Despite His Support, Palestinian Authority Says Joe Biden 'Should ...
Then US Vice President Joe Biden meets with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 09, 2016. Photo: FLASH90.
The United States has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the Gaza Strip during the past year, while severely restricting Israel’s efforts to defeat Hamas.
The US has even withheld important ammunition from Israel.
Nevertheless, Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas’ senior advisor declared that President Joe Biden “should stand trial as a war criminal.”
The Palestinian official also said that “the US is the true criminal in this war,” and that the official really does not “distinguish between a Democratic administration and a Republican administration.”
Furthermore, he relegated Israel to being a mere “colonialist American interest”:
“The US is a partner in committing this crime, a partner to a war crime… Even [US President] Biden himself must stand trial as a war criminal.”
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, July 27, 2024]
The US is the true criminal in this [Gaza] war … Honestly, I don’t distinguish between a Democratic administration and a Republican administration. Both of them are equally bad, and both of them are enemies of the Arab cause and the Palestinian cause in the same way.”
[Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Sept. 3, 2024]
What are the American soldiers doing in this region? Is this their land? Are they guests in the region? Of course not. They are invaders. They are occupiers. They are raiding this region. They are attempting or taking action to defend the Zionist colonialist project. Israel is a colonialist American interest.
[Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Feb. 2, 2024]
Other Palestinian officials, such as Fatah Revolutionary Council member Abd Al-Mun’im Hamdan also called the US “the true enemy of our Arab nation and our Palestinian people:
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has documented numerous instances of the PA, through various mouthpieces, spitting on the American hand that has been feeding it.
PMW will continue to monitor the way that the PA begs for funds while it pays salaries to terrorists through its Pay-for-Slay program and demonizes the United States at the very same time.
Itamar Marcus is PMW’s Founder and Director, and Ephraim D. Tepler is a contributor to PMW. A version of this article originally appeared at PMW.
