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Islamic Jihad chief says his Iran-backed group forming fighting units across W. Bank
2023-07-02
[IsraelTimes] Back from Tehran, Ziad Nakhaleh says Khamenei has supported his terror organization’s efforts ’to move from a state of calm to one of resistance’ in the region

Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
chief Ziad Nakhaleh said in an interview released Saturday that his Iran-backed terror group was working to establish cells of fighters throughout the West Bank.
We know. They keep getting caught.
Speaking with Iranian Arabic-language newspaper al-Vefagh, Nakhaleh said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
— with whom he met two weeks ago in Tehran — was supportive of "moving from a state of calm to one of resistance" in the West Bank, while reiterating his support for arming Paleostinians there.

"The most important thing is that we strengthen the resistance," the Damascus-based Nakhaleh said.
“Gotta spend all the oil money the Mullahs shower on us like a rain of gold.”
"During our visit to Iran, during the meeting with His Eminence, the Leader, His Eminence reaffirmed [his desire] to advance arming the West Bank and resistance action in the West Bank."

According to Nakhaleh, Islamic Jihad has set up "fighting battalions" in Paleostinian cities across the West Bank
...where battalion is defined as a group of three or more enthusiasts, full of bright ideas and mostly empty of the ability to execute them before getting caught...
and was working on manufacturing explosives and distributing arms, including to button men linked 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....
’s ruling Fatah party.
Oh? How very interesting.
Nakhaleh’s comment on explosives came after his terror organization grabbed credit for a massive roadside kaboom that maimed eight Israeli soldiers during intense festivities in Jenin last month.

While thanking the Islamic Theocratic Republic for its support, Nakhaleh sought to play down the scale of Iranian backing that Paleostinian Islamic Jihad receives, saying it should not be "exaggerated."

"There is security-military assistance, and this is the most important thing," he said.
Then there are the salaries, the donations to the personal bank accounts of the leadership, pensions to those jailed, wounded, or killed for the Cause, tram building parties, military parade uniforms...
He also predicted Israel’s eventual demise, the timing of which depended "on our willingness and our ability to resist."
Related:
Ziad Nakhaleh: 2023-05-24 Islamic Jihad chief: Gaza commanders were killed because they carried cellphones
Ziad Nakhaleh: 2023-05-14 IDF - PIJ CeaseFire Holding
Ziad Nakhaleh: 2022-08-09 Islamic Jihad names 12 members of military wing killed in Gaza flare-up, shot off 1100+ rockets
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