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Palestinians Deserve Better Than Their ‘Defenders’
Anti-Israel protesters take part in a demonstration hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America, IfNotNow Movement, and Jewish Voice for Peace that turned violent in Washington, DC, Nov. 15, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Leah Millis
JNS.org – The marchers in the streets chanting “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” are not pro-Palestinian. They are anti-Israel, anti-American and anti-Western civilization. Palestinians are pawns in their political agenda, and they deserve better. These marchers, whether they are leftists, Palestinian nationalists or extreme right-wing Neturei Karta members, will fight Israel until the last Palestinian is dead, and then they will move on to the next weapon in their arsenal.
The Arabs living in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip have gotten a raw deal for the past 75 years. The surrounding Arab nations promised them that the “Zionist entity” and the Jews would be eradicated quickly. They believed those promises, even after Israel survived its 1948 War of Independence. After 1948, Palestinian Arabs were told to sit tight and wait by the Arab nations and the world. The U.N. even created an organization, UNRWA, whose sole purpose is to keep Palestinians angry and in permanent refugee status, so they can be used as a weapon against Israel.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was created in 1964 while Judea and Samaria were annexed parts of Jordan and the Gaza Strip was under Egyptian military governance. It was created by the Arab League, which put Egyptian-born Yasser Arafat at its head. Its purpose was to be a centralized mouthpiece for the Arab world, using the Palestinian people’s pain and suffering caused by that world itself.
The people who are currently referred to as “Palestinians” were always seen as human weapons against the Jews by the Arab world, nothing more. During the 1937 Peel Commission hearings, Arab leader Auni Bey Abdul-Hadii said, “There is no such country [as Palestine]! Palestine is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country is part of Syria.” This was echoed 10 years later by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, representative of the Arab Higher Committee and ally of Adolf Hitler. “Palestine was part of the province of Syria,” he said. “Politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity.”
This mentality continued into the PLO. PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein was quoted in a Dutch newspaper in March of 1977 saying, “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.” Muhsein continued, “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.”
This attitude towards the civilians of the areas under Palestinian Authority and Hamas control is ingrained. These entities do not care about their people. That is why Gaza is now in ruins instead of being a beacon of Palestinian ingenuity and resilience. When Israel left Gaza in 2005, it took all of the Palestinians’ excuses with it.
The world gave Gaza hundreds of billions of dollars, and the people the Gazans voted for and supported in large numbers took that money and used it to fight a war they lost generations ago. To this day, aid is being brought into Gaza and stolen. Eylon Levy of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said, “The IDF inspects the aid where it then enters Gaza, and international agencies are responsible for its distribution.” That international agency is UNRWA, which has more loyalty to Hamas than to Palestinian civilians.
It’s no wonder that Hamas steals aid from Palestinian civilians. They view it as a necessary contribution to the war effort, because they, their parents, their grandparents and their great-grandparents were promised that the Jews are just one battle away from being gone forever. This was and is a lie. Israel is not going anywhere.
This diseased mentality has spread throughout the West. A recent Harvard-Harris poll indicated how broken our educational system is. Of the 18–24-year-olds polled, 60% claim that the Oct. 7 attack, which they admit was genocidal, “Can be justified by the grievance of Palestinians.” 50% support Hamas over Israel. 53% believe that students should be told by universities that they are “free to call for genocide” of Jews. 67% believe that “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors.” 67% also favor an “unconditional ceasefire that would leave everyone in place” as opposed to a ceasefire that “should happen only after the release of all hostages and Hamas being removed from power.”
The scariest response from 18-24-year-olds was from the 51% who said they want “Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians.” This is the influence of the “from the river to the sea” chants and decades of academic corruption. America’s Gen Z wants to see what the Arab world tried to do in 1948—a second Holocaust. Just as the Arab world has failed to do right by its youth, it is our failure that so many American youths are indoctrinated in lies and propaganda.
There can never be Palestinian prosperity as long as this mentality continues. Jewish people know better than anyone else when it is time to accept the reality of a situation. Just as millions of Jewish grandchildren of Holocaust victims have no right to Poland or Hungary, Palestinian grandchildren of the genocidists of the 1948 war have no right to Tel Aviv. To tell those grandchildren otherwise is to teach despair and hatred. Palestinians deserve better than that. Any true pro-Palestinian activist would be marching for the denazification of the Palestinian Authority. That is the only way the people they claim to be supporting can prosper.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War

Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests

A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan

Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.