That’s why the states that are the most belligerent toward Israel are prospering, you see. When those who want to destroy Israel see that that isn’t true, they tend to become even more fanatical, thinking that Allah is withholding his favor in light of their impiety.
“Abbas’ Advisor: Allah is punishing world with COVID for ignoring Palestinian plight,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, December 17, 2021:
The PA is a master of evading responsibility because it is so easy to blame Israel for everything that goes wrong, including the spread of the Coronavirus. In a column in the official PA daily, Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the paper accused Israel of deliberately bringing COVID-19 into the PA:
“It would not be an exaggeration if we say that the racist occupation government has worked to export the ‘COVID-19’ (Coronavirus) epidemic to us, after our institutions succeeded in limiting and reducing the scope of its spread, as [Israel] used the virus as a new weapon to weaken the scope of economic life to the lowest point, and to leave it in an almost fateful dependency on its economy!”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 21, 2021]
A similar libel was expressed in the cartoon above, claiming that Israel deliberately infects terrorist prisoners with the virus or purposefully maintains conditions in the prisons under which the virus can thrive.
The image shows a prisoner sitting slumped over on a bed in a prison cell while a hand holding a Coronavirus particle reaches through the bars of the cell door. A number of other Coronavirus particles are seen floating in the air.
Text on image: “The international campaign to protect the prisoners in the occupation’s prison from the Coronavirus epidemic
#The_occupation’s_Coronavirus_is_killing_the_prisoners”
[Facebook page of the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, June 18, 2020]
Referring to a Hadith according to which Islam’s Prophet Muhammad said that “If the people see the oppressors and do not protest against them, they are liable to all be included in the punishment,” PA Chairman Abbas’ advisor on religious affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, likewise explained that all catastrophes that have befallen the world recently – including the COVID-19 pandemic – is Israel, the “oppressor’s,” and the silent bystanders’ fault because they let the “injustice” happen to “Palestine”:
PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Abu Bakr (i.e., founder of the Rashidun Caliphate) said: ‘I heard Allah’s Messenger say: If the people see the oppressors and do not protest against them, they are liable to all be included in the punishment.’ In other words, Allah is liable to bring down punishment on everyone, on all the people who are silent facing injustice, agree with injustice, and defend the oppressors… I think that today we are seeing the realization of this Hadith (i.e., sayings and practices attributed to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad) as reality. All of humanity, from one end of the earth to the other, is being included in one punishment, in this disaster [of the Coronavirus] that has befallen humanity…
Is there a greater injustice than the injustice directed against us? Our land was stolen, our people were expelled, our holy sites were desecrated, and not only is the entire world silent facing the oppressors but they are also blaming the victim…
The punishment that is befalling all of humanity – the rise in prices, economic collapse, epidemics, climate change, global warming – everything that is happening in the universe is because of the injustice.”
[Official PA TV, Nov. 26, 2021]…
Clive Delmonte says
The PA leaders live in an upside-down, inside-out world.
They choose to forget that the PA refused Israel’s offer of vaccinations saying that the PA would rely on the UN agencies.
King Abbass has no interest in making any progress with Israel on any topic (perhaps excepting security issues related to Hamas) and is widely hated by his fellow “Palestinians”.
gravenimage says
All true, Clive.
Treereen says
I love it how almost any narrative or justification of hate and violence are framed by those “in the know” in terms of “favours” and “punishments” from the moon idol. How do they know these things? Who tells them these things? There wouldn’t be an ulterior motive in making it all up as they go along, would there?
COVID infections are, of course, nothing to do with incompetent, bumbling Western governments following what passes for “science” nowadays and engaging in “imaginative book-keeping” to boost Big Pharma profits and their own or for their own as shareholders.
And hardships experienced by Palestinians under their own governments are, of course, nothing to do with corruption, misuse of donated funds and incitement to religious hatred whose culmination provokes an armed response time and again.
And if any Western “leaders” unignored (what’s the opposite of “ignore”?) Palestinians any more than they do now, they’d be wiggling their tongues they put up Abb-ass out of his mouth.
Peter WF says
If Allah had his way the muslims and the infidels would have swapped places. The infidels trying to migrate to green pastures. And the muslims would be sending money to the infighting infidels. As the reverse is the case, you make your own conclusion.
gravenimage says
PA’s Supreme Sharia Judge: Covid, climate change, inflation are Allah’s punishments for ignoring the ‘Palestinians’
That’s why the states that are the most belligerent toward Israel are prospering, you see.
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Quite so–but pious Muslims don’t care about logic. For them if something negative affects the Infidels, it is “Allah’s punishment”–but if it affects Muslims, then the “filthy Infidels” are to blame.
After all, why would “Allah” send something that the Israelis could use against Muslims? (Never mind that that this claim is calumny to begin with).
gregbeetham says
If you suspected that Muslims were morons in general and Palestinians in particular wonder no more, anyone who is so stupid that they can’t comprehend that it is their own belligerence toward Israel that is the reason why Israel has no choice but to respond, deserve all they get.