Two-state solution a 'trap we set for Israel,' Lebanon-based Fatah official brags

Basel Abu Shahab, secretary of the Fatah movement in the Burj al-Shemali refugee camp in Lebanon, said in a Palestine TV interview that the two-state solution is a 'trap we have set for Israel,' predicting a Palestinian state would lead to the 'disappearance of the Israeli entity.' He also voiced nostalgia for past Fatah abductions and attacks.

Basel Abu Shahab, secretary of the Fatah movement in the Burj al-Shemali refugee camp in Lebanon, told Palestine TV that the two-state solution is a 'trap we have set for Israel.' He stated that within 20 years of a Palestinian state being established, it could develop an aircraft industry and industrial sector capable of rivaling Israel's, leading to the 'disappearance of the Israeli entity and the end of global Zionism.' Abu Shahab also expressed nostalgia for past Fatah operations, particularly the 1969 abduction of Israeli watchman Shmuel Rosenwasser, and discussed Fatah's efforts to improve Palestinians' image in Lebanon through cultural initiatives like the Siraj al-Awda folk dance troupe. He acknowledged that handing over weapons to the Lebanese state had created a 'historic opportunity' for Palestinians in the camp, allowing construction materials. He warned Fatah members against internal criticism and urged unity, invoking the 'blood of the martyrs' as protection for the movement.