The upcoming Israeli election isn’t just critical for Israeli citizens—it’s also critical for our enemies. One of them, the ‘Palestinian’ Authority, has stopped hiding and made clear who it wants to win.
The entire Arab-Islamic axis in the region—from Iran to here—supporters of the Palestinian cause want one thing: the defeat of Netanyahu’s right-wing government with Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Sometimes they say this on camera. Sometimes it shapes their strategic calculations, as senior Hezbollah official Raad Barou described in the past: “Our decision to respond is tied to the question of whether it will help Netanyahu.”
1+I spoke today with one of the ‘Palestinian’ Authority’s senior officials, a close advisor to PA President Mahmoud Abbas—Mahmoud al-Habbash—to try to understand what the PA wants to see happen in Israel’s fateful election and what outcome it thinks would be best for the ‘Palestinians’. He was very careful with his words, refusing to name a specific candidate they prefer, but from his comments it’s very clear which camp he’d prefer to see come to power here—in his words, “the peace camp.”
Al-Habbash: “We hope that the Israeli voter and citizen will lean toward the peace camp, toward peace, security, and mutual coexistence. The name of the Israeli prime minister doesn’t interest us. What interests us is the political plan—a plan that will be committed to international law and will establish peace with the ‘Palestinians’.”
1+His words and the terminology he used—from “peace camp” to talk of a political plan and establishing peace with the ‘Palestinians’—couldn’t help but remind me of the rhetoric around Oslo back then.
Two days before the election, from Tehran to Ramallah and even here inside Israel, it’s completely clear what those who plot against us want the results to be. Sometimes they say it directly on camera—”We want to bring down the right-wing government”—and sometimes the words are wrapped in language whose meaning is nonetheless clear, as we reported tonight from the senior ‘Palestinian’ Authority official, who hopes for “the Israeli voter to lean toward the ‘peace camp.'”