Abbas celebrates decades of anti-Israel violence, refusing to condemn Hamas while demanding impossible concessions.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) opened the Fatah Youth Conference on Thursday with a speech that again exposed the PA’s unwavering commitment to violent rejectionism rather than peace. The event’s theme — “steadfastness and unity of the Palestinian homeland” — served as a thin veneer for Abbas’s continued glorification of terrorism.
Abbas praised the so-called “Palestinian revolution” launched by Fatah in 1965, referencing its first terror attack as a milestone to celebrate. He lauded the Intifada and extolled figures such as Abu Jihad and Abu Iyad, both responsible for orchestrating deadly attacks on Israeli civilians, calling them “heroes” of the Palestinian struggle.
Notably, Abbas completely avoided any reference to Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre — one of the deadliest acts of terror in modern history. Instead of condemning mass murder, torture, and kidnappings, Abbas accused Israel of waging a “barbaric war of annihilation” in Gaza and described the conflict as a “new Nakba.” He repeated inflated casualty claims while ignoring Hamas’s use of civilians as human shields.
Abbas vowed to continue the “struggle,” prayed for the “heroic martyrs,” and sent praise to Palestinian prisoners in Israel — many serving sentences for brutal terror attacks — calling them “heroic prisoners.”
Politically, Abbas doubled down on maximalist, rejectionist positions. He insisted that Gaza is an inseparable part of a future Palestinian state, declaring that no peace agreement is possible without Jerusalem and without what he called a “just solution” to the refugee issue under Resolution 194 — a demand widely recognized as a call for the demographic destruction of Israel through a mass “right of return.”
Abbas’s speech once again highlights the core truth long known to Israel:
the Palestinian Authority is not a moderate partner but a continuation of the same terror-glorifying ideology that fuels Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and decades of violence.
Rather than building peace, Abbas reinforces the very narrative that keeps Palestinians trapped in perpetual conflict, while blaming Israel for the consequences of their own extremist choices.
