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Bassam Tawil

Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East.

“Where is the victory? How much did it cost?” asks a Lebanese journalist. “How can one claim victory in the face of a massacre that has destroyed all the logic of resistance?”
The idea that Abbas or any other Palestinian leader would rein in Hamas in the West Bank is false and dangerous.
The Biden administration and the international community must understand that the hands of Mahmoud Abbas and his P.A. also drip with the Hamas victims’ blood.
If anyone needs to make concessions for peace it is the P.A., whose leaders continue to spread antisemitism and falsehoods about Israel and Jews, promote and glorify violence—and pay salaries to terrorists and their families to go murder Jews.
The Palestinians never saw the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as a peace gesture—they saw it as a retreat.
According to some reports, nearly 40,000 Palestinians have left the Gaza Strip since 2018.
By demanding money in return for keeping silent about a Saudi-Israeli deal, the Palestinian leadership is making promises they cannot and will not keep.
Iran and its Palestinian terror proxies are now openly stating that their goal is not only to eliminate Israel, but also to thwart efforts to normalize relations between Israel and Arab countries.
HRW’s reports are no less dangerous than the non-stop incitement to violence by Hamas, PIJ, Qatar and Iran.