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by Bassam Tawil • May 22, 2025 at 5:00 am
* The real Nakba [catastrophe, for Palestinians] was that they started a war and lost it. Well, if you start a war, that is what can happen.
* The Trump administration should beware of countries where the mouth says one thing but the legs do the opposite. Believe the legs. The Iranians and Palestinians have not given up their dream of eliminating Israel and America.
* Iran's leaders do the same thing. The regime's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, reassures the Americans that "We are not seeking war, we favor negotiation and dialogue." Meanwhile, Khamenei calls for the elimination ([link removed]) of the "Zionist regime" and endorses "Death to America ([link removed]) ."
* It is time for the Trump administration and other Westerners to see that the Palestinians and the Iranian regime do not want Israel or America in the Middle East, full stop, and are prepared to do anything to achieve this goal, including with nuclear weapons.
In many respects, Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group, has always been more forthright and honest about its goals regarding Israel than its rivals in the Palestinian Authority (PA). When one listens to leaders of the PA and the leaders of Hamas in Arabic, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between them. Their rhetoric, for instance, to vilify Israel, is identical: "The Zionist Enemy," "The Zionist Entity," The State of Occupation," and "The Apartheid State."
Hamas and the PA both view the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" (Nakba) and call for flooding it with millions of Palestinian "refugees" so that Jews become a minority to eliminate or cast out.
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