After the Americans vetoed the UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate “humanitarian ceasefire,” thus giving Hamas time to regroup and rearm (from weapons stocks hidden in schools, apartment buildings, mosques, and in tunnels), Mahmoud Abbas went on the attack. He condemned the U.S. for having made possible, by exercising its veto, for more “children in Gaza” to be killed. More on Abbas’ ranting denunciation can be found here: “PA President Abbas Blames U.S. for Gaza ‘Children’s Tragedy’ After UN Veto,” i24 News, December 9, 2023:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the United States on Saturday, attributing responsibility for the tragic loss of children’s lives in Gaza to the U.S. after it vetoed a UN Security Council resolution advocating for a ceasefire in the region.
In a statement from Abbas’s office, the president criticized the American stance as aggressive and in violation of humanitarian values, directly holding the U.S. accountable for the bloodshed of Palestinian civilians, including children, women, and the elderly in Gaza, due to its unwavering support for Israel.
The deaths of civilians is a regrettable fact of modern war. But Israel does everything it can to minimize civilian casualties. It dropped 1.5 million leaflets In northern Gaza, urging residents to move southward beyond the Wadi Gaza, because the north would soon become a battlefield. The IDF also tries to warn Palestinians to leave, or move away from, civilian structures that the IDF is about to target because they contain vast stores of weapons, command-and-control centers, and Hamas fighters. The IDF text messages, telephones, leaflets, and uses the “knock-on-the-roof” technique to notify civilians of the impending attack. That is why the IDF has such a low noncombatant-to-combatant ratio — much lower than that of the American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is not Israel, nor the U.S, by vetoing that “ceasefire,” that are causing the civilian casualties in Gaza. It is Hamas that puts so much of its weaponry, rocket launchers, and fighters, in and among civilians. Hamas uses them as human shields; it wants Palestinian civilians to be killed as much as Israel wants them not to be killed. Dead Palestinian babies,women, and the elderly are grist for Hamas’ propaganda mill.
The U.S. veto, which thwarted efforts led by UN chief Antonio Guterres and Arab nations towards an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, drew criticism.
American envoy Robert Wood dismissed the resolution as detached from reality and unlikely to effect change on the ground.
While Israel welcomed the veto, the resolution’s sponsor, the United Arab Emirates, expressed deep disappointment over the outcome….
It is Israel that should be expressing its “deep disappointment” with the UAE, which it had been drawing ever closer to since the Abraham Accords that led to normalization of ties between the Jewish state and the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco. By pushing for this resolution, the UAE is in effect trying to help Hamas be in a position to regroup, rearm, and continue to fight against the rapid IDF onslaught. That’s not what Israel expected of its fellow member of the Abraham Accords.
When Mahmoud Abbas supports Hamas atrocities — instead of deploring, he has praised its attack on October 7 — he surely deserves to be seen in a new light in Washington. And he has the gall to denounce his American benefactor for causing the “tragedy” of the deaths of children in Gaza. Isn’t it past time for the Bidenites to realize that the corrupt and despotic Abbas, now in the 18th year of his four-year term as President of the Palestinian Authority, is not a “partner for peace” with Israel, nor is he a friend to the United States, despite Washington propping him, and the people he rules over, with billions of dollars in aid?
Let this latest attack by Abbas, essentially blaming America for the deaths of Palestinian babies, prove sufficient to end American aid to Ramallah. Since Biden took office, Washington has given almost one billion dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority. Turn off that tap. Let Abbas instead go hat in hand to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait, none of whose leaders, despite their fabulous wealth, has been a notable benefactor of the Palestinians. In 2022, for example, Saudi Arabia gave UNRWA only $27.7 million; in 2023, its last check to UNRWA was for the derisory sum of $2 million. Since 2016, the Saudis have also been cutting aid to the Palestinian Authority; that aid has gone from $174 million in 2019 to 0 in 2021, and remains at that level. Kuwait’s last donation to UNRWA was for a paltry $2 million. During the Israel-Hamas war, the UAE has provided $20 million to UNRWA for humanitarian aid to Gaza, but nothing like the hundreds of millions that are needed now, nor the tens of billions that will be needed for the reconstruction of the Strip. There is no reason to think Abbas’ implorings will have any effect on his stony-hearted “Arab brothers.”
Ending American aid for this Hamas-praising despot who has taken nearly a billion dollars from Washington since the beginning of 2021, may help to topple Abbas, whose colossal theft of aid money, and mismanagement of what he hasn’t stolen, have brought such impoverishment to the Palestinians in the West Bank. His removal may lead to better leadership of the Palestinian Authority, with such possible successors as Mohammad Dahlan, now living in forced exile in the UAE. Despite all the money it has given Ramallah, the United States has not managed to achieve better behavior from Mahmoud Abbas. Why not try cutting him, and the PA, off without a cent? That should make a deep impression on whoever succeeds the ranting rais in Ramallah.
somehistory says
Pointing the dirty finger….three dirty fingers pointing back at him. The slimy scum has funded terror, paid murderers and their families for murdering Jews…children, women, men in untold numbers.
If guilt was measured in pounds, he’d be so heavy, his lips couldn’t move, even to tell lies.
puzzled says
islam————— the curse of Satan😢
tim gallagher says
These demented Muslims truly do live on another planet and it is completely devoid of any logic. So the invasion by the scum from hamas is not the cause of the deaths of these children, according to this evil Muslim fuckwit. The USA is to blame. Muslim insanity, totally lacking in any logic at all, on display. hamas are to blame Abbas,you evil knuckle dragger. No doubt, many gullible fools will actually buy this bullshit.
Wellington says
“No doubt, many gullible fools will actually buy this bullshit.”
I agree, tg, and this points to the BIGGEST PROBLEM, and that is that it is not Muslims, including the most “devout” of them, who are the chief menace but all the non-Muslims out there who by way of apathy, laziness, ignorance or even outright apologias continue to give the worst religion of all time loads of cover. If virtually the only defenders of Islam were Muslims, the entire world would be better off, and most certainly the West.
As Ayn Rand pointed out many times, evil is not the chief menace to mankind, awful as it is. Rather, the excusing of evil is.
tim gallagher says
I agree, Wellington. I am stunned that there are so many people who still don’t get it when it comes to islam. Some of the people who defend islam must have some understanding of how evil it is, but they would be left wingers who loathe our western societies and are on board with the Muslims who share their hatred for our societies. A lot of people seem incapable of facing the truth about how evil islam is. How they can go on ignoring this reality is beyond my understanding. I am slightly encouraged that the Hungarians, the Poles and others are wide awake and also the popularity of Wilders recently gives me a little hope. What a slow process it is. Large numbers of people in our foolish societies had better wake up soon or we are going to end up facing terrible problems which could be avoided if people would wake up to islam’s malicious nature more quickly. Somehow Muslims continue to con large numbers of people.
Keys says
I blame Islam, Mahmoud.
There’d be no Hamas, if there were no Islam.
Wellington says
Unreservedly seconded.
Keys says
Thank you, Wellington.
Do you (or anyone) know what happened to the JW poster called “mortimer”? I miss his posts, and would miss yours if you stopped.
“mortimer” made some great posts here about ‘bribery’ and its role in Islam. The Arab-Muslim oil rich countries have certainly bought influence in our Universities, large and small!
James Lincoln says
Keys,
mortimer was, perhaps, the most avid poster on Jihad Watch. He stopped posting right around the time when there were new CPU sign-in requirements.
Overall, his postings were very informative, but sometimes he let his emotions overtake logic.
Keys says
Thank you for your reply, James Lincoln.
I hadn’t thought about the CPU sign in requirement. I stopped posting for awhile around that time wondering what that change would mean for personal security.
Also, I wondered if Covid had anything to do with mortimer’s departure, but the connection you made seems more likely.
James Lincoln says
You’re welcome, Keys.
tim gallagher says
I agree, Keys. islam’s vicious, violent nature produces the evil monsters from hamas. There would probably be peace in the Middle East without islam’s poisonous presence there.
Keys says
Thanks, tim.
One could make volumes on the theme “There would be no _______ , if there were no Islam.”
somehistory says
And there would be no islam if there were no people embracing it and adhering to it.
Keys says
Yes, thanks, somehistory.
Your point definitely applies to part of today’s 5:00 PM post by Robert Spencer on Lloyd Austin and the Gazans electing Hamas.
tim gallagher says
Yeah, the world would be so much better and so much more peaceful if islam were to be eliminated without a doubt in the world, Keys and somehistory. Not sure how it can be achieved or if it will ever be achieved, but I do think a lot about how to rid the human race of the curse of islam. I suppose that if enough non-Muslims do wake up and see islam clearly as the malevolent religious ideology that it plainly is, then Muslims will be shut out of all non-Muslim countries which is what needs to be done. All I can say is, come on non-Muslims, wake and stop letting Muslims invade the non-Muslim world because it is a disastrous policy. THe Muslim enemy needs to be shut away in Muslim countries and Muslims can live their barbaric lives there.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Of course, the Biden’s wont dare break off relations w/ the PA, given how major the squad’s influence is
Walter Sieruk says
If anyone in America who has power who is to blame for the “deaths of children of Gaza” its Joe Biden for always ,in any way he is able , to support and uphold that tyrannical and vicious Islamic regime of Iran. Therefore Iran has the money to send many supplies of deadly weapons to Hamas and thus encouraged that dangerous to engage in vicious and murderous jihad attacks against Israel ,murdering many of her people, on October 7th.
The government of the State of Israel then acted out of self-defense bombing Hamas military weapon and command centers in Gaza. Furthermore many innocent children died in Gaza because those despicable Hamas jihadist deliberately had their military weapon and command centers among places that had children.
So the “deaths of the children of Gaza ” should be rightly placed on Joe Biden, Iran and Hamas.
It’s also important to note that Joe Biden isn’t America . Biden is nothing but a tool of Iran and a pseudo US “President”
Walter Sieruk says
Mahmoud Abbas should get real ,as in honest ,For the actual blame for the terrible tragic deaths of so many children of Gaza doesn’t belong on America nor on Israel , but the guilty that should be blamed and strongly condemned are Hamas, Iran and Joe Biden.
OLD GUY says
Simply put He’s a criminal making millions off of the murder of innocent men, women and children. And sadly the political and leaders and media of the west applaud him and welcome him as honorable. He’s trash.