons against a pencil any day. These “enlightened” world leaders will go home and continue to make policy like normal…hindering the war on terror, not enabling it.

    Its kinda of like rock, paper scissors. Terrorist guns beat words and pencils…massive bombs and aircraft flown mini machine guns (Puff- for us Vietnam aged people) trump terrorist weapons and threats. Our dear president is holding out the wrong fingers…I have the correct one to hold out for him.

  30. James Hoder says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    I would be smiling to if I had a chance to leave the West Bank for a chance to stroll through Paris.

  31. albert says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 4:48 pm

    He’s laughing because he’s thinking ” while these suckers stick their heads in the sand we are planning, building and killing, oh what a wonderful concept is Taqqiyah “

  32. chri says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    Sorry! I saw a lot of people smiling, even between french members of the government!

    • mach37 says

      Jan 13, 2015 at 12:28 am

      Not in this picture, you didn’t. Only one smile that I can see.

      • Mahmoud says

        Jan 13, 2015 at 12:56 am

        I smile because I am a happy man.

        I smile because most infidels in France and in the world believe islam does not want to dominate them, only ‘radicals’.

        Smiling is one thing.

        You should have seen me at the hotel later that day. I laughed and laughed and laughed.

        Allahu Akbar you dumb Christians and Jews and nonreligious. You are all infidels one and all.

        • pumbar says

          Jan 13, 2015 at 11:18 pm

          “You should have seen me at the hotel later that day. I laughed and laughed and laughed”.

          I hope your boss didn’t see you. You were supposed to be cleaning the bogs.

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