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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
Shortly after Hamas terrorists and masses of Gazan civilian collaborators tortured, raped, wounded and massacred thousands of innocent Jewish Israeli women, babies, children and men, President Biden warned other actors who might seek to further harm Israel: “Let me say again — to any country, any organization, anyone thinking of taking advantage of this situation, I have one word: Don’t. Don’t.” (“Remarks by President Biden on the Terrorist Attacks in Israel,” Oct. 10, 2023.)
Unfortunately, it is now the Biden administration that is “taking advantage of the situation” by pressing forward with its dangerous, reckless plan to have a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority (PA/PLO/Fatah) terror (pay-to-slay) regime and eventual Palestinian terror state rule Gaza. U.S. State Department officials are working in Ramallah to prepare the PA to rule Gaza, while the Biden administration is pressuring Israel (which opposes PA rule) to accept it.
And after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken despicably and outrageously insisted that the “only” approach is “a pathway to a Palestinian state” and stated that “Israel must stop taking steps that undercut Palestinians’ ability to govern themselves effectively” [video, min. 35:30]. Blinken thus wrongly blamed Israel while saying nothing about the Palestinian Authority’s pay-to-slay terror incitement, and participation in and support for the October 7 atrocities. Instead, Blinken insisted that Israel should turn over tax revenues to the PA, which the PA will use for pay-to-slay payments to murder Jews. (Blinken falsely claimed that the PA will use the revenues for security to benefit Israel.) Blinken moreover threatened that peace between Israel and other regional nations was contingent on Israel “making hard decisions” to allow a Palestinian terror state; and that a Palestinian terror state must be part of any “normalization” efforts.
ZOA reminds President Biden of his own words, “Don’t. Don’t!”
Alarmingly, key members of the Biden administration team in charge of this planning process have records of hostile and/or harmful positions towards Israel, including Hady Amr, who said that he was “inspired” by the Intifada terror wars against Israel, and far-left wing Dan Shapiro, who criticized President Trump’s embassy move for taking Israel’s capital Jerusalem off the table; testified in favor of watering down the Taylor Force Act; and as U.S. ambassador to Israel, lambasted Israel and questioned Israel’s peaceful “intentions” while Palestinian Arab terrorists were murdering innocent Jewish women, which resulted in both Israeli officials and a leading U.S. Congress member condemning Shapiro’s statements.
Here’s why Israel, ZOA and numerous others oppose PA rule over Gaza:
PA rule means joint rule with Hamas and PIJ – or sole Hamas rule again: The PA and its ruling Fatah party have made it clear that the PA is only willing to rule Gaza in a unity government with the Iran-controlled Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organizations. Fatah Secretary General Jibril Rajoub, who speaks on behalf of PA dictator Mahmoud Abbas, reiterated several times in recent weeks that Hamas “has been part of our [the PA’s] political and social fabric and the fabric of our struggle, and it still is, and it will remain, period. …We will not go to [govern] the Gaza Strip without national agreement that will include political Islam, whether it is our brothers in Hamas or our brothers in [Islamic] Jihad. This is impossible.” (See Palestinian Media Watch videos and translations of this and numerous similar recent statements here.)
And the last time the PA attempted to rule Gaza, Hamas promptly threw PA members off buildings and seized control of Gaza. History will likely repeat itself, as Hamas is far more popular with the Palestinian Arab public than the PA is. (Recent Palestinian polls reveal that 75% of “West Bank” Palestinian Arabs want Hamas to rule Gaza after the current war; most of the remainder want a PA-Hamas unity government to rule Gaza; and only approximately 2% want the PA alone to rule Gaza.)
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