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Palestinian Authority/Fatah TV and cartoons ridicule and demonize Trump

Ephraim D. Tepler|

The Palestinian Authority continues to mock and demonize President Donald Trump through grotesquely offensive cartoons and in its television broadcasts.

[Falestinona, Fatah's Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, Feb. 13, 2025]

A cartoon on a Fatah website grossly depicts Trump as a gargoyle door knocker with a knocking ring that features an American flag pattern and an image of Netanyahu's head. The head has satanic horns and flames rising from below along with skulls hanging on the sides. The headline of the cartoon reads "Trump threatens" while the caption reads: "Trump: I will open the gates of hell."

Another Fatah cartoon shows Abbas kicking Trump's rear-end while saying: "The Gaza Strip allowances are like the West Bank allowances. We will not agree to harming our rights, and we owe it to the Martyrs until the last penny." The quote is a reference to Mahmoud Abbas' attempt to deceive Trump by claiming to revise "Pay-for-Slay" while actually paying the terror salaries through a different institution.

[Falestinona, Fatah's Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, Feb. 12, 2025]

On PA TV, the in-house "Israeli affairs expert" ridiculed Trump over his humanitarian solution for the residents of Gaza:

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Official PA TV "Israeli affairs expert" Fayez Abbas: "A statement was released from the White House rejecting the Egyptian-Arab plan to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip, and they said that Trump continues to adhere to his vision for the area. Trump has a vision like I have professorship in nuclear physics. Trump has no vision, no ideology, nothing.

[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, March 5, 2025]

In another broadcast, a Fatah official called Trump "populist" and "imbalanced":

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Fatah official and An-Najah National University political science lecturer Raed Debiy: "[US President] Trump is by nature a populist. It's impossible to predict what he will do. He is imbalanced."

[Official PA TV, Feb. 17, 2025]

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