As US gives $336 million to Palestinians, PA demonizes it as the “head of global terror”
Abbas spokesman: US is cause of "chaos, wars, and instability
Fatah official: US is "head of global terror"
Abbas' advisor:
- Hamas' massacre on Oct. 7 was just an "excuse" for Israel to carry out "aggression" on "US instructions"
- Israel is fighting Gaza war for the US, goal is to eliminate Palestinian cause
- The US administration is "the biggest liar" and "a threat"Fatah official accuses NATO and the world: "World stood idly by facing unprecedented Nazi holocausts led by NATO, as the NATO states opened their weapons depots to slaughter our Palestinian people"
Fatah official denies Israel's self-defense in Gaza: Europeans created Israel to steal oil, now Israel wants the gas in Gaza
The US has announced that it is giving the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank additional humanitarian aid worth $336 million.
But in response to all the US support during the war (and prior), the PA is relentlessly demonizing the US as being the aggressor and mastermind behind Israel's war against the Hamas and Hezbollah terror organizations, regardless of the fact that both terror organizations first attacked and continue to attack Israel and Israeli civilians. Worse still, three days ago, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman also blamed the US for "the continuing chaos, wars, and instability" in the region:
"Official Spokesman for the [PA] Presidential Office Nabil Abu Rudeina [said]… the successive American administrations bear responsibility for the continuing chaos, wars, and instability through their mistaken policy and provision of political, monetary, and military support for the continuation of the occupation (i.e., Israel), which has encouraged it to commit more crimes against our people and against the peoples of the region in Syria and Lebanon, alongside the ongoing threats against other regions."
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Sept. 29, 2024]
While many Western governments have been highly critical of Israel's response to Hamas and Hezbollah's attacks during the ongoing 2023 Gaza war, and have supported the idea of having the PA take power in Gaza after it is done, the PA and its ruling Fatah party have, on the other hand, made their hostility to the West clear in numerous recent conspiracy theories and statements of demonization. Even as Abbas was again welcomed in the US last week, his PA and Fatah officials are busy bad-mouthing the US administration, accusing it of being behind the war and using Israel as its pawn.
A regular columnist of the PA's mouthpiece Al-Hayat Al-Jadida accused the US of being guilty of "war crimes" in Lebanon:
"The US has been a central partner in managing the operations against the Hezbollah leadership and its activists who are wanted by the [American] administration and Israel…. The American administration is involved in the war crimes against the Hezbollah leadership and activists… [Hassan Nasrallah should] delay and not be dragged after the Israeli and American desire to pull him into the complication of a regional war."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida website, Sept. 22, 2024]
In a recent interview, Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki referred to the US as "the head of global terror." Perhaps this is no surprise considering that Zaki also serves as Fatah Commissioner for Arab and China Relations:
"Fatah Movement Central Committee member Abbas Zaki… called for a comprehensive agreement and a code of honor between all parts of the Palestinian people and its movements (i.e., Fatah and Hamas), according to which the main contradiction is with the Israeli occupation and the rest are secondary differences that our preoccupation with them serves the plots of the occupation (i.e., Israel)… led by the US, the head of global terror."
[Al-Quds website, Sept. 8, 2024]
Earlier this year Zaki accused the US, and "not Israel," of waging a war to "slaughter the Palestinian people":
Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: "The US is the one waging the [Gaza] war, and not Israel… It is the one waging the war and it is the one that is striving with all its effortsto slaughter the Palestinian people… Our central issue is to stop this cursed war, this barbaric war, which is worse than Nazism."
[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page,
Jan. 20, 2024]
Similarly, PA Chairman Abbas' Advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash has accused the US of pulling the strings in Israel's war against Hamas, claiming Israel just "carries out American instructions" " and the US is "pushing" Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu "towards extremism" with its "hostile, immoral, and illegal position":
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Israel's sovereign is the US, unfortunately. The US even today opposes a resolution proposal at the [UN] General Assembly calling to end the occupation. Imagine, this is the level of American hostility to the Palestinian rights… The one who is strengthening the position of [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu and pushing him more and more towards extremism is the American administration's position. The American administration's position is a hostile position, an immoral and illegal position, and honestly it is the one that bears responsibility for the scope of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people."
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page,
Sept. 18, 2024]
Al-Habbash: "Everyone knows that all the cards are in the hands of the US, not in the hands of Israel. Israel is nothing more than the one who carries out the American policy. If the American administration would have wanted to tell Israel ‘Enough,' the war would have ended (i.e., the 2023 Gaza war; see note below -Ed.). But it doesn't do this and attempts to mislead and spread lies to extend the aggression to achieve the same goal. The goal is to erase the political aspect of the Palestinian cause and change the rules of the game, even in the West Bank."
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Sept. 11, 2024]
Al-Habbash: "Israel exploited and used what happened on Oct. 7 [2023](i.e., Hamas' massacre and launch of terror war) as an excuse to carry out aggression that was planned and prepared in advance against the Gaza Strip, as part of the aggression against the Palestinian people. What happened on Oct. 7 is not the cause of the aggression…
[Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu is just a clerk of the American administration, and all of Israel is just subordinate to the American administration and carries out its instructions and serves its policies. Israel is nothing more than an American interest that is carrying out the American policies. We don't need to speak with Netanyahu because he has no authority of his own. We must speak only with the American administration that alone bears the magnitude and responsibility for the continuation of this aggression."
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Jan. 29, 2024]
Al-Habbash has also called the US "the biggest liar" and "the true threat":
Al-Habbash:"There is no bigger liar than the US administration, no bigger liar than [the US] exists.The American administration is inventing lies against us, as it has done through all the last decades… We are an unarmed people. We are a people that has been living under occupation for more than 70 years…. We are just trying to protect our existence. What threats are they talking about? If there is a threat to peace and security, it is the occupation (i.e., Israel) itself. Israel itself is the threat, and the US with all its racist policies, double standards, and aid to Israel is the true threat. We are a people that is seeking peace… We do not constitute a threat to anyone."
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Aug.29, 2024]
Palestinian Media Watch also reported on other anti-US remarks by Abbas' advisor, including the accusation that US President Biden is a "war criminal who should stand trial."
While emphasizing that the real war is "against the US and not Israel," Abbas Zaki has also stressed the Palestinians' "strong connection and strategic partnership with China":
Zaki: "Our war now (i.e., 2023 Gaza war) is a war against the US and not Israel because Israel's guarantee of life is the US… Old colonialism, in other words the European colonialist states, wanted to take the Jews and create a base close to them that is hostile to their surroundings, and offered to establish Israel in Argentina, Uganda, and the like. But when the oil was discovered, the lifeline of modern industry, they wanted to take control of the Middle East region from the ocean to the gulf, and therefore Palestine fell victim to this oppressive criminal alliance… What is the meaning of Zionism? Taking control of the world… We anticipate that a massacre will happen, [the Israelis] will take action now to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build the Temple, and they have already brought the [red] heifers, and if they will do this, Allah willing Israel will end… The US is the one that is fighting against us now. If the war was Israeli-Palestinian, the Arabs would have eliminated Israel a long time ago… Our connection with China is very strong, we have a strategic partnership with China. Our connection with Russia is very strong… Israel could not fight against any faction, not even against a state, if not for the US, and Allah willing the US will not be the world ruler."
[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page,
May 16, 2024]
Zaki also lashed out at NATO, not only claiming that Israel's defensive response to Hamas' terror war against it equals "Nazi holocausts," but also that these are "led by NATO":
According to Zaki, Oct. 7, [2024] (i.e., Hamas' invasion and massacre to launch its terror war on Israel) came to disrupt the plans and arrangements that bypassed Palestine and addressed the [Middle East] region, and afterwards the world stood idly by facing unprecedented Nazi holocausts led by NATO, as the NATO states opened their weapons depots to slaughter our Palestinian people."
[Al-Quds website, Sept. 8, 2024]
Zaki also repeated the conspiracy theory that Israel is not fighting Hamas in Gaza for security reasons, but rather because it wants to steal natural gas resources discovered there:
"Zaki emphasized that Israel is striving to decide the conflict and empty the land of its Palestinian owners, and he noted that the goal of the war in the Gaza Strip is not security-related, but rather it deviates beyond this and includes economic targets, like the [natural] gas reserve that was discovered northwest of Gaza."
[Al-Quds website, Sept. 8, 2024]
Zaki first voiced this accusation in an interview last December:
Zaki: "[The Europeans] could have put Israel in Uganda or in Argentina, but then oil was discovered [in the Middle East], and they wanted to establish this human body in Palestine to separate between the Arab west and east, to impose their hegemony on the region's resources to prevent the Arabs from [creating] their unity and their future. Today [natural] gas has also been found in the northwest Gaza Strip, and an opportunity was created for them [Israel] to expel the Gaza Strip [residents] and eliminate its existence."
[Lebanese TV channel Spot Shot, YouTube channel, Dec. 26, 2023]
The following are longer excerpts of the some of the statements cited above:
Headline: "In an exclusive interview with Al-Quds, Zaki: The occupation is taking action to turn the Palestinian territories into a hostile environment for its people in order to press them to emigrate from their homeland"
"Fatah Movement Central Committee member Abbas Zaki… called for a comprehensive agreement and a code of honor between all parts of the Palestinian people and its movements, according to which the main contradiction is with the Israeli occupation and the rest are secondary differences that our preoccupation with them serves the plots of the occupation (i.e., Israel), which has based itself on the ‘divide and conquer' of Britain, led by the European colonialism, and ‘distributing the divided' led by the US, the head of global terror…
According to Zaki, Oct. 7, [2024] (i.e., Hamas' invasion and massacre to launch its terror war on Israel; see note below) came to disrupt the plans and arrangements that bypassed Palestine and addressed the [Middle East] region, and afterwards the world stood idly by facing unprecedented Nazi holocausts led by NATO, as the NATO states opened their weapons depots to slaughter our Palestinian people…
Zaki emphasized that Israel is striving to decide the conflict and empty the land of its Palestinian owners, and he noted that the goal of the war in the Gaza Strip is not security-related, but rather it deviates beyond this and includes economic targets, like the [natural] gas reserve that was discovered northwest of Gaza."
[Al-Quds website, Sept. 8, 2024]
Posted text with Al-Habbash's interview: "[PA President Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud] Al-Habbash on [Egyptian] Al-Nile TV: We will defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque regardless of the sacrifices, and the responsibility for the Al-Aqsa Mosque is Arab and Islamic, not just Palestinian."
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Aug. 29, 2024]
Posted text with Al-Habbash's interview: "Al-Habbash on [Egyptian] Al-Nile TV: ‘Israel' used Oct. 7 (i.e., Hamas' massacre and launch of terror war on Israel) as an excuse to implement plans and plots that it prepared in advance to eliminate the Palestinian cause"
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Jan. 29, 2024]
The "opportunity created for them" mentioned by Zaki in the video interview refers to the 2023 Gaza war that PA and Fatah leaders frame as "Israeli aggression," claiming Israel exploits the war to "empty Gaza of Palestinians."
Nabil Abu Rudeina also serves as Fatah Central Committee member and Fatah Commissioner of Information, Culture, and Ideology, and is a former PA Deputy Prime Minister, PA Minister of Information, and advisor to senior Fatah terrorist Khalil Al-Wazir "Abu Jihad."