The only truly dangerous part in Blinken’s scheme which he elaborated on Tuesday at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., came when he said, “These arrangements would be enshrined in a UN Security Council Resolution.”
He was talking about arrangements to impose PA rule over the Gaza Strip after the war.
The Obama administration took its final revenge against Netanyahu and his government when it abstained in a UNSC anti-Israel resolution. When Biden’s highest-ranking official starts talking about a USNC resolution that empowers the PA half an hour before Trump’s inauguration – this could damage Israel for years to come.
In what could be his final speech on the job, Secretary of State Antony Blinken also accused Israel of systematically undermining the Palestinian Authority, which he said should govern a unified Gaza Strip, in addition to Judea and Samaria after Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists concludes.
What followed was a psychedelic fantasy with no connection to recent events in the Middle East, with Blinken floating in the sunny air of Narnia inside his head:
“We believe that the Palestinian Authority should invite international partners to help establish and run an interim administration with responsibility for key civil sectors in Gaza like banking, water, energy, health, and civil coordination with Israel,” Blinken began. “The international community would provide funding, technical support, and oversight. The interim administration would include Palestinians from Gaza and representatives from the PA – selected following meaningful consultation with communities in Gaza – and would hand over complete responsibility to a fully reformed PA administration as soon as it’s feasible.”
Of course, every single time the Arabs of Gaza and the PA were asked for their opinion, they supported Hamas wholeheartedly and watched as the terrorist group’s goons murdered PA officials, often by throwing them from rooftops. But none of that would stop Tony’s dream machine.
“The administrators would operate in close cooperation with a senior UN official, who should oversee the international stabilization and recovery effort,” he continued, ignoring the proven fact that UN activities in the region have long since been taken over by Hamas.
“An interim security mission would be made up of members of partner nation security forces and vetted Palestinian personnel. Its responsibilities would include creating a secure environment for humanitarian and reconstruction efforts and ensuring border security, which is crucial to preventing smuggling that could allow Hamas to rebuild its military capacity. We would stand up a new initiative to train, to equip, to vet a PA-led security force for Gaza – to focus on law and order and gradually take over for the interim security mission,” Blinken said, and even though the pop singer Donovan was not singing “Season of the Witch” in the background, it felt like he should have.
“Some of our partners have already expressed their willingness to contribute troops and police for such a mission – but if, and only if, it is agreed that Gaza and the West Bank are reunified, under a reformed PA, as part of a pathway to an independent Palestinian state,” Blinken continued.
“And therein lies the rub,” he admitted. “Reaching agreement will require all parties to summon the political will, to make hard decisions, to make hard compromises. Key regional and international actors will need to fully commit to supporting Palestinian-led governance and preventing Hamas’s return.”
And then he uttered the following bit of nonsense poetry:
“The PA will need to carry out swift, far-reaching reform to build more transparent, accountable governance – continuing a process that it began last year,” and “Israel will have to accept reuniting Gaza and the West Bank under the leadership of a reformed PA.”
Behold, Jewish soldiers, you are dying so that Mahmoud Abbas would become the president of Palestine, from the river to the sea.
Blinken’s proposal, which he said would be shared with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, also calls for the U.S. to train and arm more security forces in the PA, who would gradually take over Gaza from an interim force led by “partner nations.”
Blinken reminded his audience of the numerous times he had stressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Arab terrorism “cannot be defeated by a military campaign alone, that without a clear alternative, a post-conflict plan and a credible political rise to the Palestinians, Hamas or something just as abhorrent and dangerous will grow back.”
So wise, especially coming as it does from the man who resurrected the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan after decades in which it appeared defeated.
WITH GREAT POWER COMES NO RESPONSIBILITY
The “capacity and legitimacy” of the PA, which Blinken described as the “only viable alternative” to Hamas, has been undermined by the current government in Jerusalem, Blinken claimed.
“Israel continues to hold back PA tax revenues that it collects on behalf of the Palestinians, funds that belong to the Palestinians and to the PA needs to pay people who provide essential services like health care and security in the West Bank, which is vital to Israel’s own security,” he said.
The PA, under its “pay for slay” policy, pays monthly stipends to convicted terrorists and the families of slain terrorists. The so-called Martyrs’ Fund is a cornerstone of PA law, granting terrorists or their next of kin the right to receive payments as long as they live. The payouts encourage terrorism and Jerusalem offsets an equivalent amount from taxes that Israel collects on behalf of the PA.
Ramallah has been paying stipends for years, but the issue came under a spotlight following the murder of Taylor Force, a U.S. citizen killed by a PA Arab who went on a stabbing rampage in Jaffa in 2018. Congress passed the Taylor Force Act, which officially halted American aid to the Palestinian Authority as long as terror stipends were being paid out.
Blinken also accused Israel of “expanding official settlements and nationalizing land at a faster clip than any time in the last decade, while turning a blind eye to unprecedented growth of illegal outposts.”
He also charged that violent attacks by “extremist settlers” against Arab civilians in Judea and Samaria have reached “record levels.”
He lied. The IDF recorded 663 instances of violence by Jews against Arabs in Judea and Samaria in 2024, a 34% decrease compared to 2023 when 1,005 incidents were recorded. Meanwhile, Israel recorded thousands of terrorist attacks committed by PA Arabs in 2024—including many in Judea and Samaria.
An opinion poll published late last month showed that nearly two-thirds of the Arabs in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria prefer Hamas terrorists at the helm of a governing body that would control the Strip after the war with Israel is over.
I’ll have what he’s smoking.
