Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian "moderate" advocating non-violence in English on @CNN, condones "armed resistance" and Hamas terrorism in Arabic ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, January 20, 2025

Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian "moderate" advocating non-violence in English on @CNN, condones "armed resistance" and Hamas terrorism in Arabic

Hamas held a meeting in Doha along with top officials of major terror groups Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front, the Popular Front-General Command and the Palestinian People’s Party, to talka about a "day after" scenario in Gaza.

Pointedly, no one from Fatah attended.

But also attending this meeting was Mustafa Barghouti, the head of the "National Initiative," sitting two seats away from the head of Islamic Jihad and four seats from Khalil al-Hayya, the Hamas official who praised October 7 and vows to continue more attacks until Israel is destroyed.

Barghouti sat in a place of honor at the front of the room along with major terrorist leaders.

According to Hamas, the participants of the meeting saluted all the "military wings of the Palestinian resistance factions" as well as those who shot rockets and drones to Israel from Yemen, Iran, and Iraq.

Barghouti is considered a "moderate." He is a frequent guest on Western cable news shows; he was interviewed by Fareed Zakaria of CNN on Sunday and by Christiane Amanpour last week.

While in Doha he appeared to agree with Hamas that October 7 was a great accomplishment; when he returned to Ramallah a day later he told Zakaria that he espouses non-violence and even claimed, ludicrously, that he convinced Hamas to abandon violence for five years in Gaza before Israel attacked.

Why is Hamas inviting him to this meeting that supports violence against Jews unless he tacitly agrees with them?

While he doesn't say it in English, his "National Initiative" movement (which appears to be tiny) says that it does support armed resistance "as long as international humanitarian law is respected." Barghouti does not elaborate on exactly what that means - many Palestinians have claimed that terrorism is legal under international law - but in this interview he is asked to clarify whether he supports the October 7 attacks and he weas careful not to say anything negative about them, saying that Palestinian people have the "right to resist." He later emphasized that he does not say he supports "peaceful popular resistance" but merely "popular resistance," saying others ascribed the word "peaceful" to him, and then admits that he believes that "armed resistance" is a legitimate and complementary component to popular resistance.

His refusal to condemn Hamas rapes, murders and burning families indicates that Brghouti is not the peace-loving person he claims to be on CNN.