Prior to October 7, Hamas had a $2 billion annual budget, while “the cumulative net worth of Hamas’s top leaders abroad is estimated at $11 billion.” Hamas has made no secret of its mission: to destroy the Jewish state. The Palestinian culture of hatred has financially benefitted it handsomely. For instance, the Palestinian Authority spent nearly $350 million annually on its pay-for-slay program (also known as its “martyrs fund”) to incentivize the murder of Israelis. By comparison, it spent only $220 million “for its other welfare programs for the rest of its citizens.”
According to the Arab Center in Washington DC:
figures compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, aid to Palestinians amounted to more than $40 billion between 1994 and 2020. The largest portion of this assistance (35.4 percent) went to support the PA budget, while the rest was allocated to various services and economic sectors in the Palestinian territories. The bulk of the aid—nearly 72 percent—came from ten donors: the European Union (18.9), the United States (14.2), Saudi Arabia (9.9), Germany (5.8), the United Arab Emirates (5.2), Norway (4.8), United Kingdom (4.3), the World Bank (3.2), Japan (2.9), and France (2.7).
Although the Wall Street Journal reported that “then-Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, was concerned that US-brokered normalization efforts between Saudi Arabia and Israel would take attention away from advancing the notion of a Palestinian statehood,” it really was never about Palestinian statehood at all. The entire “resistance” is about a one-state solution, that is, the total obliteration of Israel.
The IDF documents, however, reveal “that Sinwar said that there was ‘no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly,’ and that such an agreement would ‘open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.’”
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has also declared the unity of the Muslim ummah on the Palestinian cause. Khamenei also called for unity of Muslim ummah to defend Gaza and Yemen ahead of this year’s hajj.
Should Arab states normalize relations with Israel, it will be a blow to the Palestinian leadership, as well as a blow to the entire Islamic jihad worldwide. Arab states have tried to destroy Israel from the day of its founding. It makes sense that jihadists everywhere will would aim to keep the jihad against Israel alive. October 7 also served to “globalize the intifada,” as jihadists had planned, but they did not expect such a successful retaliation from Israel. Hamas is now greatly reduced, as is Hizballah.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s Gaza plan threatens to stymie efforts to preserve the Palestinian cause as a united one, not to mention keeping Palestinians as eternal victims, bleeding other countries in donations.
Unity in Palestinian victimhood unites jihadists everywhere, and has been lucrative.
“Hamas invasion intended to thwart Israeli peace with Saudi Arabia, docs reveal – WSJ,” Jerusalem Post, May 18, 2025:
Yahya Sinwar was quoted in secret Hamas meeting notes that ISraeli-Saudi normalization would “open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.”
Hamas’s October 7 massacre was aimed at torpedoing the normalization efforts between Israel and Saudi Arabia, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Hamas meeting transcripts found by the IDF.
The WSJ reported that then-Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, was concerned that US-brokered normalization efforts between Saudi Arabia and Israel would take attention away from advancing the notion of a Palestinian statehood.
According to the documents, Sinwar said that there was “no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly,” and that such an agreement would “open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.”
In the months leading up to Hamas’s 2023 attack on southern Israel, the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia had all suggested that differences were narrowing between Riyadh and Jerusalem.
Sinwar reportedly planned the attack “to bring about a major move or a strategic shift in… the region concerning the Palestinian cause,” the documents cited by the WSJ demonstrate….
Billy says
Any funds provided to Muslims and Muslim Countries support and promote Muslim hatred, discrimination, and terrorism against Israel and Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran(Quran 8:5, 29, 111 and more).
Allah’s Islam, a Terrorist-Criminal Enterprise, and its predatory believers continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran. Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners because Islam violates USA Laws(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15; 60:4 and more).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam functions as a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29; 49:15 and more).
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Islam’s Mafia, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a Crime against tyrannical Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:5, 29, 111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-destructive way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:208,216; 4:65, 89,95, 115; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49, 73,88, 111,123; 21:92; 49:15; 60:4; 61:9-11; 89:14 and more).
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It was never gonna happen as long as King Salman was still alive. Hamas just hastened their own downfall
Transmaster says
Remember, it is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who is running things. 89-year-old Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has stepped back. Again, the AA is an economic agreement.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
True, but MbS has deferred to his father on exactly one issue: this one about Israel & Palestine. King Salman has said that as long as the Israel-Palestine dispute isn’t solved to the satisfaction of the Pali Authority, he would not normalize relations w/ Israel. MbS has said that as long as his father is alive, he’ll abide by his wishes on this issue
So only after King Salman croaks might, just might MbS agree to extend the Abraham Accords to Saudi Arabia
Transmaster says
In my opinion, it is highly probable that both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will soon sign the Abraham Accords. As I consistently emphasize, the Abraham Accords are an economic agreement, not a political one. Notably, President Trump has been subtly aligning with the Sunni faction over the Shi’a faction. This development could potentially lead to the emergence of a Middle East equivalent of NATO, characterized by a mutual defense pact against Iran.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Emirates, Bahrein and Morocco are already signatories to the Abraham Accords, while Sudan had a normalization agreement w/ Israel – not sure where that stands today. So question would be whether other countries would join in – Oman, Iraq, Egypt (extending the Camp David Accords), Libya (Haftar’s faction) and most recently Syria. As I pointed out above, Riyadh is not likely to join until after King Salman’s passing. Qatar won’t, due to their ties w/ the muslim brotherhood, and Kuwait has declared that they won’t either, since they have a very sensitive relationship w/ Iran
The sunni-shi’a split won’t remain the major split in the region for long. If and when the islamic regime falls in Iran, the main split will be ethnic – Turkish vs the Arabs. It’s true that the Turks have propped up HTS, but now, the Arabs have started wooing them as well, and MbS pulled off a major coup by getting Trump to meet Ahmad al-Shara’a. If the Arab side manages to pry Damascus out of Ankara’s influence, that would be a major diplomatic coup in their favor
Turkey’s allies will be a few Arab renegade countries like Qatar, Kuwait, Yemen, Somalia, Pali Authority, GNA in Libya and Algeria, as well as some countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh. That will be a fascinating internecine muslim civil war, which I hope Trump or Rubio don’t try to resolve
LibertyORdeath says
The “Palestinians” are a perfect example of how non-whites react to white charity. Another great example is American blacks.
It will NEVER be enough.
You can literally subsidize their entire existence…it won’t be enough.
You can give them all the land they want, but it won’t be enough.
You can give them all the FREE education, food, and medical care they need…but it will NEVER be enough.
You can kowtow to their demands for racial or religious preferences, but it won’t be enough.
You can provide for GENERATIONS of their offspring, and it still won’t be enough.
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.
We’ve been doing this dance with the “Palestinians” for about 75 years. Time to try something different.