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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PLO’s Palestinian Authority and the other Islamic terrorist groups who make up the official “Palestinian” leadership have been invited for unity talks in Moscow.
The terrorist unity talks scheduled by the Putin regime for the end of February are a homecoming for a “Palestinian” movement invented by Soviet propagandists. Mahmoud Abbas, the long-serving dictator of the PA, wrote his Holocaust denial thesis while studying at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University which had trained a generation of third world terrorists.
The invitation to Moscow comes from Putin’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. Materials from a KGB defector revealed that Abbas had worked for the KGB under Bogdanov. Back then Abbas had the KGB codename “mole”, these days, his code name is “president”.
Some of the same ex-Soviet operatives who helped set up and fund the PLO, the PFLP and the rest of the “Palestinian” movement are now trying to unite them all under one single banner.
While the State Department in D.C. and British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron are talking about immediately recognizing a “Palestinian” state as soon as they can force Israel to stop its campaign to destroy Hamas, the Palestinian Authority is trying to bring Hamas into the state.
The media claimed that Abbas had visited Qatar to hold talks with the Islamic tyranny’s leaders on a “ceasefire”. In reality, the Palestinian Authority leader had been meeting with the Qatari regime, another state sponsor of Hamas, to pursue unity talks with the fellow terror group.
Putin’s relationship with Iran makes Moscow, like Doha, home turf for Hamas. Some weeks after Oct 7, top Hamas leaders had flown out to Moscow to meet with Bogdanov after the Russian official had previously chatted with leaders of the terror group in their home base in Qatar.
In 2006, Putin had reacted to the Hamas takeover of Gaza by declaring that “we are maintaining our contacts with Hamas and intend, in the near future, to invite the leadership of this organisation to Moscow” and emphasized that, “we have never called Hamas a terrorist organisation.” Putin invited Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, who recently claimed that “the Russians told us they would study our Oct. 7 attack in their military academies.”
A week after the Oct 7 attacks, Hamas stated, “we in the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) appreciate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s position on the ongoing Zionist aggression against our people and his opposition to the siege of Gaza”.
After Oct 7, Putin and China’s Xi had blocked a UN condemnation of the Hamas atrocities. Now Russia is working on uniting its old PLO friends and its new Hamas friends. But Russia and Qatar are not alone. The Biden administration and the European Union are all pushing for a “Palestinian” state after they force a ceasefire. And that state will inevitably include Hamas.
“Russia has invited all Palestinian factions who will be meeting on the 26 of this month in Moscow. We will see if Hamas is ready to come to the ground with us,” Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh informed the Munich Security Conference. “We are prepared to engage. If Hamas is willing to join us, that’s positive. We need Palestinian unity,”
“One should not continue focusing on October 7,” he warned attendees at the forum.
“Hamas is an essential part of the Palestinian political map. Israel’s talk of eliminating Hamas will not happen and are not acceptable to us,” Shtayyeh had told Qatar’s Doha Forum in December around the same time that the PA was holding unity talks with Hamas in Doha.
After the Oct 7 attacks, Biden claimed that, “the vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.” In reality, polls show that Hamas would easily win any current election, as it won the last set of “Palestinian” elections in 2006, leading Abbas and his Fatah faction to seize total control of the West Bank and reject any future elections. Hamas was able to take over Gaza leading to the two “Palestinian” statelets.
In January, Abbas’ spokesman had promised to “hold general elections, and if Hamas wins, the president will hand over the [Palestinian] Authority.”
With polls showing that Hamas would handily win an election, If Abbas is serious this time, that means recognizing a “Palestinian” state will mean creating a Hamas state inside Israel.
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority had been holding unity talks on and off, including four months before the Oct 7 attacks, and quickly began holding them again afterward.
The current proposal, like previous ones coming out of the unity talks, places Palestinian Authority officials up front, so that terrorists can receive foreign aid from America and the EU, while Hamas officials maintain an official subsidiary role but continue to control Gaza.
In the past, Hamas had been able to siphon foreign aid through UNRWA, but as it now faces the possibility of utter destruction in Gaza, it may be more willing to accept the proposal being advanced by Qatar, Russia, the EU and the Biden administration. While Russia and Qatar may be more publicly supportive of their Hamas allies, all the proposals come down to a government of “technocrats” serving as the public face of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
Shtayyeh is an example of one of those “technocrats”, academics with experience in extracting foreign aid and telling foreign diplomats what they want to hear, but with no actual political power, who were put into place to act as a cover for the Arafat and Abbas regimes. A similar puppet regime of technocrats subsidiary to Afghanistan’s warlords had operated in Kabul before it fled the Taliban. The Taliban and the Biden administration have resurrected a version of its “technocrats” to administer the funds going from the United States to Afghanistan.
The current plan is to blame Oct 7 entirely on Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, and a few of his cronies, to demand their expulsion, and then to make a deal with the “moderate” Hamas leaders in Doha before putting the plan for a “Palestinian” state in overdrive. But the Moscow summit is a warning that any such state will never be anything other than a terror state.
The primary difference between the Qatari and Russian positions, and the Biden and EU position, is plausible deniability. Qatar and Russia want Hamas out front, while Biden and the EU prefer it out back. And we already know from Afghanistan how that will end up working out.
The Qataris negotiated our deal with the Taliban that would have made the Islamic terrorist group a part of a multilateral government. Americans died to maintain that State Department fiction as the Taliban were advancing to take over the entire country. Hamas had its chance to be part of a multilateral government with other Islamic terrorists and each time it chose to try and take everything. Biden and the EU may want to keep Hamas in the background, but history tells us that, like the Taliban, it will eventually seize power and dominate any “Palestinian” state.
It’s difficult to know whether Secretary of State Blinken and the State Department personnel who pretended until the last moment that the Taliban were not trying to take over Afghanistan, but only to take a stronger position in the negotiations for a united government really believed that. It’s also difficult to know whether they truly believe that their proposed “Palestinian” state will be anything other than a terrorist state that will eventually fall into the hands of Hamas.
But we know that not only Qatar and Russia, but the Biden administration and the EU, have urgently fought against any Israeli move into Rafah that would finish off Hamas in Gaza.
It’s obvious why Qatar or Russia’s Bogdanov are condemning an attack on Rafah, but the Biden administration has introduced a draft UN resolution calling for a ceasefire, and from Biden on down have warned Israel against going into Rafah. The internal reasoning is probably similar to the one that guided Nixon and Kissinger during another October war 50 years ago.
During the Yom Kippur War, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had told Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin that “my nightmare is a victory for either side.” He warned that without negotiations and a deal, “the Israelis [will] have pushed the Arabs out of every territory and “If we do nothing by Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest, Arabs will have been defeated.”
“I do not mean to imply that he wanted Israel to lose the war, he simply did not want Israel to win decisively. He wanted Israel to bleed just enough to soften it up for the post-war diplomacy he was planning,” Admiral Elmo Zuwalt, the former head of the Navy, wrote in his memoir.
The Biden administration also wanted Israel to defeat Hamas, but not to defeat it too much.
The administration is worried that if Israel wins in Rafah, it will win too much and be much less interested in its diplomatic solution of creating a “Palestinian” state which it believes is the real solution to the conflict. And it needs Hamas to provide pressure on Israel to create such a state.
The same failed idea that has haunted the region for decades is that Islamic terrorism can only be defeated by giving the terrorists some, but not all, of what they want. Much as it did not occur to the State Department that the Taliban would want everything, it refuses to believe that Hamas would want everything. And every time the negotiations fall apart, history is rewritten again.
In an article published in early October, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan described the negotiations that had brought peace between Hamas and Israel. “We have de-escalated crises in Gaza,” he boasted. The online version of the article has been edited to remove those words.
Since December, Sullivan has taken to warning Israel to “transition” to a new “phase” of the war in which it stops its military campaign and goes back to occasional drone attacks on Hamas leaders. And then he and the rest can get started building their “Palestinian” state. And when Hamas takes over again, more articles will have to be edited and more bodies will be buried.
The Biden administration, the European Union (for now only being held off by Hungary), Russia and the rest of the international community are preparing to reward Oct 7 with a terrorist state. A ‘Palestinian’ state will be a state of the terrorists, by the terrorists and for the terrorists.
The 10/7 attacks reminded Israelis of what Americans had known and forgotten after 9/11.
The Israeli soldiers battling in Gaza are not just fighting for their country, but to remind America and the world that it is possible to defeat Islamic terrorists, instead of negotiating with them. A victory there will show everyone that we can all fight and win, instead of surrendering to Islam.
A lot is riding on that battle for Israel, for America, Europe and the free world. That is why the leaders of the international community and the diplomats of the world are fighting to save Hamas. What happens in the next weeks will hand the Islamic terrorists and their enablers either one of their greatest defeats or their greatest victory: a Hamas ‘Palestinian’ state.
Why would ‘diplomats’ want a negotiated solution to any problem when a clear winner would give breathing room for the victims on both sides of a conflict? Without tongue-in-cheek or snide prejudice, it is clear to me that the ‘diplomats’ are desperate to maintain their jobs. What would they do if peace breaks out? By maintaining conflicts wherever they go, they are able to support their families, buy their summer homes, feel secure in their pensions, and acquire additional wealth by selling their influence and worthless ideas. Diplomats of the ilk we see today are quite literally bloodsuckers. Without the spilling of blood, without blood rushing to the faces of the demagogues as they preach hatred, these ‘diplomats’ would have to sell shoes or own a Burger King. They spend their time creating conflict to enhance their images and force the impression that they are useful in a conflict-filled world. Let me repeat! ‘Diplomats’ create their jobs by forcing ordinary people to kill each other more than necessary. No ‘diplomat’ has railed against Hamas to force their surrender because it does not support the livelihoods of ‘diplomats’..
Yes. Diplomats are self serving scum who want to prolong any crisis possible, especially the moslem jihad against Israel.
Alzheimer Joe’s handlers and their State Department lackeys, the British Foreign Secretary’s office and the EU all hate Jews and especially Israel so they want Paleosimian countries to replace Gaza in the southwest and Judea and Samaria in the east – for starters. The destruction of Israel is obviously a goal they share with all the Paleosimian factions reducing Israel’s territory even further would be a major advance of their genocidal goal.
Putin barely tries to conceal his attempt to force a major dilemma on Israel and especially America. Only a leftist could be deluded enough to believe his invitation to Hamas is diplomacy.
Go, Netanyahu. Wipe those Hamas subhumans off the map.
“Palestinian” is a terrorist organization. Not a nation.
Palestine does not have a history. Only a criminal record.
How stupid is the world for thinking these terrorist thugs are a nation.
There are no Palestinians, and they don’t give a rat’s ass about a state. The “Palestinians” were invented to create sympathy for the Arabs who with two dozen states stretching from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf, sitting atop an ocrean of oil were unable to destroy the only Jewish state which is the size of New Jersey and has less defensible borders The idea of feeling sorry for the Arabs for their thus far thwarted genocidal ambitions is ludicrous.
Palestinian nationalism is nothing more than the desire to destroy Israel and kill its Jews.
Too true. Unfortunately, generations of Psuedostinians have been raised on the lie that they are a distinct ethnicity and that the Jews are occupiers. The older generations know that’s a load of bullshit but the younger ones believe it. What should we expect from “people”b with an average IQ of 65, which makes them far and away the most mentally retarded population on the planet.
To make matters worse, most Westerners believe that demonstrably false narrative, too.
If the loser does not surrender, then the winner is obliged to totally crush and destroy the loser.
The USA and Israel should be doing this together.
Totally crush and exterminate Hamas, particularly its depraved psychopathic murderous leadership,
wherever they are, including Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
A proper leader in the USA and the Western World would be all-in on complete destruction of Hamas and then whatever Israel wants to do after that with that piece of land. Any fallout with islam or arab states can be handled later. It would eventually blow over, would take decades, but who cares, But only if it comes from strength not submission.
Yes, that situation would blow over. America should pound the entire islamic world into submission, the way it barely survived in impotent squalor before the European retards uplifted* them after WWI because they discovered oil. Instead of just taking it, the geniuses thought it was a good idea to develop the industry for the sand monkeys in the region and make countries and kingdoms for them. Brilliant. Even Britain was in on it.
*Uplift is a process of genetically modifying animals to increase their intelligence in an excellent series of science fiction novels by David Brin. It seems appropriate to apply it to the subhuman moslems in the Near East. Of course, the animals uplifted in the novels were bottlenose dolphins, a killer whale/dolphin hybrid, chimpanzees and gorillas, which are already more advanced species’ of life than Near East islamopithecines.
You expect common sense from Biden and Co?
Why would Hamas, the PLO, or any other Islamic terrorist group want a state? They already have everything they want. They have bases to repeatedly attack Israel, armies of supporters all over the world ready to march and riot at a moment’s notice, and oodles of loving followers in the U.N.
States have responsibilities, like issuing currency, appointing ambassadors to all the countries lining up to recognize them. Gaza and the West Bank are already mini-states without the annoying duties that making them official would create. That’s why the “Palestinians” have revolted at every offer of an independent state, They don’t want one.
All they want is the ability to kιll Jews; as many Jews as possible, until the entιre Jewιsh people are extermιnated.
They are perfectly willing to have western diplomats running around like headless chickens hawking a long repudiated idea, and they can take special delight when they tell all the liberal kafir in the west to take the “Palestinian State” and stuff it where the middle eastern blazing sun don’t shine.
Well. if they declare a state then `israel is at war with a supposed state. `as the goals is to eradicate `Hamas and any other terror group from Gaza and for Israel to retain security control of that area and Judea & Samaria so as to protect Israelis. The fighting only ends when this is accomplished. So perhaps Israel will be fighting the entire world.
Better to fight and risk losing than surrender to those who will kill you anyway.
They can meet and meet and meet and declare and declare and declare. Any terror run state leaves rockets flying into israel and more attacks and hostages taken in the future. The fight is therefore ongoing.
Predicting what will happen is a tough call. The leftists are ready to recognize a Hamas/Pally state, but how the terrorists and Israel will respond is problematic.
“We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.” – Commander Spock
Just ask Al-Aqsa Blinken Jake Suleiman and Groid Austin. We can’t ask Jihad Joe’s handlers because nobody outside of that cabal seems to know who most of them are. Diplomacy with moslems is a never ending crisis, and has been since that vile cult’s inception. They’re ALL jihadis and use their cult as an excuse to deal in bad faith. It was part of debased Arabian culture even before Mohammad formed his cult of conquest. We all know that. Of course, we aren’t stupid politicians or bureaucrats.
Putin is just causing America trouble, as usual, and wants another jihad Terrorist country created to be a permanent adversary of America. I doubt he’s a big fan of Jews, either. Iran, Qatar, Syria and Lebanon aren’t enough for him.
The only good things about all this evil nonsense and the usual moronic attempts to enact a two state “solution” (that’s two “country” disaster, you semi literate retards) is first, that it’s failed repeatedly since Israel’s independence in 1948, and that the different Psuedostinian factions will NEVER unite. The genocide of the Jews and seizure of all they have is the only thing the factions agree on but they don’t agree to cooperate and they all want to be the one and only ruler. of a jihad country. And second, that Israel sure doesn’t seem to be going along with that bullshit this time around.
And last time I checked, at least thirty UNRWA members participated in the 10/7/23 atrocities, so everybody in that organization needs to go drink some fermented camel piss along with every member of Hamas, the PA, Islamic Jihad and our State Department.
There’s only one path for Israel: Decimate Hamas NOW in its entirety, or be destroyed by them eventually. Don’t allow these islamofascist monsters to carry out their genocidal plans. All insinuations of “peace” are “taqiya” or subterfuge. The Fakestinians are well-practiced liars.
Sadly woke Biden and woke the WEst are falling for the obvious attractiveness of a Two-State solution. But as long as Hamas and Islam support the slogan ‘From the river to the Sea’ there will be never peace in the Middle East. The tragedy is that Gaza already could have been a prosperous City State when a cooperation model would have been adopted with Israel. But as long as Islam exists Israel and the Jews have been their enemies. Therefore a Two-State solution will not end the forever war of Islam vs Israel.
I wouldn’t want to be in Putin’s shoes when he meets his Maker.
The creation of a Palestinian State will give the Palestinians to create armed forces to attack and destroy Israel. Israel, despite the opposition of the World States, the UN, the BidenBama US Administration, and “Liberals” everywhere, will fight back to the death. A nuclear exchange is inevitable. There will be millions dead in a thousand-mile radius around the region for technical reasons like initial burst communication disruptions. A nuclear exchange was considered a disaster to be avoided at all costs. That is no longer true.
The total death toll could quickly push 100 million. Muslims and Leftists everywhere will cheer. But after that, longer-term geopolitical trends will take hold. It is impossible to predict the outcomes. The outcomes of the war will leave the West significantly weakened economically, culturally, and militarily, so they won’t be able to control much or have alliances that trust them. Iran and their proxies will suffer millions of deaths, but that doesn’t seem to be a controlling outcome for them.
There are so many issues and so few controls. India still owes the Persians for the Muslim/Mughal invasion. Russia would love to have a warm-water South Asian port. China would love to have control of Middle East oil supplies. The US will be in no position to stop them, and, besides, many in the US Administration will continue to be employed by distant adversary regimes.
The consequences of the Nuclear War and the accompanying instability used to be impediments to creating a Palestinian State. Now that the US has devolved into “Wokestan” and has a non-Western leadership cadre, these impediments are gone; our expectations need to change.