Mossad/US behind Iranian attacks on Gulf States – libel on PA TV
- Mossad and the US coordinate Iranian missile attacks against Gulf states - Israeli Arab journalist libels Israel
- Israel and Iran share a "goal": To "weaken the Arab states" – official PA daily columnist
- Netanyahu needs Arab allies in his war against Iran, by mobilizing them he can "erase the pan-Arab national struggle" against "the international Zionist colonialist project," and expand into "Greater Israel… between the Nile River and the Euphrates River" – official PA daily columnist
- US wants to subjugate Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Turkey - PLO official libels the US
No matter how clear it is who is to blame for a problem, there is always a Palestinian ready to step in to libel Israel, blaming it for any disaster, death, or disagreement. As a PA TV preacher once taught: "If a fish in the sea fights with another fish, I am sure the Jews are behind it."
When Iranian missiles hit the Gulf states or fall on Turkey, Oman, and Kuwait, it is no different. Obviously, Israel must be guilty, and an Israeli Arab journalist found the perfect frame for the blame: Those missiles were "coordinated" by the Israeli Intelligence – Mossad, and the US:
Israeli Arab journalist Suheil Diab: "So far, in at least three proven cases, it has become clear that several [Iranian] missile attacks on Turkey and Oman, as well as some of the missiles that were launched towards Kuwait,were coordinated with the Israeli Mossad (Israeli Secret Intelligence Service) with the knowledge of the US to create tension and conflict between the Iranians and the Gulf states."
[Official PA TV, March 16, 2026]
Similarly, a regular columnist writing for the official PA daily claimed Iran and Israel have "overlapping goals" to "weaken the Arab states." An additional goal attributed to Israeli PM Netanyahu - the PA's greatest fear - is the "harming of the central cause of the Arab nation: the cause of Palestine":
"… the overlapping goals that Israel and Iran seek to achieve through this war will not materialize. Both are interested in weakening the Arab states, casting doubt on their ability to maintain their sovereignty, and harming the strategic Arab depth components of the Palestinian people and of the central cause of the Arab nation: the cause of Palestine. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, for his part, is working to erase Palestine from the geopolitical map in the Middle East and to redraw it without the State of Palestine."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 15, 2026]
In the beginning of the current war, Palestinian Media Watch reported on the PA's self-centered concern for the "Palestinian cause."
In a blatant contradiction, the PA daily columnist accused Netanyahu of seeking to unify and make alliances with the very Arab states he is supposedly seeking to weaken. Netanyahu was said to need them in his war against Iran, and by mobilizing them he would be able to erase the "pan-Arab national struggle" against "the international Zionist colonialist project," and expand into "Greater Israel… between the Nile River and the Euphrates River":
"At the same time, he [Netanyahu] will exploit the hostility and desire for revenge... to achieve his goal: to make the Arab states that are in [Iran's] sights (the Arab Gulf states) [parentheses in source] be in one united front with Israel against Iran, meaning to erase the truth and trends in the Arab-Zionist conflict, as a Palestinian and pan-Arab national struggle against an existential threat, which is embodied by the international Zionist colonialist project. [This threat] unabashedly expresses the policy of the state of occupation and settlement colonialism(Israel) [parentheses in source], which still believes that the borders of Greater Israel are between the Nile River and the Euphrates River."
The columnist conveniently tied his imagined alliance between Israel and Iran to another libel that is part of the PA's regular arsenal of libels and has been exposed by Palestinian Media Watch, and has also been repeated heavily by the PA during the current war. According to the libel, Israel is using the war to realize its "plot" to conquer the surrounding Arab states – Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia – and create "Greater Israel."
A PLO official likewise lashed out and accused the US of wanting to "subjugate Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Turkey," while using Israel as the region's "bad cop":
Palestinian National Council Committee for Foreign and Parliamentary Affairs member Fawzi Al-Samhouri: "The second goal of the American plan after taking control of Iran's oil resources is to continue afterwards to Pakistan…They also want to subjugate the region by integrating Israel into the heart of the Arab homeland to impose it as the bad cop in the region. At the same time, the US is now subjugating this region – the region of the Arab homeland and the large Islamic states surrounding it such as Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Turkey.Turkey, despite it being a NATO member, is also part of the American plan. The US wants first to weaken Hezbollah and then also to fully control Turkey due to its geographical location."
[Fatah-run Awdah TV, Facebook page, March 16, 2026]
The following is a longer excerpt of the column in the official PA daily:
Headline: "The Persian aggression against the Arabs: Shared goals and tools"
"The trinity of wisdom, rationality, and realpolitik still regulates and dictates the policies and decisions of the leaderships in the Arab states, which are being subjected to Persian (Iranian) [parentheses in source] aggression... so that the overlapping goals that Israel and Iran seek to achieve through this war will not materialize (refers to Iranian attacks during Operation Roaring Lion; see note below -Ed.). Both are interested in weakening the Arab states, casting doubt on their ability to maintain their sovereignty, and harming the strategic Arab depth components of the Palestinian people and of the central cause of the Arab nation, the cause of Palestine. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, for his part, is working to erase Palestine from the geopolitical map in the Middle East and to redraw it without the State of Palestine...
At the same time, he will exploit the hostility and desire for revenge... to achieve his goal: to make the Arab states that are in [Iran's] sights (the Arab Gulf states) [parentheses in source] be in one united front with Israel against Iran, meaning to erase the truth and trends in the Arab-Zionist conflict, as a Palestinian and pan-Arab national struggle against an existential threat, which is embodied by the international Zionist colonialist project. [This threat] unabashedly expresses the policy of the state of occupation and settlement colonialism(Israel) [parentheses in source], which still believes that the borders of Greater Israel are between the Nile River and the Euphrates River.
In this context, we believe that those who provided Netanyahu with information to achieve success in major military attacks against the Iranian leadership and its proxies in the region are pushing towards increasing the aggression against the Arab Gulf states and against the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and increasing pressure on them to force them to join the war. In doing so, the goals will be achieved of the prime minister of religious Zionism (Netanyahu) [parentheses in source], who has used and will use all the intelligence, security, operational, and military capabilities of his state in order to convince the Arabs that ‘their fate is tied to the fate of Israel.' …
The source of our confidence in our Arab strategic depth, in the Arab peoples, and in their leaderships, is the belief in a shared destiny; Arab states exist as long as Palestine exists, and Palestine will continue to exist as long as the Arab states will defend its existence and express their sovereignty through their independent national decisions, their growing awareness, and their constant vigilance against the pawns whose mission is to undermine their sovereignty and political regimes, and to open the gates of their fortresses to those who aspire to seize their resources and strategic sites.
These pawns, who have played terrible roles in fueling religious fanaticism, are the same ones who today stand and praise the Persian aggression, and more than this – attempt to legitimize it, under the pretext that the Iranian aggressor was subjected to Israeli aggression. As if the Arab peoples and their leaderships do not know the service these pawns provided to Israel, foremost among them the ‘Qutbist Brotherhood' (i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood – refers to Sayyid Qutb, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood terror organization) and its political and armed branches, in order to allow their brothers, religious Zionism, to change the face of the Middle East."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 15, 2026]