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The Palestinian Authority’s chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, has once again revealed the moral rot at the heart of his organization, praising the barbaric October 7 Hamas attack as a triumph of “strategic impact.”
In an interview published last Sunday by the PA’s official daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, and brought to light by the vigilant work of Palestinian Media Watch, Abbas crowed that the attack “shook the foundations of the Israeli entity… revealed its glaring failure.” This is not the language of a statesman seeking peace, but of a Jew-hating propagandist reveling in carnage.
Abbas’s words, originally spoken months ago but now conveniently repackaged in a series of articles teasing a forthcoming hagiography of his life, betray a chilling indifference to the human cost of Hamas’s savagery. “On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a sudden attack... killed 1,200 Israelis, abducted 250 others, and took them as hostages,” he said, before gloating that it “exposed the [false] claims that... it has an invincible army” and laid bare “the glaring failure of this entity’s components, especially the army and the various security forces.”
His sole critique of the attack is not its moral depravity, but its fallout for Gaza’s residents. “As important as the goals that Hamas attempted to achieve through this attack may have been, they are not comparable to the damages and heavy losses that the Gaza Strip residents... have suffered,” Abbas lamented.
Adding fuel to this fire, Abbas’s senior adviser, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, recently declared the October 7 atrocities “legitimate resistance” in a March interview, repeating five times that “resistance is legitimate” and insisting that “what happened on October 7 is a legitimate thing.” Such rhetoric does not merely flirt with justifying terrorism; it embraces it with open arms.
This grotesque posturing comes as France and Saudi Arabia prepare to host a United Nations event on June 17 to push for international recognition of Palestinian statehood, a move Israeli officials rightly decry as a “prize for Hamas’s terrorism.” The timing of Abbas’s remarks, dripping with smug satisfaction, could not be more revealing. They expose the yawning chasm between the PA’s carefully curated image for Western audiences and the unfiltered venom it spews in Arabic to its own people.
Palestinian Media Watch, which unearthed this interview, argues that Abbas’s words confirm the PA’s unwavering support for terrorism, casting serious doubt on its fitness for statehood. Itamar Marcus, PMW’s founder, put it bluntly: “The interview shows that the PA unabashedly remains a terror-supporting entity.”
Marcus’s warning is stark: “Mahmoud Abbas has reminded us once again that if the PA were to become a state, it would be a terror state.” This is not hyperbole; it is a sobering truth. The West, in its eagerness to advance a two-state solution, turns a blind eye to the PA’s glorification of violence, seduced by the fiction of a partner for peace.
Abbas’s words, originally spoken months ago but now conveniently repackaged in a series of articles teasing a forthcoming hagiography of his life, betray a chilling indifference to the human cost of Hamas’s savagery. “On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a sudden attack... killed 1,200 Israelis, abducted 250 others, and took them as hostages,” he said, before gloating that it “exposed the [false] claims that... it has an invincible army” and laid bare “the glaring failure of this entity’s components, especially the army and the various security forces.”
For Abbas, the slaughter of innocents and the kidnapping of families are mere footnotes in a narrative of Palestinian triumph. Israel’s failure “to discover what Hamas was planning and to block the attack and prevent heavy losses” is, in his warped estimation, a feather in the cap of the Palestinian cause. Abbas is what is known as a garbage individual.
His sole critique of the attack is not its moral depravity, but its fallout for Gaza’s residents. “As important as the goals that Hamas attempted to achieve through this attack may have been, they are not comparable to the damages and heavy losses that the Gaza Strip residents... have suffered,” Abbas lamented.
Even here, his concern is not for the victims of Hamas’s terror but for the political and material costs to his own constituency. This is not remorse; it is calculation.
Adding fuel to this fire, Abbas’s senior adviser, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, recently declared the October 7 atrocities “legitimate resistance” in a March interview, repeating five times that “resistance is legitimate” and insisting that “what happened on October 7 is a legitimate thing.” Such rhetoric does not merely flirt with justifying terrorism; it embraces it with open arms.
And since when is killing babies resistance?
This grotesque posturing comes as France and Saudi Arabia prepare to host a United Nations event on June 17 to push for international recognition of Palestinian statehood, a move Israeli officials rightly decry as a “prize for Hamas’s terrorism.” The timing of Abbas’s remarks, dripping with smug satisfaction, could not be more revealing. They expose the yawning chasm between the PA’s carefully curated image for Western audiences and the unfiltered venom it spews in Arabic to its own people.
Palestinian Media Watch, which unearthed this interview, argues that Abbas’s words confirm the PA’s unwavering support for terrorism, casting serious doubt on its fitness for statehood. Itamar Marcus, PMW’s founder, put it bluntly: “The interview shows that the PA unabashedly remains a terror-supporting entity.”
Marcus goes further, urging Israel and the United States to block PA leaders from attending the UN event until Abbas retracts his and his adviser’s grotesque defense of October 7. “Israel must prevent Mahmoud Abbas or any PA leader from leaving for the UN,” he insists, while calling on the U.S. to deny visas to PA officials. He also demands that Israel inform France and Saudi Arabia, the event’s cosponsors, of “exactly what the PA stands for.”
Marcus’s warning is stark: “Mahmoud Abbas has reminded us once again that if the PA were to become a state, it would be a terror state.” This is not hyperbole; it is a sobering truth. The West, in its eagerness to advance a two-state solution, turns a blind eye to the PA’s glorification of violence, seduced by the fiction of a partner for peace.
Abbas’s own words betray him. To celebrate the murder of 1,200 Israelis and the abduction of 250 more as a strategic victory is not the mark of a leader, but of a fanatic. The civilized world should take note and act accordingly.
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