If you are worried, there is good news. China is here to save humanity — at least, according to a senior Palestinian leader.

“A world war” is looming caused by “the Zionist-American alliance,” and it is China that will be saving humanity, explains Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, who is also Fatah’s General Commissioner for Arab and China Relations:

Posted text: “Fatah Central Committee member and [Fatah] General Commissioner for Arab and China Relations Abbas Zaki received His Honor Ambassador of China in the State of Palestine Zeng Jixin today, [April 20, 2025,] in his office in Ramallah…

Zaki noted that China, with its positive initiatives, is qualified to save humanity on this planet from a looming world war, considering the ongoing aggression that is being waged by the Zionist-American alliance.” [emphasis added]

[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page, April 20, 2025]

Meeting the Chinese Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority last year, Zaki stressed that China’s position of “standing against injustice and tyranny” and “believing in justice” makes it an obvious candidate to help “Palestine” and the Arab world against “the Israeli war”:

Posted text: “Fatah Central Committee member and [Fatah] General Commissioner for Arab and China Relations Abbas Zaki received Chinese Ambassador in the State of Palestine Zeng Jixin …

Zaki said that the Middle East region is in real danger as a result of the expansion of the Israeli war against the region’s states, including Iran, which heralds a wide regional war that will lead to an expansion of the war in the world.

This requires intervention by states that believe in peace, shared victory, and mutual benefit between the peoples of the world, stand against injustice and tyranny, and believe in justice, like China.” [emphasis added]

[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page, Oct. 10, 2024]

In turn, the Chinese ambassador repeated the PA’s false narrative, which bashes “the US and the Western colonialist forces” who support Israel, while China is all about “peace … [for all] peoples on the face of the earth.”:

Zeng Jixin [stated that] the US is pretending to stand alongside democracy and human rights, while it and the Western colonialist forces are supporting the Israeli occupation with all types of weapons and are waging false propaganda campaigns against China.

He added that the Chinese culture and its values always call for peace, security, and stability for the world’s states and their peoples on the face of the earth. [emphasis added]

[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page, Oct. 10, 2024]

Former PA PM Muhammad Shtayyeh expressed a similar wish at the Chinese-Arab Forum for Young Politicians:

Shtayyeh emphasized that China needs to continue to strengthen its strategic ties with the Arab states and move on to a stage in which it will take action to reshape the international system. [emphasis added]

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 28, 2024]

When Shtayyeh received Ambassador Jixin, he repeated the message of China’s dominant role:

China is making steady progress to take its role in the international arena through its initiatives, especially those related to Palestine … [and] emphasized that China needs to continue to strengthen its strategic ties with the Arab states and move on to a stage in which it will take action to reshape the international system.” [emphasis added]

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 28, 2024]

Palestinian Media Watch has exposed that the PA demands a “new world order” ruled by the “Islamic world, Russia and China” in order to “realize justice.”

While the PA rejects the US and the West, it embraces Russia and China, believing they can “build a new world free of chaos and terror.”

PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash has explicitly called on Russia and China to assist the Islamic and Arab world against the US’ “imperialist hegemony over the world”:

Al-Habbash said … Russia is a world power, and in order to maintain balance in the international arena, the world must get rid of the unipolar system through the existence of a number of poles in the international system that will achieve balance between the world powers, otherwise the world will turn into a prisoner of just one world power [America].

The US is attempting to maintain this imperialist hegemony over the world by presenting itself as the world’s only pole, but Russia can achieve this balance together with the Islamic and Arab world and also with China.

[Website of Sputnik Arabic, Russian state-owned news agency, June 12, 2024]

The author is the Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared. 

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In a world hungry for peace, symbols matter. But when symbols are corrupted, they become dangerous.

This is exactly what happened in 1994, when Yasser Arafat — the longtime leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and a man with a legacy drenched in blood — was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.

For Israel, that moment was not one of triumph — but of betrayal.

Israel’s Costly Gamble for Peace

Israel, a democratic nation surrounded by hostility, has long sought genuine peace with its neighbors. The signing of the Oslo Accords in the early 1990s was a bold gesture — an olive branch extended even to those with a history of violence against its people. By recognizing the PLO and engaging Arafat in negotiations, Israel hoped to turn decades of conflict into a future of coexistence.

But instead of peace, Israel received more terror, broken promises, and rivers of blood.

The Oslo process, while well-intentioned, became one of the gravest strategic missteps in Israel’s history. It gave a platform — not to a peacemaker — but to a man who mastered the art of deception, cloaking terrorism in diplomatic language while continuing to incite hatred and violence.

A Bloodstained Record in a Suit

Yasser Arafat was no reformer. He was the architect of modern Palestinian terrorism. As the founder of Fatah and the head of the PLO, he oversaw decades of attacks that targeted innocent civilians — Jewish and non-Jewish alike.

Among the countless atrocities carried out under his leadership, here are some of the worst:

• 1972 Munich Olympics: Israeli athletes slaughtered by Black September, a group tied to Arafat.
• 1974 Ma’alot massacre: 25 Israelis, mostly children, killed in a school hostage crisis.
• 1978 Coastal Road Massacre: 35 civilians murdered in a bus hijacking — the deadliest terror attack in Israeli history until Oct. 7, 2023.
• 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking: An elderly American Jew, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot and thrown overboard in his wheelchair.

These weren’t acts of war. They were deliberate massacres, aimed at innocent lives, executed with a singular goal: the destruction of Israel.

Two Tongues, One Goal

Arafat played a dangerous double game. To Western media, he spoke of peace. But in Arabic, to his own people, he promised victory through violence.

This tactic is not accidental — it echoes the Islamic concept of Taqiya, which allows for concealment of intent under threat. While originally a doctrine for self-preservation, extremists have twisted it into a political weapon. Arafat exploited it masterfully, saying what the West wanted to hear while continuing to incite terrorism from the shadows.

The Nobel’s Dangerous Precedent

Awarding Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize was not just a mistake — it was a global endorsement of duplicity. It told the world that violence can be rewarded if dressed in the right rhetoric. It blurred the moral line between victim and aggressor.

If that precedent holds, how long until we see leaders from Hamas wearing suits, declaring a ceasefire, and receiving applause from the same global institutions that once legitimized Arafat?

October 7th: A Grim Reminder

Israel doesn’t have the luxury of forgetting. The barbaric attacks of October 7th—when Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, slaughtered families, raped women, and kidnapped children — proved once again that the hatred fueling these groups is not a relic of the past. It is alive, unrepentant, and as vicious as ever.

And yet, the international community stands poised to repeat history. If Hamas rebrands itself, mouths the word “peace,” and walks onto a world stage, will it too be handed a Nobel Prize?

Will the victims of Kibbutz Be’eri and Re’im be forgotten, just as the victims of Munich and Ma’alot were?

A Legacy of Lies: From Arafat to Abbas

Today, the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas — Arafat’s political heir — rules the West Bank. It wears the clothes of diplomacy, but little else has changed. Elections are suppressed, incitement continues in schools and the media, and the glorification of terrorists remains a fixture of its institutions.

This is not a peace partner. It is the continuation of the same ideology that Arafat championed.

Never Again: The Moral Clarity Israel Must Defend

Peace must be built on truth, justice, and mutual recognition — not deception. When terrorists are rewarded, when murderers are handed medals, and when the world ignores the suffering of Israeli victims, it sends a message: Israeli lives are negotiable.

We must never accept that.

The Nobel Peace Prize should stand for reconciliation — not for legitimizing those who dream of annihilation.

Let this be a call to moral clarity: Do not forget who Yasser Arafat was. Do not forget what Hamas is. And do not allow history to repeat itself with applause.

Am Yisrael Chai. The Nation of Israel lives — and it will never bow to those who seek its destruction.

Sabine Sterk is the CEO of Time To Stand Up For Israel.

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Yemen’s Houthi rebels said late on Sunday they would impose a “comprehensive” aerial blockade on Israel by repeatedly targeting its airports, in response to Israel expanding its operations in Gaza.

The Iran-backed Houthis, an internationally designated terrorist group, claimed responsibility for a missile strike on Sunday that hit near Israel‘s Ben Gurion Airport, the latest in a string of attacks, saying they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retaliate.

Most attacks from Yemen have been intercepted by Israel‘s missile defense systems, though a drone strike hit Tel Aviv last year. Sunday’s missile was the only one of a series launched since March that was not intercepted.

The Houthis’ Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center, a body set up last year to liaise between Houthi forces and commercial shipping operators, issued the warning about targeting Israeli airports, saying Ben Gurion Airport would be the top target.

The statement attached an email it said was sent to the International Air Transport Association, the global airlines body, and the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization.

Houthi forces called “upon all international airlines to take this announcement into serious consideration … and to cancel all their flights to the airports of the criminal Israeli enemy, in order to safeguard the safety of their aircraft and passengers,” the email said.

Israel‘s security cabinet approved plans for an expanded operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported on Friday, adding to signs that attempts to stop the fighting and return hostages held by Palestinian militant group Hamas have made no progress.

Since the collapse of an earlier ceasefire agreement in March, Israeli troops have been carving out wide buffer zones in Gaza wile intensifying military operations against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

Israel’s military campaign came in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw 251 people taken hostage.

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