‘Palestinian holocaust’ lie a ‘winning card’ – for Palestinian Authority

By playing the victim card in the current war, the Palestinians have started the “collapse” of Israel.

By Aharon David, Palestinian Media Watch

The Palestinian leadership is keenly aware that the strongest weapon in their arsenal against Israel in the Oct. 7 war is false victimhood and that their challenge is to effectively play this “Palestinian holocaust card”—”the winning card,” as a senior Fatah official recently called it.

Both Hamas and the PA play a key role in this dirty tactic. Hamas actively seeks to increase the number of dead Gazans in order to “inflame public opinion” against Israel, as was exposed by Fatah TV.

It also murders Gazans seeking food so as to maintain its monopoly over the vast quantities of humanitarian aid that it steals, thereby creating a narrative of “starvation.”

The PA then runs with this manufactured humanitarian crisis and sells this “Palestinian holocaust” to the world as being Israel’s fault, in order to delegitimize Israel’s defensive war through feigned victimhood.

One of the top Fatah leaders, Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, made this message very explicit on official PA TV when he called to exploit “the Palestinian holocaust… the winning card”:

Rajoub asserted that in the past two years of war the world has become “convinced” of Palestinian victimhood, and he emphasized the need to exploit this.

Indeed, the PA has been trying to manipulate anti-Israel bias in various ways, including by pushing lawfare actions against Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Palestinian Media Watch recently exposed these actions that violate American law in a report sent to the US State Department, and in response the US announced sanctions against PLO and PA members.

Aside from the PA led by Fatah, Hamas itself has been cynically pushing a narrative of victimhood.

Hamas, which started the current war with a horrific massacre and continues to hold Israeli hostages in horrific conditions, also recognizes that the world has eagerly gobbled up the demonization against Israel’s defensive war in Gaza.

The Oct. 7 massacre has brought various boons to the Palestinians, according to senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad.

One of the main results listed by Hamad is the demonization of Israel on the world stage, which has come about through the extensive Palestinian victimhood campaign:

In celebrating the so-called achievements of the Oct. 7 massacre, Hamad singled out the false accusations of “genocide and ethnic cleansing.”

These accusations are part of the Palestinian victimhood narrative – a narrative that has no basis in fact of course, as the population of Gaza has actually grown during the alleged “genocide.”

But according to Hamad, by playing the victim card in the current war, the Palestinians have started the “collapse” of Israel.

Given the number of Western states pledging to recognize “Palestine” as a state following Oct. 7, and the arms embargo on Israel recently announced by Germany, it seems the Palestinian strategy of playing the “winning” holocaust card has indeed been working.

It remains to be seen if and when the world will stop being a tool of Palestinian terror organizations.