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Backtalk I


ZIVA DAHL / GUEST COLUMNIST


Biden’s Dangerous Palestinian Fantasy


n his oct. 20 oval office address to the nation, President Joe Biden said that “Hamas does not repre- sent the Palestinian people,” a statement he has fre- quently repeated.


If this is true, why has Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority — the governing body on the West Bank — refused to call any elections since 2006? Because he knows that Palestinians would replace him


with Hamas. In the last election in 2006, Palestinians on the West Bank


and in Gaza voted for Hamas. Abbas suspended the results and Hamas fi ghters promptly seized control of Gaza, creat- ing the terror state. There has not been an election since. Abbas is in the 19th


year of his four-year term. In 2014, acknowledging the popularity of Hamas,


Abbas admitted that “Hamas is an integral part of the Palestinian people.” Poll after poll reveals that an overwhelming number of Palestinians support terrorism to eradicate the Jewish state and its Jewish population. A majority of Palestinians support Hamas’ “armed strug-


gle” against Israel and 67% oppose a two-state solution. A June poll showed that 71% of Palestinians support


Hamas terror groups in the West Bank. A majority see terror- ist groups and the murder of Jews — not the construction of schools and hospitals — as their proudest accomplishment over the past seven decades. If Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinians, why hasn’t


the Palestinian president, the supposed “moderate,” con- demned the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities? Instead, he issued a statement of solidarity with the Hamas butchers. His political party, Fatah, called for the extermination


of all Jews: “Strike the sons of apes and pigs . . . slaughter everyone who is Israeli.” In the days after the Oct. 7 massacre, Abbas’ Ministry of


Religious Aff airs instructed mosque preachers to include in their sermons a quote attributed to Islam’s prophet Muham- mad that teaches that the redemption of humanity is con- tingent on Muslims killing and eventually exterminating all Jews — the very same quote included in the Hamas charter. Do we believe President Biden or the truth? Since the Oct. 7 massacre, there have been dozens of large


West Bank pro-Hamas demonstrations calling Jews “human waste” and glorifying the butchery of Jews. Why did a mob of about 1,500 Palestinian civilians from


Gaza spontaneously join in the Hamas slaughter, desecrat- ing dead bodies, raping, looting, and hostage-taking as docu-


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mented in videos and eyewitness accounts? Gadi Yarkoni, resident of Kibbutz Nirim, recalled “it was


not only Hamas . . . it was the residents of Gaza, including people who worked in our kibbutzim.” Gazan residents, many hundreds of them, danced around


terrifi ed, abducted children and other Israeli civilian hostag- es, spitting and hitting them, screaming “death to the Jews.” Hamas videoed this despicable behavior. Why is it, Mr. President, that Palestinians and their sup-


porters abroad have not condemned the worst single-day murder of Jews since the Holocaust? Instead, the Palestinian diaspora and their fellow travel-


ers in the U.S. and Europe celebrate the carnage. On American college campuses, in New York City’s Times


Square, in Berlin, Germany, and Sydney, Australia, they screamed ”death to the Jews” and “gas the Jews,” displaying swastikas and signs claiming Jews got what they deserve. At the University of North Carolina, Palestinian stu-


dents and their supporters chanted, “Palestine is Hamas, Hamas is Palestine.” Why, when Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib,


D-Mich., was asked repeatedly if she supports Hamas, did she remain silent instead of answering with a resounding “Of course not”? President Biden was correct when he spoke of Hamas


on Oct. 20: “Hamas — its stated purpose for existing is the destruction of the State of Israel and the murder of Jewish people.”


However, his comment that “Hamas doesn’t represent


the Palestinian people” is a dangerous and blatant lie. The Biden administration is engaging in self-deception,


refusing to recognize the reality of a Palestinian popula- tion radicalized by decades of brainwashing and incite- ment against Israel and Jews — in mosques, in the media, in schools, on university campuses, in sports and summer camps.


National Review editor Andrew McCarthy describes


Biden’s self-deception: “There are these nice Palestinians who just want ‘self-determination’ and the ‘dignity’ of governing themselves democratically, but they keep being undermined by a handful of bad terrorists — about whom we really can’t do much, so we need to pretend that the problem is those pain-in-the-a** Jews who stubbornly insist on existing.”


Ziva Dahl is a senior fellow with the public policy group Haym Salomon Center and a writer about U.S.-Israel relations.


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