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....
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...despite having been sentenced to a cumulative 115 years back in 2004.
The phone call drew outrage from Israeli politicians, who pointed to it as proof that under Abbas, the PA was not fit to play a role in the governing of postwar 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
A video carried out by Paleostinian news outlets showed Fatah prisoner Yasser Abu-Bakr taking a call from Abbas after his release.
A native of the West Bank’s Jenin, Abu-Bakr was sentenced in 2004 to a cumulative 115 years in jail for arming a terror cell that shot up a Netanya hotel lobby in March 2002, wounding some 50 people and killing a nine-year-old girl. The cell’s members also killed two coppers and a civilian bystander in subsequent shootouts.
According to reports on social media, Abu-Bakr rebuffed Abbas’s well-wishes and told him that the congratulations were out of place given the high corpse count in the Gaza Strip after 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas, sparked by the October 7, 2023 terror assault in southern Israel.
The PA president’s call to the convicted terrorist prompted an outpouring of rage from Israeli politicians, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who declared that Abbas "was and is an enemy" of Israel.
"Mahmoud Abbas was and is an enemy, a terror supporter, a promoter of terror, and the authority he heads was and is a terrorist organization, and is not a ’partner’ to anything," the far-right Religious Zionism chair said, referring to calls within Israeli society for Israel to allow the PA to govern the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas.
"His phone call tonight to a Jew-murderer is a wake-up call to those who still delude themselves about the PA being an alternative to Hamas in Gaza after the war. It won’t happen. Not in Gaza and not in Judea and Samaria," Smotrich said, using the Biblical terms for the West Bank.
Israel has attempted to downplay reports in recent weeks that the PA will play a significant role in postwar Gaza, and that it will be allowed to take control of the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt in future phases of the ceasefire deal.
While the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has partially denied the veracity of the reports, it has admitted that the PA currently plays a limited role at the crossing, providing the stamp on passports allowing Gazooks to exit the Strip.
Netanyahu has publicly refused to entertain the idea of the PA ruling postwar Gaza, accusing it of glorifying terror and supporting the October 7 attack. Yet many in the Israeli security establishment have privately backed such a move due to the lack of any other viable alternative.