Why Palestinians Will Not Have New Leaders
Peloni: The Pals are specifically weaponized to abuse, diminish, and control Israel. The support for the promulgation of this fact comes from many and disperate sources, from the US, Europe, Russia, Iran, and the Sunnis. This is why UNWRA is inexplicably still gaining support after being exposed again and again as being complicit and co-opted by the terrorists whom they tutor from the cradle to the grave at the expense of billions of dollars per year. And to the point raised by Tawil in this essay, the Pals themselves are too well suckled on the hatred of Israel as part of this process to allow any reform movement within their population to take root.
by Bassam Tawil • Gatestone Institute • November 25, 2024
Palestinians still remember how political activist and human rights defender Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of corruption in the Palestinian Authority (PA), was beaten to death by PA security officers in Hebron in 2021. Until today, no one has been punished for the killing of Banat. Pictured: Plain-clothed PA security officers beat a man in Ramallah on June 26, 2021, during a demonstration to protest Banat’s killing. (Photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)
- For the past three decades, leaders of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas have systematically targeted political activists, journalists, social media users, students, professors and human rights activists as part of an ongoing campaign to silence critics and deter others from speaking out against the lack of democracy and freedom of speech.
