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Mahmoud Abbas Met with Emmanuel Macron — and Lied to His Face
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Nov. 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Just one day before Mahmoud Abbas was scheduled to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron, Palestinian Authority (PA) television chose to broadcast an interview with a Tunisian saying that the war against Israel must continue “until it will be expelled from Palestine and not a single Israeli will remain in Palestine.” [emphasis added]
Tunisian activist Karim Tabbal: “We support Palestine being united in all its parts. We oppose Israeli colonialism until it will be expelled from Palestine and not a single Israeli will remain in Palestine.”
[Official PA TV News, Nov. 10, 2025]
The French president should be aware of Mahmoud Abbas’ true ideology and goals, as Abbas tells his own people.
Abbas routinely tells Macron that he wants “to live side-by-side in peace and security with Israel,” but the PA internal narrative is clear about destroying Israel.
The destruction of Israel is so central to the PA’s ideology that it constitutes the focus of how the PA educates its children, as Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) exposed in its report, Teaching Terror To Tots. PMW’s report shows how crucial this goal is to the PA and how the PA rewrites history to justify the destruction of Israel.
Here are a few examples from the PA/Fatah’s Waed magazine, for children ages 6-15, in which Israelis are repeatedly presented as a foreign invader destined to be destroyed [emphasis added]:
“The Canaanite Arabs settled the land of Palestine … Palestine underwent dozens of invasions … Babylonians, the Persians, the Samaritans, the Assyrians, the Hittites, the Pharaohs, and the Hebrews … One hundred years ago the British invaded it. Their invasion was the most dangerous, because they deliberately arrived to give our land to the Jews. .. In the end, Palestine fell under the Zionist occupation, which continues today … The occupation will cease to exist just as what was before it ceased to exist… All of the invaders were defeated, and Palestine returned to be free and Arab.”
“Palestine is destined for full liberation … from the yoke of Zionist colonialism.”
“Palestine will be liberated and purified from the occupation’s [i.e., Israel’s] defilement.”
“The Zionist invaders will go to the garbage can of history.”
“The liberation of Palestine will only be achieved through armed struggle.”
“At the end of the period of French colonialism … they all fled to France and left Algeria to the Arabs and Algerians. Algeria’s experience assures that the Jewish settlers in Palestine will disappear in the end.”
Last week, PMW released a video compilation of PA/Fatah leaders preaching to groups of children and adults about how Israel is destined to disappear and that Palestine instead will be free from the river to the sea.
Here are several more examples from just the past two weeks of the PA’s indoctrination of children that Israel will be erased, that history will “restored to how it should have been,” and that “Palestine – all of Palestine” will be liberated.
Fatah Shabiba Student Movement Secretary-General Hassan Faraj: “We have come here to reemphasize that the [Fatah] Shabiba [Student Movement] remains loyal to the alliance, and is carrying the flag until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine, Allah willing.”
[Official PA TV News, Oct. 29, 2025]
PA Ministry of Culture employee Maryam Muammar: “Jafra, O tribe members. Bird of love whose voice is pleasant, sing to the blue skies, Palestine is my land. [The bird] will say: Jerusalem is free, it is forbidden to the enemies, [as are] Haifa, Jaffa, Acre (i.e., all Israeli cities), and the West Bank”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, Oct. 28, 2025]
The picture shows a girl holding a poster featuring two images of former British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour.
Text on image on left: “The Balfour Promise, the promise that changed the history of the Middle East, and we will restore history to be how it should have been (i.e., without Israel).”
[Tulkarem Directorate of Education, Facebook page, Nov. 5, 2025]
The PA’s efforts to manifest a future without the existence of Israel does not just stop with children. It also preaches this to international groups that it perceives as allies, such as the Spanish General Union of Workers:
The picture shows representatives of the Spanish General Union of Workers receiving an honorary plaque featuring the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine.”
[PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, Facebook page, Nov. 3, 2025]
The French leader should have looked beyond Abbas’ diplomatic smiles and empty talk of peace. Abbas’ Palestinian Authority continues to indoctrinate its children, glorify violence, and deny Israel’s right to exist.
The message broadcast on official PA TV — that every Israeli must be “expelled from Palestine” — is not an isolated one. Rather, it is the consistent and official message of Abbas’ PA.
Until the PA ends its campaign to erase Israel and teach hatred to the next generation, every meeting and promise of “peace” remains nothing more than a calculated deception.
The author is the Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.
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Mediators Still Seek to Bridge US, Iran Gaps Despite No Face-to-Face Talks
People walk past a billboard with a graphic design about the Strait of Hormuz on a building, amid a ceasefire between US and Iran, in Tehran, Iran, April 27, 2026. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Work has not halted to bridge gaps between the United States and Iran, sources from mediator Pakistan said, despite the absence of face-to-face diplomacy after President Donald Trump called off a trip by his envoys over the weekend.
Iranian sources disclosed Tehran’s latest proposal on Monday, which would set aside discussion of Iran‘s nuclear program until the war is ended and disputes over shipping from the Gulf are resolved. That is unlikely to satisfy Washington, which says nuclear issues must be dealt with from the outset.
Hopes of reviving peace efforts have receded since the US president scrapped a visit on Saturday by his envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, where Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi shuttled in and out twice over the weekend.
Araqchi also visited Oman over the weekend and went to Russia on Monday, where he met President Vladimir Putin and received words of support from a longstanding ally.
OIL PRICES RISE AGAIN
With the warring sides still seemingly far apart on issues including Iran‘s nuclear ambitions and access through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, oil prices resumed their upward march when trade reopened on Monday. Brent crude was up around 3.5% at around $108.8 a barrel by 1500 GMT.
“If they want to talk, they can come to us, or they can call us. You know, there is a telephone. We have nice, secure lines,” Trump told “The Sunday Briefing” on Fox News.
“They know what has to be in the agreement. It’s very simple: They cannot have a nuclear weapon; otherwise, there’s no reason to meet,” Trump said.
Araqchi expressed a different perspective, telling reporters in Russia that Trump requested negotiations because the US has not achieved any of its objectives.
ISLAMABAD REOPENS AFTER LOCKDOWN TO HOST TALKS
Senior Iranian sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the proposal carried by Araqchi to Islamabad over the weekend envisioned talks in stages, with the nuclear issue to be set aside at the start.
A first step would require ending the US-Israeli war on Iran and providing guarantees that Washington cannot start it up again. Then negotiators would resolve the US blockade and the fate of the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran aims to reopen under its control.
Only then would talks look at other issues, including the longstanding dispute over Iran‘s nuclear program, with Iran still seeking some kind of US acknowledgment of its right to enrich uranium for what it says are peaceful purposes.
In a sign that no face-to-face meetings are planned any time soon, streets reopened in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, which had been locked down for a week in anticipation of talks that never took place. The luxury hotel that had been cleared out to serve as a venue was again taking reservations from the public.
Pakistani officials said negotiations were still taking place remotely, but there were no plans to convene a meeting in person until the sides were close enough to sign a memorandum.
SHIPPING SNARLED BY BOTH SIDES
Although a ceasefire has paused the US-Israeli strikes on Iran that began on Feb. 28, no agreement has been reached on terms to end a war that has killed thousands and driven up oil prices. Both sides could be settling in for a test of wills.
Iran has largely blocked all shipping apart from its own from the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz since the war began. This month, the United States began blockading Iranian ships.
Six tankers loaded with Iranian oil have been forced back to Iran by the US blockade in recent days, ship-tracking data shows, underscoring the impact the war is having on traffic.
Between 125 and 140 ships usually crossed in and out of the strait daily before the war, but only seven have done so in the past day, according to Kpler ship-tracking data and satellite analysis from SynMax, and none of them were carrying oil bound for the global market.
With his approval ratings falling, Trump faces domestic pressure to end the unpopular war. Iran‘s leaders, though weakened militarily, have found leverage with their ability to stop shipping in the strait, which normally carries a fifth of global oil shipments.
However, experts have warned that the Iranian economy is on the verge of collapse, especially if the US blockade continues to slash Iran’s oil exports.
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Five Stand Trial in Germany Over Attack on Israeli Defense Company Office
Elbit Systems logo is seen in this illustration taken July 26, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Five people appeared in court in Stuttgart on Monday on charges of causing about 1 million euros ($1.17 million) of damage at the German site of an Israeli defense company, the court said.
Prosecutors say the defendants, aged 25 to 40, trespassed and shouted pro-Palestinian statements as they smashed office equipment, measuring devices and windows at the business in the southern city of Ulm, the court added.
According to the charges, the defendants acted as members of the “Palestine Action Germany” organization, which later published videos claiming responsibility for the attack.
The defendants, who were not named, are Irish, British, Spanish, and German, prosecutors have said.
News outlets including Stuttgarter Zeitung and broadcaster SWR said the vandalized office belonged to Israeli defense electronics firm Elbit Systems.
Elbit, which has an office in Ulm, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The court did not identify Elbit as the target of the Ulm attack but said the company had been the target of attacks by “Palestine Action” groups in 2024.
Attacks against Jewish people and targets have risen worldwide since war erupted in Gaza in October 2023, following an attack on Israel by Hamas-led terrorists and Israel’s subsequent military offensive.
Monday’s hearing took place in a high-security facility at the court, officials said.
The Stuttgart court has previously said that more than a dozen hearings have been scheduled in the case until the end of July.
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Ukraine to Take Measures Against Israel if Grain Ship Docks, Source Says
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (not pictured) and European Council President Antonio Costa (not pictured) on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Israel risks a diplomatic and legal response from Kyiv if it allows a vessel carrying grain from Russian-occupied Ukraine to dock at the port of Haifa, a Ukrainian diplomatic source told Reuters on Monday.
Israel‘s Haaretz newspaper reported earlier that the vessel Panormitis, which it said was carrying grain from occupied Ukrainian territory that Kyiv regards as stolen, was waiting for permission to berth in Haifa.
“If this ship and its cargo isn’t rejected, we reserve the right to deploy a full suite of diplomatic and international legal responses,” the Ukrainian source said on condition of anonymity.
Israel‘s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Haaretz reported on Sunday that four shipments of grain from occupied Ukraine had already been unloaded in Israel this year.
“The practice of laundering stolen goods is unacceptable, and Israel has essentially shrugged off our demands regarding the previous vessel,” the source said.
The source added Kyiv was tracking the vessel, warning that allowing it to dock would have consequences for bilateral relations between Ukraine and Israel.