PA: “We are prepared to sacrifice… We will sacrifice our children”
PA threatens “bloodshed and chaos,” “escalation of the resistance,” and “national rebellion” - PA’s response to Arab states making peace with Israel
PA Chairman Abbas’ special emissary Jibril Rajoub continues to meet and plan a unified “escalation of the resistance” together with “the factions” - terror organizations that include Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and PFLP. According to Rajoub, this “escalation” will include “sacrifice” of Palestinian children:
“We are prepared to sacrifice… We will sacrifice our children”
[Facebook page of Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub,
and Al-Mayadeen (Lebanon), Oct. 7, 2020]
PA leader Saeb Erekat threatens and exemplifies in words what Rajoub is possibly planning with the terrorists:
“Bloodshed and the spread of chaos in the region”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 4, 2020]
Meanwhile, Rajoub posted these details of his meetings with Hamas and the other terror organizations:
“We are working for true national partnership with the factions and Hamas, and to assemble one political front…
- We have decided to release ourselves from all the agreements with the occupation (i.e., PA euphemism for Israel).
- Our talk with Hamas in Istanbul was at the Palestinian consulate and not under the auspices of any state…
- The factions that we met with in Damascus were positive regarding the agreements with Hamas, and we agreed to continue the conversation…
- We have informed Hamas and the factions that Fatah views the assembling of a national coalition government as a necessity at the current stage.
- We are heading towards an escalation of the popular resistance (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror)…
- We agreed with Hamas on all the coming steps as part of a national and strategic process.”[Facebook page of Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Oct. 7, 2020]
Rajoub also posted his interview to Lebanese Al-Mayadeen TV where he said “We are prepared to sacrifice… We will sacrifice our children”:
“The first matter is creating an elected leadership inside the occupied homeland (i.e., the West Bank). This is because we are heading towards an escalation of the resistance.
Therefore there needs to be a legitimate leadership that is internationally recognized and committed to the UN resolutions, which may make strategic decisions by power of the recognized right, [including] reexamining the rules of engagement with the occupation, taking political steps… freezing the recognition, and possibly also declaring a national rebellion An elected [government] can do anything
And I tell you, we in the Fatah Movement, regarding the struggle, the resistance, and the rules of engagement – we are open, we are prepared to sacrifice not [just] the last of [incomplete phrase]. We will sacrifice our children. And the first unit that will be in the first line will be from the [Fatah] Central Committee, the [Fatah] Revolutionary Council, and our leadership…
We have come and placed before you our strategic approach as we see it in Fatah, the foundations that we have agreed on with our brothers in Hamas… We have no problem; we are prepared to be with Hamas, and prepared to be with the factions – if only!”[Facebook page of Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Oct. 7, 2020
and Al-Mayadeen TV, Oct, 7, 2010]
This unity with terror organizations and return-to-terror is the PA’s response to the peace treaties Israel has signed with Bahrain and the UAE, and the peace plan that the US has put on the table. This is not the first time the PA responds to progress towards peace with terror. In 2000, Israel offered what some say was an overly generous peace offer to Yasser Arafat, and he responded with the 5-year terror campaign, (the Intifada), in which more than 1100 Israelis were murdered.
The following is a longer excerpt of Saeb Erekat’s statements:
“PLO Executive Committee Secretary Saeb Erekat said that the [Palestinian] factions (i.e, which includes terror organizations) will achieve national unity, and that the [PA] presidential order determining the date [of elections] will be issued despite the American and Israeli challenges and threats.
In an interview with [the official PA] radio [station] The Voice of Palestine yesterday [Oct. 3, 2020], Erekat added… that the occupation’s measures and ‘the deal of the century’ (i.e., refers to US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan) are destroying the two-state solution and the Arab Peace Initiative, with the blessings of the states that are carrying out normalization[with Israel] (refers to the UAE and Bahrain; see note below –Ed.), which will lead to bloodshed and the spread of chaos in the region. Erekat noted that national unity is the basis for the struggle against the occupation on the ground.”[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 4, 2020]
Israeli peace agreements with the UAE and Bahrain (the Abraham Accords), Sudan, and Morocco