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Hamas' actions do not represent Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas says
2023-10-16
[Jpost] Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the actions and policies of terrorist group Hamas do not represent Palestinian people, according to official news agency WTF? WAFA.

In a phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Abbas also called the Palestine Liberation Organization the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," WAFA said.

"The president affirmed his rejection of the killing of civilians on both sides and called for the release of civilians, prisoners and detainees on both sides," added the news agency.
A message to brown girls of the world.
Posted by:Grom the Reflective

#13  put him on the list after hamas,hezbollah.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-10-16 20:38  

#12  I went to Engineering College and worked with a lot of Iranian immigrants. All were, to my knowledge, pre-Ayatollah-era (Shah) or sympathetic. Good peeps, fun to party with, and despairing what happened to Iran. I suspect most of the Iranian people are hating what's happened since 1979
Posted by: Frank G   2023-10-16 19:21  

#11  Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, fool me 1,746 times, I must be a demokrat and you must be a Palestinian!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-10-16 18:25  

#10  "No true Scotsman..."
Posted by: European Conservative   2023-10-16 17:41  

#9  PA president Abbas has been all over the map on this one: first praising Hamas, then condemning Hamas, then saying that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians… and that is only in English —who knows what he is saying in Arabic.
Trying to maximize gain and minimize harm in all directions at once, it appears to me. And also not be assassinated.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-10-16 17:19  

#8  But - here in the USA - every gun owner "has blood on their hands" every time some freak goes nuts with a gun. Every white man is responsible for the twisted rhetoric of a skinhead.

Or so the media and liberal pols tell us.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-10-16 17:14  

#7  Hamas' actions do not represent Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas says

So Palestinian pre-attack warnings to Israel (over the course of months and years) fell on deaf ears did they?

Sorry, Mahooood. You're a part of the problem.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-10-16 17:01  

#6  Abbas backtracked later that day.
Posted by: lord garth   2023-10-16 16:46  

#5  When Mahmoud Abbas is LESS "anti-Zionist" than BBC
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-10-16 13:24  

#4  #3 above" 4 Dec 2011, The Telegraph, Con Coghlin author.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355   2023-10-16 12:06  

#3  Background: "Many Iranians believe Suleiman has ruthlessly used his appointment as head of the Quds Force, which was formed during Iran's eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s, to further his own political ambitions. This was certainly the impression he sought to give when, in 2008, he sent General David Petraeus, the [then] CIA director who was then commanding US forces in Iraq, a phone text informing him that he should always deal with Suleimani if he wanted a discussion of Iranian foreign policy.
"General Petraeus," the text read, "you should know that I, Qassem Suleimani, control the policy for Iran with respect to Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, and Afghanistan.... The Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan is a Quds Force member, while Quds Force units have been sent to Syria to support the Assad regime's barbaric campaign to silence anti-government protests.
The Quds force, which takes its name from the Arabic for Jerusalem, actively supports a number of radical Islamist groups throughout the Middle East that are committed to the destruction of Israel, such as Hizbollah in Lebanon and Gaza. Israeli forces have intercepted several weapons caches bound for Hamas militants in Gaza and Hizbollah in southern Lebanon.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355   2023-10-16 12:04  

#2  So - getting what they voted for - good and hard.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-10-16 10:40  

#1  Well they were voted in, so.....
Posted by: Mercutio   2023-10-16 10:30  

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