Leadership Quote by Abu Abbas

The chill of Abu Abbas's line is in its bureaucratic calm: not a denial of facts, not even a justification, but a refusal of the moral emotion people expect to follow atrocity. "I do not feel remorse" lands like a locked door. It's an attempt to make conscience irrelevant, to suggest that the only meaningful ledger is strategic, not ethical.

The second sentence does the real work. "Everybody makes mistakes in war" dilutes agency by laundering it through routine. "Everybody" spreads responsibility so thin it becomes vapor; "mistakes" recasts decisions and consequences as accidents; "war" becomes a solvent that dissolves ordinary standards. It's a familiar political maneuver: convert a discrete act into an ambient condition, then ask the audience to treat outrage as naive. The subtext is less "I am innocent" than "your moral vocabulary is inapplicable here."

Coming from Abbas, a Palestinian political figure widely associated with militant operations and long pursued by governments, the phrasing reads as messaging aimed at multiple audiences at once. To adversaries, it signals defiance and an unwillingness to yield the symbolic ground of guilt. To sympathizers, it frames violence as an unfortunate but ordinary feature of a larger struggle, not a personal stain. The intent is to normalize extremity: if war is a realm where everyone errs, then remorse becomes not virtue but weakness, and accountability becomes a luxury only the victorious can afford.