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Why? Because Hamas is popular while the PA and Fatah are not.

Abbas' advisor is seeking to bring the Hamas terror group into a unified Palestinian leadership under the PLO. PA Chairman Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Arranging the Palestinian home is a top priority for the Palestinian people and the Palestinian..."

Abbas' advisor accuses Hamas of killing, torturing and starving Palestinians under its rule, exposing the human cost of Hamas' repression in Gaza. PA Chairman Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Hamas rose to power in the Gaza Strip after the 2006..."

Abbas' senior advisor condemns Oct. 7 only because of its disastrous consequences for Palestinians, while explicitly reaffirming "Jihad" and "resistance by all means" against Israel as legal and sacred. PA Chairman Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash:...

Abbas' senior advisor is promoting a baseless conspiracy theory that Israel deliberately wanted the Oct. 7 massacre to happen. Jusoor News host: "[Israeli PM's wife] Sara Netanyahu said yesterday that the head of the [Israeli] army and the army commanders knew about Hamas' [Oct. 7] plan..." PA...

Habbash consistently blames Israel for Palestinian terrorism

Egyptian Al-Qahera News TV host: "These published images are of a stabbing operation (i.e., terror attack) carried out by a young Palestinian against [an Israeli] settler…" Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "The responsibility for all this lies with the Israeli policy adopted by this extremist government..."

Al-Habbash is threatening a global religious war over any change at the Temple Mount while denying all non-Muslims—including Jews—the right to pray at their holiest site. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Any attempt to change the..."

Posted text: "Dr. Mahmoud Al-Habbash responds via Al-Arabiya to Hamas' declaration of dissolving its government in Gaza: The solution is the return of national legitimacy" Al-Arabiya TV host: "Do you think what Hamas did today (i.e., dissolving its government in Gaza) is a sufficient or lacking..."

The PA is finally admitting a truth that Israel has known and reported for years.

Abbas' advisor is absurdly denying the Jewish religious and historical connection to Judaism's holiest sites. Official PA radio host: "Israel, by effectively obstructing the [Jordanian] Islamic Waqf Department, is actually taking its [the Waqf's] powers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and therefore it will..."

Abbas' religious advisor is portraying Israel as warring with Islam itself, thereby internationalizing the conflict as a Muslim duty and implicitly warning of Muslim violence if Israel is seen as harming Islamic symbols or holy sites. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and...

Host: "Where did the millions of dollars that were collected as donations for the residents of the Gaza Strip go?" … PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "All these funds and the millions were collected and disappeared, evaporated,..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "On this day 78 years ago, the greatest open crime of theft in modern history occurred. An entire land was stolen from its people, and more than 950,000 Palestinians were expelled… The Palestinian..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "We oppose the Israeli and American aggression against any Islamic state (i.e., American-Israeli war against Iran 2026)… We do not and cannot support the American aggression against Iran. However, we..."

Official PA radio station The Voice of Palestine host: "Let's talk about the extent of the [Israeli] danger threatening the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque if this closure continues... under the cover of war and the security situation." PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic...

The Al-Aqsa Mosque is not in danger, but the PA's incitement to violence is all too real

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Part of the war taking place in Palestine and outside Palestine strives to grab the sources of power of the Islamic world, so that it will continue to lag behind and remain divided and weak, thus..."

Outrageous libel accuses Israel itself of orchestrating the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "We in no way support any American or Israeli aggression against Iran. However... we must differentiate between targeting Israeli targets and targeting Arab targets. There is absolutely no..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: Some people even speculate that Oct. 7 was an Israeli plot. Some say this, even in the Palestinian street. They say that Israel dragged Hamas and the Palestinian street into this bottomless abyss to...

Official PA TV host: "What is the reason for the closure of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and what is the occupation (i.e., Israel) aiming for with this act?" PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Whatever the reasons, excuses, and pretexts..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Israel does not miss any opportunity to attempt to create a reality in the occupied Palestinian territories and then act based on this reality. Look at the media today, no one talks anymore, about the..."

The PLO and Hamas both support terror but still disagree over who should call the shots.

Palestinians, both in PA-controlled territories and in Gaza, place such a priority on having weapons to kill Jews that they sell their wives' jewelry for them.