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Palestinian Antisemitism: Israel Is Tool of the West, ‘Next Step’ Is to Subordinate the Entire Arab World
People hold Fatah flags during a protest in support of the people of Gaza, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Hebron, in the West Bank, Oct. 27, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma
Although terror organization Hamas launched the current war against Israel when it brutally attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and murdered over 1,000 Israelis, the Palestinian Authority (PA) presents the ongoing war solely as “Israeli aggression.”
Some members of the PA even allege that “no one attacked” Israel.
Instead, PA leaders present Israel’s self-defense and response to being attacked by Hamas to a greater Israeli “plan” to “tear apart the Palestinian people,” “uproot” and “expel” it, and eventually subjugate not only the Palestinians but Arab states as well. The US is also being demonized in the PA’s libelous narrative, as “the one waging the war, and not Israel.”
The following are examples of PA leaders disseminating this libel to Palestinians:
Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki:“This talk about Israel’s right to defend itself. Where did Israel attack? Israel attacked the Gaza Strip. No one attacked it.”
[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page,
Jan. 20, 2024]
(PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor: Israel is US’ “police officer,” and goal is to subordinate entire Arab world
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash:“If, Heaven forbid, Palestine will fall, and the Gaza Strip will fall, and Israel will realize its goals in the Gaza Strip and afterwards will move on to realize similar goals in the West Bank, it will then be the turn of other Arab capitals and of other Arab states. And Arab states will become subordinates to the American police officer named Israel in the region.”
Posted text:“Al-Habbash to [the official PA radio station] The Voice of Palestine: Israel is fighting against our religion, and the US is a partner to the aggression, but victory will be our ally, and the world will pay a heavy price for the continuation of this tragedy.”
[Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Feb. 10, 2024]
Abbas’ advisor demonizes Israel: Israel’s “target” is not just Hamas, but “tearing apart the Palestinian people”
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash:“The occupation (i.e., Israel) falsely claims that it is directing its blows against the Hamas Movement. But this is a lie… Those whom the occupation is targeting is you, us, these children. The children of the West Bank are being targeted like the children of the Gaza Strip, like the children of Jerusalem, like all children of the Palestinian people, like all members of the Palestinian people.The intent is not just to uproot Hamas, not at all.There are many proofs of this …The target is the Palestinian people, the target is tearing apart the Palestinian people, the target is uprooting the Palestinian people, it is removing the Palestinian people from its land, it is expelling the Palestinian people from Palestine…
They are determined to remove us from our land, and we are determined to stay in it. They have failed at this for 75 years, at uprooting the Palestinian people from Palestine, and they will fail, Allah willing. This land will only be ours… this is our homeland and not their homeland. This is our land and not their land, this is our history and not their history. If someone needs to leave and go out of our land, it is them! They are the ones who need to leave. They need to leave, while we are staying here.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV Live, Dec. 8, 2023]
Fatah official: Israel’s “next step” is to “harm the PA” and “annihilate the West Bank after the Gaza Strip”
Official Fatah Spokesman Abd Al-Fattah Doleh: “[Israel’s] next step is to prepare to complete the chain of crimes in the Palestinian West Bank, to harm the supporting pillar and presence of the PA … They [Israel] want to harm this presence through lies and falsehoods that the PA has a large army and they must eliminate this army because this army constitutes a greater danger to them than Hamas.”
Posted text:“Doleh to [Fatah-run] Awdah [TV]: The occupation [i.e., Israel] will attempt to complete its plan of annihilation in the West Bank after the Gaza Strip.” [emphasis added]
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, Dec. 12, 2023]
Fatah official: US, not Israel, is waging war to “slaughter the Palestinian people”
Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: “The US is the one waging the [Gaza] war, and not Israel … It is the one waging the war and it is the one that is striving with all its efforts to slaughter the Palestinian people … Our central issue is to stop this cursed war, this barbaric war, which is worse than Nazism.” [emphasis added]
[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page, Jan. 20, 2024]
Fatah official: Israel is a US military base to prevent Arab unity
Fatah official Bassem Al-Tamimi:“The US owns the Israeli settlement project in this region as its military base to prevent the unity of the region.”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, May 28, 2024]
Israel created “to carry out dirty jobs” for “the colonialist West”
Fatah official and An-Najah National University political science lecturer Raed Debiy:“Israel is a functional state that the West created for its interests and to carry out dirty jobs that the colonialist West doesn’t want to get its hands dirty with. Therefore, it created the Zionist movement or used the Zionist movement to carry out these dirty jobs. Israel is continuing to fulfill this role in the region.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, March 3, 2024]
The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.
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Former Hostage From Nova Music Festival Massacre Invites Trump to Dance With Survivors at Memorial Concert
An Israeli soldier stands during a two-minute siren marking the annual Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day, at an installation at the site of the Nova festival where party goers were killed and kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists from Gaza, in Reim, southern Israel, May 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad
The second annual memorial concert honoring the victims killed at the Nova music festival in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, will take place in June, and US President Donald Trump has been invited to attend.
The Tribe of Nova community announced on Tuesday details about the “Nova Healing Concert” scheduled for June 26 at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. Former hostage Mia Schem, who was abducted by Hamas terrorists at the site of the music festival, addressed the media in Israel on Tuesday to talk about the upcoming concert while also sharing a message with Trump.
“Thank you, President Trump, for everything you’re doing to release the hostages,” she said. “I invite you to dance with us in Yarkon Park and celebrate the moment when everyone finally returns home.”
“My vision, and that of everyone’s, is that this year should be different,” Schem added. “A year when we won’t have to shout but embrace. Let’s dance not just for them but with them. This is the strength of our community – it heals, it strengthens, it is our home.”
The setlist for the concert includes Benaia Barabi, Berry Sakharof, Mosh Ben-Ari, Sasi and Rita. The event on June 26 will also feature activities such as therapeutic workshops and spaces for dealing with trauma. Tickets are open and available to the general public, and admission is free for survivors of the Oct. 7 massacre and members of the bereaved families. All profits from ticket sales and event sponsorships will be used by the Nova Tribe Community Association to support the physical and mental healing of Oct. 7 survivors and members of their families, as well as commemoration for those murdered during the Hamas terrorist attack. Last year’s memorial concert was attended by tens of thousands of young people, according to Ynet.
Hamas-led terrorists from the Gaza Strip who infiltrated the music festival in Re’im during the early morning of Oct. 7, 2023, killed 370 people and abducted 44 hostages. Overall, the terrorists killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 captives during their rampage across southern Israel.
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Israel Agrees to Talks on Lebanon Border, to Free Five Lebanese, PM Office Says
An Israeli flag flies in Lebanon, near the Israel-Lebanon border, following the ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, as seen from Metula, northern Israel, Dec. 3, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Israel said on Tuesday it had agreed to hold talks to demarcate its border with Lebanon, adding it would release five Lebanese detainees held by the Israeli military in what it called a “gesture to the Lebanese president.”
A statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel had agreed with Lebanon, the US, and France to establish working groups to discuss the demarcation line between the two countries.
Though Israel has largely withdrawn from southern Lebanon under a ceasefire deal agreed in November, its troops continue to hold five hilltop positions in the area with airstrikes in southern Lebanon citing what it described as Hezbollah activity.
The ceasefire deal ended more than a year of conflict between Israel‘s military and the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah that was playing out in parallel with the Gaza war.
The fighting peaked in a major Israeli air and ground campaign in southern Lebanon that left Hezbollah badly weakened, with most of its military command killed in Israeli strikes.
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UN Security Council to Meet Over Iran’s Growing Stockpile of Near-Bomb-Grade Uranium
Members of the Security Council cast a vote during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at UN headquarters in New York, US, Feb. 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/David Dee Delgado
The United Nations Security Council will meet behind closed doors on Wednesday over Iran’s expansion of its stock of uranium close to weapons grade, diplomats said on Monday.
The meeting was requested by six of the council’s 15 members – France, Greece, Panama, South Korea, Britain, and the US.
They also want the council to discuss Iran’s obligation to provide the UN nuclear watchdog – the International Atomic Energy Agency – with “the information necessary to clarify outstanding issues related to undeclared nuclear material detected at multiple locations in Iran,” diplomats said.
Iran’s mission to the UN in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the planned meeting.
Iran has denied wanting to develop a nuclear weapon. However, it is “dramatically” accelerating enrichment of uranium to up to 60 percent purity, close to the roughly 90 percent weapons-grade level, the IAEA has warned.
Western states say there is no need to enrich uranium to such a high level under any civilian program and that no other country has done so without producing nuclear bombs. Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful.
Iran reached a deal in 2015 with Britain, Germany, France, the US, Russia, and China – known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – that lifted sanctions on Tehran in return for restrictions on its nuclear program.
Washington quit the agreement in 2018 during Donald Trump’s first term as US president, and Iran began moving away from its nuclear-related commitments.
Britain, France, and Germany have told the UN Security Council that they are ready – if needed – to trigger a so-called snap back of all international sanctions on Iran to prevent the country from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
They will lose the ability to take such action on Oct. 18 this year when the 2015 UN resolution on the deal expires. US President Donald Trump has directed his UN envoy to work with allies to snap back international sanctions and restrictions on Iran.
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