PA unfit to govern Gaza post-Hamas, White House says
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National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells ABC only 'reformed and revitalized Palestinian Authority' could competently carry out the task

The Palestinian Authority in its current state is not capable of governing the Gaza Strip after Hamas is defeated, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Sunday.

Speaking to ABC’s “This Week,” Kirby said only a “reformed and revitalized Palestinian Authority” could competently carry out the task.

The remarks follow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that the Palestinian governing body, which holds partial control over the West Bank, is incapable of governing Gaza, as he claims that like Hamas, it also denies Israel’s existence.

The Palestinian Authority “pays murderers…. They educate their children to hate Israel and, to my sorrow, to murder Jews, and ultimately for the disappearance of the State of Israel,” he responded to a reporter’s question on the matter in a press conference Saturday.

  • GenEconEnglish
    211·
    10 months ago

    They where unfit beforehand as well. Hamas is ruling the Gaza strip for years now. Thats one of the main reasons we see this human disaster now. The PA allowed Hamas to set up the Palestinian people as human shields for the rocket launchers and command bases.

    • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      83·
      10 months ago

      The PA allowed jack shit. They got their asses handed to them and were kicked out of Gaza by Hamas in 2007. Palestinians think they are Israel’s bitches and that’s because they are. Israel has subcontracted a lot of the occupation in the West Bank to the PA so that a few sell outs like Mahmoud Abbas can pretend they are important political leaders of the Bantustans.

      Source:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah–Hamas_conflict#2011_reconciliation_agreement?wprov=sfla1

      • GenEconEnglish
        18·
        10 months ago

        Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields and you defend them…

        • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          Right it’s Hamas fault not the Israelis dropping thousands of tonnes of ordnance on dense residential areas.

          • GenEconEnglish
            14·
            10 months ago

            What are Israels options if they get attacked out of these densely populated areas?

            • neeshie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              10 months ago

              Send in soldiers to go kill Hamas guys without leveling an entire apartment building?

              Or undermine Hamas politically by not making the PA seem like Israeli cucks.

              • GenEconEnglish
                13·
                10 months ago

                How can you undermine an authoritarian regime, who doesnt hold votes, politically? That just doesn’t work.

                • neeshie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  Hamas was originally elected because they ran as the anti corruption party, and because the PA are collaborationists. If you want to get Palestinians to broadly support someone other than Hamas, you have to show that the other guys can get results. Otherwise people continue to join hamas, because that’s their only mechanism of resistance.

          • GenEconEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I would condemn this tactic as well. Thats just not right. But I am on Ukraine’s side, since its a democratic elected government defending against an outside aggressor.

            I also support the Palestinian people. I am for a ceasefire under the condition, that 2 states emerge and a democratic elected government – which is not the Hamas – rules Palestine and both sides put a sentence in their laws, which can’t be altered, that they respect the other borders. No more Israeli settlers pushing the borders further and further terrorizing the Palestinians. And finally acceptance that there is a democratic state with a Jewish majority in the middle east.

            • neeshie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              “hamas is using human shields and you defend them…”

              But Ukraine can do it and (correctly) you still defend and support them.

        • Sauvandu59@lemmy.my.idEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields

          no, they didn’t.

          Myth: Palestinians use human shield.

          So not only is the Palestinian use of human shields a myth lacking any evidence, it is in fact Israel who is infamous for using human shields in its oppression of the Palestinians. Examples of this are incredibly easy to find even with the most rudimentary of research. Like much Israeli propaganda, it seeks to turn reality upside down and accuse the Palestinians of the crimes that Israel so often commits. This is a prime example of baseless dehumanization that many eagerly embrace because they have come to internalize a demonized image of Palestinians based on Israeli propaganda.

          The fact that this slander is so prevalent while not having any basis in reality is a testament to the power of propaganda, and how readily people accept the projections of barbarity onto the peoples of the global south. In the narrative war against Palestine there is hardly a method Israel has not resorted to in order to dehumanize Palestinians. It is on us to resist that, and set the record straight.

          HAMAS uses human shield? the evidence

          Israel is often touted as the only democracy in the Middle East; its robust legal system is praised as a panacea to the dictatorial regimes and monarchies of neighboring Arab states. One could infer, therefore, that since it was outlawed by the Israeli Knesset in 2005, the Israeli Defense Forces have halted the barbaric practice, and any soldiers caught resorting to it would be swiftly brought to justice per Israel’s own legislation.

          Yet ‘Breaking the Silence,’ a group of former Israeli soldiers and conscientious objectors who speak out about human rights abuses by the Israeli military, say the practice continued unabated well after it was outlawed in 2005. Dozens of highly publicized cases, both inside and outside of Israel, corroborate their claims.