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| PA depicts a world without Israel |
The Palestinian Authority makes no attempt to educate its people towards peace and coexistence with Israel. On the contrary, from every possible platform it repeatedly rejects Israel's right to exist, presents the conflict as a religious battle for Islam, depicts the establishment of Israel as an act of imperialism, and perpetuates a picture of the Middle East, both verbally and visually, in which Israel does not exist at all. Israel's destruction is said to be both inevitable and a Palestinian obligation.
The following description of Israel's founding in a Palestinian schoolbook represents the dominant dogma about Israel:
"Palestine’s war ended with a catastrophe that is unprecedented in history, when the Zionist gangs stole Palestine … and established the State of Israel."
[Arabic Language, Analysis, Literature and Criticism, grade 12, p. 104]
This official PA map of "Palestine” was broadcast on PA TV in September 2011. The map includes both the PA areas and all of Israel (excluding the Golan Heights) wrapped in the Palestinian flag - a symbol of Palestinian sovereignty over the whole area - and has a key through it, symbolizing ownership. Similar maps presenting all of Israel as "Palestine" appear in Palestinian schoolbooks and are shown regularly on PA TV. |
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| Denying Israel's right to exist |
The Palestinian Authority adamantly rejects Israel’s right to exist and rewrites history to deny the 3,000-year-old connection of Jews to the Land Israel. [See "Rewriting History" section.] The essential message of the PA to its people is that Jews have no historical connection to the land, and that the State of Israel was created by the colonial powers for two reasons: to rid their countries of Jews, and to establish a colonial bridgehead in order to control the region. One particularly horrific expression of this ideology appeared in the official PA daily as far back as 1998:
“The difference between Hitler and [British Foreign Minister] Balfour was simple: the former [Hitler] did not have colonies to send the Jews to, so he destroyed them, whereas Balfour ...[turned] Palestine into his colony and sent the Jews. Balfour is Hitler with colonies, while Hitler is Balfour without colonies. They both wanted to get rid of the Jews...Zionism was crucial to the defense of the West, [by] ridding Europe of the burden of the Jews.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 6, 1998]
This video of Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon, Abbas Zaki, shows how this distortion continues to be expressed:
"We must understand why Israel was established … [The Europeans] wanted to get rid of the Jews. … At that same time, energy [oil] was discovered in the Arab region … Then, they solved the [Jewish] problem by exporting [the Jews] to Israel [and at same time] they imposed their hegemony on the region’s natural resources. The [purpose of the] State of Israel is not for the Jews but it is an ongoing [colonial] project, an outpost for Imperialism.”
[PA TV, May 14, 2008] |
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PA TV: "I will return to it [Jaffa]," "let every person know that I do not compromise"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 10, 2013
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"Let all of humanity know that I'm not an immigrant"
"Let all religions know that I do not make truces"
"Let every person know that I do not compromise"
"Let all of humanity know that we are proud of [our] patriotism"
"Let all the nations know that we are proud of [our] aspirations"
"Let Palestine know that I am madly in love with it"
"Let Jaffa (Israeli city) know that I will return to it"
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Note: This video was broadcast on May 14, 2012, and rebroadcast on May 21, 2012, and May 10, 2013. |
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PA daily: Israel's building in its Negev region is also a "settlement"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 8, 2013
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"The order given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze construction in West Bank settlements may pave the way to a thaw in the frozen peace process, but it does not mean that Israel has acceded to Palestinian, Arab, or international demands. Quite the opposite. It constitutes a settlement trick... At the same time the so-called 'Ministerial Committee for Legislation' approved the outlines of the 'Prawer Law' that will bring about the expropriation of hundreds of thousands of acres and the uprooting of 35,000 Arab citizens from their homes and lands in the Negev. The significance is that the Netanyahu government has not decided to freeze settlement, but has transferred it to the Negev. This will bring about an explosion and a confrontation with the Palestinians in the interior (i.e., Israeli Arabs in Israel)."
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PA daily refers to Israel as "the lands occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 16, 2013
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“The Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs published a comprehensive report on the prisoners’ situation… Palestinian Prisoners’ Day occurs on April 17 while approximately 4,900 prisoners and detainees still remain in prison… Among them are 235 children and 14 women. Female prisoner Lina Al-Jarbouni from the lands occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel) who has been in prison since April 18, 2002 is the most veteran female prisoner…
In addition, according to the Ministry’s data there are 533 prisoners serving life sentences.”
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PA TV portrays Israel as foreign colonial occupier, claims ancient Jewish history is Palestinian
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 20, 2013
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The PA TV video shows a woman who apparently represents "ancient Palestinians" (or possibly Muslims) going through the history of the land - replacing the Jewish people's actual history. The woman is introduced in a peaceful scene feeding birds in a period predating the Roman conquest of Judea and destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. Suddenly the scene is disturbed, the birds scatter and the woman runs away from various foreign invaders: first an ancient Roman soldier, then a Crusader, then a British soldier, and finally a Jew (wearing a skullcap), who throws a lit cigarette at her.
In the final scene, the woman stops fleeing when a man on a horse - the "new" Muslim conqueror Saladin who defeated the Crusaders - extends his hand and helps her up the mountain. He represents the coming savior who will "liberate Palestine" from Jewish-Israeli rule. In the end, the woman stands on the top of the mountain, fleeing no one anymore, symbolizing that Israel is gone like the other foreign rulers.
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Note: The video originally aired March 2 and was rebroadcast April 21, 29, May 25, 26, 31, June 7, 17, July 13, 27, Aug. 6, 10, 22, 24, Sept. 11, Oct. 26, Nov. 2, 22, and Dec. 7, 2012. In 2013: Jan. 12, 18, Feb. 1 (twice), 8, March 1, 17, and 20. |
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Israeli Arab poets are from "Palestine occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 21, 2013
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Headline: "The Culture [Ministry] inaugurated the new cultural year in Jenin with a meeting of the cultural community with cultural figures and writers from the Interior"
"The Jenin District branch of the [PA] Ministry of Culture hosted a meeting yesterday of the district's cultural community in which 50 authors and culture-lovers participated. A number of members of the Cultural Advisory Council attended, as did poets from [areas of] Palestine occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel)." |
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PA daily non-recognition terminology: Israel is the "1948 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 22, 2012
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| “Participating in the march that set out yesterday [Dec. 21, 2012] afternoon from the Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque in the center of the village [of Kafr Qaddum], were hundreds of villagers and residents of the neighboring villages as well as activists from foreign [countries] and from the 1948 territories.” |
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PA PM Fayyad calls for Palestinians to stop buying Israeli products
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Dec. 20, 2012
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PA TV News:
“In a speech at the industrial exposition, [PA Prime Minister Salam] Fayyad said, ‘I call on the people to accept on themselves immediately to stay away from [buying] Israeli products, in favour of national (i.e. Palestinian) products, especially during these times.’”
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PA PM Fayyad: PA is considering making boycott of Israeli products mandatory
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 17, 2012
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| “Prime Minister Salam Fayyad called for an immediate boycott of Israeli merchandise, and said that the government is considering ways to make the voluntary boycott into a mandatory one. At a meeting yesterday in his government building office with select journalists and public relations executives Fayyad said: ‘The Israeli government blatantly attacks our rights to life and existence by withholding PA funds, and for the first time is using them as it wishes. We shall deal with this matter by using the boycott weapon and other means that Palestine’s status upgrade at the UN provides us…” |
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The State of Israel has no "historical basis" - Israelis not even related to the 12 tribes of Israel
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 15, 2012
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Op-ed in official PA daily:
“It later turned out that the Zionist movement’s leaders and their broad group of followers have no relation even to the (Biblical) twelve tribes of Israel, as the great Hungarian historian [Arthur] Koestler proved, and as Jewish and Israeli researchers clarified later.
This means that the superfluous (nation) in this region, and the one harming its security and stability is the occupation (i.e., Israel) in all its shapes and stages, whether in the past or in the present, and whether in the form of military occupation, settlement, or Judaization and fabrication that have no historical or legal basis.”
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PA daily calls Israel "the ’48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 14, 2012
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Headline: “Retired teachers from Jenin and the ’48 territories honored”
“The Education Department in Jenin and Qabatiyeh, the Teachers Union, the Teachers Organization Bureau, and the Hadash faction in the Teachers Union in the ’48 territories (i.e., Israel), organized a ceremony honoring retired teachers from Jenin and the ’48 territories, on the occasion of Palestinian Teachers’ Day.”
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PA daily: Israel belongs to Palestinians
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 30, 2012
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“We don’t recommend that jewelers begin making gold pins [in the shape] of a map of Palestine with both the [West] Bank and Gaza for girls to pin on their chests. First of all, it would be made up of two separate parts that would always get tangled with one another, as is happening now in reality. And secondly, Palestinian girls will never go for the [West] Bank and Gaza only… There are fifty million Palestinians who aren’t from [either] the [West] Bank or Gaza. They are from Palestine, Palestine.
Now is the time to unite the [West] Bank and Gaza under one unified state. Now is the time to separate the PLO from the newborn State of Palestine so that the PLO can address difficult issues like the right of return, and the state can begin building an open society that will change from being a non-member state to a [full-fledged] member state. And of course, we in the [West] Bank and Gaza will be the main components of the PLO.”
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Palestinians were correct to reject 1947 partition plan
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 30, 2012
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| “On November 29, 1947, the Palestinian nation was not happy. It was very sad on hearing the partition resolution number 181, and it refused the offer (to establish an Arab state next to a Jewish state. –Ed.) and cried out against it and against those who helped approved it and who helped its implementation later on. The Palestinian position back then was correct, because partitioning historical Palestine was based on the ominous Balfour Declaration and announced the formation of a settlement entity, the State of Israel, at the expense of Palestinian Arab national rights.” |
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The State of Israel “does not deserve to belong in the world, in the region, or in the 21st century
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 30, 2012
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| “Likudniks claim, as Moshe Feiglin has said, that his name was included in the party’s list of candidates because we are a community of Arabic-speakers who ‘suddenly’ turned ourselves into a nation, and that we are parasites. Like them, we all have to answer in one voice, that this riffraff – fools when it comes to history, society, and even early Biblical writings themselves that mention Palestinians scores of times – is not fit to lead any society and are not fit for politics, and that the state that they lead does not deserve to belong in the world, in the region, or in the twenty-first century. The world knows that they are the parasites, and they are the ones who were only recently invented, and there is nothing wrong with people among us saying that they are the parasites in Haifa, in Jaffa, in Acre, and in all the territories occupied in [19]48, and that their leaving here is a human and environmental demand – if not through an agreement then through a historical process that will be authorized by the UN track and the rules of history itself. These are a track and rules that settlers cannot oppose – [settlers] who are robbers, scattered lunatics who joined together around insane aims.” |
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Hamas member calls Tel Aviv residents "settlers"
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Palinfo.com, Nov. 15, 2012
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Headline: ”Shahwan: 2.5 million Zionists in ‘Tel Aviv’ in bomb shelters”
“The spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of the Interior in Gaza, Islam Shahwan, called on resistance factions to continue aiming [at targets] deep inside Zionist territory, to continue to extend the missile range, and to continue strikes on ‘Tel Aviv’, located in the center of Palestinian territory occupied in 1948... On his Facebook page today, Thursday [Nov. 15, 2012] Shahwan said that ‘bringing 2,500,000 of the Israeli settlers in Tel Aviv within Palestinian missile range will disrupt life in the entity (i.e., Israel) and hurt the Israeli economy to the point where the Jews will no longer stand it anymore’, according to his opinion.”
Note: In response to Hamas' ongoing rocket fire against Israel, on Nov. 14, 2012, Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense, aimed at crippling the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza. |
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