Israel's Secret: Palestinian Resistance Never Agreed to Disarm

Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill details western media's “propaganda” that Hamas agreed to Trump’s sweeping 20-point plan or to demilitarize.

Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill details the “propaganda” espoused by many Western officials and media outlets that Hamas agreed to Trump’s sweeping 20-point plan or to demilitarize. He noted that Hamas and Islamic Jihad only signed “a very narrow endorsement of what is being called the first phase of the plan.”

Trump and Netanyahu are now demanding full demilitarization, with Netanyahu threatening a return to “full scale war” if even rifles remain. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim told Scahill the resistance’s position is unchanged: no unilateral disarmament, and no demilitarization outside a political process that leads to the establishment of a Palestinian state and a national armed force capable of defending it.

Read the full exclusive report from Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad featuring remarks from Basem Naim, whom they interviewed about the latest U.S.-Israeli demands for disarmament:

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Transcript: If you don’t understand this or you don’t recognize this lie, everything else that comes after it, your understanding of the rhetoric is going to be problematic. The Palestinian resistance did not sign on to Trump’s 20 point plan. The Palestinian resistance signed a very narrow uh endorsement of what is being called the first phase of the plan.

They did not sign any document that said, “We’re going to demilitarize. We’re going to disarm.” In fact, they made very clear that Hamas and Islamic Jihad don’t have the right to negotiate on behalf of all Palestinians core questions that cut to the heart of the future of Palestinian liberation. What has happened since then is that both Trump and Netanyahu and in fact UN officials, other Western officials, media outlets have claimed that Hamas signed a deal that it was going to demilitarize and disarm. And from that stems so much propaganda about, oh, Hamas is backing away from its deal, etc.

Netanyahu a few days ago comes out and gives a speech after he meets in the US with Trump saying, uh, it’s not just about rockets. It’s not just about heavy weaponry. It’s not just about tunnels. The real problem is AK-47s. And he essentially characterized AK-47 rifles as an existential threat to Israel.

He invokes the Holocaust, saying it was the AK-47 that killed the most Jews since the Holocaust. He says all of them need to be removed from Gaza and they need to be removed immediately. And if they don’t remove them, then we’re going to have to go back to full-scale war. Then there’s reports the cabinet secretary of the Israeli government yesterday comes out and says at a at an event in Jerusalem, the Americans are suggesting they’re going to give Hamas 60 days to completely disarm. And if they don’t, then Trump’s going to authorize Israel to go in and resume the genocide.

So I spoke I I then spoke yesterday to Basim Naimm who is a senior Hamas leader and close to Dr. Khalil Al-Ha, the head of Hamas and Gaza. And Basam Naimm also is has been at times one of the senior negotiators dealing not just with the regional mediators but also he was one of the people who was negotiating directly with the Americans earlier in this process last year and but what Basam Naimm said is our position remains unchanged.

We are not going to accept disarmament unless it is in the context of the establishment of a Palestinian state and a Palestinian armed force that is capable of defending our people and our territorial integrity. So I think what we’re going to see once again is this demand that is masquerading as an issue about weapons that in reality is that Netanyahu wants to force the Palestinians into some sort of humiliating surrender ritual.

And if they won’t do it, they’re going to start murdering their kids in even greater numbers than they are at this moment. And by the way, they are extra judicially also killing Kasam and Sariah al- Kud’s fighters in Gaza. The very forces they signed the ceasefire agreement with.

People say, “Oh, but they’re terrorists.” Do they not understand how a ceasefire works? A ceasefire is between combatants. And so Israel is violating the ceasefire not just by killing civilians, but by killing Palestinian resistance fighters that are parties to the ceasefire that the United States said Trump was going to back.

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