It is clear now that the fast jihadists of Hamas have defeated the slow jihadists of the Palestinian Authority, who are now signaling their submission.
“PA calls for unity with Hamas: ‘Our arms and hearts are open’ to Hamas,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, November 20, 2023:
Senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein Al-Sheikh, who many see as the person Mahmoud Abbas may have designated as his successor, has announced that the PA’s “arms are still open” to Hamas, and that “our hearts are open to all dialogue that will lead in the end to the unity” of all Palestinian military forces. (See full text and video below.)
Palestinian Media Watch has documented that the PA and Fatah celebrated the October 7 slaughter of 1,200 Israelis, have since refused to condemn it, and now they are going one step further: instead of distancing themselves from Hamas’ atrocities of rape, murder, and burning people alive, the PA and Fatah are calling for unity with the terrorist organization.
To further encourage unity with Hamas, Fatah has even broadcast two videos of Palestinian icon and PA leader Yasser Arafat from more than 20 years ago stressing unity with Hamas, even using the words: “Hamas is like Fatah.”
The first video shows the two terror leaders Yasser Arafat and founder and then leader of Hamas, Ahmed Yassin, sitting next to each other smiling warmly. Arafat tells Yassin:
Arafat: “Allah willing, we will pray together at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first direction of [Muslim] prayer, and the third [holiest] mosque after the two holy mosques, at the site of Prophet Muhammad’s [Night] Journey, and the cradle of [Jesus] the messiah.”
Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin: “Allah willing, Allah willing.”
[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, Nov. 10, 2023]
The second video shows footage of a speech by Arafat in which he criticizes the audience for singing songs of different Palestinian political parties. Arafat asked them to stop because all Palestinians are “together” and “Hamas is like Fatah”:
Arafat: “Brothers… we don’t want political party songs. I tell you on behalf of Fatah, and on behalf of Palestine… For me the Popular [Front for the Liberation of] Palestine is like the Democratic [Front for the Liberation of Palestine], and Hamas is like Fatah. [Islamic] Jihad is like the Arab [Liberation Front]. The [Palestinian Popular] Struggle [Front] is like the Arab [Liberation Front]. We are all together, in one trench until Jerusalem, Allah willing.”
Text on screen: “When you speak about Yasser Arafat – know that you are speaking about the history of an entire nation. Know that you are speaking about a revolutionary.”
[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, Nov. 11, 2023]
Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash has also stressed unity with Hamas during the current war, reminding Palestinians that the PA has not said “one word against the Hamas” and that “Hamas is part of the Palestinian people”:
Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Since the start of the [Israeli] aggression (i.e., Israeli counter-attack against Hamas), has anyone heard from us, from the [PA] leadership, from President Mahmoud Abbas to the last of the people in the Palestinian leadership – has anyone heard from us one word against the Hamas Movement or against any Palestinian?”
Interviewer: “No, that’s correct.”
Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Not under any circumstances. Even though we have many disagreements, my current mission is… to defend my people, to defend my Palestinian people. Hamas is part of the Palestinian people.”
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Nov. 6, 2023]…
Ray Jarman says
Talk is cheap. Abbas is evil but not stupid as he has permitted exactly zero Hamas citizens into his serfdom. The truly stupid and masochistic is The West which will eventually absorb these subhuman deformities.
FYI says
And their pockets are deep…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
A few days ago, there was a tweet of Israelis demolishing a statue of Arafat in Jenin. Well deserved, too!
George says
Actually @Robert Spencer. What he said was that his hands and hearts are open for the negotiation with Hamas to unite the Palestinian people. I did not read the subs, I listened to the speaking in Arabic.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
From one mob family to another acting as protectionist rackets for the ignorant and foolish serfs who can’t see the forest for the trees. The only prison the Gazans are living in is the one built upon a foundation of contrivances by their tyrannical, thieving overlords.