Palestinians' Latest Scam: Hamas Can Become a 'Political Party'
by Khaled Abu Toameh • July 17, 2025 at 5:00 am
Abbas cannot have forgotten the atrocities Hamas committed against his men during the 2007 coup. Some of his loyalists were dragged to the streets and lynched, while others were thrown from the high floors of tall buildings.
In addition to the 2007 coup, Hamas, a few years later, was caught planning a second coup to try to take over the West Bank as well as the Gaza Strip.
The calls for Hamas to "join political action" actually aim to legitimize the terror group and present its leaders as a bunch of politicians seeking seats in parliament and jobs in government, when the reality is anything but that.
The international community, including the Trump administration, must not fall for this scam. Hamas was not established to serve as a "political party." Rather, the terror group was established with the main objective of murdering Jews through Jihad (holy war) and replacing Israel with an Islamist terror state.
Instead of inviting Hamas to engage in political action, Abbas and other Palestinian leaders... should have outlawed Hamas a long time ago. That would send a message to all Palestinians that there is no room for genocidal Jihadist groups in Palestinian society. Apparently, Abbas and Rajoub's desire to destroy Israel is even stronger than their decades-long hatred of Hamas.
Destroying Hamas's military capabilities is not enough. The group must also cease to exist as a "political" entity. The only politics Hamas is interested in is Jihad, destruction and death.
According to reports in some media outlets, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the Iran-backed Hamas terror group to "surrender its weapons to the Palestinian Authority."
Abbas was quoted as saying: "Hamas will not rule the Gaza Strip." His comment came long after the current war, which began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas terrorists and "ordinary" Palestinians invaded Israel, and murdered 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and wounded thousands. Another 251 Israelis and foreign nationals were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 50 – alive and dead – are still held captive.
Abbas made the statements on July 13 during a meeting in Jordan with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported:
