In the wake of Hamas’ depraved attack on Israel, and Israel’s war to vanquish Hamas, the Biden administration and the EU remain obsessed with peddling the snake oil known as Palestinian statehood. According to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, there needs to be a “pathway to a Palestinian state,” without which Israel will not obtain either “genuine security” or Arab assistance in rebuilding Gaza. Meanwhile, EU’s foreign policy head Josep Borrell suggested that the international community could impose a Palestinian state without Israel’s consent.
Israel should remain strong and continue to rebuff demands for a Palestinian state, which Palestinian leadership has rejected multiple times anyway.
But analyzing statements from the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Fatah (collectively, the “PA”) since November alone reveal that such a Palestinian state would likely support Hamas, support terrorism, and continue to spread libels and genocidal incitement against Israel and the Jews.
A Palestinian State Would Support Hamas
Given recent statements from the PA, a Palestinian state would likely support Hamas. PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, long trumpeted by many as a “moderate,” stated that “Hamas is a central component in the Palestinian political arena” and not a terrorist movement. PLO Executive Committee Secretary Hussein Al-Sheikh, citing PA President Mahmoud Abbas, also asserted that Hamas is not a terrorist movement, instead asserting that “[t]he real terror is the occupation [i.e., Israel]. The real terror is the settlement enterprise.” Fatah Secretary Walid Zaher, who is Abbas’ representative in Denmark, remarked that Fatah did not condemn Hamas for the October 7 massacre, and that it “fought against the UN not to add Hamas to the terror list.” (READ MORE from Steve Postal: Muslim Women Visit Israel to Show Solidarity Against Hamas)
Indeed, the PA has indicated that it is willing to work with Hamas and other terrorist groups in forming a unity government. Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub stated that Fatah would not rule over Gaza “without national agreement that will include political Islam, whether it is our brothers in Hamas or our brothers in [Islamic] Jihad.” Rajoub repeated this call to unity three days later, stating that “on behalf of the Palestinian [PA] leadership … We say to our brothers in Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement — the ball is in your court.”
A Palestinian State Would Support Terrorism
Recent statements from the PA also indicate that a Palestinian state would support terrorism. Fatah Central Committee Secretary Rajoub remarked that Hamas’ October 7 massacre was a “battle of heroism and a war of defense.” PA Prime Minister Shtayyeh called “the struggle,” i.e., terrorism, against Israel “a right and a duty.” The PA has specifically endorsed future terrorism in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the “West Bank.” Fatah Ramallah Branch Representative Na’im Morrar endorsed “armed struggle” against Israel. Fatah Central Committee Secretary Rajoub has promised that “the next and more violent explosion will be in the West Bank.”
In particular, a future Palestinian state would have an obsession with martyrdom, given the continued glorifications of martyrdom by the PA-run press. Both the mother and aunt of terrorist Nimr Abu Mustafa, who was killed by the IDF after trying to plant explosives, praised his martyrdom on Official PA TV. The father and grandmother of child terrorist Yazan Akkoub, 14, praised their son/grandson dying as a “martyr” after he was killed trying to stab IDF soldiers, on Official PA TV. A father of Palestinian terrorist As’ad Abu Zahra, 33, praised his son’s death, after he attacked IDF soldiers, stating that if the IDF kills one Palestinian, “10 grow [in his place],” on Official PA TV. The father of terrorist Rami Al-Shoumali, 36, praised his son by saying that “[h]e asked for Martyrdom and achieved Martyrdom,” also on Official PA TV.
Another indication that a future Palestinian state would support terrorism is the PA’s reaction to the assassination of Hamas arch-terrorist Saleh al-Arouri. Following his assassination, Fatah’s Rajoub mourned him as “extraordinary national leader, who was always extraordinary in the way of his struggle [i.e., terrorism].” Rajoub also stated, “I am among the believers in his ideology, his way, and his activity,” and that “His passing [is] a loss for Fatah just as it is a loss for Hamas.” The official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida posted a cartoon of al-Arouri, “with the word ‘Martyr’ written on his shoulder boards signifying his ‘rank,’ and text reading “[o]ur blood and souls are not dearer or more honorable than of any Martyr.” Fatah Revolutionary Council member Jamal Hweil mourned al-Arouri as a “beloved friend” and “extraordinary heroic leader,” and stated that “[t]here is no solution or path to freedom other than the path of Saleh Al-Arouri.”
A Palestinian State Would Fuel Libels Against Israel and Jews
A future Palestinian state would fuel vicious blood libels against Israel and the Jews, as the PA continues to do. According to the Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the “racist” Talmud permits Jews to “cut … open the stomachs of pregnant women to kill the fetuses, and also [to] annihilate[e] the members of the Palestinian people to the last of them” The same official PA daily also claimed that Israel is deliberately spreading disease and epidemics to kill as many civilians in Gaza as possible. Official PA TV also claimed that Israel harvested organs from dead Gazans. (READ MORE: NGO Brings American Imams to Israel for Interfaith Dialogue)
Other libels from the PA against Israel center around Hamas’ October 7 attack. The PA alternatively asserts that Israel lied about the October 7 attack (as claimed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash), that Israel used the October 7 attack to execute a pre-planned war to expel Palestinians from their homes (also argued by Al-Habbash), and that Israel killed its own civilians on October 7, burned the bodies, and then blamed Hamas (as stated by Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs with the rank of minister Qadura Fares).
A Palestinian State Would Support the Genocide of the Jews
And last but certainly not least, a Palestinian state would support the genocide of the Jewish People, as the PA continues to do. Secretary of Fatah and the PLO Factions in Beirut Samir Abu Afash advocated for a Palestinian “right of return,” while Jews will “return to the lands from which they came and whose citizenship they carry.” Fatah Secretary in Austria Mundhir Mar’i called on Palestinians living in Europe to “fight to uproot you [i.e., the Jews] from our [i.e., the Palestinians’] land, expel you, and remove you, Allah willing.”
While calling for a Palestinian state, the Biden administration and the EU are advocating for no less than endless war and the destruction of Israel. Israel should remain strong and continue to rebuff demands for a Palestinian state, which Palestinian leadership has rejected multiple times anyway. Only by destroying Hamas and significantly reforming the PA can Israel truly achieve peace.
