An influential Arab leader in Hebron, the West Bank’s largest city, is facing violent threats after proposing to break from the Palestinian Authority and join the Abraham Accords as an independent emirate seeking peace with Israel.
A source close to Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari told The Daily Wire that the leader has received several violent threats since declaring his intentions in an interview with <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/new-palestinian-offer-peace-israel-hebron-sheikh-emirate-36dd39c3">the Wall Street Journal</a> published on Saturday.
Al-Jaabari, 48, is a leader of Hebron’s most influential clan, representing hundreds of thousands of Arabs in the area. He is reportedly backed by 21 other sheikhs who together represent about 554,000 people in the Hebron region, which has a population of roughly 700,000.
Despite the threats, al-Jaabari and his allies believe they have the Palestinian Authority outmanned and outgunned, thanks to his militia and the backing of the other sheikhs’ followers, according to the source.
The sheikhs told the Journal that it would take between one day and one week to remove the Palestinian Authority from Hebron.
The sheikh’s announcement comes just ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-to-visit-the-white-house?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Israeli+Prime+Minister+Benjamin+Netanyahu+To+Visit+The+White+House">meeting with</a> President Donald Trump. The sheikhs hope to gain support from both leaders for their new approach to achieving peace.
In a blow to the idea of a two-state solution, al-Jaabari signed a letter to the Israeli government outlining a path for peace and recognizing Israel as a Jewish state. 
“We want cooperation with Israel,” al-Jaabari told the Journal. “We want coexistence.”
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The sheikh is known for breaking from the anti-Israel model of the Palestinian Authority and is often friendly to Israelis. In any such agreement with Israel, the sheikhs would prioritize fighting terrorism.
The letter, addressed to Israel’s Economy Minister Nir Barkat, was signed by four other leading sheikhs, many of whom remained anonymous in the Wall Street Journal article but are also facing violent threats.
“The Emirate of Hebron shall recognize the State of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people,” the sheikhs wrote in the letter, according to the Journal. “[A]nd the State of Israel shall recognize the Emirate of Hebron as the Representative of the Arab residents in the Hebron District.” 
The establishment of an Emirate of Hebron would separate the Hebron region from the Palestinian Authority, which has never recognized Israel as a Jewish state.
Al-Jaabari says the Palestinian Authority, which is centralized in Ramallah, “doesn’t represent the Palestinians” and that the traditional clan governance of the Arab people in the region is a more sustainable alternative.
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As an independent emirate, al-Jaabari envisions his region would join the Abraham Accords to pursue peace and economic cooperation with Israel. His plan calls for Israel to initially grant 1,000 work permits to Arabs from Hebron, many of which were revoked after Hamas’s October 7 attacks. Al-Jaabari hopes that the number will eventually grow to 50,000. He also plans to pursue the creation of a joint economic zone near the Israel-Hebron security fence to employ tens of thousands.
In response to the letter being brought to light, other members of the al-Jaabari family <a href="https://x.com/khaliljeries/status/1941885184934035556?s=46&amp;t=ghpHusspWPjTMisXwpsMaA">disavowed the sheikh</a> Sunday night, noting that he currently lives outside of Hebron.
“The Al-Jaabari family has long been rooted in the defense of Palestinian national principles, including the right of our people to self-determination and the protection of our land from the river to the sea,” the family members wrote, adding that they call on the public to not engage with al-Jaabari. 
Shortly after, the sheikhs supporting the Emirate of Hebron released a <a href="https://x.com/ElliotKaufman6/status/1941920513292406935">statement</a> accusing al-Jaabari’s extended family members of being “institutionally connected to the PA,” according to Wall Street Journal reporter Elliot Kaufman.
“This response stems from a natural and understandable concern that if Sheikh Jaabari’s initiative fails, the PA-aligned connections of certain leading members of the large clan could be severely damaged, potentially causing irreversible harm to the already fragile social fabric.”
The statement goes on to note that the “vast majority” of the al-Jaabari family “stand firmly behind Sheikh Wadee’ Jaabari and his historic, just, and necessary initiative to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and establish the Hebron Emirate.”
In a second statement, the sheikhs claimed that the Palestinian Authority has been in “complete panic” and has been arresting their family members to avoid making their intentions to make peace with Israel public.
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Israelis living in the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria, have praised the idea of an Emirate of Hebron. 
“This is a break in the narrative of the Palestinian Authority,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fulfilling-biblical-prophecy-group-of-israelis-restore-king-davids-family-tomb">Yishai Fleischer</a>, the international spokesperson for the Jewish community of Hebron, told The Daily Wire. “These sheikhs are putting their lives on the line for this plan.”
Fleischer praised the group for refusing to tolerate terrorism, a stark difference from the Palestinian Authority’s “pay to slay” program, which has paid terrorists and their families for committing suicide attacks on civilians, including Americans.
“This plan is the end of the rule of the thuggish PA that tortures people and brainwashes kids to jihad,” Fleischer added.

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Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marco-rubio-tells-ben-shapiro-why-he-nuked-state-departments-censorship-agency?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Marco+Rubio+Tells+Ben+Shapiro+Why+He+Nuked+State+Department’s+Censorship+Agency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> is shuttering the State Department&#8217;s Office of Palestinian Affairs, which was opened under the Biden administration as an alternative to the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.
The office worked directly with the Palestinian Authority and Palestinians in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank.
“Secretary Rubio has decided to merge the responsibilities of the Office of Palestinian Affairs office fully into other sections of the United States Embassy in Jerusalem,” State Department Press Secretary Tammy Bruce said on Tuesday during a press briefing. “This decision will restore the first Trump term framework of a unified U.S. diplomatic mission in Israel’s capital that reports to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel.”
After Trump opened the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in 2018, the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem — which had handled Palestinian affairs — was merged into the new embassy as the Palestinian Affairs Unit. In 2022, the Biden administration created the Office of Palestinian Affairs, which operated within the Jerusalem embassy but reports directly to the State Department instead of to the embassy.
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The Office of Palestinian Affairs was embroiled in controversy when it urged Israel to “refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks” in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-office-of-palestinian-affairs-deletes-post-urging-israel-to-stand-down-following-hamas-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a now-deleted tweet</a> following Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack in which terrorists raped, murdered, and kidnapped Israeli civilians. 
Trump’s newly named pick for United Nations ambassador, Mike Waltz, condemned the tweet at the time as “despicable” and said it “shows some of our bureaucrats’ true colors.”
While in the Senate, Rubio and a coalition of 80 other members of Congress <a href="https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/2022/06/23/hagerty-zeldin-lead-bicameral-joint-statement-calling-on-biden-administration-to-reverse-its-plan-to-circumvent-u-s-law-and-create-an-unofficial-u-s-consulate-to-the-palestinians-in-jerusalem/">released a statement</a> calling it “alarming” that the Biden administration opened the Office of Palestinian Affairs, which “amounts to be a separate U.S. diplomatic office to the Palestinians in Israel’s capital.”
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The letter called for the Office of Palestinian Affairs to be merged into the United States Embassy under the authority of the Ambassador to Israel instead of acting as a “de facto embassy.”
“The Biden Administration’s decision is wrong and not how America should treat Israel, one of our closest allies in the world,” the letter stated.
Ambassador Mike Huckabee will oversee implementing the merger over the coming weeks, according to Bruce.
“The United States remains committed to its historic relationship with Israel, bolstering Israel’s security and securing peace to create a better life for the entire region,” Bruce said. 
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-trump-recognizing-jerusalem-as-the-capital-of-israel-is-just-and-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump fulfilled</a> the mandate of the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, which required the United States Embassy in Israel to be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by 1999. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama repeatedly invoked a provision in the law allowing them to sign six-month waivers, delaying the relocation.
It wasn’t until President Trump that the law was fulfilled, with the embassy officially relocated to Jerusalem on May 14, 2018, a date that coincided with the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

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Only 17 days before the Biden administration left power, it sent more than $3 million to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF), among whom are members who, according to a report, executed more than 1,500 terror attacks against Israel in 2023.
The Washington Free Beacon gained access to a January 3 nonpublic funding notice transmitted to Congress. “Those funds allowed the PASF to conduct ‘firearms and ammunition’ training—and came after its members carried out scores of attacks against Israelis,” Adam Kredo of the Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-quietly-funneled-3-mil-to-palestinian-government-security-forces-for-weapons-training-after-its-members-carried-out-attacks-on-israelis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding that the “PASF is reportedly seeking more than $680 million from the American government over the next four years.&#8221;
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which researches Palestinian society and has numerous Arabic language researchers, conducted a 2024 investigation that found roughly 400 Palestinians imprisoned for terrorism were known to be members of the PASF. Additionally, PMW <a href="https://palwatch.org/page/34954" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in February 2024 that it had &#8220;documented at least 55 attacks by PA security forces against Israeli soldiers or civilians since 2020 &#8230; In each case, the PA or its ruling Fatah party has eulogized the attacker as one of their own ‘soldiers.’”
“The American suggestion to empower these terror forces to rule Gaza after Israel has destroyed the terror infrastructure is inconceivable,” PMW founder Itamar Marcus told the Washington Free Beacon last year. “The PA and its security forces are a fundamental part of the problem; it is absurd to believe they can be part of the solution.”
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), former chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, noted, “The PASF have demonstrated an ongoing inability to maintain order in (Judea and Samaria), a fact made more concerning by emerging reports of the group’s ties to terrorism in the region. As everyone knows, money is fungible.”
McCaul called for the Trump administration and Congress to “conduct rigorous oversight of this type of funding, which the Biden administration quietly noticed at the 11th hour. We must ensure taxpayer dollars are not empowering terrorists to fight our allies and undermine the very principles they’re meant to protect.”
According to the notice, the funds the Biden administration sent are providing “equipment and training” in Judea and Samaria for the Palestinians. As The Free Beacon noted, the first Trump presidency froze hundreds of millions in U.S. funds for the Palestinian Authority, but the Biden administration reinstated $45 million a year in funding to the PA security services, despite the fact that internal assessments “showed that the funding could boost the Iran-backed terror group Hamas.”

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The Palestinian Authority (PA), which for years has had a “pay for slay” reward program for Palestinian terrorists who murder Israelis, and the terrorist group Hamas, which committed the brutal October 7 massacre, are going to war in Samaria.
Iran has been trying to foster war against Israel in Judea and Samaria by smuggling sophisticated weapons to Palestinians there, but with Israel’s decimation of Hezbollah and Hamas and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Iran has been stymied.
With Hamas losing control of Gaza, the Biden administration has indicated that it would prefer the PA— which was ousted in 2007 in Gaza in a bloody war with Hamas— to take control of Gaza. Thus, the PA has been trying to assert control in the terrorist hotspot Jenin in Samaria, as Hamas has tried to expand its influence there.
“For the last eight days, PA security forces <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-833797" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have battled Hamas</a> and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters in Jenin, determined to regain control over the refugee camp that had fallen under the sway of terrorists unaffiliated with the PA,” the Jerusalem Post <a href="//07EBBD99-0DF3-45AD-94B1-0F749807E355/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “These terrorists, aligned with Iran’s ‘axis of evil,’ were a cornerstone of the Islamic Republic’s strategy to ignite an explosion in Judea and Samaria.”
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A PA senior security official <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/400856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Monday, “Since Hamas lacks the political courage to apologize to the Palestinian people, especially the residents of Gaza, and since it cannot reform its policy, which is leading to disaster and undermining the steadfastness of the people, it is now dragging the West Bank into flames, gambling with what remains of the Palestinian people&#8217;s resources under the pretext of struggle and resistance.&#8221;
As the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114hhrg20651/html/CHRG-114hhrg20651.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> in 2016:
<blockquote>Since 2003, it has been Palestinian law to reward Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails with a monthly paycheck&#8211;legislation which creates jihad. Under this act, the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Organization use a so-called &#8220;martyrs&#8217; fund&#8221; to pay the families of Palestinian prisoners and suicide bombers. One prominent Palestinian says that these inducements have become “sacred in Palestinian politics.”</blockquote>
Last February, Yasser Abu Sido, a senior official of the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party, Fatah, <a href="//07EBBD99-0DF3-45AD-94B1-0F749807E355/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “I am not a fan of Hitler, but when Hitler perpetrated the Holocaust, he had obvious reasons. &#8230; They planned to take control of Germany. They started to bring down Germany in terms of the economy and moral values. Hitler reacted by making the Jews go on the streets and lick the sidewalks. They know this very well.”

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In a video from 2017 that is making the rounds on social media this week, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, took to the floor at the United Nations to denounce the Palestinian Authority, saying it is the “greatest enemy of the Palestinian people.”
In late-September 2017, Yousef spoke before the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which last October appointed the representative of Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, as chair of its social forum. The UNHRC’s anti-Israel bias has been clear for years. <a href="https://unwatch.org/2022-2023-unga-resolutions-on-israel-vs-rest-of-the-world/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to the UN Watch Database, between 2006 and 2022, the UNHRC adopted 99 resolutions against Israel, 41 against Syria, 13 against Iran, four against Russia, and three against Venezuela. In April, it passed a resolution demanding an arms embargo on Israel.
“My name is Mosab Hassan Yousef; I grew up in Ramallah as a member of Hamas,” Yousef began. “I address the words to the Palestinian Authority, which claims to be the ‘sole legitimate representative” of the Palestinian people. I ask, where does your legitimacy come from? The Palestinian people did not elect you and they did not appoint you to represent them. You are self-appointed; your accountability is not to your own people. This is evidenced by your own total violation for their human rights.”
“In fact, the Palestinian individual and their human development is the least of your concerns,” he continued. “You kidnap Palestinian students from campus and torture them in your jails. You <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/30/palestine-impunity-arbitrary-arrests-torture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">torture your political rivals</a>. The suffering of the Palestinian people is the outcome of your selfish political interests.”
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“You are the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people,” he declared. “If Israel did not exist, you would have no one to blame. Take responsibility for the outcome of your own actions. You fan the flames of conflict to maintain your abuse of power. Finally, you use this platform to mislead the international community, to mislead the Palestinian society to believe that Israel is responsible for the problems you create.”
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Regarding the terrorist group Hamas, Yousef recently told Jordan Peterson, “We have to eradicate Hamas. We have to finish Islamists. There is no room for savages in our civilization, and anyone who pose a threat against innocent civilians don’t have equal rights. It’s as simple as that.”
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This article has been amended to make clear that Yousef&#8217;s statement to the UN took place in September 2017.

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A <a href="https://aflegal.org/afl-files-amended-complaint-against-president-biden-and-secretary-of-state-blinken-to-enforce-the-taylor-force-act-and-to-stop-u-s-funding-of-palestinian-terrorism-highlights-bidens-knowled/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> targeting President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken accusing them of violating the Taylor Force Act has been amended to add information alleging that the Biden administration was aware that it was supporting Palestinian terrorists with U.S. taxpayer dollars.
The Taylor Force Act was passed in 2018 after Taylor Force, a West Point graduate who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, was murdered on March 8, 2016, in Jaffa, Israel, by a Palestinian terrorist. The official Facebook page of Fatah, the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party, called the terrorist who wounded ten other people, a “heroic martyr.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a>, as you meet <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestinian</a> leadership, remember Taylor Force:
West Point graduate. Stabbed to death while on a school trip in Israel in 2016. 
Not Jewish. Not Israeli. 
PA celebrated his killer as a “hero” &amp; pays the family benefits.
Say NO to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PayForSlay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PayForSlay</a> ☠️ <a href="https://t.co/weCqGdckB4">pic.twitter.com/weCqGdckB4</a>
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The Taylor Force Act declares that the PA’s “pay-to-slay” program, which pays salaries to terrorists in Israeli prisons and the families of deceased terrorists, incentivized Palestinians to kill Israelis and Americans. It also barred the executive branch from using taxpayer funds to benefit the PA unless the PA renounces its “pay-to-slay” program and ends acts of violence against Israeli citizens.
The original complaint from America First Legal was <a href="https://aflegal.org/afl-sues-president-biden-and-secretary-of-state-blinken-to-enforce-the-taylor-force-act-and-to-stop-u-s-funding-of-palestinian-terrorism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> on December 20, 2022. Among the plaintiffs are Dr. Ronny Jackson, the former Physician to the President for both President Obama and President Trump who now serves as a House Representative for Texas’ 13th district, and Taylor Force’s parents, Stuart and Robbie.
The defendants tried to have the case dismissed, but that was rejected on February 2, 2024.
“The amended complaint alleges that the Biden Administration illegally reversed the Trump Administration’s ban on Palestinian funding, spending approximately $500 million U.S. tax dollars for ‘Economic Support Funds’ in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria (the ‘West Bank’), and another $1 billion for the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) to directly benefit the Palestinian Authority (PA),” America First states. “It further alleges that the Biden Administration knowingly subsidized the PA’s ‘pay-to-slay’ bounty system, the expansion of Hamas’s military capabilities in Gaza, and UNRWA’s material support for Palestinian terrorism.”
“The Defendants have had actual knowledge that American taxpayer-funded assistance to Gaza and the West Bank, including Economic Support Fund awards and United Nations Relief Works Agency contributions, including assistance funneled through nongovernmental organizations, was being diverted to or used for the benefit of Hamas and other terrorists,” America First alleged. “Responding to the Biden Administration&#8217;s October 18, 2023, announcement of $100 million in American taxpayer aid for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, the USAID Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations, issued a situational alert stating that ‘The USAID Office of Inspector General (USAID OIG) has identified this area as high-risk for potential.’”
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“The Biden Administration worked closely with the United Nations to increase the flow of funds and ‘reconstruction’ goods into Hamas-ruled Gaza,” the lawsuit noted. “However, the Biden administration knew that these so-called ‘reconstruction’ goods were routinely diverted to build Hamas’s tunnels and rockets. For example, on October 18, 2023, in the aftermath of 10/7, Biden perversely announced $100 million in ‘humanitarian aid’ for Gaza and the West Bank, the United States Agency for International Development Office of the Inspector General issued a ‘Fraud Awareness’ notification stating that there is a ‘high-risk for potential diversion and misuse of U.S.-funded assistance [that could] fall into the hands of foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) including, but not limited to, Hamas.’”
The amended complaint can be found <a href="https://media.aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/26191430/TFA-First-Amended-Complaint-and-Exhibits-Filed.pdf?_ga=2.218948313.1900778204.1713188290-21079764.1713188289" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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On Friday, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro sounded off on the Biden administration leaning toward letting the Palestinian Authority run the Gaza Strip.
“You know what Americans don&#8217;t like very much?” he asked. “When American allies lose. They do not like when America basically fosters terrorist victory &#8230; The media may be disquieted by the ugliness of war, but the American people genuinely don&#8217;t like when America&#8217;s enemies, people who hate America, win. We don&#8217;t like war in our faces all the time. But there&#8217;s something we like even less, and that is losing wars.”
“The media have basically controlled American foreign policy for four decades at this point. When America goes to war, the media immediately opines that the war is very ugly, very ugly.”
“But here’s the problem. America&#8217;s enemies know that war is ugly and they know that Americans care that war is ugly — and so they attempt to leverage that. That&#8217;s exactly what Hamas is doing right now,&#8221; he continued. “The way Hamas wins is not by winning. Hamas has only one plan to survive: Get enough Palestinian civilians killed that they can, then get the international community to pressure Israel to preserving Hamas. And we don&#8217;t actually have straight statistics from inside the Gaza Strip because Hamas is providing them, and Hamas lies all the time.”
“That’s why it is so pathetic that the Biden administration continues to mimic the propaganda put out by Hamas. They are now suggesting that Israel basically ought to leave Hamas in place, because if they don&#8217;t leave Hamas in place, then too many people will die because of Hamas,” he noted. “That is a formula for never winning a war again for anyone who&#8217;s in the West. You just gave the enemy the upper hand. The more evil and brutal they are toward their own civilians, the more you&#8217;re going to leave them alone seems to be the prevailing message here.”
Then he turned to the Palestinian Authority: “Meanwhile Israel is supposed to ignore the fact that its own citizens are still being killed. On Thursday, two Israeli citizens were murdered at a gas station in Eli, which is in [Samaria]. One of the people who committed the attack is a member of the Palestinian Authority police and the Palestinian Authority. Those are the people that the Biden administration would like to run the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority. So the Biden administration&#8217;s plan in the Middle East is to hand over power to the Palestinian Authority, which literally pays the families of terrorists who murder Jews, and preserve Hamas so that Joe Biden can win Michigan.”
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“There is no party on the other side of the aisle from Israel that is willing to make anything like a lasting peace. It does not exist. Last week a senior Palestinian official spoke of how Hitler was right, saying, ‘When Hitler perpetrated the Holocaust, he had obvious reasons,&#8217; adding that the Jews ‘planned to take control of Germany.’”
“These are the people that Joe Biden would like to leave in place and give power,” he concluded.

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Ben Shapiro Slams Biden For Considering Palestinian Authority To Run Gaza

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