Until the Axis of Resistance take up arms against the PA, all talk about the PA being sellout traitors is just that: talk. You can’t say the PA is like Vichy France but not do what the French Resistance did to collaborators working for Vichy France. And it’s not like Hamas has any issues liquidating Palestinian traitors like what they’re doing with the gangs affiliated with the IOF. It’s just these particular group of traitors that Hamas is a lot more careful about.
Hamas is very careful in denouncing the PA. I don’t even think I have read a single announcement where they explicitly call the PA traitors. Had they done so, then it’s an open declaration of war against the PA because the sentence for treachery in any war is death. Given that Hamas has not taken up arms against the PA, Russia and China have to more or less continue to take these Palestinian compradors seriously. This is why the PA got invited along with every other Palestinian org in that conference hosted by China even though the PA being invited meant the conference was more or less a waste time.
This really just feels like another deflection of criticism towards China’s abdication of international agency by focusing on this vote being a referendum on the PA, which it isn’t.
We can get lost in the political minutiae but the fact is that China is yet again choosing to not do anything, and I think literally everyone can see how this will end: with their inaction biting them in the ass
As far as statecraft and geopolitics goes, I think all factions are essentially lumped under the banner of Palestine. Hence everyone coming to the table.
Yes, that was the conference I was referring to. China more or less invited every single Palestinian org as a demonstration of a public united front among Palestinian orgs. This is a good thing. It’s not China’s job or right to pick sides. And it’s not like every other org is chummy with one another. For example, DFLP is an org that split from the PFLP. Should we expect China to arbitrate whether the PFLP or DFLP is the org that best represents the interests of Palestinian socialists and communists? Of course not.
Until the Axis of Resistance take up arms against the PA, all talk about the PA being sellout traitors is just that: talk. You can’t say the PA is like Vichy France but not do what the French Resistance did to collaborators working for Vichy France. And it’s not like Hamas has any issues liquidating Palestinian traitors like what they’re doing with the gangs affiliated with the IOF. It’s just these particular group of traitors that Hamas is a lot more careful about.
Hamas is very careful in denouncing the PA. I don’t even think I have read a single announcement where they explicitly call the PA traitors. Had they done so, then it’s an open declaration of war against the PA because the sentence for treachery in any war is death. Given that Hamas has not taken up arms against the PA, Russia and China have to more or less continue to take these Palestinian compradors seriously. This is why the PA got invited along with every other Palestinian org in that conference hosted by China even though the PA being invited meant the conference was more or less a waste time.
This really just feels like another deflection of criticism towards China’s abdication of international agency by focusing on this vote being a referendum on the PA, which it isn’t.
We can get lost in the political minutiae but the fact is that China is yet again choosing to not do anything, and I think literally everyone can see how this will end: with their inaction biting them in the ass
What is China’s official stance on Hamas tho? I never really got the impression that China was sympathetic to Hamas.
As far as statecraft and geopolitics goes, I think all factions are essentially lumped under the banner of Palestine. Hence everyone coming to the table.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Beijing_Declaration
I could be wrong though
Yes, that was the conference I was referring to. China more or less invited every single Palestinian org as a demonstration of a public united front among Palestinian orgs. This is a good thing. It’s not China’s job or right to pick sides. And it’s not like every other org is chummy with one another. For example, DFLP is an org that split from the PFLP. Should we expect China to arbitrate whether the PFLP or DFLP is the org that best represents the interests of Palestinian socialists and communists? Of course not.