How Palestinian Leaders Are Deceiving Americans

by Bassam Tawil • July 13, 2021 at 5:00 am

The Palestinian Authority does not want the world to know that it has a law that prohibits the sale of property to the Israeli "enemy."
This is the same Palestinian leadership that is now telling the Biden administration that it is keen on resuming the peace process with Israel.
It is also safe to assume that the Congressmen are not aware of the Islamic religious decrees banning Muslims from even attempting to engage in such deals [selling land to Jews].
The Congressmen do not know about these matters because the mainstream media in the West rarely reports about the apartheid policies of the PA leadership, including the ban on selling properties to Jews.
Abbas knows that if he makes such concessions, he will never enjoy the privilege of being buried in a Muslim cemetery, according to the ruling of his mufti and Islamic religious bodies.
In the meantime, Abbas has no problem telling the Biden administration and members of the Congress what they like to hear (about a peace process with Israel and the so-called two state solution) in order to receive US financial aid.
Abbas will take the money while at the same time his security forces are chasing Palestinians who do business with Jews.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has no problem telling the Biden administration and members of the Congress what they like to hear in order to receive US financial aid. Abbas will take the money while at the same time his security forces are chasing Palestinians who do business with Jews. Pictured: Abbas consults a card with a written statement during a visit from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ramallah, on May 25, 2021. (Photo by Alex Brandon/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

A Palestinian man was sentenced on June 30 to seven years in prison with hard labor after he was convicted of attempting to sell land to Israeli Jews. The man, whose identity was not revealed, was sentenced by a Palestinian Authority (PA) court in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians.

"The Ramallah Court of First Instance, represented by Judges Ramez Jamhour, Ramez Musleh and Amjad al-Sha'ar, issued a ruling convicting the defendant of attempting to carve out part of the land of the State of Palestine in favor of the enemy," the PA's official news agency Wafa reported. "He was sentenced to 7 years in prison with hard labor."

"Carve out" is the term the PA uses to describe the transfer of ownership of real estate from a Palestinian to an Israeli Jew. The "enemy," needless to say, refers to Israel.

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Biden and the Mullahs: "Feeding the Crocodile"

by Majid Rafizadeh • July 13, 2021 at 4:00 am

Have the Biden administration and the European Union already forgotten the disastrous outcome of appeasing the mullahs in 2015...? US President Barack Obama pledged at the time that he was "confident" the deal would "meet the national security needs of the United States and our allies".
Throughout that time, the EU and the Obama administration not only initiated and expanded appeasement policies, they made unprecedented concessions in an attempt to dissuade the ruling mullahs from their internal and external aggression. The US and the EU met the Iranian mullahs with generosity and flexibility every step of the way.
After sanctions against the mullahs were lifted, instead of bringing peace and curbing Iran's malign behavior at home and abroad, those appeasements... generated billions of dollars in revenue for Iran's military institution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as for Iran's militia and terror groups. Tehran used that influx of revenues to expand its influence throughout the region, especially in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq.
Iran's aggressive expansion campaign proved immensely successful. The Iranian-armed Houthis ratcheted up efforts to cause death and destruction in Yemen, and Hezbollah escalated its involvement and control of large swathes of Syrian territory. The region also saw a greater propensity for Houthi rocket launches at civilian targets in Saudi Arabia, the deployment of thousands of Hezbollah foot soldiers in Syria, and the constant bombardment of southern Israel by Iranian-funded Hamas rockets.
The present Western strategy is no different from enriching the Nazi Germany during WWII or Soviet Russia during the Cold War. For the rogue state, concessions and appeasements mean weakness. It would have been so much less costly in life and treasure to stop Hitler before he crossed the Rhine.

The Biden administration and the EU appear determined to pursue a dangerous policy of appeasement against a regime that chants "Death to America", that plots to push the US out of the Middle East, that is committed to uprooting and replacing Israel, and that is, according to the US Department of State, one of only four state sponsors of terrorism, as well as a leading violator of human rights. Pictured: Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, proclaims "Death to America." (Image source: MEMRI video screenshot)

Winston Churchill famously warned against appeasing the aggressor: "Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear -- I fear greatly -- the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, ever more loudly, ever more widely. It will spread to the South; it will spread to the North."

History has repeatedly proven that appeasing a rogue state only emboldens and empowers it. Nevertheless, the Biden administration and the European Union appear determined to pursue this dangerous policy of appeasement against a regime that chants "Death to America", that plots to push the US out of the Middle East, that is committed to uprooting and replacing Israel, and that is, according to the US Department of State, one of only four state sponsors of terrorism, as well as a leading violator of human rights.

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