The Palestinian Authority has for years encouraged the world, and especially the United States, to think of it as the “moderate” and “sensible” representative of the “Palestinian people.” This is completely false. The PA does differ from such terror groups as Hamas, PIJ, and PFLP in matters of tactics and timing. In tactics, it believes in taking on Israel not militarily right away, but in waging a political and economic effort to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish state, so that it is ultimately successfully pressured to be squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines, leaving the Jewish state very difficult to defend. It would then have a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea; in such borders, an invasion of tanks from the east could split the country in two within a few hours. The PA wants to deploy “salami” tactics to cause Israel to shrink. It would be stripped of the strategic depth that control of the West Bank currently provides. It also would be deprived of the Golan Heights that are so vital to the IDF’s blocking any invasion by Syria from the north.
The PA differs not just in tactics, but also in timing. It knows this strategy will take time, and has no desire to assault Israel prematurely; the PA understands that it will have to work on all the other, non-violent, fronts — diplomatic, economic, political — to undermine the Jewish state to such an extent that it can again be taken on militarily. The PA needs to harness the support in the Western world of anti-Israel politicians, such as the members of the Squad in the U.S., the Corbynites in the U.K., and the far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France. Given that younger voters in the U.S.in opinion polls show themselves o be less supportive of Israel than older voters, it might even be that a future administration will be less willing to provide Israel with the weapons it needs for its defense. The PA and Hamas share the same goal, which is the elimination of the Jewish state “from the river to the sea” and its replacement by a twenty-third Arab state.
Now the PA has ripped off its mask of moderation, as it insists that there were no atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, and that any Israeli casualties were caused by the IDF. More on this absurdity that the PA wants the world to believe can be found here: “Palestinian Authority Leaders Deny October 7 Massacre Took Place, by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Algemeiner, December 15, 2023:
Two months after Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and the murders, beheadings, and rapes — which Hamas terrorists themselves documented with body cameras and broadcast on social media — Palestinian Authority (PA) officials are denying this took place.
In addition to denying the massacre as “stories and tales spun from the imagination” — some officials even accuse Israel of murdering and committing atrocities against its own citizens.
Qadura Fares, the director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs with the rank of minister. has stated that Israel’s response to eradicate Hamas’ terror infrastructure in Gaza is “based on a lie,” and that Israelis “killed their civilians” on Oct. 7:
Qadura Fares: “This whole [Israeli] outcry and this whole campaign against the Palestinian people is based on a lie, which it took Israel 24 hours to create and formulate properly. They killed their [own] civilians [on Oct. 7], and they committed all these crimes and burned the bodies, and they made up this story and said: ‘They [the Palestinians] raped, killed, and burned.’ …However, this narrative fell apart quickly … Israel’s lie is no longer tripping anyone up.”
[Official PA TV, Nov. 20, 2023]
Right from the beginning the PA denied the atrocities committed by Hamas in southern Israel, claiming beheaded babies and rape were Israel’s “narrative,” “fabrications,” and “stories and tales spun from the imagination”:
Official PA TV reporter: “From the first day of the [Israeli] attack, some Western media outlets deliberately took action to side with Israel and adopt the occupation’s narrative by broadcasting fabricated pictures and video clips, which tell stories and tales spun from the imagination that there are Israeli babies who were beheaded, and others about cases of rape and burning among captured women.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, Oct. 31, 2023]
Despite the abundance of documentation of Hamas’ atrocities, two months later PLO official and Secretary-General of the terror organization Palestine Liberation Front Wasel Abu Yusuf still denies “murder of children” and “rape of women” as “tendentious Israeli propaganda”:
PLO Executive Committee member and PLF Secretary-General Wasel Abu Yusuf: “Since Oct. 7 there has been a Zionist version that [Israel] has attempted to spread worldwide out of tendentious propaganda, [claiming] that there was murder of children, rape of women, crimes, and the like.”
[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Dec. 3, 2023]…
Four days after the terror attack, Hamas itself claimed it was “not targeting children” and that Western media had spread “fabricated claims” and “adopted the Zionist version” — despite Hamas terrorists’ own published footage of the atrocities committed.
Hamas even pretended that the numerous civilian victims were “Zionist military and security establishment” and therefore “legitimate targets.”…
Yes, all those IDF fighters and Mossad agents were cleverly disguised as young people attending an enormous dance party. The Israelis, you see, are past masters of such disguise; they can make a 40-year-old Mossad killer look like an angelic eighteen-year-old.
A different but equally outrageous accusation regarding Israel’s treatment of the invading terrorist murderers was voiced by a Palestinian NGO that claims to defend human rights, which is designated in Israel as a terror organization due to its ties to the PFLP. Al-Haq accused Israel of “summarily executing” the Oct. 7 terrorists, murderers, rapists, and kidnappers.
Well, what more evidence do we need of the surpassing meretriciousness, not of Hamas, from whom we expect it, but of the “moderate” PA? The PA has never condemned the Hamas atrocities committed on October 7. In fact it has managed — depending on which PA official you listen to — to both praise these Hamas acts of “resistance” and at the same time deny that they ever took place. The PA has mostly taken the latter tack, insisting that all those tales about Hamas’ brutality were “full of fabrications and lies” cooked up by the demonic propagandists of the Jewish state, “stories and tales spun from the imagination” that too many in the West have chosen to believe. All those reports about decapitated babies, children burned alive, girls gang-raped, tortured, and murdered, breasts sliced off women, genitalia cut off, and eyes gouged out, of men, were apparently made up out of whole cloth by the Israelis. What won’t the Zionists stoop to in their relentless propaganda war against the Palestinian resistance? Yes, there were some Israelis killed, but far fewer than that figure of “1200” that has been bandied about by the Jews and their supporters. They were young people — in their late teens and twenties — who had attended a huge dance party, and it was IDF gunships that arrived to shoot them down, as part of a plan to make Hamas look bad.
One final question: Just how dumb does the Palestinian Authority think we are?
David Wilson says
Hammas would deny the holocaust.
Tony Rice says
Many Muslim countries already have denied the Holocaust, IRAN in particular and many Muslims in other countries are unaware of the holocaust.
SteveC says
The Palestinian authority represents whoever has the most guns pointed at their children that day
VMS says
So, does the PA have any evidence such as testimony from people who were there on October 7th?
Does the PA have any evidence that the video that Hamas posted was doctored in any way?
Does the PA have anything except their lying words that Hamas did not commit any atrocities on October 7th?
I didn’t think so!
bagsgroove says
Would you buy a used car from those two ?
ed says
Raping murdering beheading torturing taking hostages etc aren’t atrocities under islamic law
Tony Rice says
By denying what happened on Oct 7th, Hamas are doing Israel a favour in that they are clearly demonstrating what lying idiots they are and that they must be so desperate to expect the world to believe their denial. How do they explain the hostages, 240 of them, they can’r say they don’t exist as they have already released some. In contrast, Israel has admitted the I D F mistakenly killed 3 hostages, not realising who or what they were. Hamas must be an embarrassment to other Muslim cointries. I wonder if the Qataris can explain why they are negotiating the release of hostages if they don’t exist.
deze MN bee says
Surely that inscrutable private organisation (the Swedish Nobel Prize Committee) is right now behind closed doors deciding to award the 2024 Nobel Prize for Peace to Mr. Abbas.
Arafat got one (hilarious).
That warlord in Africa recently got one.
Obama got one or was it two? Who knows?
Nothing makes sense anymore.
At Harvard (or is it Yale) you can pay $80,000 to study witchcraft and magic but you get to hate Jews for free.
James Lincoln says
deze MN bee,
Rumor has it that Harvard College is going to change its name to Hamas College.
Keith O says
This sort of BS coming from anyone who bangs their head on the floor is to be expected.
The really concerning part of this is the amount of semi sane, reasonably intelligent people who have and will swallow this hook, line and sinker.
The mudslimes have taken the propaganda master, Joseph Goebbels ideas to a whole new level.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“Palestinian Authority Denies Any Hamas Atrocities on October 7”
In the mind of a devout muslim, killing Jews is a duty – not an atrocity.