Khaled Abu Toameh • June 21, 2021
- Abbas appears to be emboldened by the
Biden administration's decision to resume unconditional financial aid to
the Palestinians. This no-strings-attached money is being supplied without
even a stipulation that the PA put an end to human rights violations and
assaults on public freedoms.
- Lawyers
for Justice said in a separate statement ... that the forms of torture in
the PA-controlled Jericho Prison included hanging detainees from the ceilings,
beatings and verbal abuse... and electric shocks.
- "The
Future List calls on all electoral lists approved by the Central Elections
Committee, all human rights bodies and all honorable people of this
country to form a united front to confront the arbitrary political arrests
that aim to silence every free voice that rises in the face of tyranny and
corruption practiced by the Palestinian Authority." — The Future
List, Shfanews.com, May 26, 2021.
- It seems
clear that the diplomats care little if the PA is arresting, torturing and
intimidating social media users and political activists.
- These
diplomats and Western journalists do raise their voices -- and loudly --
when they have something damning to say about Israel. The silence of the
international community and the Biden administration's blind and
unqualified support for the PA only encourage the Palestinian leadership
to step up its repressive measures against Palestinians.
- When
Palestinians despair of any improvement in the PA leadership, they move
towards Hamas and other terrorist groups that are seen by many
Palestinians as a better alternative to Abbas and his Fatah faction.
• It is hardly surprising,
then, that the most recent public opinion poll showed a dramatic surge in the
popularity of Hamas among Palestinians. What should be surprising -- and
disturbing -- is that the Western world is directly aiding and abetting this
bloody shift of allegiance.
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