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2025-02-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Top Abbas aide: Hamas must step aside, let Palestinian Authority govern Gaza
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Hamas must step aside, yes, but the PA/PLO cannot hold Gaza, so there’s no point in trying to bully PM Netanyahu into agreeing. [IsraelTimes] Mahmoud Habbash tells ToI that Palestinian people together with PA and Arab states have ability to coax terror group into giving up power after 17 years of ‘failed’ rule in Strip
A senior adviser to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
called on Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
to step aside and allow the PA to govern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, as Ramallah tries to capitalize on growing frustration with the terror group in Washington and the region.
"Hamas failed in its control of Gaza over the last 17 years. It’s therefore now time for it to step aside and allow the Paleostinian Authority to control Gaza again in order to [improve] the situation there and protect the Paleostinian people and their rights," Habbash said in a Monday interview with The Times of Israel from his office in al-Bireh north of Ramallah.
Habash has long been one of the PA’s harshest critics of Hamas, but he is also seen as someone who closely mirrors Abbas’s positions, particularly regarding the Gaza Strip.
The stance further demonstrates Ramallah’s aversion to reconciliation with Hamas, which some Arab allies have sought to broker, arguing that a unified Paleostinian front is critical to securing eventual statehood.
PA officials have long claimed willingness to fold Hamas into the Paleostine Liberation Organization — the international umbrella body representing Paleostinians — if it renounces violence and recognizes all agreements that the PLO has reached with Israel, both non-starters for the terror group.
Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2007, when the Islamist party conquered the territory from its Abbas-led Fatah rivals in a brutal civil war.
"We believe that the only side that has the right to control and manage Gaza is the PLO and the Paleostinian Authority — not Hamas," Habbash said.
The PLO formed the PA during the Oslo Accord agreements with Israel in the 1990s, envisioning it as a transitional governing body for Paleostinians in the West Bank and Gaza ahead of the establishment of a sovereign state alongside Israel.
The grinding of the peace processor collapsed, but the PA has remained, though it now no longer controls Gaza and its grip is slipping in the West Bank.
Still, the PA is viewed as the Paleostinians’ sole legitimate representative body by much of the international community, which views Israel’s effort to dismantle Hamas following the terror group’s October 7 onslaught as an opportunity to reunify Gaza and the West Bank under a single governing body.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly ruled out the possibility, likening the PA to Hamas and pointing to Abbas’s refusal to publicly condemn the October 7 attack. The premier’s critics have accused him of advancing policies over the last 15 years that saw Hamas boosted at the expense of the PA, which backs a two-state solution.
Senior Arab diplomats have told The Times of Israel that Hamas has indicated willingness to relinquish governing control of Gaza, but is not prepared to give up its weapons — which Habash said the PA would not accept.
"Our position is one authority, one law, one weapon," said the top Abbas aide.
Asked how Hamas can be forced to comply, Habbash replied, "We don’t want to to use un-peaceful means to convince anybody, but the Paleostinian people have the right to change the situation in Gaza."
"The Paleostinian Authority together with the Paleostinian community in Gaza and the Arab states... have the power together to convince Hamas to change its position," he added.
Egypt has sought to establish an interim, independent committee of Paleostinian technocrats to help administer Gaza, as much of the international community has maintained that the PA must undergo significant reforms before it can return to the Strip.
But Habash maintained that the committee should be directly under Ramallah’s administration. "We don’t want Gaza to be another state. The committee in Gaza should and will be under the PA."
"The Paleostinian people understand that the current era is critical. We have to to be wise, and not give the Israeli side any excuse to continue the aggression against the Paleostinians," Habash said, referring to his opposition to Hamas’s use of violence to fight Israel.
As for elections — which the PA hasn’t held in nearly 20 years, Habbash stated they should be held but the priority is rehabilitating Gaza.
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