Abbas’ Advisor: US uses Israel as “policeman” and “tool” to execute the American will to “control the region”
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "From the perspective of the US, Israel is a political interest, a functional interest. It wants to control the region through this Israeli policeman. It wants to impose its will on the region through this policeman, which it sets loose when it wants and restrains when it wants… [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu is not an independent factor, he cannot say no. The US is the decision-maker. Israel is merely a functional tool that executes the American will and American policy lines, which fundamentally strive to control the region… so that the eastern and southern Mediterranean Sea region – will remain subjected to the weight of pressures, instability, lack of security, armament, and fear, [while] Israel has nuclear weapons [and] Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. Having the region remain under these pressures ensures the US hegemony, arms sales, control over resources, and control over the political processes… It [was] not the ‘Arab Spring' at all. It is an American Spring, through which the US wanted to redraw the region in a way that would serve its interests and ensure American hegemony through Israel over the entire region."
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, YouTube channel, July 7, 2025]