{"id":644761,"date":"2026-10-13T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/644761\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:10:14","slug":"fatah-figure-says-two-state-proposal-is-a-trap-set-for-israels-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/644761\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatah figure says two-state proposal is a ‘trap’ set for Israel’s destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe know the trap we have set for Israel by demanding a two-state solution,\u201d Basel Abu Shahab, secretary of the Fatah<\/a> movement in the Burj al-Shemali refugee camp in Lebanon<\/a>, told Palestine TV, adding that Israel \u201chas reason to fear us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abu Shahab, the son of Fatah Maj.-Gen. Jalal Abu Shehab, widely known as Abu Basel, said in the interview over the weekend that within 20 years of a Palestinian state being established, it could develop an aircraft industry and an industrial sector capable of rivaling Israel\u2019s, giving it the \u201ccomponents of a state capable of confronting Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know the trap we have set for Israel by demanding a two-state solution. But Israel understands why it does not want to give us a state: it knows what the future could hold,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my view, the establishment of a Palestinian state would mean the disappearance of the Israeli entity and the end of global Zionism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the interview, Abu Shahab glorified the fida\u2019i (Palestinian fighter) and portrayed past terrorist operations in a positive light, particularly Fatah\u2019s abduction of Israeli watchman Shmuel Rosenwasser in 1969.<\/p>\n

Nostalgia for Fatah abductions, attacks<\/p>\n

Fatah terrorists crossed into Israel from Lebanon and abducted Rosenwasser from his night-watch post in Metulla on December 31, 1969. He was held captive for over a year in Jordan before being released in March 1971 in exchange for Mahmoud Hijazi, a Fatah terrorist serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first Fatah operation involving the capture of Israeli soldiers took place in that area (Metula), led by the late Abu Ali Iyad, one of the Palestinian figures associated with the movement,\u201d Abu Shahab said, speaking about how he was still able to look over the Israeli town from the Wazzani area. \u201cYou can see your village right in front of you, yet you cannot do anything to return to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Abu Shahab expressed nostalgia for Fatah\u2019s involvement in abductions and attacks, he acknowledged that handing over weapons to the Lebanese state had created a \u201chistoric opportunity\u201d for Palestinians and Syrians<\/a> in the Burj al-Shemali camp, allowing them to obtain permission to bring in construction materials to improve living conditions.<\/p>\n

He said that anti-Palestinian racism in Lebanon was evident in the conditions in the camp and the restrictions imposed on it, which he said had only grown more severe amid Lebanon\u2019s security situation.<\/p>\n

Fatah invests in improving Palestinians’ image in Lebanon<\/p>\n

Without naming Hezbollah, however, Abu Shahab said there were \u201cparties\u201d who \u201cembrace Palestinians, welcome them, and treat the Palestinian cause as one and the same as their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shahab said Fatah had invested in improving Palestinians\u2019 image in Lebanon by funding Siraj al-Awda, a 133-member folk dance troupe that he said had \u201cenabled us to enter areas that we could not otherwise have visited because of political sensitivities, including Kfar Shuba (a Sunni Muslim village) and other places.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Lebanese groups regard Palestinians as occupiers, but we were able to return to the embrace of the communities that had once welcomed the Palestinian revolution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Shahab said that although Fatah can \u201coperate\u201d on Lebanese territory, the security situation has prevented it from holding a high-ranking meeting of the Palestinian National Council<\/a> in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

He also warned against individuals seeking to \u201cexploit divisions\u201d and \u201cturn people against members of the Fatah movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

To counter these efforts, he said that Fatah members should refrain from criticizing their leader, \u201ceven if you believe that he does not possess all the qualities a leader should have,\u201d arguing that unity was essential to strengthening the movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe road ahead of you is difficult. You must always understand that you are being targeted,\u201d Shahab told Fatah members.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a saying in popular culture: when the arrows are directed at you, know that you are on the right path\u2026 God has protected [Fatah]. And why has God protected us? Because of the blood of the martyrs and the souls of those who sacrificed their lives. Their presence and their sacrifices continue to protect the Fatah movement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe know the trap we have set for Israel by demanding a two-state solution,\u201d Basel Abu Shahab, secretary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4160,63970,264523,85,46,108562,88,47,43,48,6608,5243,22869],"class_list":["post-644761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-attack","tag-fatah","tag-hamas-fatah","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kidnapping","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-palestinian","tag-palestinian-authority","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}