Hugh Fitzgerald has pointed out many times here at Jihad Watch that the leaders of Hamas, and other “Palestinian” leaders, are multimillionaires or billionaires. Where did they get this money? From the aid money that Western countries continue to shovel at the “Palestinians.” From your taxpayer dollars, thanks to Old Joe Biden’s handlers.
“Vienna-Based Syrian Journalist Thaer Al-Nashef: Hamas Uses Civilians As Human Shields; Hamas Leaders Split Gaza Rehabilitation Aid Among Themselves,” MEMRI, May 25, 2021:
Syrian journalist Thaer Al-Nashef, who is currently living in exile in Vienna, said that the Hamas “media machine” and Iran have exploited events in Jerusalem and Gaza in order to garner Arab sympathy over other Palestinian factions and to further Iranian interests in the Vienna nuclear negotiations. He made these remarks in a show that aired on Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) on May 25, 2021….
Thaer Al-Nashef: “Hamas has declared victory over Israel, just like Gamal Abd Al-Naser declared victory over Israel, even though he lost the Sinai Peninsula in its entirety, the Egyptian army was completely destroyed, and thousand of Egyptian soldiers were killed. At the same time, Hamas ignores the civilians it used as human shields in the Gaza strip by shooting useless missiles, a third of which fell on the people in the Gaza strip, instead of Israeli cities. Hamas claims that it has hit Israeli military targets, but that is a complete lie because the entire world saw in the media that Hamas’s missiles targeted Israeli civilians.
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“Did Muslims in Sarajevo, Tirana, Bosnia, and Africa rally to support Hamas, and those behind it, like the regime of the Mullahs in Iran? Those who rallied were Arab crowds frustrated with the autocracy of the Arab regimes, [crowds] whose sentiments were riled up by Hamas, exploiting the events of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, that were instigated by Hamas and those who stand with it by provoking the Israeli police.
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“Thus, the Arab public was mobilized by the media machine of Hamas and those behind it – the Iranian regime. All this was done in order to raise the popularity of Hamas among the Palestinian public, at the expense of other factions like Fatah, and other factions, and in order to revitalize Iran and polish its image in the region, after it was tarnished by its crimes in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Iran is exploiting what happened in the Gaza Strip in a big way for the sake of its interests in the nuclear negotiations that are conducted here in Vienna.
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“It is certain that Hamas will not conduct a discussion about what happened in the Gaza Strip and they will not hold each other responsible. The leaders of Hamas will get together to divide among themselves the money that will be poured into [Gaza] now just like they did after the wars of 2009 and 2014. Hamas’s wealth grows with every war. Billions [of dollars] are deposited in the bank accounts of the leaders of Hamas.”
American Pride says
Palestine
The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons.
The Arabs in the area did not use that term to self-identify, did not think of themselves, as “Palestinians.” They were simply Arabs.
Though there had apparently been a lone reference to the local Arabs as “Palestinians” in 1964, it wasn’t until 1967, after the Six-Day War, that the “Palestinian people” can be said to have truly been invented, and the campaign to promote that identity really took off. That “Palestinian” identity was deliberately promoted so that the Arab gang-up on Israel could be represented to the world as a struggle of a small indigenous people – the Palestinians – to hold onto their land, land that they had possessed for centuries and that Jews, flooding in from Europe, were trying to take from them. The leader of the Palestinian terror group As Saiqa, Zuheir Mohsen, famously commented on the genesis of the “Palestinian people” in an interview he gave in 1970 to the Dutch newspaper Trouw:
gravenimage says
Fine post.
william says
American:
As I have said before several times. The trillions of $ and Euros that have been poured into the hands of PLA and Hamas, plus the money from Muslim states, if properly used for development, could have turned the Gaza strip into a prosperous mini Switzerland. Instead it has been squandered on making the leaders wealthy and building an army to destroy Israel. Not mention all the terrorist actions and mini wars. Meanwhile the state of Israel goes from strength to strength. This is a stark contrast to the .’palestinians’ who live on charity and a tribute to the intellectual strengths of the Jews and their intelligence, inventiveness and national pride. Yet still the current US and EU governments continue to hand out tax payers money to Hams and the PLA, which will benefit the ordinary people very little if at all.
gravenimage says
Very true, william.
gravenimage says
‘The leaders of Hamas will get together to divide among themselves the money that will be poured into Gaza’
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Thaer Al-Nashef is telling the truth.
But Biden has already admitted that aid can be used by Hamas for Jihad terror–and he is fine with going ahead anyway.
Westman says
Now we see why Abbas will only gets a few hundred million graft in the 17th year of his 4 year term, while Hamas splits billions. Jihad pays….
Infidel says
Speaking of Hamas, last night on ‘Rob Schmitt Tonight’ on Newsmax, in addition to Ilhan Omar being denounced by Jewish Dems for equating Israel and US w/ Hamas, turns out that Hamas too was unhappy w/ the moral equivalence, and wrote to Ilhan complaining about it
https://www.rt.com/usa/526366-hamas-ilhan-omar-israel/
At one level, this story can’t get any funnier: both sides dinging Ilhan for comparing one to the others, despite each having its own views about who’s the evil one