Will The Real Mahmoud Abbas Please Stand UP?!!!

"Despite all that our people have suffered, we reject what Hamas carried out on October 7."

"[The targeting and hostage taking of Israeli citizens does] not represent the Palestinian people [nor] their just struggle for freedom and independence."

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas   

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video at United Nations headquarters, September 25, 2025. (AP/Angelina Katsanis)

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas lost little time in responding to the 20-point journey to end the conflict in Gaza occasioned by the 7 October 2023 incursion into Israel by thousands of Palestinian terrorists and civilians orchestrated by Hamas on a mission to slaughter Israeli civilians, rape Israeli girls and women, dismember their victims in an orgy of sadistic pleasure, and take children, the elderly, women and Israeli soldiers captive as hostages into Gaza. Hamas and the PA [PLO/Fatah] have always been political rivals, the former leading a secular authority, the latter committed to an Islamist state.

 

When the 20-point plan was released, PA President Abbas announced he was prepared to be enlisted within the plan to provide "a modern and democratic state that abides by international law, the rule of law and multilateralism and the peaceful transition of power". The Palestinian Authority under his rule was prepared to work the U.S. and assigned partners in the implementation of the peace plan; he is "ready to bear full responsibility for governance and security" in the absence of Hamas.

 

With the support of the peace plan behind him, the man promising a democratic government who has himself ruled the West Bank after an initial election two decades earlier that was never again brought to the polls, assured his Western contacts that his preparedness is there, and Hamas must hand over its weapons to the Palestinian National Authority. The messages he sends expressed in Arabic to an Arab audience fail to quite match the statements of commitment to peace and good order and rejection of violence that the UN heard from him.  

"On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a sudden attack ... killed 1,200 Israelis, abducted 250 others, and took them as hostages."

"This attack shook the foundations of the Israeli entity."

"[The attacks that day] exposed the [false] claims that ... [Israel] has an invincible army." 

Mahmoud Abbas

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa (C-L) listens as Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (C) speaks at a press conference on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing in Rafah on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP

 

After the butchery of October 7, 2023, when Israelis were reeling in disbelief and sorrow, Mahmoud Abbas eventually, after a five-day hiatus expressed his sentiments on the massacre during a meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan while in Amman, stating: "We reject the practices of killing civilians or abusing them on both sides", handily glossing over his leading role in producing school curricula for Palestinian children that characterize Jews and Israelis as loathsome colonialists stealing Palestinian land, urging children to contemplate the glory of martyrdom in defiance of Israeli 'oppression', as a cruel 'occupier'.

 

When speaking in June to the PA's daily paper Al-Hayat Al Jadida, Mr. Abbas outright applauded the October 7 massacre for "achieving important goals", attracting the attention of Palestinian Media Watch for translation to English as he celebrated the strategic achievement that Hamas achieved that day. On the other hand in a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman he wrote: "What Hamas did on October 2023 in killing and taking civilians hostage is unacceptable and condemnable and Hamas must immediately release all hostages". 

"As important as the goals that Hamas attempted to achieve through this attack may have been, they are not comparable to the damages and heavy losses that the Gaza Strip residents ... have suffered."

Mahmoud Abbas 

This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority’s press office shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas applauding as he gives a video address to a UN summit on a two-state solution in New York City, from his headquarters in Ramallah on September 22, 2025. (Thaer GHANAIM / PPO / AFP)

"They [Palestinian leaders] wanted peace. They wanted a state. They wanted self-rule. In fact they got self-rule."

"But this Hamas terrorist organization, which believed, one, that Israel can't exist at all, and there's no compromise, and that, two, Palestine must be an Islamist state, not a secular state. They set about destroying any hopes for that."

"If you're dealing with the same parties and the same actors and the same agendas, then you're likely going to have the same outcome."

"If Hamas is allowed to exist, how then does the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian government succeed in administering its population?"

"Hamas is not going to bow down to that easily. They never have. It is for Hamas, total victory or death."

Terrorism expert Lara Burns, former FBI agent 

 

Muslim Occupation of Canadian Schools

"Israel was established after its neighbours rejected a United Nations plan to partition the land between Jews and Arabs. As it was founded, [Israel] joined the United Nations in 1949. The legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state is completely insusceptible to question, and the attempt to represent it as entirely a wrongful occupation of anyone else's territory is not even slightly sustainable."

"The Jews have transformed a primitive country in one lifetime into a sophisticated and prosperous democratic state where the deserts now bloom, and [as] a nuclear power."

"The Jews have been in what is now Israel for more than 5,000 years. The Phoenicians, Jews, Egyptians, Syrians, Persians, Macedonians, Seleucids Romans, Byzantines, Arabians, Turks, and British have governed there, but not the Palestinians."

"The elimination by force of Israel is impossible and all attempts to do so are doomed in advance, as well as illegal."

Conrad Black, Canadian businessman, publisher, writer, historian

"Over 700,000 Palestinians were forcefully expelled from their homes, more than 15,000 were massacred, and over 500 of their villages were destroyed."

"To uphold our commitment to social justice, decolonization and reconciliation, it is imperative that we ensure students do not leave the education system completely ignorant of the history of Palestine and Israel. We cannot have yet another generation grow up believing it's 'too complicated' or 'too sensitive'."

Pro-Palestinian 'activist' group letter, British Columbia

Action Alert #30   Demand That the Nakba Be Added to the BC Curriculum-- Muslim Alert

"[The proposal in the letter sent to the NDP British Columbia government] is a distortion of 'what happened in 1948'."

"It omits the fact that the [Arab] Palestinians launched the war in defiance of the proposal by the international community [UN partition plan]."

"That's not in there and neither is the second part of the war, which was launched by the Arab states when they invaded Israel in May 1948."

"It doesn't explain why 700,000 Jews were uprooted from the Arab states in which they had lived until 1948, under pressure by Arab societies and Arab governments, creating a Jewish refugee problem. None of this is explained or touched upon at all in that proposal they made."

Israeli historian, pre-eminent scholar, Benny Morris

 

"Students in British Columbia learn about history throughout the K-12 curriculum -- including references to international wars and global conflicts."

"At the local level, school districts and teachers us their professional judgement when choosing to incorporate current and historical conflicts into their lesson planning that align with the required learning standards of the curriculum."

British Columbia education ministry statement

Protesters hold an effigy of Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a rally to call for a ceasefire, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada March 9, 2024.

(photo credit: REUTERS/Ismail Shakil)

Organizers of an open letter demanding a new curriculum in British Columbia's school system that would feature politicized content on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians include the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Network which has its headquarters in Vancouver, and which is known to have close associations with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, widely acknowledged as a terrorist group, listed on Canada's designated list of international terrorist organizations. 

Samidoun has recognition from Germany -- the 20th century's infamous, most lethal proponent of acidic antisemitism -- as a major proponent of repulsive racist hatred toward Jews, and as such is not only deemed a terrorist group, but is proscribed from operating in Germany, in accord with its laws against Holocaust denial and antisemitism in a state dedication to rejecting its shameful past in recognition of its monumental debt to humanity. 

In Justin Trudeau's Canada, with the Liberal leader's eye fixed on a large and growing voting bloc, unwilling to hazard alienating Arab/Palestinian/Muslim votes, Samidoun with its well-known penchant for demonizing Israel and Jews is nonchalantly permitted to operate. On October 7, even while Hamas began committing its widespread atrocities in southern Israel, Samidoun's statement glorified the ongoing massacre:

"The resistance is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza with a comprehensive  offensive, confronting the occupier by land, air and sea", completing its jubilant sentiment over sadistic savagery with images of terrorists clad in keffiyehs.

The British Columbia education ministry responded to the letter non-committally, leaving open an opportunity for committed antisemites in its public school system to proceed with their own biased interpretation, apart from, or filling in the regular school curriculum by advising parents to contact their child's teacher or principal should they wish to discuss what is being taught in the school their children attend.

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), teacher delegates passed a historic motion about Palestine. The motion asked the BCTF to push the Ministry of Education to include the Nakba and the military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank in the BC curriculum.  Spring Magazine

These 'social activists' looking to improve on the reality of historical events they view with the jaundiced eye of cherished victimhood, sent their letter with its demands to Rachna Singh, British Columbia's minister of Education and Child Care, insisting social studies curricula in the province be overhauled to draw attention to the "Nakba" (catastrophe) that Palestinians mourn and Jews celebrate, as the formal rebirth of the State of Israel.

This refers to the time when five Arab countries responded to the declaration of statehood for Israel by amassing a collective military assault on the nascent Jewish State. Historian Gil Troy's thought was the implementation of a constructive lesson plan could alternately examine support for partition and the two-state solution from then-diplomat Lester B. Pearson, later Nobel Laureate, and Prime Minister of Canada. A lesson plan that would provoke students "to think for themselves" not reliant on "partisan lies" as a service to young students.

Samidoun was not alone in writing the letter with its appeal for justification in 'adjusting' history. There was input by other interested 'pro-Palestinian' (the preferred term to 'anti-Israel, anti-Jew) groups such as Teachers 4 Palestine BC, Palestinian Youth Movement Vancouver, and Independent Jewish Voices, a fringe group promoting Holocaust denial conspiracies which doesn't hesitate to participate in events staged by antisemites and sympathizers of terrorism aimed at Jews and Israel.

Israeli infantry making a full assault on Egyptian forces in the Negev area of Israel during the war of independence. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images

"By not acknowledging that most Palestinian Arabs rejected the compromise -- and encouraged terrorist attacks on their Palestinian Jewish neighbours -- the petition, and implicitly the curriculum doesn't explain how the war truly began."

"[The letter demanding school curricula be altered, is an example of] twistory, not history [framed to perpetuate a simplistic] misleading [narrative with no educational value]."

"And it, of course, ignores the invasion by outside Arab armies in May 1948, when the Jews, who accepted the compromise, launched Israel, as per the UN's vision."

"It overlooks the United Nations' attempt at compromise -- in its 1947 Partition Plan, which recognized the historical legitimacy of Jewish ties to the land. It also ignores the fact that Canada voted for the partition and that a great Canadian leader, Lester B. Pearson, had a leading role in drawing up the proposed compromise."

"The letter takes a complicated conflict, which could be taught sensitively and thoughtfully, with a nuance and respect for the truth, and reduces it to a one-sided opportunity to erase the history of Israel, the legitimacy of Zionism, the depth of Jewish ties to the land -- while bashing Canada along the way."

Distinguished historian Gil Troy, McGill University academic

Hamas's Excruciating Game of Death and Sadistic Theatrics

"[Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh learned from personal imprisonment and subsequent release that] hostage diplomacy works."

"[Haniyeh's strategy is to] leverage hostages to extort concessions from Israel."

He's employing ISIS tactics in releasing videos and implicitly threatening to execute hostages if his demands are not met."

"Thus far, hostages have been a massive miscalculation by Hamas, as Israel has not relented and adheres to the common practice of not giving in to hostage diplomacy, because that ends up putting more citizens at risk of being kidnapped."

Canadian military academic Christian Leuprecht 

"[The Hamas video releases represent] psychological warfare."

"It testifies to Hamas cruelty toward innocent, very elderly civilians who are in need of medical care."

"The world must act in order to deliver medical aid and check on the state of the hostages."

IDF spokesperson

The world watched in horror as a video emerged of Noa Argamani, 26, sitting on the back of a motorbike as she screamed 'Don't kill me' to the men surrounding her during Hamas's attacks on Israel on October 7 killing 340 Israelis at the Nova Music Festival

 

The world has concerned itself over the welfare of Palestinians in Gaza resulting from Israel's response to the barbarism enacted by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary Palestinian citizens who flooded by their thousands into southern Israel, breaching the separation wall, destroying outpost lookouts, killing the female detachment on duty, and going on to slaughter over 1,400 civilian Israeli children, women, the elderly and others. The Red Cross is usually tasked with delivering humanitarian and medical aid, but its focus has been Palestinian civilians not the Israeli hostages.

 

Hamas continues to demonstrate its proficiency in achieving new lows in savagely vile actions. Its video release of a "teaser" showing three of the Israelis among the 136 still held by them and by PIJ and ordinary Palestinian civilians was a deliberate act of sadism. In the video were Noa Argamani, 26, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, the first visions of the three their families have seen since they were abducted on October 7. The three  hostages are shown in the video speaking to the camera. 

 

Hamas released a video showing hostage Noa Argamani explaining how Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirski were killed in captivity

 

Urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war and bring them home, it's clear they are all under duress, suffering and fearful, repeating a script given to them by their captors, with no option but to behave as instructed. They also state the conditions they are living through are difficult. They lack food and water and state that they are being held in places vulnerable to Israeli air strikes against Hamas assets; their interminable tunnel system, control centers, commandeered civilian structures.

When the agonized video finally concludes there is a display of two lifeless bodies, that of Sharabi and Svirsky. Argamani speaks to the camera, that separate airstrikes killed her two companions, and she was herself injured on her head and body by shrapnel, pleading for Israel to bring all the hostages home. The first video was released Sunday evening with the promise that Hamas was prepared to deliver a follow-up the next day.

 

Itai Svirski killed while being held captive by Hamas

 

The Hamas chief Haniyeh is chairman of the political bureau of Hamas. His safe place of residence is Qatar; he has amassed a personal fortune of over $4 billion. From his safe distance he instructs  his lieutenants how to proceed in their dedication to destroying Israel. Hostage videos are favourite vehicles for both ISIS and Hamas to draw attention, create fear and to exert pressure on authorities. Hostage videos are  used for the purpose of threatening, demanding ransoms, or making political statements.

 

According to the latest exchanges between Hamas and Israeli officials, the number of hostages still held in Gaza is unacknowledged because Hamas claims it has lost track, adding that many of the hostages had been victimized by Israeli air strikes, to account for the dead that Hamas might never wish to reveal its responsibility for. The Sunday video release coincided with the 100th day of the invasion of Gaza. The Hamas flair for drama and death displays is second to none.

 

Yossi Sharabi allegedly killed after the building the hostages were housed in was hit by an Israeli airstrike

Hamas Savage Barbarity Excused

"To say otherwise is to accept and endorse colonialism in all its forms. [To say otherwise is not allowed]."

"We condemn any statement that denies or shifts away from the narrative of colonialism."

"Palestinians are the subjects of Israel's colonization and genocide."

Metropolitan University Lincoln Alexander law school, Toronto

"There are any number of sobering lessons that might be drawn from the obscene celebrations of mass murder that have erupted across Canada in the aftermath of the October 7 massacres in Israel, when "special forces" units of the Hamas terrorist organization carried out the bloodiest pogrom in Jewish history since the Holocaust.

"That a genteel, faculty-lounge variety of antisemitism has gone unchallenged for too long is certainly one lesson. Another is that Canada's official toleration of the propaganda, recruitment and fundraising arms of terrorist organizations is bad policy that free-speech rights cannot be allowed to excuse."

Terry Glavin, journalist, National Post

Israeli forces extracting dead bodies of Israeli residents from a destroyed house in Kfar Aza, Israel, on October 10. Ilia Yefimovich/picture-alliance/dpa/AP

 

To be perfectly clear here, Palestinian Gaza's Hamas rulers committed unspeakable acts of inhumanity against thousands of infants, teens, girls and women, elderly and Israeli soldiers in their brazen demonstration of savagery unlike anything the world can imagine perpetrated by trained killers purporting to be liberators of Palestine. So proud of their inhumanity that they recorded for posterity in real time the atrocities they committed against helpless people. Crimes that will join the annals of the world's evil excesses in barbarity.

Perhaps even more shocking is that hordes of ordinary Palestinian men and teens flooded into Israel after the Hamas operatives to take joy and pleasure in the circumstances that allowed them to commit violence similar to what the terrorists themselves were perpetrating in an orgy of blood-letting and merciless mutilations. These are the people who support Hamas, these are the people who emulate Hamas, and for whom inflicting terror and vicious pain on people they've been instructed and taught to hate is entertainment.

The prime minister of Canada himself, in full knowledge of the extent of the excruciatingly dreadful acts committed by the terrorist group chose to instantly believe what their 'Health Authority' claimed in charging that Israeli forces bombed a hospital and that 500 innocent Palestinians were killed, as a result. Israel's immediate rejoinder explaining that it was Palestinian Islamic Jihad which was firing rockets off from nearby grounds and that one of the rockets exploded and fell onto the hospital parking lot was rejected 'until proof could be found' their explanation reflected reality.

"I'm horrified by the loss of life at Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza. My thoughts are with those who lost loved ones."

"It is imperative that innocent civilians be protected and international law upheld."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

The prime minister's insinuation that Israel was responsible for bombing the hospital and must be held to account was belied when days later Defence Minister Bill Blair made the announcement that the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command's independent analyses indicated "with a high degree of confidence" that it was not Israel that struck the hospital; that "the more likely scenario is that the strike was caused by an errant rocket fired from Gaza". Trudeau has not since apologized.

And nor was the hospital destroyed, much less hit. It was vehicles parked in the hospital parking lot that took the brunt of the damage. No doubt there were casualties; the hospital director himself some days later minimized the total afflicted. But to critics and haters of Israel, the guilt will remain with the original accusations that also blame it for the rampage by Hamas terrorists for the slaughter of families in their homes and streets of the towns and kibbutzim and the music festival at Re'im.

In Canada, since the horrors of October 7, dozens of demonstrations have taken place, rallying protesters around the fiction that Israel is intent on carrying out a "genocide" of Palestinians in Gaza. Organizers exhort Canadians to support a "resistance" that legitimates terrorism that sees nothing amiss when proof is provided, courtesy of Hamas operatives themselves, of dismembered babies and families burned alive in their homes after being tortured.

Now, there are universal calls for a "ceasefire" in Gaza based on the narrative that the "root cause" of the horrors that took place in Gaza can be attributed to "Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory", which just happens to be a Biblical-era-forward geography of ancestral Judaean land reclaimed by its rightful indigenous inheritors.

People attend a vigil for Israeli victims at the Stephen Wise Temple, October 8, 2023, after the terrorist  group Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP