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ALM: Briefly Revisiting “Palestinian KGB” — Moscow’s Active Measures and Perpetual “Forever War”

22 Wednesday Jul 2026

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I asked ALM to update “Palestinian KGB & The Palestinians–Abused and Plundered by Their Own”, a July 2021 mash-up ferrying a little bit of comment above a pretty good set of reference for activists more interested in conflict resolution than in manning the barricades in the cause of their own vanity. Here, only lightly edited, is her report. –J. S. Oppenheim.

The ongoing tragedy of the Middle East Conflict is frequently framed through familiar, well-worn lenses: ideological and religious antagonism, land disputes, or competing nationalisms. Yet beneath the surface of Western media coverage lies a cold, structural reality that academics, policy professionals, and human rights advocates routinely overlook: the Middle East Conflict has been and remains a frozen conflict, i.e., at its core, an engineered Russian “forever war.”

For over six decades, Soviet and Post-Soviet intelligence apparatuses—from the KGB to today’s FSB and SVR—have intellectually weaponized the Palestinian political space by converting legitimate local aspirations into a destabilizing proxy vector against Western liberalism. In effect, Moscow has long kept established a template for active measures (specifically disinformation–disingenuous arguments and lies–driven by political ends), strategic deception, and kleptocratic control by corrupt political elites. To produce for themselves a more genuine sovereignty, Palestinian intelligentsia may undertake review of the lineage accepted without critical facility, dismantle the inherited Soviet security state, and reclaim integrity in independent research and–with that honesty established–integrity in language as well.

1. The Operational Blueprint: Operation SIG and Semantic Inversion

Following the catastrophic defeat of Moscow’s Arab state clients in the 1967 Six-Day War, KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov and General Aleksandr Sakharovsky realized that conventional military confrontation against Western-aligned states was a dead end. In response, the KGB initiated Operation SIG (Sionistskiye Gosudarstva / “Zionist Governments”).

The goal was not to liberate Palestinians, but to create an operational wedge against the West.

1. “Palestinian Liberation” As Framed by Soviet/Post-Soviet Russian Power

  • Class War to Anti-Imperialism: The Soviets pivoted from trying to impress middle east powers with dogmatic Marxist-Leninist class rhetoric to framing the regional struggle as a Third World “anti-imperialist liberation movement.”
  • Linguistic Traps: The KGB engineered slogans and conceptual inversions designed to resonate within Western academia and the UN. Slogans equating Zionism with racism or fascism were crafted in Moscow to delegitimize the West while obscuring Soviet authoritarianism.
  • Cultivating Faction Leaders: Palestinian factional leaders were trained in Soviet bloc facilities in covert warfare, active measures, and public relations.

2. From KGB to FSB: The “Forever War” as a Frozen Conflict

In post-Soviet statecraft, a frozen conflict is a deliberate strategy. From Transnistria and Abkhazia to the Donbas, Moscow maintains unstable, unresolvable zones along its periphery to block regional integration, prevent democratic evolution, and force Western concessions.

The Middle East Conflict serves as Moscow’s original, macro-level frozen conflict.

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|                            THE "FOREVER WAR" CYCLE                                |
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|  1. Active Measures & Radicalization  -->  Sustains extremist proxy factions.     |
|  2. Regional Instability              -->  Distracts Western diplomatic focus.    |
|  3. Authoritarian Enforcement         -->  Suppresses local democratic reform.     |
|  4. Diplomatic Arbitrage              -->  Moscow positions itself as mediator.   |
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By keeping the Middle East locked in a permanent, high-friction state, Moscow achieves three critical objectives:

  1. Strategic Distraction: Diverts Western intelligence, military, and diplomatic bandwidth away from Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
  2. Kleptocratic Maintenance: Entrenches internal security regimes within the Palestinian political apparatus that prioritize survival, surveillance, and graft over open market development, civil law, and freedom of speech.
  3. The Proxy Baton Pass: As direct Russian economic capacity fluctuates, Moscow facilitates alliances between its local network and state actors like Tehran. Whether through hosting Hamas delegations in Moscow or coordinating diplomatic maneuvers at the UN, Russia ensures the conflict never settles into permanent peace.

3. The Impact on the Palestinian Community

The primary victims of this prolonged strategic deception are independent Palestinians.

By trapping the community in an operational loop designed by Moscow, local governance has been reduced to an extractive security state. Education, civic enterprise, and individual liberty are systematically sacrificed to maintain the posture of perpetual resistance.

For defenders of human rights and international law, recognizing this dynamic is critical: the ongoing oppression of the Palestinian population is not merely an external issue—it is actively enforced by internal security structures built on Soviet models of authoritarian control.

4. Reclaiming Sovereignty Through Integrity in Language

Real movement toward Middle East stability cannot begin until all sides—diplomats, scholars, and activists alike—audit the language governing the discourse.

For an independent Palestinian intellect, claiming true self-determination requires:

  • Auditing Political Terminology: Identifying and discarding Soviet-era active-measures vocabulary designed to prolong conflict rather than build institutions.
  • Rejecting Proxy Status: Refusing to allow the Palestinian cause to be used as leverage by foreign autocracies in Moscow or Tehran.
  • Demanding Internal Accountability: Shifting focus toward rule of law, transparent governance, civil liberties, and the dismantling of police-state architectures.

The path to genuine peace and sovereignty may require stepping out of an outdated Russian frozen conflict, dismantling the kleptocratic apparatus built to sustain it, and restoring clarity, truth, and integrity to language.

Reference

Andrew, Christopher, and Vasili Mitrokhin. The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. Basic Books, 2005.

Bergman, Ronen. “The KGB’s Middle East Files: Palestinians in the service of Mother Russia.” Middle East Transparent, February 26, 2024.

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Resolution 3379: “Zionism is Racism,” Fifty Years Later. INSS Strategic Assessment, Nov. 2025.

Pacepa, Ion Mihai. Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief. Regnery Gateway, 1987.

Pacepa, Ion Mihai, and Ronald J. Rychlak. Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism. WND Books, 2013.

United Nations General Assembly. Resolution 3379 (XXX): Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. A/RES/3379(XXX), 10 Nov. 1975.

For a deeper look into the archival evidence behind these sources, Professor Christopher Andrew discusses his findings from the Mitrokhin Archive on The KGB and the Battle for the Third World.

This video provides direct historical context on how Soviet intelligence files declassified by Vasili Mitrokhin detail KGB operations across the global south during the Cold War.

Related Reference Previously Published on BackChannels

Amnesty. “Gaza: Journalist facing prison term for exposing corruption in Hamas-controlled ministry.” February 25, 2019.

Bates, McKenna. “Telling the Truth About Palestinian Child Soldiers.” The Algemeiner, March 8, 2020.

Caligiuri, Gabriel. “The Crescent and the Sickle: A History of “Free Palestine.” Frontier Alliance International, November 1, 2024.

Council on Foreign Relations. “Corruption in the Palestinian Authority.” April 5, 2018.

Dwek, Nimrod. “Hamas, Fatah: The tragedy of corrupted regimes – opinion. The Jerusalem Post, May 20, 2021.

Faus, Jocogo Salvador Mico. “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and “Hamas’ child soldiers.” Atalayar, May 12, 2021.

Freiman, Myer. “Hamas Killed 160 Palestinian Children to Build Tunnels.” Tablet, July 25, 2014.

GAB, The Global Anticorruption Blog. “A Closer Look at Corruption, Hamas, and Violence in the Gaza Strip.” June 28, 2021.

Giovannetti, Megan. “Palestinians furious and fed up with corruption of Abbas’s ‘mafia’ PA.” Middle East Eye, February 15, 2019.

Heinze, Eric. “Russia is the global leader in Jew-hate.” The Jewish Chronicle, February 24, 2017.

Liberpedia. “Palestine/KGB”.

McGreal, Chris. “Fatah struggles with tainted image.” The Guardian, January 24, 2006.

Oppenheim, James S. “Endemic Russian Anti-Semitism–A Note.” BackChannels, February 1, 2021.

Starr, Michael. “Why Are Palestinian Child Soldiers Ignored.” The Times of Israel, February 19, 2021.

Ali was incredulous. “You call them a government?” he asked. “I call them mafia.”

For the 22-year-old Palestinian resident of the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, is a corrupt institution that benefits only an elite few.Giovannetti, Megan. “Palestinians furious and fed up with corruption of Abbas’s ‘mafia’ PA.” Middle East Eye, February 15, 2019.

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Medvedev: Muscovy Clown and Kremlinal

15 Friday Mar 2024

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In a recent Tweet, the high and not so mighty Dmitry Medvedev, chair of the Security Council of Russia, referred to Ukrainian President Zelensky as a “provincial clown”. After so many years of accumulating material about Russia, I had quite a bit to pack into one riposte–>

Provincial clown?

Look in the mirror.

For #Nazis, this has been #Russia’s work in its support of dictatorship-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2018/02/24/war-east-west-abomination-syria-bombing-hospitals/ -of the lust for the wealth of others and the power to steal it: #StormInMoscow-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/05/03/reference-journalist-alexander-zhilin-operation-storm-in-moscow-aka-moscow-apartment-bombings/ (you bombed #Russians in the dead of night as part of an obscene political theater) and here you will destroy what doesn’t shoot back: https://youtu.be/a245RkGUXfk; https://youtu.be/c1xFSCDy8Jo; https://youtu.be/q2nfuIP2tU0; https://youtu.be/8_XCe86resg. Your #JewHate traces back to about here: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/02/01/ftac-endemic-russian-anti-semitism-a-note/ -and your own #RussianNazism does too. Regarding #Hitler’s sideshow: you know of #WhiteRussianLoyalist #MaxErwinVonScheubnerRichter-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/12/29/ftac-middle-east-conflict-back-to-max-erwin-von-scheubner-richter-and-forward-to-the-plundering-of-palestinian-misery-by-palestinian-leadership-elites/.

In the end, the darkness you believe surrounds you–that paranoia–is your own and fixed by a reliably delusional, grandiose, messianic, and malign narcissism that has no other purpose than the want of adoration (narcissistic supply).

As an X-Pression–>

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Module: Russia, Antisemitism, Palestinians

09 Saturday Dec 2023

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1-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/02/01/ftac-endemic-russian-anti-semitism-a-note/

2-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/12/29/ftac-middle-east-conflict-back-to-max-erwin-von-scheubner-richter-and-forward-to-the-plundering-of-palestinian-misery-by-palestinian-leadership-elites/

3-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/07/26/ftac-palestinian-kgb-the-palestinians-abused-and-plundered-by-their-own/

4-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/04/22/ftac-moscow-suffocates-the-palestinians/

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Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, Gaza: Hamas Lies to Arab & Palestinian Communities

18 Wednesday Oct 2023

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First things first: Israeli Precision Guided Rockets neither miss their their targets nor fail to destroy them in their entirety.

The explosion that took place did so in a parking lot, and it produced no cratering nor damage to nearby buildings.

Next: Arabs may lie to save face and sustain pride in allegedly blameless fashion.

I would ascribe such behavior to primitive, medieval, and tribal mentality and would do so across cultures inclined to both humiliate and spoil their boys as humiliation motivates the development of the malignant narcissist.

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) analysis has included review of Israeli military launch records; radar air activity tracking records; reverse-tracked rocket fire traced to the proximity of the hospital, i.e., rocket trajectory show the launch took place south of the hospital–and not far from it; and independent video of the actual failure of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket.

In intercepted audio communications, launch controller-tracker officers note the location of launch as a cemetery behind the hospital . . . . So there’s the location south of the hospital–a cemetery!–and both cause and opportunity to lie about the attempt.

Related Online

Mishra, Tarun and Mohsin Shaikh. “Israeli Air Strike or False Flag Operation by Islamic Jihad? Over 500 dead in an Explosion at Gaza Hospital: Here is What We Know So Far.” Business Today, October 18, 2023.

Oppenheim, James S. “Malignant Narcissistic Process Distilled.” BackChannels, July 10, 2022.

Whitaker, Brian. “Lying is a cultural trait of Arabs, says Barak.” The Guardian, May 22, 2002.

Addendum: October 25, 2023.

Harris, Shane. “U.S. details intelligence it says clears Israel in Gaza hospital blast.” The Washington Post, October 24, 2023.

Regarding the matter of Hamas having lied to Palestinians to cover the shame attending a failed rocket launch (while blaming it on the other guy), the ways have always been several: cover, deflect, deny, erase, fabricate, frame, and omit.

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Linkage: Israel-Ukraine; Russia-Dictatorships & Terrorists

07 Saturday Oct 2023

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No more clear an example of #MedievalVModern may appear than the war that has broken out between #Hamas and #Israel. For Hamas, only the weapons are modern. The motivations have been deeply medieval, well rooted in directed misperception, i.e., disinformation, fabrications, lies promoted and sustained by edict and enforced by unquestionable and vicious authority. In essence-this on the Gaza Strip-the #Palestinians have been perceptually controlled by their own “leaders”, and they are now bound to be driven to destruction by them too.

For possibly most of the public, the story may be that Israeli settlers went wilding in Gaza and Gazans fought back, e.g., https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/6/palestinian-killed-as-israeli-settlers-attack-west-bank-town-of-huwara, but what has rolled out in the past day appears a full-scale Hamas battle plan, one with infiltrated shock troops and rockets (more than 2000 of them so far). In first fast response, BackChannels has forwarded through X background on #Russian antisemitism-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/02/01/ftac-endemic-russian-anti-semitism-a-note/-and #Russia’s related handling of the #Palestinians: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/04/22/ftac-moscow-suffocates-the-palestinians/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/12/29/ftac-middle-east-conflict-back-to-max-erwin-von-scheubner-richter-and-forward-to-the-plundering-of-palestinian-misery-by-palestinian-leadership-elites/. The behavior of those who would call themselves #Rus (and bridle at the hash term #RusNazis) appears just as barbaric and vicious as it must have in the 10th Century when the same displaced the last Khazar outpost.

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Sviatoslav finally succeeded in destroying Khazar imperial power in the 960s. The Khazar fortresses of Sarkel and Tamatarkha fell to the Rus in 965, with the capital city of Atil following circa 967 or 969. A visitor to Atil wrote soon after the sacking of the city: “The Rus attacked, and no grape or raisin remained, not a leaf on a branch.”

http://mirror2.polsri.ac.id/wiki/wp/k/Khazars.htm (see “Addendum, June 19, 2023” on BackChannels for related data).

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Today’s Khazarian and Rus descendants and others who have come to define Ukraine’s cultural, ethnic, and tribal endowments in total have become #ModernPeople, overwhelmingly lawful, fair and just, and peaceful in business and in general comportment while the most corrupt of persistent medieval thugs, Viktor Yanukovych, had been booted back to Moscow by general popular revolution, e.g., https://world.time.com/2014/02/22/ukraines-president-flees-protestors-capture-kiev/ and with the moral support of Ukraine’s army.

Hamas X Russian Political Absolutism, Barbarism, and Mafia

While Russia professes good will daily through its X-platformed embassy sites, its claims inevitably belie its own horrendous evil in the realms of chaos and mass destruction. The at-hand BackChannels references: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/06/28/a-dark-mirror-in-language/. For those most evil, language may be perverted to cover crime in the present and humiliation in the past as the rogue malign narcissistic psychology fashions strategies in language to match.

For the adverse personal and political psychology in play: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/10/malignant-narcissistic-process-distilled/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/coins-and-other-terms/anthropolitical-psychology/paranoid-delusional-narcissistic-reflection-of-motivation/.

Whatever Russia and the entities within its sphere of Soviet/post-Soviet Era influence may say of their enemies, it’s certain that they are describing themselves and their own ethical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy. Their leaderships prove predictably corrupt and (out of necessity) dishonest and repressive. As a collection of #MaligNarcs, none–from #Assad in Syria to the #Taliban in Afghanistan–can bear critics or rivals anywhere close to home, and all have made their bones on atrocity, brutality, and mass murder. In yet another BackChannels package-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/19/detecting-post-soviet-russias-black-narrative-of-revenge-for-89-and-91/-waits this gem: https://www.businessinsider.com/exploring-al-qaedas-murky-connection-to-russian-intelligence-2014-6.

#Putin, #TsarNobody in my #Zelensky-inspired desktop world, has with his KGB/FSB cohort proven immune to inconveniences posed by conscience (note: I’ve made a trope of “delusional, grandiose, and messianic ideation with an absence of normal boundaries, conscience, and limits” as shorthand for Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the political expression of the same beneath the label of “Malignant Narcissism”). For perhaps the most horrifying example of Putinesque stage management and perceptual control: #OperationStormInMoscow AKA #MoscowApartmentBombings, and here-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/05/03/reference-journalist-alexander-zhilin-operation-storm-in-moscow-aka-moscow-apartment-bombings/.

When it comes to bombing apartment buildings in the dead of night, none have done it better than #MadVlad who today threatens nuclear annihilation using the same methods in language inversion and psychological project to blackmail the west into the abandonment of Ukraine. And that’s “above the table”, i.e., in plain sight.

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The speech came after hardline political scientists and commentators in Russia said a return to nuclear testing could send a powerful message to Moscow’s enemies in the west. “I hear calls to start testing nuclear weapons, to return to testing,” Putin said.

Some in Russia have called for Putin to detonate a nuclear bomb to show the west that Moscow’s patience over its support for Ukraine and apparent unwillingness to negotiate is wearing thin.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/vladimir-putin-escalates-nuclear-rhetoric-with-threat-to-resume-testing

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Hamas has long found a sympathetic (or sympathetic-acting) presence in Mikhail Bogdanov, Moscow’s envoy to the Middle East. While it has been an independent actor, it appears to have also long-ingested the former communist state’s anti-Semitic rants and emphatic absolutism while holding itself n place with methods familiar to all dictatorships (for overview: https://freedomhouse.org/country/gaza-strip/freedom-world/2023).

Much has been written about the #RussianMafiaState. For quick reference->

Mustaffa, Munira. “Russia: The mafia as the state.” The Interpreter, August 31, 2023.

Rachman, Gideon. “Putin, Trump and the meaning of a mafia state.” Financial Times, August 28, 2023.

Wikipedia. “Mafia State”.

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Israel has been hampered in its assistance to Ukraine by a deconfliction arrangement with Russia over Syrian airspace (e.g., https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/russia-sees-military-coordination-with-israel-syria-continuing-2022-02-26/). Nonetheless, The Jewish State has arrived today with biblical, global, and modern histories. In Israel it has a homeland; around the world, it contains communities of all races and cultural strands bound together by Judaism, its Torah, and Jewish experience and lore across thousands of years; and it has so contributed to the ideas of the west that the entire political culture may refer to itself as “Judeo-Christian” as well as “Greco-Roman”. The barbarians from European North and Asian East have in Russia chosen to remain defined by whatever fear they may install in others and then tribute exact or steal in wealth. That’s what they did in the Byzantine and Medieval Eras, and that is what they are doing now.

In the Middle East, the Palestinians have served Russia as a block and goad to the west and the burgeoning and vibrant cultures associated with the democratic open societies of the world whose freedoms may be well symbolized by Israel’s vitality.

In Eastern Europe, Ukraine by revolution, election, and today war has in every possible way become part of the west, leaving Russia to attempt its capture and subjection or destruction even while “Muscovy” dies or destroys itself for its own archaic and deeply displaced, misguided, and perverse ambitions.

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Also related on BackChannels: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/07/26/ftac-palestinian-kgb-the-palestinians-abused-and-plundered-by-their-own/.

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Related Reading

Kellogg, Michael. The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Politkovskaya, Anna. A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Nekrasov, Andrey. Director. Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File AKA The Murder of Litvinenko.

Wikipedia. “Russian Imperial Movement”.

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FTAC: Moscow Suffocates the Palestinians

22 Saturday Apr 2023

Posted by in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, Anti-Semitism, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Extreme Brown vs Red-Green, FTAC - From The Awesome Conversation, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Palestinia, Philosophy, Russia

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Remember who handles the Palestinians.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-698736 (“Close ties with Russia stop Palestinians from taking sides in Ukraine war” by Khaled Abu Toameh, The Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2022).

Under the guise of “liberation movements”, Russia’s “caretakers”, like Arafat and Abbas, plunder their own communities. The Palestinians remain both too vulnerable as weak parties before western power and its modern character and consequently too egotistical and proud themselves to believe it. In essence, they have imprisoned themselves in the dogma of “resistance”, and there they keep themselves ideologically, intellectually, financially, and, for the most part, physically trapped and suffocated.

“Bogdanov, Palestinians” serves as a useful starting search string on both the assertion, topic, and theme involving Russia’s power of persuasion in keeping the Palestinians hooked on a liberation theology that has no true foundation in anyone’s reality, not even that of the Palestinian leadership. All Russia has known through the 20th and 21st Centuries has been the horror that comes with the “leadership” of delusional thieves, Stalin to Putin with just a moment of post-Cold War sunlight between.

Related on BackChannels: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/07/26/ftac-palestinian-kgb-the-palestinians-abused-and-plundered-by-their-own/ | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/02/01/ftac-endemic-russian-anti-semitism-a-note/ | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/11/28/a-short-page-referencing-works-by-or-associated-with-ion-mihai-pacepa/ | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/12/29/ftac-middle-east-conflict-back-to-max-erwin-von-scheubner-richter-and-forward-to-the-plundering-of-palestinian-misery-by-palestinian-leadership-elites/ | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/19/detecting-post-soviet-russias-black-narrative-of-revenge-for-89-and-91/ .

For seriously curious, independent, and industrious Palestinians, there’s a lot to unpack, a lot of Muscovian agitprop (intellectual infection) to address, and then only repairs to be done in relation to community-wide financial arrangements, security, and transparency.

For political philosophy in relation to the bullshit Moscow has been selling for decades to dictators, extremists, and useful idiots all along, I would suggest there is no justice but rather a better and happier side to history, and that it is more the true history of the assertion of human dignity, freedom, liberation, inclusion, and security. For Palestinians, it would be better to cross over to the happier side of history–and the future–than remain mired in the darkest and deepest pools of confusion, hate, and resentment.

Related Online

Byman, Daniel L. “The 1967 War and the birth of International terrorism.” Brookings, May 30, 2017.

CNN. “Yasser Arafat: Palestinian Authority President.” Special Section: Struggle for Peace, 2000.

Oppenheim, James S. “FTACT: Middle East Conflict: All That Doesn’t Exist.” Conflict BackChannels, July 5, 2017.

Toameh, Khaled Abu. “Close ties with Russia stop Palestinians from taking sides in Ukraine war – analysis: PA President Mahmoud Abbas is still hoping that Russia would play a major role in any future peace process between the Palestinians and Israel.” The Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2022.

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FTAC: Palestinian KGB & The Palestinians –Abused and Plundered by Their Own

26 Monday Jul 2021

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I’ve had to revise this page (Dec. 19, 2023) in response to my own poor editing ages ago. My comment, here italicized, had appeared some time ago on Facebook, and I seem not in the mood to search for it. 

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Why focus always returns to Israel or the Jews eludes me when, in fact, the primary conflict driver has been Arab and other (well, Russian) anti-Semitic habit welded to lies and willful political misguidance to keep democracy and humanism away from the dictatorships, including those systems headed by Palestinian “leaders”, disinterested in either. In fact, The Palestinians have been long weaponized – politically perverted in mind, heart, soul — by those who have most pretended to represent them (while in fact ensuring their continued plunder).
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In 2016, Ronen Bergman put together a piece of history involving Russia’s then secret political police, the KGB, and the Palestinians. It was the start of an era in which an alternative Palestinian liberation myth could be installed in the refugee population and used to goad the west (with terrorism) and block the expansion of western liberalism as represented by Israel. The rest would seem a history of capture and enslavement by anti-democratic and illiberal forces bent on plundering Palestinian support for their own pockets and lavish lifestyles.

Ronen Bergman’s report on the KGB’s supporting the Palestinians has been organized in three parts (starting in October 2016) with this page serving as the base: Bergman, Ronen. “The KGB’s MIddle East Files.” Ynet News, 2016.

Earlier on BackChannels

“FTAC: Palestinian KGB: Another Remark.” February 11, 2021.

“Set: ‘Palestinian KGB’ and Other BackChannels Observations Related to the Middle East Conflict.” February 6, 2018.

I confess only to having made note of the KGB-Palestinian relationship a time or two and to asking the apparently novel question: why has the world not focused on the Palestinian’s feudal internal politics and the community’s historic emotional dependence on Moscow?

What earlier Arab intransigence, anti-Semitism, and KGB ends have done to the Arab refugees of 1948 (at that time, left stranded between armies) has perhaps today an unspeakable quality as vast sums intended for the community’s development have been diverted to war (“Resistance!” they call it) for more than 73 years — and the Palestinian main base has gotten nothing out of that deal but absolute rule (no elections!), corruption and exploitation, Gaza (for Hamas!), neglect, political repression, and, as a sop in the press, the globally distributed artificial image of an heroic narcissism for ultimately gazing upon themselves.

Related Online

The easiest of related web searches: “Fatah, corruption”; “Hamas, corruption”; “Palestinian child soldiers”; etc. Have curiosity, and you may travel online to your heart’s content. Nonetheless, I’ve listed a few ready references with which to click through to both greater knowledge and reflection.

Amnesty. “Gaza: Journalist facing prison term for exposing corruption in Hamas-controlled ministry.” February 25, 2019.

Bates, McKenna. “Telling the Truth About Palestinian Child Soldiers.” The Algemeiner, March 8, 2020.

Council on Foreign Relations. “Corruption in the Palestinian Authority.” April 5, 2018.

Dwek, Nimrod. “Hamas, Fatah: The tragedy of corrupted regimes – opinion. The Jerusalem Post, May 20, 2021.

Faus, Jocogo Salvador Mico. “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and “Hamas’ child soldiers.” Atalayar, May 12, 2021.

Freiman, Myer. “Hamas Killed 160 Palestinian Children to Build Tunnels.” Tablet, July 25, 2014.

GAB, The Global Anticorruption Blog. “A Closer Look at Corruption, Hamas, and Violence in the Gaza Strip.” June 28, 2021.

Giovannetti, Megan. “Palestinians furious and fed up with corruption of Abbas’s ‘mafia’ PA.” Middle East Eye, February 15, 2019.

McGreal, Chris. “Fatah struggles with tainted image.” The Guardian, January 24, 2006.

Starr, Michael. “Why Are Palestinian Child Soldiers Ignored.” The Times of Israel, February 19, 2021.

Ali was incredulous. “You call them a government?” he asked. “I call them mafia.”

For the 22-year-old Palestinian resident of the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, is a corrupt institution that benefits only an elite few.

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Addendum to Reference After Initial Publication

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FTAC: Regarding the Abraham Accords and Palestinian Intransigence

05 Monday Jul 2021

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Rather like the good (!) arbitrator, doctor, judge, police, or social worker who steps in to resolve an issue once, I’d like not to again feel compelled to revisit this workout for the Middle East Conflict.

From the Awesome Conversation

Iran’s expansionist ambitions, religious and spatial, and its relations with the authoritarian hypocrisies of China and Russia doubtlessly drove the Arab world into Israeli alliance as made possible by western flexibility and Israeli supremacy in security technologies internal and external. Two games potentially in play: firm alliances for inevitable war (choose sides!); encourage the Cold War habituated PLO/PA and the post-Soviet Islamist Hamas to embark on their own transformation in light of their both lost and losing positions, for by the motion or progress known to history, both have stayed in the same ideological or political space for too long.

The Middle East Conflict has been always about Power — Medieval or Modern — Across Time and never truly about real estate, the latter a myth for mobs. The Fatah and Hamas sponsors have long endorsed criminal absolutism, would that some Palestinians would wake up and respond appropriately to their own duping exploitation.

Former President Trump himself knew all about mobs , which partially accounts for why he was as he was. His world was black and white, Hobbesian, zero sum and not a space for political clarity, honesty, or vision. Unfortunately, Biden, the much better man, appears to be looking backward himself and inclined to replay some aspects of the Obama Era experience (as with the renewal of the JCPOA) rather than move forward with the radical prospect of expecting from the Palestinians courage, independence, and integrity in their own right and from the best of themselves rather than the unscrupulous worst.

For deep conservatives in Israel and elsewhere, the presence of the Palestinians tends to fade away behind defensive considerations coupled with ambitions that make the Palestinian population . . . a bothersome “externality” to the revival of a romanticized ancient Jewish past. That’s not going to work either.

Staying locked in place in Orwellian fashion (in which case, someone like myself will be chatyping here in about the same way 75 years from now) may work (if any have the patience for it); war might work, but considering the “East v West” alliances involved, what would contain it? Best bet: encouraging an appropriate and honest sea change across the Palestinian campus, and while that may be difficult to approach — i.e., the idea that they really have been duped and exploited for more than 73 years by those most claiming to defend them — not by the Jews, Israelis, or the West, which is true — it’s the only practical and inherently achievable, good, and helpful adjustment in sight.

Shorthand for the above: the Palestinians were birthed on the wrong side of history and this is a good time, so motivated by pain and threat as facilitated by their own camps for the Palestinians to bravely call history — their own true history — back into open review against all post-WWII and Soviet / post-Soviet Era dogma and propaganda.

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