JERUSALEM – The brand new Palestinian Authority (PA) authorities sworn into workplace this week by PA President Mahmoud Abbas – and warmly welcomed by the White Home and the State Division – consists of a minimum of two ministers who maintain excessive and racist views towards Israel and Jews, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), an Israeli group that attracts consideration to Palestinian extremism, has revealed.
Citing articles within the Palestinian media and video clips from latest public occasions, PMW revealed how the brand new minister of non secular affairs, Muhammad Mustafa Najem, has brazenly incited violence towards Israelis as a spiritual crucial, characterizing Jews as evil and treacherous, and quoted a verse from the Quran that refers to Jews as “apes and pigs.”
One other member of the brand new authorities, Minister of Girls’s Affairs Muna Al-Khalili, is proven to have praised Palestinian terror and, as just lately as final month at a convention in Egypt, claimed that the brutal Hamas terror assaults on Oct. 7 – the worst atrocity dedicated towards Jews for the reason that Holocaust in World Warfare II – was an act of reliable resistance.
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President Mahmud Abbas poses with the brand new Palestinian authorities after it was sworn in on March 31, 2024, in Ramallah, within the West Financial institution. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Since Hamas’ assaults and the following warfare with Israel that has ravaged a lot of the Gaza Strip, the U.S. administration has been urging Abbas to reform and revitalize his governing authority, which has lengthy been accused of corruption and extremism, in order that it could be a part of an answer for governing Gaza – along with the West Financial institution – after the warfare.
The modifications made this week, which Abbas stated would come with plans for institutional reform, restructuring and unifying establishments, in addition to combating corruption, elevating the extent of companies and a digital transformation, are being seen by the U.S. as a part of its desired reformation.
Nevertheless, many Palestinians have stated no actual change can happen so long as Abbas stays on the helm; and Israeli leaders, together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stay steadfast in rejecting the concept the authority might be a part of any post-war resolution for Gaza, mentioning that it’s simply as problematic as Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror group.
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“The assumption that a ‘revitalized’ Palestinian Authority will bring moderate and pragmatic figures, or soften the Palestinian position toward Israel, is totally false,” Khaled Abu Toameh, a Palestinian affairs analyst based mostly in Jerusalem, advised Fox Information Digital.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa chairs a cupboard assembly in Ramallah on April 2, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP through Getty Photographs)
He stated it was completely unrealistic to anticipate the brand new cupboard ministers to “endorse a pragmatic approach toward Israel,” particularly with the warfare in Gaza raging, and identified that even “many Palestinians do not understand the difference between the new Palestinian government and the previous one.”
“In his first speech at the cabinet meeting, the new prime minister, Mohammed Mustafa, also employed hardline rhetoric against Israel because of the war in Gaza, while completely ignoring Hamas’ responsibility,” Abu Toameh stated, including, “in this regard, he sounded exactly like his predecessor, Mohammed Shtayyeh.”
He stated that Shtayyeh, who give up as prime minister in February, additionally spoke about refoming the authority however “not much happened.”
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas throughout a gathering in Amman on Oct. 13, 2023. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Change is not going to occur “as long as President Mahmoud Abbas and his inner circle are the real and sole decision-makers,” Abu Toameh stated. “At the end of the day, the cabinet reshuffle came to appease the U.S. administration, and not out of a sincere desire to introduce financial and administrative reforms or engage in a peace process with Israel.”
Kobi Michael, a senior researcher on the Institute for Nationwide Safety Research in Tel Aviv who intently follows occasions in Palestinian society, additionally stated the brand new Palestinian Authority management was unlikely to result in any vital modifications if Abbas was nonetheless in cost.
“The appointment of Mohammed Mustafa is really just replacing one Mohammed with another Mohammed,” he stated. “He is part of the same production line.”
Smoke rises after an assault on Gaza Metropolis by Israeli plane on July 29, 2014. (Sameh Rahmi/NurPhoto/Corbis through Getty Photographs)
Michael stated Mustafa, who beforehand served because the deputy prime minister and minister of the financial system, was an in depth ally and adviser of Abbas and “he will do whatever Abbas tells him to do.”
“He is there in order to preserve the interests of Abbas and the last interest of Abbas is reform,” Michael stated, calling the present Palestinian Authority “a lost cause.”
Responding to the announcement of the brand new Palestinian authorities, nonetheless, State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller stated in a press release that “the United States looks forward to working with the new cabinet to promote peace, security, and prosperity and will be engaging this new government to deliver on credible reforms.”
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Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Biden and Palestinian chief Abbas (Getty Photographs)
“A revitalized PA is essential to delivering results for the Palestinian people in both the West Bank and Gaza and establishing the conditions for stability in the broader region,” he stated.
Responding to a Fox Information Digital request for a remark in regards to the racist and inciting public statements attributed to newly appointed Palestinian ministers, a State Division Spokesman stated “We are aware of reports that certain P.A. cabinet members have used unacceptable language. We have been absolutely clear on this score: Inflammatory, hateful, or dehumanizing speech by any party does not advance peace.”
A Palestinian Authority spokesman contacted by Fox Information Digital didn’t touch upon the claims by publication time.
Jonathan Schanzer, the senior vice chairman for analysis on the Basis for Protection of Democracies in Washington, advised Fox Information Digital that the U.S. was “perpetuating the fiction of a reformed Palestinian government” and was ignoring its problematic nature with a view to obtain its personal aims.
“Mohammed Mustafa is not a reformer, he is a longtime crony of Mahmoud Abbas who has benefited from the corrupt system that Abbas has presided over now for nearly two decades,” he stated. “I think it’s important to note that if Abbas remains president of this government – and he is now 19 years into a four-year term – this is not reform.”
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Palestinians march throughout the funeral of terrorists killed in clashes yesterday in an Israeli army operation in Jenin within the West Financial institution on July 5, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP through Getty Photographs)
“When we see the rhetoric of some of these individuals, we can see that not only are they not reformers, but they are also in fact radicals, and this should undermine the entire process that is underway,” stated Schanzer, including that the administration was so targeted on its goal of getting the Palestinian Authority “inherit the Gaza Strip,” that it was “willing to turn a blind eye to a wide range of problems in order to try to achieve this objective.”
“I believe that ignoring these problems will ultimately lead us down the same path we have been on for years and years and years,” he stated.
