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Bassam Tawil is a scholar based in the Middle East. This article originally appeared on the Gatestone Institute website (gatestoneinstitute.org).
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By Bassam Tawil
The only party that deserving blame is Abbas and his associates. They are rejecting a desperately needed medical facility solely in order to be able to continue to lay the blame for the suffering of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip at the doorstep of Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
These leaders' biggest fear is that economic prosperity might divert Palestinians' attention from the fight against Israel. Like his rivals in Hamas, Abbas seems afraid that once Palestinians start enjoying the fruits of a strong economy, they will stop thinking of killing Israelis or abandon the Palestinian dream of destroying Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is not concerned that innocent Jews are stabbed by aterrorist. What the Palestinian Authority is disturbed about is the killing of the terrorist.
By Bassam Tawil
Instead of giving Jabari a chance to carry out his initiative, Palestinians have waged a massive smear campaign against him, with many denouncing him as a "traitor" and "collaborator" with Israel and Jews. Some Palestinians have even gone as far as calling for his arrest or execution.
By Bassam Tawil
The real "pro-Palestinian" groups are those who are willing to raise their voices against the mistreatment of Palestinians at the hands of their Arab brothers. The real "pro-Palestinian" groups are those that are prepared to advocate for democracy and free speech for Palestinians living under the repressive regimes of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.. Where are they? Do they even exist?
By Bassam Tawil
The Trump administration will learn that peace with Israel is seen by many Arabs and Muslims as nothing but an unacceptable threat that must at all costs be stopped.
By Bassam Tawil
What will happen the day after a Palestinian state is established? The answer, according to Hamas and Islamic Jihad (and other Palestinians) is that they will use it to continue the "armed struggle" to 'liberate' Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Tiberias, Haifa and Ashdod. Under these current circumstances, a Palestinian state will pose an immediate existential danger to Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
Those who are encouraging women and children to take part in a violent confrontation with the Israeli army should be held accountable for war crimes. It is time for the international community to call on Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip to stop hiding behind women and children and to stop using them as human shields in their jihad to eliminate Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
The message that Abbas and his officials are sending to the Arabs: "You need to join us in our campaign to stop our leaders from making peace with Israel. You must condemn any leader who seeks normalization with Israel as a traitor."
By Bassam Tawil
If a Palestinian who buys Israeli milk is a traitor in the eyes of Fatah, it is not difficult to imagine the fate of any Palestinian who would dare to discuss compromise with Israel. If he is lucky, he will have a close encounter with a firebomb. If he is not lucky, he will be hanged in a public square.
By Bassam Tawil
Palestinian leaders are not offering their people a better life, prosperity, security and stability. Instead, the leaders are urging Palestinians to continue hating Israel and the US. They are urging Arab countries not to make peace with Israel: they consider normalization with Israel an act of treason.
By Bassam Tawil
According Abbas's Ministry of Information, Israeli soldiers searching for terrorists is an "act of terrorism," but not the shooting of a pregnant woman and six other Israeli civilians standing at a bus stop.
By Bassam Tawil
Hamas and the other Palestinian terrorist groups have interpreted the failure of the US-sponsored resolution as an internationally sanctioned license to continue killing Jews.
By Bassam Tawil
The message that Iran is sending to Palestinian families is: "If you want money and a good life, send your children to die on the border with Israel." This is a message that is likely to reverberate far and wide among Arabs, well beyond the Palestinians.
By Bassam Tawil
Qatar's $15 million cash grant has failed to stop Hamas from launching hundreds of rockets into Israel. On the contrary, the money has only emboldened Hamas and increased its appetite to continue its jihad to eliminate Israel. All the money in the world will not convince Hamas to abandon its ideology or soften its position toward Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
A real truce between Israel and the Gaza Strip will be achieved only after the jihadi terrorists are removed from power, and not rewarded for violence and threats.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinian terrorist groups want a truce, or period of calm, so that they can continue preparing for the next war against Israel without having to worry about Israeli military operations.
By Bassam Tawil
Arab and Muslim states could start to think of ways to help Palestinians achieve a better life and improve their children's future instead of sitting in refugee camps and waiting for handouts from the UN and other Western countries. Or is continuing to beg non-Arabs and non-Muslims for money the better deal?
By Bassam Tawil
Palestinian leaders and their religious clerics do not want to see Arabs live a comfortable life under Israel. They are afraid that the world would see that Arabs can have a good life under Israeli sovereignty.
By Bassam Tawil
Why is the UN apparently prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the Gaza Strip while keeping Hamas in power and even allowing it to become stronger? Why is the UN being allowed to play the role of savior of Hamas?
By Bassam Tawil
Some Israeli Arab leaders want Israel to disappear as a Jewish homeland. If these leaders are so unhappy in Israel perhaps they should consider leaving for another Arab country. Why do they refrain from doing so? Because it's in the Jewish homeland that they and their children can live and thrive.
By Bassam Tawil
Imagine world response had the Chief Rabbi of Israel issued a decree banning Jews from doing business with Muslims. But in the instance of the Palestinian mufti and his superiors in Ramallah, everything seems to be fine -- once again, the international community turns a blind eye to the Palestinian leaders' apartheid and their terrorizing of their own people.
By Bassam Tawil
On the very day that the prince was in Ramallah, the PA repeated its pledge to continue funding terrorists and their families. One hopes that Prince William enjoyed his visit to Ramallah and that he asks his advisors to translate for him what Palestinian leaders are saying to their own people in Arabic.
By Bassam Tawil
If Kushner and Greenblatt wish to learn more about the true ambitions of the Palestinians, they would do well to take in a sermon at a mosque on some Friday or stop into a Palestinian. They would see that no peace plan in the world can, at the moment, counter the poison that is injected daily into the hearts and minds of the Palestinians and their children.
By Bassam Tawil
The basis of "The Fayyad Plan" (Official title: "Palestine: Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State") was, and remains, the creation of a de facto state -- without the need for negotiation with Israel -- through facts on the ground in areas under full Israeli administrative and security administration.
By Bassam Tawil
There are two important factors that the international community needs to notice regarding the fire kites that the Palestinians are sending to Israel from the Gaza Strip. First: those who are launching the kites are making it clear that their ultimate goal is to kill as many Jews as possible and bring about the obliteration of Israel. Second: the Palestinians see all Jews living in Israel as "settlers.
By Bassam Tawil
Yelling lies about Israel and Jews does not make one "pro-Palestinian." It only makes one an Israel-hater. If people really want to help the Palestinians, let them stand up and shout about human rights under Hamas or the PA
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians' problem is not with a settlement or a checkpoint or a fence. They have a problem with the existence of Israel in any borders. Palestinians have still not come to terms with Israel's right to exist, period; this is the essence of the Israeli-Arab conflict. They see Israel as one big settlement that needs to be ripped out.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians are hoping to extort protection money from the Americans. It is like saying, "You see what will happen to you if you stop funding me? It could always get worse for you. I suggest that you restore my accountability-free funding, and perhaps I will see to it that you do not get hurt."
By Bassam Tawil
13 of 15 "human rights organizations" proved that they are, in fact, dedicated to defaming the State of Israel, and have no real interest in defending human rights.
By Bassam Tawil
Make no mistake: the Palestinians will see their presence in the four neighborhoods as the first step towards the re-division of Jerusalem. The Palestinians will say that these Israeli concessions are not enough. Worse, the Palestinians are likely to use the four neighborhoods as launching pads to carry out terror attacks against Israel to "liberate the rest of Jerusalem."
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinian leadership is again trying to trick the international community, particularly gullible Jews who have good intentions.
By Bassam Tawil
The mass protests are aimed at forcing Israel to accept millions of Palestinian "refugees" as a first step towards turning Jews into a minority in their own country. The next step? Kill or expel the Jews and replace Israel with an Islamic state
By Bassam Tawil
Islamic Jihad's plan for "real peace" in the Middle East is achieved by eliminating Israel after "liberating Palestine, from the river to the sea, and after the original owners of the land return to their homes."
By Bassam Tawil
It is time to listen carefully to what the Palestinians are saying -- in Arabic -- to understand that the conflict is not about Jerusalem and not about settlements. They want Israel removed from the planet.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians' mock trial and "execution" of Trump and Pence gives the Palestinians a green light to target Americans physically. Members of Abbas's ruling Fatah faction participated in the mock trial and "execution" of the US president and the Vice President.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians do not even feel the need to condemn terror attacks against Jews, because the international community is no longer demanding that they come out against terrorism.
By Bassam Tawil
Palestinian behavior has made their message as clear as water: the conflict is not about an embassy or a settlement or a fence or a checkpoint, but about the very presence of Jews in this part of the world.
By Bassam Tawil
Newsflash for journalists: There's nothing new on the Palestinian street. Threats of violence and walking out of any "peace process" is old, old news. Jerusalem is not on fire. Jerusalem is tense, and has long been so, because the Palestinians have not yet managed to come to terms with Israel's right to exist. That is the real story.
By Bassam Tawil
Take note: These warning shots from the PA may be translated into yet another intifada against Israel under the fabricated pretext that the US and Israelis, with the help of some Arab countries, seek to strip the Palestinians of their rights.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians have made up their mind: The Trump peace plan is bad because it does not force Israel to give the Palestinians everything--99% is just not enough.
By Bassam Tawil
Abbas knows that he cannot come back to his people with anything less than what he promised them. He knows that his people have been radicalized to the point that they will not agree to any concessions or compromise with Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
Why do many Palestinians prefer peace with Hamas? Because they identify with Hamas's dream of destroying Israel and killing Jews. It may be an unpleasant a truth, but that is the bottom line.
By Bassam Tawil
Abbas's new partnership with Hamas means that from this moment on, the Palestinian Authority (PA) president should be held responsible for everything that takes place inside the Gaza Strip.
By Bassam Tawil
The conflict is about Israel's existence in the Middle East. It's about the abiding interest in the Arab and Islamic world to destroy Israel and murder Jews.
By Bassam Tawil
The agreement absolves Hamas of financial responsibilities towards its constituents in the Gaza Strip. The resumption of PA funds to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip will allow Hamas to redirect its resources and energies to building up its military capabilities in preparation for war with Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
What we are actually witnessing is the never-ending search for excuses on the part of the Palestinian Authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, not to engage in peace talks with Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
The minimum the UN chief and his aides could have done is to call out the PA leadership and condemn it for the ambush and the fabricated report from the official Palestinian news agency. Palestinians, as usual, were given a pass.
By Bassam Tawil
UNESCO resolutions are a catalyst for Palestinian terrorism against Israelis. Yet they are more than that: they also make the prospect of peace even more distant.
By Bassam Tawil
When Israel does not comply with Palestinian demands they will accuse Israel of "destroying" the peace process. Worse, they will use this charge as an excuse to redouble their terror against Israelis.
By Bassam Tawil
To clarify: To the Palestinians this crisis is not about a metal detector or a security camera they want dismantled. It is Israel that they want dismantled.
By Bassam Tawil
Abbas is still playing his old game. Out of one side of his mouth he claimed a desire for a peaceful solution to the metal detectors crisis, and out of the other side, he egged his people on to murder more and more Israelis.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians decided NOT to enter the Temple Mount unless the metal detectors are removed. The Palestinians and the Waqf lie to the world, claiming Israel is denying Muslims access to their holy sites.
By Bassam Tawil
Considering lavish payments from the PA to Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prison, why should any Palestinian go to university and search for a job when he can make a "decent living" murdering Jews?
By Bassam Tawil
Israel's concessions are regarded as gestures of a terrified people and as the reward for terrorism. Far from satiating the appetite of the terrorists, such steps prompt them to step up their attacks against Israelis.
By Bassam Tawil
The day after the Abbas-Trump meeting in Bethlehem when Abbas promised Trump to cease all forms of incitement against Israel, the Palestinian Authority resumed its vicious rhetorical attacks on Israel
By Bassam Tawil
Once again, Abbas is playing Americans and other Westerners for fools. His people remain unwilling to recognize Israel's very right to exist as a state for Jews. And so, Abbas will talk peace and coexistence while his people organize yet another "Day of Rage."
By Bassam Tawil
Since his appointment as chairman of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Abu Bakr has demanded that Israeli and international media refrain from reporting anything offensive about the Palestinians
By Bassam Tawil
Hamas and the PLO now have crucial common ground: sweet-talk the Western donors while laying stealthy plans to destroy Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
The path to a PA ministry job passes through Israeli prisons. Former prisoners are treated as the "good boys of the revolution" and granted the best jobs; Palestinians who choose education lose out
By Bassam Tawil
The PA and Hamas teach children that Israel is one big settlement that has no place in the region and that the conflict with Israel is not over a 2-state solution, but the "liberation of Palestine"
By Bassam Tawil
What Hamas says in Arabic tells the REAL story. In fact, Hamas officials are crystal clear when addressing their people in Arabic. Yet some Western and Israeli analysts disregard this truth.
By Bassam Tawil
Where is the international community's exposure of the lies fueling Palestinians murdering Jews? Will the international community once again fail to speak the truth about the murder of Jews?
By Bassam Tawil
European leaders wrongly imagine that if they get rid of Israel, it will be only Israel. They fail see that Israel is just the first course, Europe will be the main course.
By Bassam Tawil
The more time you spend in an Israeli prison, the more prestigious the job you will receive. Graduating from an Israeli prison is better than graduating from an Ivy League university.
By Bassam Tawil
The EU and others pay for constructing illegal Palestinian settlements while demanding Israel halt building new homes for Jewish families in Jerusalem neighborhoods or existing West Bank settlements
By Bassam Tawil
Palestinian leadership destroys every chance the Palestinians might have of becoming a genuine, internationally recognized nation
By Bassam Tawil
Abbas must accept that regardless of EU and European promises, Israel is not about to capitulate.
By Bassam Tawil
In the eyes of many Palestinians, Kuntar's murderous résumé, turned him into a "martyr" & a "hero."
By Bassam Tawil
Paradoxically, the more resolve Israel shows, the more willing Arabs will be to reach an agreement
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinian terror campaign enters its 3rd month; What are the Palestinians trying to achieve?
By Bassam Tawil
Abbas, PLO & Fatah leaders voiced appreciation for "heroic steadfastness" of the citizen terrorists
By Bassam Tawil
The hypocrisy & politicization of Islam leads sheikhs deliberately to misinterpret verses in Qur'an
By Bassam Tawil
Palestinian terrorists are not driven by poverty, they are driven by fanatical hatred for Jews
July 10, 2026 
