Thread by @elderofziyon

The PA prime minister is very happy that people are dying, because that has "returned the Palestinian issue to the agenda of the world's priorities."

This is important. Since the Abraham Accords, Palestinians have been feeling irrelevant - the worst feeling for them.
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They felt that the world no longer cared about them - which is largely true since they couldn't even fix their own issues and kept blaming everything on Israel.

Instead of working towards peace, they wanted to feel important, to be cover stories on Time.
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As @palwatch has documented, the PA has worked to incite violence in Jerusalem for weeks before Ramadan. TV music videos glorified martyrdom.

They know this stuff works on their people. Sure enough, it did - starting with the TikTok attacks on religious Jews.
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@palwatch So they again started the "cycle of violence," quite consciously. And this led up to rockets and bombing Gaza - which, interestingly, doesn't hurt the Palestinian Authority one bit.

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@palwatch Now that they easily manipulated the anti-Israel media and politicians to condemn Israel for imagined crimes of "ethnic cleansing #SheikhJarrah" and "targeting civilians in Gaza," they are ecstatic.

How does it help them?
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@palwatch It doesn't. But Palestinians live in a zero sum game world, and they literally believe that anything that hurts Israel helps them.

It is a caveman mentality. The UAE doesn't have it, but many Arabs do - when Israel looks bad, somehow that helps its enemies.

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@palwatch There are no winners in such a worldview. And until Palestinians realize that Israelis feeling secure is a prerequisite to peace, there will be none.
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