Alternate headline: Palestinian Authority Official Bucks History in Sensing Wind Direction.
The PA has long suffered from leadership that obstinately refuses to recognize reality, all the way back to its PLO roots. Has that begun to change with Benjamin Netanyahu’s reshaping of the region and Donald Trump’s return to the White House? Fatah general secretary Mohammad Hamdan may have vested interests in talking down Hamas, but it doesn’t mean he’s not right.
Hamdan tells the New York Post that he expects Trump to crush Hamas, but not directly. Trump will take down Iran, which will put a stake through the heart of Fatah’s bitter enemy. And that’s not Israel, as Hamdan tacitly admits:
“We are confronting Hamas’ ideology. Our problem is with Hamas’ link to regimes outside Palestine,” Mohammad Hamdan, secretary general of the PA’s ruling Fatah party,…
