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The terrorist unity talks scheduled by the Putin regime 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.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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