Hamas is angry over Abbas’ unilateral decision to appoint Palestinian prime minister, Mohammad Mustafa, in Ramallah, and sent out a statement:
“We express our rejection of continuing this approach that has inflicted and continues to inflict harm on our people and our national cause,” Hamas said in a statement.
“Making individual decisions and engaging in superficial and empty steps such as forming a new government without national consensus only reinforces a policy of unilateralism and deepens division.”
The truth is that the Palestinian Authority, which increased the number of “Pay-For-Slay” beneficiaries after October 7, is no different from Hamas; they have the same goal, and are waging a united jihad against Israel. In January, a top PA official, Jibril Rajoub, stated that the PA will not rule Gaza without their “brothers in Hamas,” as well as Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other jihad groups.
Now, with the prospect of its regaining control of Gaza in view, the Palestinian Authority has begun to collaborate with the Biden administration and other globalists who have demonstrated that they’re not going to prioritize the interests of Israel. The Biden administration has “urged Abbas to bring new blood, including technocrats and economic specialists, into a revamped PA to help govern post-war Gaza.”
The Palestinian Authority is now trying to fool the world into believing that it is a viable entity for promoting peace in the region. Hamas and the PA are two sides of the same coin. Hamas issued a statement against the PA, and the PA likewise has been publicly disparaging Hamas, but the dissension is superficial. Both groups are united in the goal of obliterating the Jewish state. A Palestinian Media Watch article, Embrace Hamas or condemn Hamas based on political expediency, explains the internal politics behind the public squabble between Hamas and the PA:
The PA received much attention over the weekend for having condemned Hamas. However, it is important to recognize that the Fatah statement was not a condemnation or an attempt to distance itself from the atrocities of October 7 nor from Hamas terror in general. It was merely an issue of internal politics, reflected by criticism of a statement by Hamas attacking Mahmoud Abbas….
….the PA and Fatah have consistently defended, justified, and glorified the October 7 massacre. Fatah Jenin branch member Abd Al-Rahman Abu Al-Rub gloated:
“We say to our people and to the members of the Palestinian people: A morning of victory, and morning of joy, a morning of pride. We ask Allah to send a blessing to our heroic Martyrs in the Gaza Strip … We [call] to all our brothers and to all our Palestinian people that they are compelled to take action and participate in this story of heroism.”
The tensions between Hamas and the PA will likely escalate further, since jihadists are known to war against each other in attempts at a power grab. The PA is openly undermining Hamas’s rule, “and Hamas openly threatens to strike any traitors or collaborators with ‘an iron fist.'”
Of course, the Biden administration will continue to boost the PA’s image, in a plan of propaganda that will present Israel (specifically Netanyahu) as the party that is unwilling to make peace. Biden needed a substantial crisis to divert the attention of the American public away from his disastrous performance as president, in time for the elections, and he appears to have found one.
Hamas is also Muslim Brotherhood, which has many offshoots in America; so how and to what degree of intensity the division between the PA and Hamas plays out may have an impact upon Biden in ways that he has not anticipated.
“Tensions Between Hamas And Palestinian Authority, And Between Hamas And Gaza Elements That Are Challenging It,” by S. Schneidmann, MEMRI, March 19, 2024:
The Hamas-Fatah tension against the backdrop of the Israel-Gaza war intensified recently following Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s appointment of Muhammad Mustafa as the new Palestinian prime minister. Another factor in the escalation of this tension was efforts by the PA, and especially by its General Intelligence Service (GIS), headed by Majed Faraj, to form a local governing authority in Gaza as an alternative to Hamas, in cooperation with Israel and with the help of armed tribal elements in the Gaza Strip.[1]
On March 14, 2024, Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential decree appointing his associate Muhammad Mustafa as the next PA prime minister, replacing Muhammad Shtayyeh.[2] According to reports, the new government will comprise “experts” or “technocrats” unaffiliated with any political element, even though Abbas himself chairs the PA’s ruling party, Fatah. The supposedly apolitical character of the planned government is meant to make it easier for the PA to govern the Gaza Strip after the war.
Although many reports state that the move to appoint a new government was coordinated with Hamas,[3] Hamas came out against it very strongly. The day after Mustafa’s appointment as prime minister, Hamas issued a joint statement with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and the Palestinian National Initiative Movement accusing Abbas of making unilateral decisions and calling Mustafa’s appointment a symbolic and hollow measure that only deepens intra-Palestinian schisms.
In response, Fatah published an statement attacking Hamas in a fashion unprecedented since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 invasion and massacres in southern Israel. The statement quoted an accusation published by the Palestinian Authority’s news agency Wafa asserting that Hamas had decided on its own to undertake “the adventure of October 7, 2023, which led to a nakba more horrible and bitter than the one of 1948.” The statement added that President Abbas’s legitimate decisions serve national interests, while Hamas is advancing a foreign agenda. It also asked: “Does Hamas want us to appoint a prime minister from Iran or for Tehran to appoint one for us?” This condemnation of Hamas sparked an internal dispute within Fatah, some of whose members had supported Hamas up until that point.[4] Some stated that Fatah chairman Abbas had published the statement without consulting Fatah institutions, and that it had been drafted by “security elements.”[5]
Similar statements were made in a March 17, 2024 editorial article in the PA mouthpiece Al-Hayat Al-Jadida.
These severe tensions between Hamas and the PA concerning the appointment of a new prime minister also come against the backdrop of reports that there have been contacts between armed tribal elements in the Gaza Strip and Israel and the Palestinian Authority, particularly the Palestinian General Intelligence Service under the command of Majed Faraj, about the establishment of a civil administration or local regime in the Strip to replace the Hamas administration. According to reports, the emphasis in these interactions is establishing a local Palestinian force that can distribute humanitarian aid to the local population while preventing Hamas from intervening. This move undermines Hamas’s rule, and Hamas openly threatens to strike any traitors or collaborators with “an iron fist.”….
…As noted above, PA President Abbas’s appointment of Muhammad Mustafa as prime minister has led to an exchange of harsh statements between Hamas and the PA. This indicates that contrary to a number of leaks in Arab and Palestinian media indicating that Abbas aims to establish a “technocratic” PA government, Mustafa’s appointment was not coordinated with Hamas….
somehistory says
There is no honor among thieves and mozlums are thieves. Nothing less than fighting among themselves should be expected. hamas wants to be in charge and so does the old pa creep. If only, they would only, fight each other.
And the Red Cross is involved in the pay-for-slay.
“A document issued by the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) is essential for terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons in order to receive salaries from the Palestinian Authority (PA) under the policy known as ‘Pay for Slay,’ an expose conducted by watchdog NGO Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reveals, quoting Palestinian officials.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/red-cross-directly-involved-in-pa-pay-for-slay-policy-icrc-rejects-claims/ar-BB1k6CvV