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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 daily refers to Israel as "the lands occupied in 1948"
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Source:
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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Source:
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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Source:
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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Fatah official calls for boycott of all Israeli products
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 13, 2012
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At a rally celebrating the 43rd anniversary of the establishment of the Arab Liberation Front, Fatah Central Committee Member Mohammad Shtayyeh said:
“The time has come for all of us to not only boycott products from the settlements, but boycott everything that is Israeli on our land.” |
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PA daily: Children write letters to Queen calling Balfour declaration a “sin” and “crime”
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 7, 2012
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“Young Palestinians whose parents were exiled from their villages and towns in 1948 wrote to Queen Elizabeth II... on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration...
They demanded that the British dignitaries and Arthur James Balfour’s descendants apologize for [the fact that] he promised to the Jews their [the Palestinians’] homeland on Nov. 2, 1917...
Omar Hantash... sent a letter to the present Foreign Minister, William Haig, in which he called on Haig to atone for his predecessor’s sin, and to admit that [Balfour’s] promise was a crime against the Palestinian people…
Suheib Darawshe wrote to Queen Elizabeth: ‘Because of your ancestor’s declaration and your political maps, we lost Haifa – my grandfather’s city – and its sea. If someone were to attack a British city, you would accuse him of terror, but we have been slaughtered a hundred times by terrorist gangs who founded the state that you recognize.’ …
The Tubas coordinator of the Ministry of Information, Abd Al-Basset Khalaf, said that the youngsters’ letters reflect the bitterness of the historic injustice that was done to them, and illustrate the wretched situation in which children suffer, since the occupation has imposed an oppressive routine [on their lives]… and has prevented them from living a free life like other children of the world.”
Note: The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that “His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” and is seen as the basis for later international commitments to establish the State of Israel.
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Fatah: Balfour Declaration was a “a historic crime against humanity that shames the human race”
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 2, 2012
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“The PLO Department of Culture and Information last night [Nov. 1, 2012] laid political and moral responsibility on the international community – first and foremost on Britain – for our people’s collapsing under the only ongoing occupation in the world, for the crime of historic proportions that it [Britain] committed against humanity by issuing the Balfour Declaration that led to ‘a national home’ for the Jews in Palestine, blatantly violating the principles of international and humanitarian law… It went on to say: ‘The very least Britain and the nations of the world can do is apologize for this historical injustice that befell our nation, and extend financial and moral support to it…’
In Ramallah, Fatah described the Balfour Declaration as a crime of historic proportions against humanity, and stressed that Palestine is ‘the national home and land of the Palestinian people, and it is the historic and natural right [of the Palestinian people.]’ In a press release issued yesterday [Nov. 1, 2012] for the 95th anniversary of the ominous Balfour Declaration, Fatah’s Commission on Culture and Information said that ‘Our Palestinian people’s right to its national home and land will not be compromised by any statute of limitations or by establishing facts on the ground by the force of arms, the settling occupation.’
The press release went on to say: ‘Great Britain knew this very well on Nov. 2, 1917, the day its Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour promised British and European Jews that Palestine – the land of the Palestinian people – would be a national home for them, thus committing a historic crime against humanity that shames the human race and history.’..."
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Balfour Declaration gave land to “undeserving others” (i.e., the Jews)
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 1, 2012
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PA daily columnist Yahya Rabah:
“November is upon us again, with its painful memories… In the beginning of the month Balfour made his ominous declaration in which someone with power, an oppressor who did not own [this land] or have any rights to it, made a promise to undeserving others (i.e., the Jews) who had been making capital out of its history (i.e., by claiming it was the ‘promised land’) in order to obliterate the Palestinian people’s very existence, its life and its land – all for the benefit of the Zionist movement that was to establish a state called ‘Israel’.
Later in November, the ominous signs continue. The Partition Plan was adopted [in that month], and the eternal Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat passed away after the attempt on his life with slow-acting poison. So whenever the November winds blow, Palestinian memory recalls wounds that still bleed and cause pain…
On the 15th of this month, we shall renew the promise we made, the promise to break free from the claws of this occupation, the most oppressive occupation in history.”
Note: The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that “His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” and is seen as the basis for later international commitments to establish the State of Israel.
On Nov. 19, 1947 the UN General Assembly adopted the Partition Plan to create a Jewish State and an Arab State in Palestine after the termination of the British Mandate.
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Israel referred to as "the Zionist entity" in the official PA daily
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 23, 2012
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Headline: “Real Madrid to open schools in Israel"
"European [football] champion, Real Madrid, announced on its website that it has signed an agreement with the Zionist entity (i.e., Israel) to open five schools in the occupied territories. The royal club (“Real Madrid”) said on its official website that it will open schools in the cities of Dimona, Holon, Arabeh, Ramle, and Kfar Kassem.
Football fans in the Arab world and in Egypt were disturbed by the announcement, since it came only a few days after the royal club signed an agreement with Egypt to open an academy in the land of the Pharaohs. Real Madrid’s Director of Institutional Relations, Emilio Butragueño, signed the Egyptian agreement, and then immediately traveled to the occupied territories to sign an additional agreement with Israel.”
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PA daily op-ed calls Israel "occupied" and says it belongs to Palestinians
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 22, 2012
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Op-ed by Salah Masharqah in response to Israel granting 180,000 entry permits to Palestinian Authority residents so they could visit Israel during the Eid Al-Fitr holiday in October 2012.
“During the holiday, when you visit your own occupied country using the permit issued by the [Israeli] occupation officer, don’t buy clothes from them. Remember that they stripped you naked in 30 wars and massacres.
Don’t drink their coffee or their juice. Don’t take your [spilled] blood lightly, engaging in tourism and politics. Don’t pay their taxes that they use to buy weapons to kill you...
If some abandoned house secretly gives you a smile, wipe off the dust that hides the crescent (i.e., Islamic symbol) and the tile on which is written “By the Grace of Allah”, or from the cross and the tiles on which it says “May God watch over this home”.
Follow the shadows of the trees. Give the guard at the [Israeli] national park a smirk, and look over the fence or under the asphalt, for the ruins inside and what is buried below used to be yours or your ancestors’…
Don’t read history superficially. Open your senses, because you aren’t a guest. You own this house and place.” |
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PA TV host refers to Israel as "territory occupied in '48"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Oct. 18, 2012
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PA TV program Palestine this morning interviews Salah Al-Abbasi from the “Kol Shai” library in Haifa in Israel.
PA TV host: “Mr. Salah Al-Abbasi, your being in our territory occupied in ’48 makes your job even greater, and gives you a greater and broader role in strengthening your situation in our territories [occupied in] ’48. Tell us about this role.”
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PA daily: Israel referred to as "the 1948 territories"
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 10, 2012
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| “Iman’s sons, Muhammad and Ahmad, don’t live with the family in its modest home in Akabat Al-Saraya in Jerusalem’s Old City. They live in a dormitory in Majd Al-Krum, in the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel).” |
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PA daily refers to Israel as "the Palestinian Interior"
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 1, 2012
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| “The Martyr (Shahid) Yassir Arafat Academy, the “Marj Ibn Amer Riding Club, and the Safi Academy organized the third and final round of the horse racing festival for pure-bred Arabians on the Marj Ibn Amer grounds, to mark the twelfth anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (i.e., Palestinian terror campaign, 2000-2005) and as [a sign] of support for freedom-fighter prisoners. 65 horses from homeland districts and from the Palestinian Interior (i.e., Israel) participated.” |
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PA daily: Israel is "the lands occupied in 1948"
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 30, 2012
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| “In order to reinforce the spiritual and physical bond between residents of Jerusalem and the West Bank with their Palestinian brothers whose lands were occupied in 1948, Jerusalem’s Al-Muwathafun [football] team played the all-star team of the Islamic League… Jerusalem’s Al-Muwathafun club secretary, Musa Al-Kharis presented an insignia as a memento to the head of the 1948 occupied territories Islamic League.” |
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PA daily calls Israel "the territories occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 30, 2012
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Headline: “Arab-American [University] welcomes delegation from Al-Quds Open University”
“Abu Muis welcomed the delegation from the Arab National Party in the territories occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel).”
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PA daily refers to Israel as "the Palestinian Interior"
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 28, 2012
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Headline: “Jerusalem Institute reveals Israeli plan to build bridges connecting Silwan settlement and Al-Buraq area (i.e., the Western Wall)”
“According to maps held by “the Al-Aqsa Institute”, the occupation is now implementing a comprehensive plan called “Jerusalem First” … the exact details of which were disclosed by the Head of the Islamic Movement in the Palestinian Interior (i.e., Israel), Sheikh Raed Salah.”
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PA daily calls Israel "the 1948 lands"
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 24, 2012
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| “Jenin District Governor, Talal Dweikat, yesterday discussed cooperation with a delegation from Um El-Fahm which is located in the 1948 lands (i.e., Israel).” |
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PA official uses non-recognition terminology: "The 1948 Interior" and "the 1948 Interior occupation"
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 21, 2012
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| “Jenin District Governor, Talal Dweikat, welcomed Muhammad Nafa’h, Secretary General of the Arab Communist Party in Israel to discuss cooperation and coordination with our people in the 1948 Interior (i.e., Israel). The Governor praised the resolute stand of our people in the 1948 Interior occupation, and said: ‘You are the beating heart of the Palestinian nation, and differences of opinion among you Interior Palestinian leaders are not important; you will always be the beating heart of the Palestinian nation.’ He added that the most important goal is maintaining an Arab presence in Palestine, in view of an occupation that strives to wipe out the Palestinians, to erase any Arab presence in the [area of] the Interior occupation, and Judaize Palestinian lands." |
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Israeli-Arab MP refers to Israel as “the Interior”
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 13, 2012
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| "[Israeli Arab] MP Jamal Zahalka… warned the Israeli government that 'if it demolishes[homes], Palestinian youth in the Interior (i.e., inside Israel) will not sit idly by in the face of an attempt to expel the neighborhood’s residents.'" |
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PA daily calls Israel "the Zionist entity" and denies Jewish biblical connection to the land
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 10, 2012
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| "As to the establishment of the Zionist entity: From the Balfour Declaration up until the occupation’s latest massacre, it has adopted a policy of ethnic cleansing and bringing Jews from the far corners of the earth to a land they knew only through promises of a biblical project that passed over the truth and facts… It used to be said that the US cared about two things in our area – Israel, and oil… What the US wants is more than oil; it wants – at the very least – everything, and therefore all it needs to do is take care of Israel, since the Zionist entity ensures that oil and all natural resources will be stolen." |
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Israel is "the '48 territories"
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Al-Ayyam, Sept. 9, 2012
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| "The animosity began to express itself in attacks against Palestinians everywhere in Jerusalem and in the '48 territories." |
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Israel is "Palestine occupied in 1948" - PA daily
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 7, 2012
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| "Football and sports fans in the occupied city of Um El-Fahm in the areas of Palestine occupied in 1948, [expressed their] admiration for [Arab Israeli] MP Ahmed Tibi for his efforts and his ongoing support of the city's Arab teams." |
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PA TV host refers to Israel as "the territories occupied in '48"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Sept. 6, 2012
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PA TV program For You:
PA TV host: "Firstly, best wishes to all the heroic prisoners, especially the veteran (i.e., long-term) prisoners among them. We say 'veteran' because of the long time in prison, but you are the shining lights, you are the giants, you are the heroes, and you are the ones who embody the meaning of freedom – even if decades have passed since your arrest. To the most veteran prisoners, Karim Younes, and Maher Younes, to all the heroic prisoner fighters in Israeli occupation prisons, – all good wishes… Prisoner Karim Younes, from the village Ar'ara, in the territories occupied in '48 (i.e., Israel), is considered the most veteran prisoner, since more than 30 years have passed since his arrest."
Note: Karim and Maher Younes are Israeli Arab prisoners who killed an Israeli soldier in 1981. They were each given a life sentence in prison.
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PA official: Israel’s founding was based on "a false narrative" and "historical lies and fabrications"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Sept. 6, 2012
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PA TV News interviews Omar Al-Ghoul, advisor to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad:
Al-Ghoul: "The Palestinian Arab nation, a nation that wants peace, is pushing for peace through all means and methods, and declares this through the local elected leader of the Palestinian people, PLO Chairman, President Mahmoud Abbas. All of the foundations of his leadership, the PLO Executive Committee, the Palestinian National Authority, the legal government, and all the components of the Palestinian Arab nation inside [the country] and in the diaspora, declare their desire for peace and the realization of peace. The term 'terror' is not currently applicable to the present situation of the Palestinian-Arab people, [since they are] a people living under occupation. [It is not applicable] in Palestinian political discourse, or to the Palestinian political situation. The terrorist is the one who generates terror: The country whose fundamental establishment was based on a false narrative; that was founded on a basis of historical and factual lies and fabrications. At the same time, the Palestinian Arab nation, owners of the historical Palestinian land – 100% [of that land] - is giving up 78% [of the land] as a choice for peace and a choice for a two-state solution for the two peoples, so as to 'push things forward', and find the common denominator for coexistence between the Palestinian people and the Israeli people and the Arab nations."
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Non-recognition terminology: "'48 areas of Palestine" and "the Palestinian Interior"
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 4, 2012
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| "The training camp opened with a welcoming speech by President of the Association, who greeted the President of the Association for Traditional Karate within the '48 areas of Palestine, expert Ali Tarbiyeh… After Friday prayers and lunch, the second stage of the training camp began, under the supervision of the head of the Association for Traditional Karate in the Palestinian Interior, Ali Tarbiyeh." |
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PA daily refers to Israel as "Palestine occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 4, 2012
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Headline: "Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs announced criteria for fulfilling the Hajj [pilgrimage] commandment by prisoners’ family members during this year"
"The following are the criteria set by the Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs for prisoners’ family members who are residents of the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Palestine occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel)."
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PA daily non-recognition terminology: Israel is "the ’48 territories"
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 2, 2012
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| "Director of the Palestinian Trade Center in Gaza (PalTrade), Muhammad Skeik, never believed that he would be sitting in Nazareth, in the '48 territories (i.e., Israel), where he is visiting for the first time in his life, as a participant in the Palestinian products fair taking place in that city." |
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PA daily demonizes Israel’s establishment and says Palestinians "own the land"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 1, 2012
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Columnist Adel Abd Al-Rahman:
"Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel Danny Ayalon... has called on Jews whom the Zionist movement and State of Israel caused to leave their countries for the apartheid state, as part of the historical Zionist motto, 'A people with no land for a land with no people' (originally ‘a land with no people for a people with no land,’ – Ed.), and as the fulfillment of the Balfour Declaration, that called to establish a Jewish national home in Palestine, at the expense of the rights and interests of the Palestinian Arab nation, that was [then] shattered in the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) of 1948. More than 750,000 Palestinians were chased out and expelled, as part of the Zionist Haganah and Stern gangs’ program of ethnic cleansing that coincided with the import of Jews from different countries and nationalities in the world. In so doing, the Zionist movement exploited the crimes of fascism and Nazism against the Jews in the Second World War, and [took advantage of] actions carried out by [Zionist] gangs against Jewish and Arab interests in Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, the Persian Gulf, Syria, Lebanon, and in the Arab Maghreb, all in order to cause [Jews] to move to Israel... Danny Ayalon, Avigdor Liberman, their Prime Minister, Netanyahu, the rest of the leaders of the most extremist coalition in the history of the Israeli state, and their American allies of the Democratic and Republican parties alike, must stop meddling in the most sensitive issue for Palestinians, because the basis of the national cause boils down to returning land [to its owners] and returning the refugees, who own the land."
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Israel is "the Interior" in PA daily article
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 31, 2012
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| "The deals made by the team [management] did a lot to restore team morale, since they consider [the acquisition of] Ali Adawi and his colleagues Hamza Al-Zu'bi and Nour Odeh who come from the Interior (i.e., Israeli) league, very important." |
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PA daily: Israel is "the `48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 30, 2012
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Headline: "Demonstration at Ein Hawd in the '48 territories, demanding to open the village school"
"Residents of the village of Ein Hawd, and many activists, demonstrated yesterday in front of the Hof ha-Carmel municipality demanding that the village school be opened."
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PA daily refers to Israel as "the Interior"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 30, 2012
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| "This match is not a routine match for the Hebron fans and youth players, especially after the recent string of losses and the fans’ demand for a level of performance that should reflect the management’s successful signing of an impressive number of Palestinian football stars. These [signings] were meant to make up for the departure of other prominent [players], like the two forwards Adham Hadia, who went back to the Interior (i.e., Israeli) clubs, and Ayman Al-Hindi, who went back to his family in Gaza." |
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PA daily calls Israel "'48 Palestine"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 30, 2012
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| "It is worth noting that Hassan Masalha [appointed trainer for the Balata youth center group] is from Kafr Qara, within the areas of '48 Palestine (i.e., Israel)." |
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PA daily refers to Israel as "the '48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 29, 2012
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PLO Ambassador to India and regular columnist for official PA daily Adli Sadeq:
"I heard what Issam Makhoul, a senior member of the Israeli Communist Party, said… about the chances of an Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear project, on a program called 'A View From Within', produced by the Arab Al-Arz company in the '48 territories (i.e., Israel), for PA TV… Ten months ago, Issam Makhoul was pessimistic about the satellite channels 'that brainwash and program [one’s] consciousness', yet these are the very channels that broadcast pictures of our people's resolve and their rootedness in the '48 territories (i.e., Israel)… My interest in what Makhoul says comes from the respect I have for his struggles and for his comrades in the '48 territories."
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PA daily calls Israel "the `48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 18, 2012
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Headline: "Youngster from '48 [territories] killed in road accident near Jaba', north-east of Jerusalem"
"A Palestinian from the ‘48 territories (i.e., Israel) was killed yesterday, and two people were injured, in a road accident that happened near the town of Jaba'."
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PA TV host defines Haifa, Acre, and Jaffa as "Palestine"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Aug. 15, 2012
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PA TV program In a Fighter’s Home discusses Yasser Arafat and the Fatah movement’s connection to the village of Beit Fourik. The program interviews Abdallah Mustafa (Abu Hayt), one of the people in Beit Fourik who was close to Arafat. He talks about his activity in Fatah in the '60's.
Host: "The Israelis – or, moreover, the occupation, the Zionists – are pushing us to finally give in to them, that Haifa does not belong to me, I give it up. Haifa does not belong to us, Acre does not belong to us, Acre doesn’t belong to us, Jaffa does not belong to us. Like they demand that all of Palestine does not belong to us. This ancient olive tree also does not belong to us; We will give it up for Israel. You lived through the revolutions; how do you see Palestine right now?"
Mustafa: "Israel is an octopus; it is not satisfied with a little, or with a lot. Israel wakes up one fine day with a certain plan [to seize Palestinian territories]; the next day it wakes up [with a plan] for different areas. We pay no attention to it."
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PA daily refers to Israel as "the territories occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 13, 2012
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| "President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his condolences yesterday evening to the families of the victims of the tragic road accident that took place east of Tulkarem… The eight victims from Jaba' were employed in the territories occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel)." |
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PA daily non-recognition terminology: Jerusalem is in the "1948 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 4, 2012
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| "Over a quarter of a million Palestinians from all over Jerusalem, from the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel), and from the districts of the West Bank, arrived at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and joined in the prayer service in its pure plazas on the third Friday of the month of Ramadan." |
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PA daily: Israeli Arabs are "Palestinians from the 1948 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 4, 2012
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"Over a quarter of a million Palestinians from all over Jerusalem, from the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel), and from the districts of the West Bank, arrived at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and joined in the prayer service in its pure plazas on the third Friday of the month of Ramadan."
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PA daily refers to Israel as "the Palestinian Interior"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 3, 2012
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| "The Al-Aqsa Waqf [Islamic Trusts] and Heritage Institute organized a sit down strike Thursday morning, [Aug. 2, 2012] opposite the graveyard of the village of Sheikh Munnis near the southern part of Tel Aviv University protesting the continued excavations carried out there by the university. Dozens of Islamic Movement activists and leaders… took part in the protest, led by Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in the Palestinian Interior (i.e., Israel)." |
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PA daily: Jerusalem is in "the '48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 28, 2012
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| "Some 250,000 worshippers from Jerusalem, the '48 territories (i.e., Israeli Arabs) and the West Bank participated in the second Friday of Ramadan prayer service in the Al-Aqsa Mosque plaza." |
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PA daily op-ed: Israel “uprooted” inhabitants from land and is a “blood-cratic,” not a democratic state
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 16, 2012
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PA daily op-ed by Wael Barghouti:
"Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has succeeded in presenting itself as an oasis of democracy that sprouted in a vast wilderness of tyranny. The West swallowed this lie and defended it, thinking it [Israel] an extension of [its own] democracy.
Strangely, the West ignored the fact that this hybrid plant grew in soil whose inhabitants had been uprooted from it by the force of arms – [weapons] that the democratic West helped to supply, in order to build this new 'democracy' on the ruins of a society that had lived on its land for thousands of years…
The Iraqi Jewish writer and former Communist, Sami Michael, has sharply criticized the racist tendencies and the ethnic rift in Israel…
He said that 'Israel is in danger if the country's leadership fails to understand that Israel is located in the Middle East, and not at the end of the earth,' and added that 'Israel is the most racist country in the free world.’ Thus he awarded Israel certification as the most racist country, meaning, [Israel] is a “blood-cratic”; (‘dam–cratic’ dam=blood in Arabic) not a demo-cratic state.”
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PA daily calls Israel “the 1948 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 12, 2012
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“Head of the 'Help Our People in Syria' campaign, Mohammad Shtayyeh, officially announced the launch of the campaign, as instructed by President Mahmoud Abbas… Shtayyeh called upon our people in the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel) and to Palestinians in other countries to offer assistance to this campaign and to take part in it."
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Israeli Arabs are "Palestinians of the Interior" in PA daily
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 7, 2012
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| "Under the auspices of President Mahmoud Abbas, the first Tubas and Northern Valleys' festival opened the day before yesterday under the slogan, 'We broke the chains, the home will be built." The festival took place at the Martyr (Shahid) Salah Khalaf [Sports] Center in Al-Fari'a, with the participation of officials and civilians from all districts of the homeland and Palestinians of the [Palestinian] Interior (i.e., Israeli Arabs)." |
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"Israel was founded from the start on robbery and theft of a nation's homeland" - Israeli Arab lawyer on PA TV
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), July 2, 2012
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Hussein Abu Hussein, Israeli Arab lawyer: "Nazi Germany was a state based on the rule of law for a short while and it found refuge in the law. [However,] the State of Israel was founded from the start on robbery and theft of a nation's homeland. Actually, the correct and true legal definition of what happened to the Palestinians is homeland theft... We suffer from a great injustice, from the giant monster. This monster attacks us daily and bites into our flesh in the Negev, the Galilee, the Triangle, Jerusalem, and the occupied territories, the West Bank and Gaza. Every day it bites into our body.
Mohammad Bakri, Israeli Arab actor: "I want to step on the head of this monster."
Hussein Abu Hussein: "We all want to step on its head, but talking is not enough. Everyone has their role."
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Scriptwriter on PA TV: Israel is "foreign entity" implanted in Greater Syria
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 20, 2012
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PA TV program Personal Encounter interviews scriptwriter Hassan Yusuf, son of a Palestinian father.
Yusuf: "Let's speak openly: I think that the Palestinian cause is fundamentally and essentially a Syrian matter, whether we like it or not. Let's start from the position that it's an Arab issue, or an issue which could be Islamic – or… cosmic. Since the Palestinian cause is an exceptional instance in history, it may be that it has no parallel other than the matter of the [American] Indians. Even the Indians – a great portion of them fled and managed. Obviously, [the Palestinian issue] is a cosmic, Arabic, regional, etc. matter. But in essence, at its foundation, it is a Syrian matter, since it [Palestine] is part of the Al-Sham region, part of Greater Syria."
PA TV interviewer: "In other words, you consider it [Palestine] as southern Syria? That's your logic? "
Yusuf: "I don't recognize [the] Sykes-Picot [agreement], I don't recognize the Balfour Declaration; I don't recognize the Faisal-Weizmann agreement… From before 1916 and until today, there are still [schemes] concerning this land which is called Syria, and which has effectively been divided, and has had land taken from it here and there and there, and unfortunately had this strange and deformed entity called Israel planted in it."
Note: This video aired twice, first on June 17 and again on June 20, 2012. |
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Scriptwriter on PA TV: Israel is "foreign entity" implanted in Greater Syria
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 20, 2012
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Hassan Yusuf, Palestinian scriptwriter: "Let's speak openly. I think that the Palestinian cause is fundamentally and essentially a Syrian matter, whether we like it or not... Obviously, it is an existential, Arabic, regional matter. Essentially and fundamentally it is a Syrian matter, since it [Palestine] is part of the Levant, Greater Syria."
PA TV host: "You consider Palestine to be southern Syria?"
Hassan Yusuf: "From before 1916 and until now, there are still [conspiracies] concerning this land, Syria, which has effectively been divided, and has had land taken from it here and there. Unfortunately, this strange and foreign entity called Israel was implanted in it [Syria]."
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Palestinian writer refers to Israel as "the Zionist cancerous growth" and “the Zionist entity” on PA TV
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 19, 2012
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PA TV program Personal Encounter interviews writer and philosopher Maan Bashour. Program filmed in Beirut.
Bashour: "Lebanon will not have rest so long as the Zionist cancerous growth exists in the body of the nation… It is not at all coincidental that high-level, senior Zionists have begun speaking, in recent years, about a world movement denying the legitimacy of the Zionist entity. One of the sources of power of the Zionist entity was [the fact of] its adoption by the world. Today, it has begun to lose that [support]. One of the elements of its [the Zionist entity’s] power was the distancing of the threat of struggle and resistance from its territory. It sent them (i.e., the struggle and resistance) outside of its borders, causing them to collide with the Arab reality and the Arab regimes. Today, it [the Zionist entity] confronts resistance – whether inside the Zionist entity or within the borders of occupied Palestine. Thus, this entity has begun to lose its foundations [of power]. Therefore I am optimistic that tomorrow I will see the Palestinian refugees as residents in the colonies that the Zionist settlers have built."
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PA daily continues to use non-recognition terminology: Israel is “the ’48 territories”
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 7, 2012
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"Fifty volunteers from the West Bank participated, alongside hundreds of volunteers from among the '48 Palestinians (i.e., Israeli Arabs) in the volunteering activities camp in the village of I'billin, in the Acre region…
The organizers of the volunteering camp emphasized the importance of the contact between the members of the same people and the participation in the volunteering camps in the occupied Palestinian areas and in the '48 territories (i.e., Israel)."
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PA daily refers to Israel as “Palestine occupied in ‘48”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 27, 2012
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| "Yesterday, a group of Palestinian youth from the Al-Amer Association from the '48 [territories] discussed with the Sharek Forum paths for cooperation between the youngsters wherever they are… A representative of the Sharek Forum, Ahmed Yassin, emphasized that there is a need for ongoing cooperation between youth wherever they are, and emphasized that the Palestinian issue is embodied in [the matter of] the prisoners and the resolve of those who are in Palestine occupied in '48." |
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PA TV program host for kids refers to Israel as the ’48 territories
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 26, 2012
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PA TV program for children The Best Home, in the section of the program called "My land":
PA TV host of "My land" section in program: "This section [of the program, called 'My land',] is especially for children, so they will be able to get to know the cities where they can't go."
Program host: "Palestinian landmarks, with no distinction between '48 [territories] (i.e., Israel) and our land where we are right now."
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PA daily non-recognition terminology: Israel is “the territories occupied in 1948”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 24, 2012
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Headline: "[Palestinian] Civil defense [teams] extinguished fire in '48 territories"
"[Palestinian] Civil defense teams yesterday extinguished a huge fire that raged over hundreds of dunams of land in Kufr Jabara… reaching the town of Taibe in the territories occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel). In the report by the civil defense director of community relations and humanitarian [affairs], it was noted that the flames destroyed hundreds of dunams of olive trees, since the Israeli army prevented the entry of fire brigade teams, allowing this only after protracted contacts."
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Palestinian child refugees in Lebanon express hatred of Jews and Israel on PA TV
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 19, 2012
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PA TV shows documentary film about Palestinian refugees. A 4-year old at a kindergarten in the Al-Badawi camp in Lebanon says:
"The Jews stole Palestine so they could put me in prison."
Another 4-year old: "We want to restore Palestine... I'm strong, I'm not afraid of the Jews, I'll kick them with my legs if they hit people."
Entire kindergarten class sings: "We swear by Allah that we have not forgotten; Palestine is our country and the apple of our eye."
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PA TV: Israel is “lands occupied in ‘48”
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 15, 2012
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PA TV special broadcast marking 64th anniversary of the Nakba.
PA TV presenter: "Today, 64 years ago, the Israeli Zionist gangs carried out the most extensive expulsion activities against our people, in the lands occupied in '48."
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PA daily does not use the word “Israel” in favor of the term “the ’48 territories”
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 15, 2012
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| "Today, Tuesday, May 15, is the 64th anniversary of the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel), in which Israel occupied Palestinian territories in 1948, expelled the inhabitants and seized their property, after Zionist gangs carried out horrifying massacres which cost the lives of tens of thousands… in an attempt to wipe out an entire nation and to destroy its future… The Palestinian community in the '48 territories (i.e., Israel) marks Nakba Day with a declaration of a general strike in the Arab cities and villages." |
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PA daily refers to Israeli-Arabs intellectuals as “intellectuals in the ’48 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 15, 2012
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| "The Tulkarem office of the Ministry of Culture hosted a delegation of our intellectuals and poets in the '48 territories (i.e., Israel)… A delegation from the 'Roots of the Earth' cultural organization, poets and writers from Barta'a and the triangle participated in the protest tent and the huge march that proceeded from the town of Tulkarem… Head of the [Tulkarem] office of the Ministry of Culture, Abd Al-Fatah Kam, said that this participation came within the framework of the instructions of Minister of Culture, Siham Barghouti, to support the prisoners' cause… and to strengthen the bond with our intellectuals and artists in the '48 territories." |
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PLO ambassador: Palestinians “are the owners of Palestine,” who have been here for millenia
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 15, 2012
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PA TV newsreader talks on the phone with Ibrahim Kharisha, Palestinian ambassador to Geneva.
Kharisha: "We are the owners of Palestine. The Palestinians [were] in Palestine before the Jews came to us from Egypt, via Sinai. Before Christianity sprouted in Palestine, and before Islam arrived from the 'Hijaz', Palestinians have been in Palestine. And everyone remembers that in 2010, we celebrated the 10,000th anniversary of the establishment of the Palestinian city, Jericho…
The Palestinians have the right to implement international legal decisions, starting from the Partition Plan, in '48 (i.e., actually in 1947), and the Palestinian's right of return to their homes."
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PA non-recognition terminology: Israel referred to as “Palestine occupied in 1948”
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 12, 2012
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| "The National Committee to Defend the Right of Return (committee marking the 64th anniversary of the Nakba) held… a political symposium as part of the [Jericho] district's program of events and activities to mark the 64th anniversary of the Nakba… with the participation of the chairman of the Hadash party from Palestine occupied in 1948. The district governor of Jericho and the [Jordan] Valley welcomed the guest, Muhammad Barakeh." |
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Zionism is a “colonialist enterprise” that aims to steal Arab resources and divide the Arab nation
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 12, 2012
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By PA daily columnist Adel Abd Al-Rahman
Headline: "Palestinianism vs. Zionism"
"At the beginning of May, the English [online] newspaper Yediot Aharonot published an article by a Zionist full of hatred for Palestinians and Palestinianism, hostile towards peace and the solution of two states for two peoples on the borders on June 4, 1967: He is Moshe Dann, a Zionist writer and historian living in Jerusalem. Dann tried to incite against Palestinianism, to distort its real essence [as an ideology] which supports Palestinian nationalism, and tried to dress it in religious garb – even though everyone knows that Palestinian identity brings together all Palestinians, regardless of religion or ideological belief… Moshe Dann grew up in the midst of Zionist forgery and hypocrisy, and was nourished and fed with the racist Zionist ideas that were based on the Jewish religion in order to mislead Jews of different nationalities and to bring them into [Zionism's] furnace of colonial war, so as to serve its masters in the imperialist West. This was in order to spearhead the colonialist enterprise, with the aim of stealing the Arabs' resources and to act in a systematic and planned way to deepen rift and division among the peoples of the Arab nation, as a continuation of the Sykes-Picot conspiracy of 1916, and prior to that – the Campbell… Conference of 1905-1907. [In his article, Dann] wanted to reverse the picture and to dress the Palestinian national identity in Zionism's worn out, torn attire…
Moshe Dann's lies have been exposed by Prof. Shlomo Sand, Ilan Pappe, and other Jewish historians who have removed the mask from the real face of racist Zionism which is based on a narrative devoid of any foundation in history, because the Jews are not a nation, but rather members of different nations from all over the world, who believe in the Jewish religion." |
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PA daily article calls for a modern-day Saladin to push “the invaders” (Israelis) out of “Palestine”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 12, 2012
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Article by Bader Maki in the sports pages:
"What about you, oh Arabs who prohibit [visiting Jerusalem] and accuse [those who visit] of treason? Such isolation you impose on us, in facing those who have newly appeared upon the face of the earth [the Israelis], those who continue, day and night, with their measures to Judaize Jerusalem, to empty it of its original inhabitants, and to establish settlements – and at the very time that the settlers are rioting everywhere in our land, and cutting down the holy olive trees…
The Hebrew entity fears the Arab Spring, because it will lose some of the rulers who maintained normalization with it. But the Arab street supports the bearers of the historical [Palestinian] cause, and our nation's dream of establishing our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital… Come, Arabs, to Jerusalem… Come to Palestine in order to emphasize its Arabness and its authenticity. Here, the descendants of Saladin from Kurdistan are arriving in Palestine. By my life, we need a leader like that Kurdish Muslim leader, to tell the invaders, 'Get out!'"
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PA daily non-recognition terminology: Israel is “the 1948 territories”
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 5, 2012
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| "Hundreds of residents of the town Kafr Kanna, in the 1948 territories, participated last night in a mass demonstration in solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoners in the [Israeli] prisons. During the demonstration, Palestinian flags were raised and slogans were chanted, demanding that the prisoners' harsh conditions be improved… General coordinator of the Organization for Palestinian Prisoners in the 1948 territories, Munir Mansour, emphasized that the Palestinian people will not tire until the prisoners' demands are met. He said, 'We must not forget that they sacrificed their freedom for the sake of our freedom and the dignity of the Palestinian people.'" |
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PA daily non-recognition terminology: Israel is the “Interior” and “occupied Palestine”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 3, 2012
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Headline: "Khalaileh: Either I'll remain with [Jabel] Mukaber, or I'll go back to the Interior (i.e., Israeli) clubs"
"Star goalkeeper Majdi Khalaileh rejected out of hand the idea that he might play in the Palestinian league for any club other than Jabel Mukaber, no matter how attractive an offer he might receive… Khalaileh emphasized that only two options are open to him: either to remain in the Palestinian league, with Jabel Mukaber, or to go back to the Interior (i.e., Israeli) league in occupied Palestine."
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PA daily refers to Israel as “the territories occupied in 1948”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 3, 2012
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| "Yesterday, Palestine accompanied Jenin district governor, Qadura Musa, on his last journey. He died after suffering a heart attack… A state funeral was held for the deceased, with the participation of leaders and senior members of the PLO and the PA, and some leaders of the Palestinian population in the territories occupied in 1948… The Jenin district governor felt chest pains… Earlier, his home had been fired upon by unidentified [attackers] and he returned fire." |
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Fatah official encourages boycott of all Israeli products
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 10, 2012
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| "Yesterday, Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul and Nablus district governor Jibrin Al-Bakri announced the commencement of activities in the national campaign in support of local products in the Nablus region… Al-Aloul said that the aim of the campaign is to encourage national products with all our strength and with our best efforts. He noted that the campaign will be held over five years, in three stages. He also said that the aim of the campaign is to enlarge the contribution by the private sector to the national economy, and to increase citizens' spending on national products instead of foreign and imported products… He noted that the campaign is closely bound up with the present political situation, as well as with the boycotting of Israeli merchandise. He stated that there are many families which refuse to bring Israeli merchandise into their homes, and therefore the aim is to strengthen this culture, so that it will become the prevailing culture in society." |
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PA daily article says Israel within the 1948 borders is occupied land
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 4, 2012
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| "Citizen Yusuf Muhammad Mahmoud Nassar zealously preserves a few old pages in an ancient-looking suitcase, as though someone was waiting for an opportunity [to grab it], fearing that it will be lost – which might lead to the loss of his last shred of hope for restoring his land, which was seized by the occupation after the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe”, Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) which befell our people in 1948… By means of these documents, citizen Nassar once again proves his ownership of his family's land in the occupied Al-Za'aq region, within the 1948 borders. By means of them, he responds to the claims of the foreign occupation, which argues that it owns these tracts, having stolen and taken them by force from their original owners, through killing and destruction." |
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PLO honors Helen Thomas, former journalist who stated that the Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 2, 2012
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"The High Commission for the PLO in Washington has honored Helen Thomas, an American journalist and writer of Lebanese descent. The award ceremony was held at the home of the President of the High Commission for the PLO in Washington, Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat (Erekat), as a token of appreciation for Thomas' extensive work in the realm of journalism and writing, in which she has always defended the Palestinian cause. The award ceremony… was attended by PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi. Ashrawi awarded Thomas a medal of honor on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas. She told her that the President and the Palestinian leadership applaud all that she has given and contributed to the Palestinian cause in the West, and appreciate it. Ambassador Areikat awarded Thomas a certificate of appreciation on behalf of the PLO High Commission in Washington."
Note: It was Helen Thomas who in June 2010 expressed her opinion that the Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and go back to Poland, Germany, America, “and everywhere else.” |
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Fatah press release refers to Israel as "occupied Palestine"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 1, 2012
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"In a press release published yesterday by the Information and Culture Commission, the [Fatah] movement said that it believes that [Ahmad] Jibril's media statements are a desperate attempt to destroy and burn the political achievements of our people and its wise leadership…
The press release said: 'Jibril and the merchants of Palestinian and Arab blood who are with him, have not succeeded in pushing the members of our Palestinian nation in Syria and in Lebanon to the fields of meaningless carnage and to the minefields located alongside the barbed-wire fences and the electrified fences of the Israeli occupation, on the border between occupied Palestine and the two neighboring Arab lands. Therefore, all he could do was to fire his cannons of hatred and enmity towards the Chairman of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, the leader Mahmoud Abbas, and the Martyr (Shahid) symbol, Yasser Arafat." |
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Poet on PA TV: Israel is “a myth,” it is “American colonialism” in Arab lands
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 31, 2012
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PA TV program hosts Palestinian poet Yusuf Al-Khatib.
Al-Khatib: "Israel is a myth; Israel is a lie. There is American colonialism of the Arab homeland by means of the Israeli fortress that is in Palestine; that is all… Israel is simply a mask for the American Empire."
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PA TV program for kids teaches that the Galilee is occupied land
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 30, 2012
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PA TV program The Best Home
PA TV host tells children: "You must all be asking what this day commemorates, or why Land Day is specifically on March 30…
On March 30, dear friends, in 1976, Israeli occupation forces confiscated a region – in other words, thousands of dunams of land in the Galilee (northern Israel), occupied lands, that is, land occupied after 1948."
[Art section of the program teaches children to prepare a model of the map of Palestine:]
"Hello, friends, and welcome to the arts section [of the program].
Today … we will learn how to make a model of the map of Palestine, so that we can go on remembering our land, Palestine… Of course, all my friends know how to draw the map of Palestine."
[Artist draws a map of all of Israel and the PA areas, then sticks the colors of the Palestinian flag on to the map.]
Girl: "Here, the map of Palestine is ready, in its historic area."
[End of program: "Produced by PA TV 2010"]
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PA daily calls Israel “occupied Palestine”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 27, 2012
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Headline: "International Al-Quds Institute calls for broad participation in Global March to Jerusalem"
"…Activities will include processions that will set off from the countries surrounding Palestine - [those] in which it is permissible to hold marches – in the direction of the closest point to the borders of occupied Palestine, with a message to the Israeli occupation and to the entire world, that the Arab and Islamic nation and free people in the world will spare no efforts and will expel the occupation from Jerusalem and from all of Palestine."
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PA daily article about the "Global March to Jerusalem" calls Israel "the Palestinian Interior"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 24, 2012
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"The International Conference of the Global March to Jerusalem began two months ago to organize a global march... The participants in the processions will head for the border point that is closest to Jerusalem. They will proceed from Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Gaza, the West Bank, and the other Palestinian territories... In the West Bank, in Gaza, and in the Palestinian Interior (i.e., Israel), processions will be held heading for Jerusalem."
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Acre is “Palestinian city occupied in 1948”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 17, 2012
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| "Prisoner Barnawi was arrested in October 1967 after planting a bomb in Jerusalem's Zion Cinema, and she was sentenced to life in prison. But she was held captive for only ten years, and was released on Nov. 11, 1977… She was exiled from the homeland, and continued her struggle in Fatah and the armed forces. She married released prisoner Fawzi Nimr from Acre, one of the Palestinian cities occupied in 1948." |
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Editor of PA daily: "Judaism is a religion and not a nationality"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 15, 2012
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Headline: "From settlements to Judaization"
By editor in chief Hafez Barghouti
"Judaism is a religion and not a nationality. And the Arabs have always been spread throughout Palestine, and the authentic Palestinian customs in the mountains – i.e., in the Arab-Canaanite West Bank - are the backbone of the Palestinian spoken dialect and customs…
The occupation, which is stealing our land, our foods, our holy graves and our culture, wants to falsify our entire history, because it feels that we are firmly planted in our land, and it is unable to wage a fascist war of extermination in order to be rid of us." |
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PA non-recognition terminology: Israeli-Arabs are from "the territories occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 9, 2012
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| "The women of Palestine marked March 8 with a central rally, attended by a group of released female prisoners from the various districts of the West Bank. Participating in the events were Minister for Women's Affairs, Rabiha Dhiab; Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Karake; Minister of Social Affairs, Majida Al-Masri… and representatives from the territories occupied in 1948…" |
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PA daily non-recognition terminology: Israel is “the territories occupied in 1948”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 9, 2012
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Headline: "Attended by ministers and MPs – central rally in Burqin to show solidarity with prisoner Hana Shalabi"
"The women of Palestine marked March 8 with a central rally, attended by a group of released female prisoners from the various districts of the West Bank. Participating in the events were Minister for Women's Affairs, Rabiha Dhiab; Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Karake; Minister of Social Affairs, Majida Al-Masri… and representatives from the territories occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel)… [Minister of Social Affairs] Al-Masri sharply condemned the Israeli Prison Service for its violations against the prisoner Shalabi, especially the body searches conducted on her. [Al-Masri] said, 'We will expose the immoral policy of the occupation; we will expose the nakedness of this occupation, and this crime will not pass [quietly]… We demand of everyone to push ahead with reconciliation [between Fatah and Hamas] and to end the state of division, so that we will be able to stand against the occupation, to halt its activities against our prisoners, and to turn to the struggle for the liberation of Palestine – all of Palestine.'"
Note: Hana Shalabi was released in the Gilad Shalit exchange deal in 2011, but was later rearrested and kept in administrative detention. When she went on a hunger strike, she was expelled to the Gaza Strip.
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PA daily reports on Hamas PM’s speech: “We will never recognize the State of Israel”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 12, 2012
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Headline: "Haniyeh from Teheran: Hamas will never recognize Israel"
"Prime Minister of the dismissed Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said that the [Hamas] movement 'will never recognize Israel', during a speech in Teheran marking the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
In the speech, which was broadcast on Iranian TV, Haniyeh said that 'the [Palestinian] struggle will continue up until the liberation of all Palestinian land and Jerusalem, and until the return of all the Palestinian refugees' to their homes…
Haniyeh added, 'They want us to recognize the Israeli occupation and to abandon resistance, but as the representative of the Palestinian people and in the name of all who long for freedom in the world, I once again emphasize that we will never recognize the State of Israel.' He added, to the masses, 'Allah willing, we will meet… in Jerusalem, the liberated capital of Palestine.'"
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PA daily: Northern Israeli city of Haifa is in "the '48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 12, 2012
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"Dozens demonstrated in the city of Haifa, in the '48 territories (i.e., in Israel) last night in solidarity with prisoner Khader Adnan, and in protest against the administrative detention which the Israeli authorities use against prisoners.
Participants in the demonstration waved Palestinian flags and photographs of prisoner Adnan." |
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PA daily refers to Israel as the “Palestinian Interior occupied in 1948”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 10, 2012
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Ahmed Qurei (Abu Alaa) responds to the flyer supposedly circulated by the Likud, calling "to invade the Temple Mount and to build the alleged Temple"
"In a press release published yesterday, Ahmed Qurei [head of the PLO's Jerusalem Department] said that these renewed Zionist calls concerning the intention to rebuild the alleged Temple in place of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in addition to the Israeli Supreme Court decision that accompanied this call, permitting Jews to pray there, are preparations for raising the idea of dividing the Al-Aqsa Mosque between Muslims and Jews, as a step on the way to realizing their aim – the rebuilding of the alleged Temple… Qurei called upon residents of Jerusalem and residents of the Palestinian Interior occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel) to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday, in order to stand against the Zionist calls and to maintain the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque."
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PA non-recognition terminology: PA TV host refers to Israel as “the Interior”
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Feb. 9, 2012
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PA TV program In a Fighter's Home visits Al-Aroub refugee camp near Hebron:
PA TV host: "They will never succeed in pushing us to relinquish the right of return, nor will they succeed in forcing us to relinquish our land, nor will they ever be able to cause the Palestinians in the diaspora and in the Interior (i.e., in Israel) and in the refugee camps to relinquish their demand to realize their right. So the seemingly logical solution, finding expression in two states for two peoples, cannot succeed. The model of two national states cannot be implemented. So, as you can see, all the walls in the world can never make it possible to overcome the fact that the underground water reservoirs are the same, and the air is the same, and that all rivers flow to the same sea. It is impossible to overcome the fact that this land cannot bear borders within it… We are in the refugee camps, with the hope of returning to our land from which we were exiled in '48."
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PA Minister: Israel steals and appropriates Palestinian culture to justify its “legitimacy on the land”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 7, 2012
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Deputy Minister of Information, Al-Mutawakkil Taha, spoke at a gathering held by the Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs and the Prisoners' Club in solidarity with Khader Adnan, a prisoner in administrative detention who, according to the newspaper, had been on a hunger strike for 52 days.
"Deputy Minister of Information, Al-Mutawakkil Taha… said that Israel has gone beyond all forms of oppression practiced by fascism throughout history, and that it does more than racist discrimination and ethnic cleansing: it has concentrated all forms of oppression from all of history, recreated them, and used them against everything which is Palestinian in an attempt to nullify it completely. This is [done] in order to ensure its (i.e., Israel’s) historical legitimacy upon the land, its religious legitimacy and cultural legitimacy, through theft of Palestinian culture and attributing it to itself."
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The Galilee [in Israel] is the “occupied Palestinian Interior”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 5, 2012
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| "District Governor of Jenin, Qadura Musa, met yesterday in his office with a delegation of women – the founding members of the Arab Association of the Galilee... Musa enlisted all the district's resources to bring about the success of the cooperation between the district dignitaries and the occupied Palestinian Interior." |
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PA daily non-recognition terminology: Israel is “the 1948 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 23, 2012
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| "The Central Committee of the [Israeli political party] Arab Movement for Renewal held an irregular meeting in Tayibe, inside the 1948 territories (i.e., inside Israel), following the brutal rightist attack against the movement's chairman, Member of Israeli Parliament Ahmad Tibi, and the decision by the [Israeli Parliament] Ethics Committee to suspend him from parliament for a week, following a speech which he delivered in Israeli Parliament. (The Israeli Parliament’s Ethics Committee ruled that Ahmad Tibi used demeaning language when commenting on Israeli MP Anastassia Michaeli’s throwing a glass of water on another Arab MP. The suspension was not because of Tibi’s praise for Martyrs in his speech around the same time on Martyr’s Day in Ramallah as the paper indicates.) The participants emphasized that the fascism and racism, which are deeply rooted in Israeli society and its political system, continue to target the Arab population and its leaders… The [Central Committee's] press release added: 'We condemn vehemently this crazed attack against MP Tibi in the wake of his participation in the Palestinian Shahid Day.' (PMW exposed Tibi’s speech at Martyr’s Day several days after his suspension.) … The Central Committee [of the Israeli political party Arab Movement for Renewal] expressed opposition and condemnation of the attack on the Arab Members of the Israeli Parliament Knesset, foremost among them Ibrahim Sarsour and Masud Ganaim, following a meeting held in the past with [Palestinian] MP Aziz Dweik. It demanded his immediate release (Dweik was arrested a few days prior to the meeting) and called upon parliaments around the world to act in this regard." |
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Archbishop rejects normal relations, including sports with Israel
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Jan. 15, 2012
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PA TV youth program Speak Up
As part of discussion on normalization, a recording of Archbishop Atallah Hanna is broadcast:
Hanna: "Normalization – it's impossible for us to agree to it. We cannot accept normalization, in the sense that everything is normal, while our people is being killed every day and oppressed every day. Therefore, I am among those who call for boycott of the occupation through all means... If we treat the occupation in a normal manner, it's as though we recognize its existence, its policy, and its actions, while its existence is illegal and illegitimate, and its actions are illegal, illegitimate, and inhuman… We can boycott the occupation culturally; we can boycott the occupation politically, we can boycott the occupation in the realm of sports. There are many means through which we can boycott the occupation." |
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Balfour Declaration gave the land to those who had “no ownership” and “no right”
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Jan. 8, 2012
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PA TV live broadcast from the main rally in Beirut marking the 47th anniversary of the establishment of Fatah:
Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon, Ashraf Dabour:
"For more than a hundred years our people has been subjected to plots. In 1917 there was the promise by Balfour – a promise by someone who had no ownership, to those who had no right. In 1948 there was the greatest plot – the theft of the homeland and the scattering of its people."
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PA daily article calls Israel “’48 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 30, 2011
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Headline: "Ramallah: Meeting of writers and intellectuals from West Bank and '48 territories (i.e., Israeli Arabs)"
"Minister of Culture Siham Barghouti emphasized the importance of opening new ways of improving and developing relations with the intellectuals in the territories occupied in '48. This was during a meeting in Ramallah yesterday, in which writers and intellectuals from the West Bank and from the '48 occupied territories held a gathering."
Note: The article refers to "territories occupied in '48" four times.
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PLO Executive Committee member: Retracting PLO recognition of Israel is an option
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 27, 2011
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| "Member of the PLO Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi revealed yesterday that retraction of the PLO's recognition of Israel will be one of the options in the event that all possible moves are exhausted. In an interview with the Voice of Palestine radio Ashrawi explained: ‘Retraction of recognition will ultimately be one of the options in the event that all possible moves are exhausted.’ She also said that the decision about retracting recognition by the PLO had ‘not been discussed [yet].’" |
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Fatah Central Committee member: Retracting PA recognition of Israel “is an option under discussion”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 26, 2011
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Headline: "PA will make no distinction between Ramallah and Jaffa if Netanyahu continues to make no distinction between Tel Aviv and the settlements" – Shtayyeh: Either Israel recognizes us as a state and as a geographical territory, or we retract our recognition [of Israel]"
"Member of the Fatah Central Committee Mohammad Shtayyeh hinted at what the PA might do if all paths to the peace process remain blocked. He said, 'If the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, insists on making no distinction between the settlement of Abu Ghanim [Har Homa neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem, near Bethlehem, beyond the Green Line] and Tel Aviv, then we will make no distinction between Ramallah and Jaffa.'
Shtayyeh's statements hint at the possibility that the PA might nullify the agreements which were signed with Israel, which include mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO. This is one of the options under discussion in the PA. Shtayyeh told Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London-based daily): 'The recognition of Israel wasn't balanced, because the PA recognized Israel as a geographical territory, but Israel recognized Palestine not as a geographical territory, but rather as an institution. It recognized only the PLO, and now we are demanding that Israel give mutual recognition.' He stated, 'We want Israel to recognize the Palestinian territories of 1967.'
Shtayyeh's statement is the first of its kind; no senior Palestinian [spokesman] has hinted in the past at the possibility of retracting recognition of Israel if it does not amend its recognition of Palestine."
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Hamas will not recognize Israel or relinquish "a single grain of Palestinian soil"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Dec. 21, 2011
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PA TV program Topic of the Day, filmed in Cairo. Interview with Izzat Al-Rashq, Hamas senior official on the subject of Palestinian reconciliation.
Al-Rashq: "About the national agreement document - we agreed on the establishment of a Palestinian state on the '67 borders, with the return of the refugees, and Jerusalem, and a cessation of settlement, and all of those subjects. But in regards to Hamas, it sees it as a form of an agreement with our brothers and partners [of Fatah] in the national concern; but that is not the end-goal of the Hamas program. The Hamas movement believes in the full right of the Palestinian people, and that cannot be relinquished… The Hamas movement continues to adhere to its program, and to the non-recognition of Israel and to the non-relinquishing of even a single grain of Palestinian soil." |
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PA daily columnist: The Palestinian Arab nation owns all of the land of Israel
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 11, 2011
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In an article responding to US presidential candidate Gingrich's statements, PA daily columnist Adel Abd Al-Rahman claims the following facts:
"b. The Palestinian Arab nation has been rooted in its land for thousands of years, since the human habitation of the city of Jericho – the oldest city in history, which this year celebrated its 10,000-year-old history.
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d. Despite the fact that the Palestinian Arab nation owns the Palestinian land from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, an area of 27,009 sq. km., and despite the fact that it has the longest history upon Palestinian land, and has no other homeland, it willingly accepted the peace option which was based on the solution of two states for two peoples, on the borders of June 4, 1967, in order to stop the cycle of violence, blood and killing, and to establish the foundations of co-existence among the nations of the region, including the Israeli apartheid state.
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g. The Jewish Prof. Shlomo Sand, author of the book The Invention of the Jewish People, says: 'Although the term 'people' is fluid and not very clear, I don't believe that a Jewish people ever existed.' For two thousand years no Jewish state existed on Palestinian Arab land.'" |
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PA TV: “It is the Israelis who are foreigners, who were invented, and sown in a land that was not theirs”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 11, 2011
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On Dec. 10, 2011, US presidential candidate and the former speaker of US House of Representatives Newt Gingrich said that the Palestinian Authority does not recognize Israel's right to exist and that Palestinian schoolbooks teach children to become terrorists. PA TV Report on Gingrich's controversial statements:
Gingrich: "The Palestinians are an invented people and they are terrorists."
PA TV reporter: "The Palestinian people is authentic, while it is the Israelis who are foreigners, who were invented, and sown in land that was not theirs."
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PA daily non-recongition terminology: Israel is “the 1948 occupied territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 10, 2011
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| "At the [press] conference [in the PA Ministry of Youth and Sports], speeches were delivered by Director of the Department of Information and Public Relations in the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Badr Makki; Walid Atatra, director of the Ministry's youth affairs and overseer of the conference; and coordinator Ramzi Far'oun. They noted the continued efforts to integrate delegations from the diaspora and from the 1948 occupied territories (i.e., Israel)." |
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Palestinian Ambassador: "[Israel] never had any shred of a right to exist"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 26, 2011
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Adli Sadeq, Palestinian Ambassador to India, in official PA daily:
"The demands of this enemy [Israel] are strange and amazing demands, unique in the history of conflicts... They [Israelis] are not satisfied with Palestinian recognition that is a function of their state and its existence, but want recognition of the eternal right of Israel to exist. Possibly their nature will bring them to ask for compensation for the years that have passed without their state's existence, during the time it had the right to exist upon our skulls... They have a common mistake, or misconception by which they fool themselves, assuming that Fatah accepts them and recognizes the right of their state to exist, and that it is Hamas alone that loathes them and does not recognize the right of this state to exist. They ignore the fact that this state, based on a fabricated [Zionist] enterprise, never had any shred of a right to exist... Hamas, Fatah and the others are not waging war against Israel right now for reasons related to balance of power. There are no two Palestinians who disagree over the fact that Israel exists, and recognition of it is restating the obvious, but recognition of its right to exist is something else, different from recognition of its [physical] existence."
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UN resolution partitioning Palestine gave away Palestinian land “to those who are not worthy”
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 25, 2011
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PA TV News reports on a march in support of the Palestinian nation, held on the Jordanian border:
PA TV reporter: "The march came as part of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine, which falls on the same day as the anniversary of the UN Resolution pertaining to the partition of the land of Palestine. [The resolution] gave the right to those who are not worthy, and prevented the Palestinians from establishing their homeland on their own land, Palestine."
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PA Minister and Israeli Arab MP use terminology of non-recognition: Israel is “Palestine occupied in 1948” and “the Interior”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 24, 2011
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| "Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake met yesterday with Ibrahim Sarsour, a Member of the Israeli Parliament, representing the United Arab List, along with a delegation from the Interior and released prisoners… During the meeting, Sarsour thanked the Palestinian leadership – the President [Abbas] and the government – on behalf of the Arab population in the Interior (i.e., Israeli Arabs) for their efforts over the years on behalf of the prisoners from the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza, and from inside the Green Line. He said that the Palestinian prisoners in the Interior have a special status within the framework of all [prisoner] exchange deals concluded between Israel and the various Palestinian factions: the Jibril deal in 1985 was the last one which included prisoners from the Interior; after that the [successive] Israeli governments have refused to release them within any framework – whether as part of a prisoner exchange or through political agreements – claiming that [their imprisonment] was an internal Israeli issue. Sarsour said that this turned the lives of the prisoners of the Interior into a hell, since they are not Israelis when it comes to prisoners' rights according to Israeli laws and amendments, and they are not Palestinians when it comes to [prisoner] exchange deals or the release of prisoners in political agreements. Thus, these prisoners become hostages with no justification… During the meeting Karake emphasized his demand to release the Palestinian prisoners from Palestine occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israeli Arabs)… he said that the prisoners from occupied Palestine are a fundamental and authentic part of our nation, part of our national prisoners' movement, and freedom fighters who have sacrificed and fought for the sake of the freedom, independence and honor of Palestine." |
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PA daily: Israel is “the ’48 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 23, 2011
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| "The Third Industries Fair in Jenin concluded its activities yesterday evening. Fifty companies from the West Bank districts and from the '48 territories (i.e., Israel) participated." |
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PA daily: Israel is “Palestine occupied in 1948”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 23, 2011
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"Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake said that there is a prevailing sense of concern and tension among the older, sick, and female prisoners on the eve of the commencement of preparations for the release of the second group [of prisoners] as part of the Shalit deal – 550 in number…
Prisoner Lena Al-Jarbawi from Arabeh in Palestine occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel), sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment which she is serving in the Hasharon prison, said: 'We are nine female prisoners who are still waiting for a correction of the great mistake which the Hamas negotiators made in this deal.'"
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Israeli Arab artist rejects being called Israeli, prefers “the Palestinians of the ’48 in the occupied Interior”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 20, 2011
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Headline: "After being called an 'Israeli artist' – Cedar Zaytun: The Palestinians defend their identity in the face of Arabs and the occupation alike"
"Palestinian artist Cedar Zaytun expressed her annoyance over a report on the American CNN channel, which was quoted on Arab Internet websites, in which she was referred to as an Israeli artist. In a press release Zaytun stated:
'The attack I'm under at present, to the extent of doubt being cast on my national identity, pains and saddens me. The latest [incident] was the report yesterday by the CNN news agency in Arabic concerning my national identity, only because, like hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who have stood resolute since Palestine was occupied in 1948, I carry - out of necessity and not out of identification – Israeli citizenship, which was forced upon all the Palestinians, who are rooted in the land despite the dictatorship of the thieving occupation… We are witnessing a movement of Arab change, which should have erased some perceptions and discriminatory decisions against us, the Palestinians of '48 in the occupied Interior.' The press release raised the question, 'Is this the Arab support for Palestinian resolve?'" |
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Bir Zeit University Professor claims Israelis are foreigners to the land
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 4, 2011
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PA TV program Good Morning Jerusalem on Palestinian membership in UNESCO and the history of Palestine with Dr. Jamal Amer of Bir Zeit University
Amer: "There is no occupation [in Palestine], rather, it's an exchange, whereby one culture is brought down in its entirety and replaced by immigrants from all over the world who don't know Hebrew, don't know Palestinian geography, don't belong to the Jewish religion, aren't familiar with the people's culture, and they humiliate the respected and mighty Palestinian people every day at the roadblocks…
The issue now is their focus on Al-Aqsa [Mosque], in order to break up the [concentrations of] people around it. Therefore, the first action they undertook was that Muslims from all over the world could not come to Al-Aqsa; that was the first thing. Thereafter the Palestinians inside Palestine (i.e., Israel) found themselves in a situation where they cannot come to Al-Aqsa. After that it was the residents of the West Bank, [just] a meter away – and that's [thanks to] the racist Nazi separation fence – who found themselves in a situation where they cannot enter Al-Aqsa… Now those who rule the country [Israel] are people… who are indecisive; they have no polity, they don't understand what a political cabinet is about, they don't understand diplomacy, they don't initiate. [Speaking of recent tensions between Israel and Germany:] They have broken off their connection with the most important lifeline in the world [for them]: and that is the blackmail which they employed against the Nazis in Germany, because of which they [Germany] are still paying them thousands of billions of dollars." |
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Britain gave Palestine to those who were "not entitled to it" [the Jews]
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 3, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
Headline: "Tubas girls 'judge' Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917] in their letters"
"Girls from Tubas [in the West Bank] chose to mark the 94th anniversary of the cursed Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917] by writing letters of sorrow and pain to the Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, and to the British Foreign Minister, William Hague, since it was the letter by that country's Foreign Minister Arthur James Balfour, which has caused the Palestinian people ongoing suffering. During a workshop held yesterday by the PA Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with the city's Education Administration, girls from the Tubas [West Bank] high school wrote dozens of open letters to politicians and girls in Britain. Wafa Daraghmeh wrote to Queen Elizabeth, saying that she and her contemporaries are still paying the price of the Balfour promise in blood and tears, because he [Balfour] 'decided to donate a country which was not his to a nation [the Jews] which was not entitled to it, with no justification, since the Palestinian people had not attacked Britain or dreamed of invading London.' She ended the letter with thanks to the United Kingdom for having 'shattered the hopes of the Palestinian people'. Saja Daraghmeh addressed her words to a girl her age in London, whom she does not know, but who, she believes, enjoys freedom and has never tasted occupation. She addressed an open question to the girls of London: Would they agree for France to grant the Africans a national h |
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Fatah member: Balfour Declaration greatest crime of international community
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 3, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
PA TV News interview with Fatah member Faiz Abu Aitah:
"Yesterday we had the [anniversary of the] Balfour promise - the greatest crime that the international community is responsible for, and specifically the British government. The time has come for the international community to repair the sin against the Palestinian people and to give the Palestinian people today its right to live like the nations of the world, on its land, within its independent Palestinian state."
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PA TV News: Balfour Declaration is a mark of shame on humanity
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 2, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
PA TV News reader: "Today is the 94th anniversary of the cursed Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917], by means of which those who had no ownership (Britain) permitted those who had no right (the Jews) to establish a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine."
Reporter: "A promise that brings a mark of shame upon humanity, because it [humanity] ignored the colonialist frenzy. Balfour will continue to turn in his grave because of the historical injustice which Britain committed against the Palestinian people."
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PA daily: Balfour Declaration was a "great political crime and sin"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 2, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
"The Arab League emphasized yesterday that now, more than ever, there is a need for a serious international position supporting the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and putting an end to the historical injustice done to it in the wake of the Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917] and the continued Israeli occupation. A press release by the [Arab League] Department for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Lands on the occasion of the anniversary of the Balfour promise, said: 'This cursed promise was the main reason for the catastrophe which befell Palestine in 1948, and it represented the beginning of the tragedy of the Palestinian people, which has continued for many decades...
The promise declared by British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, on Nov. 2, 1917, constitutes a great political crime and sin, leading to the uprooting of the Palestinian people and the theft of its land, and causing wars and great conflicts which still continue in the region.'"
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PA daily: Balfour Declaration promised the land to "those who had no right [to it]"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 2, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
"The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, expressed the hope of seeing Palestine as a state in the UN, on Sept. 21, 2011, and we believed him... It has been said of the Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917] that it was a promise by someone who had no ownership [of the land] to those who had no right [to it]. We said of Obama's promise that it was a promise by someone who is unable, to those whose right [to the land] it is already. Balfour's promise to the Jews of Europe - a homeland in Palestine - was a preventive step, because in his letter he sketched a road map for freeing his country and Europe of the burden of the Jewish problem, and of the bases for the spread of Communism in western Europe, which was led by the poor, the European workers, and the Jews... The Jews of the Zionist enterprise sought a promise from Balfour, who had the ability, because they knew that only the strongest power in the world at the time [Britain] could impose the conditions for the establishment of a state for the Jews. His promise was an ominous sign, [bringing] disasters upon the Palestinians, the Arabs, and the nations of the region and the world."
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PA daily: Israel is the first state in history to be established on "land belonging to others"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 2, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
"Today is the 94th anniversary of the cursed Balfour promise [The Balfour Declaration of 1917], by which Britain awarded the Jews the right to establish a national home in Palestine, based on the false slogan, 'A land without a people for a people without a land'. ... This promise represented the first step taken by the West on the road to establishing an entity for the Jews on the land of Palestine, in accordance with the wishes of World Zionism, at the expense of a people which had been rooted in this land for thousands of years. ... The Jews made successful use of the piece of paper published by Arthur Balfour, known for his friendship with the Zionist Movement, and later the [British] Mandate and the 1947 resolution by the [UN] General Assembly concerning the Partition of Palestine: They realized their dream of establishing [the State of] Israel on May 15th, 1948, and this entity earned membership in the UN thanks to pressure by the super powers. Israel became the first country in the history of the global political system which was established on land belonging to others, and which receives international aid which has caused it to behave arrogantly in the region - expanding, swallowing more Palestinian and Arab territory, and behaving violently and mercilessly towards those among the Palestinian people who remain upon their land."
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PA daily: Murdered Israeli from the Israeli city of Ashkelon was a "settler"
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Al-Ayyam, Nov. 2, 2011
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"[The Israeli forces] know very well that the resistance, without a shadow of a doubt, will not sit by idly in the face of this aggression, and that is what in fact happened, and led to an expansion of the areas of conflict, the death of Shahids (Martyrs), and the shooting of rockets which managed, despite their great numbers, in killing [only] one Israeli settler."
Note: The Israeli "settler" referred to in the article was from the Israeli city of Ashkelon. |
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PA TV: Israel’s claim that it has a historical and cultural right to the land is “based on illusions and fables”
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Oct. 31, 2011
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PA TV News special broadcast marking acceptance of Palestinians into UNESCO.
PA TV host: "The heritage and culture and the entire history is being snatched at this time by the occupation, which has tried by all methods for Palestine not to reach this stage and this very important point."
Dr. Al-Mutawakkil Taha, Palestinian Minister of Information: "[The occupation] claims that it has legitimacy in three areas. It argues that it has the historical right to the land, and argues that it has the right to the [unintelligible]… and the holy places. It argues that it has the cultural right to all its cultural components – I refer to the clothing, the food and drink, the poetry and the language, and the heritage and the folklore and so on. Now, we must consistently work on a world-view which will stand up to this forcible theft, with the occupation aspiring to seize the three areas of [our] rights [historical and cultural rights, and rights to the holy places]. We must have means on the level of the narrative, the anchoring of history – on the level of united action and cultural unity. We have a vision, we have an established and professional strategy, to respond on all fronts to the false claims of the Zionists that they have the right… As to the occupation – we know [their claims], we are in an eternal, endless struggle with the occupation over legitimacy…
We have the three rights [historical, cultural, and holy places] and they [Israel] have false claims, and a narrative which is based on illusions and fables, on Torah beliefs, and these two theories which are used about this land – we ourselves must be able to fill the theory which we adopt, so it will be stronger and more provable, and more acceptable – not only on the Palestinian and the Arab front, but also on the international front."
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PA TV broadcasts call to boycott all Israeli products, not only those from the settlements
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Oct. 30, 2011
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PA TV News reports on initiative to confiscate merchandise from Israel:
Secretary General of the National Initiative Party, Mustafa Barghouti:
"The boycott and confiscation of all Israeli merchandise – and I say: All Israeli merchandise which has [Palestinian] alternatives, not only merchandise from the settlements, which are recycled in Israeli factories – all Israeli merchandise should be confiscated. [The boycott is] one of the important means of Palestinian popular resistance."
Signs are shown calling for boycott of Israeli company Tapuzina, with picture of soldier shooting and a fist with Palestinian flag directed at a bottle of Tapuzina.
Text: "Start the Tapuzina boycott. We want the occupation to lose. I boycott Tapuzina"
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PA daily article calls Israel the "1948 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 28, 2011
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| "Local sources stated that near the trees which were chopped down, settlers had placed a sign which read, "Price Tag", the slogan which has been used by right-wing settlers following dozens of sabotage operations which they have carried out against Palestinian property and mosques in the West Bank and inside the 1948 territories (i.e., inside Israel)." |
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PA daily article calls Israel the “1948 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 21, 2011
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| "Yesterday the Israeli police arrested 15 people, including 3 women, following their participation in a demonstration outside the Hasharon prison, demanding the release of all the Palestinian prisoners. Forty people from the '48 territories (i.e., Israeli Arabs) arrived at the Sharon prison, raising Palestinian flags and demanding the release of all the prisoners." |
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PA daily article refers to Israel as the “'48 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 21, 2011
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| "Member of the National Council and executive director of the Ministry of Culture, poet Abd Al-Nasser Salah… emphasized that our people condemns the occupation's continued assault on Muslim houses of prayer, mosques, and cemeteries, and the recent burning of the mosque in the '48 territories (i.e., inside Israel), threatening to ignite a religious war." |
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Interview with released Palestinian terrorist: Israelis have “no right” to Israel, Allah decreed for them to be dispersed
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amnonnews.net (Jordan), Oct. 19, 2011
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Interviewer: "How would you describe the Israelis?"
Ahlam Tamimi: "The Israelis are a nation upon which it was decreed that it would be dispersed over the earth. Allah decreed this upon them, but international conspiracies, the Balfour Declaration, gave them the right to something to which they have no right."
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Note: Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi led a suicide bomber to the Sbarro pizza shop in Jerusalem in August 2001. 15 people were murdered in the attack, 7 of them children. In October 2011, Tamimi was released from Israeli prison as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal brokered between the Israeli government and Hamas. |
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PA official calls Israel the '48 territories
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 11, 2011
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"The Director of Culture in Jenin, in cooperation with Al-Quds University… marked National Heritage Day yesterday under the slogan, 'Folk Tradition in the Eyes of Palestinian Women'.
District Governor of Jenin, Qadura Musa, expressed his appreciation for the cooperation between the [PA Ministry of] Culture and the university, demonstrating that our institutions emphasize their maintaining of heritage, which means maintaining identity and the land. He added that the presence of our people within the '48 territories (i.e., inside Israel) proves the profound connection between the members of a single nation in the Carmel, in the Galilee, and in the Triangle, who have maintained their heritage, their identity and their history, which the occupation tries to steal and to erase."
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PA daily non-recognition terminology: Israel is the “1948 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 10, 2011
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| "In the city of Haifa, which is inside the 1948 territories (i.e., in Israel), the open-ended hunger strike and the sitting strike in solidarity with the prisoners in the occupation's prisons continued for the second consecutive day. The sitting strike and [hunger] strike were initiated by a group of young women and men from inside the 1948 territories (i.e., Israeli Arabs), with the aim of declaring their full support for the prisoners' demands." |
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PA daily terminology: The Galilee in northern Israel is “the occupied Galilee”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 6, 2011
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| "Participants in the funeral procession took their last look at the body of theater director Francois Abu Salem… Concerning Abu Salem's death, Radi Shehadeh, a director and scholar of theater who came from the occupied Galilee in order to take his leave of him, said that Francois had demonstrated his belonging to Palestine in his life and in his death, through his unceasing activity in theater and through his belonging to the land in which he asked to be buried, in his will." |
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PA daily calls Israel "the occupied territories of 1948" and "occupied 1948 Palestine"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 4, 2011
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In October 2011, Jewish extremists set fire to the mosque in the village of Tuba Al-Zangariya in the Upper Galilee inside Israel. Discussing the crime, this article did not recognize Israel’s right to exist, but referred to Israel as “the occupied territories of 1948.”
"The extremist settler terror is intensifying. Under cover of darkness two nights ago, they burned the mosque in the village of Tuba Al-Zangariya in the Upper Galilee, causing anger among the Islamic and Arab groups in the West Bank and in the occupied territories of 1948 (i.e., Israel)… Sheikh Yusuf Jum'a Salameh, speaker at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and first deputy of the Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, denounced the despicable crime… [He said] the occupation authorities have also destroyed dozens of mosques inside occupied 1948 Palestine."
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PA daily calls Israel "the occupied territories of 1948" and "occupied 1948 Palestine"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 4, 2011
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In October 2011, Jewish extremists set fire to the mosque in the village of Tuba Al-Zangariya in the Upper Galilee inside Israel. Discussing the crime, this article did not recognize Israel’s right to exist, but referred to Israel as “the occupied territories of 1948.”
"The extremist settler terror is intensifying. Under cover of darkness two nights ago, they burned the mosque in the village of Tuba Al-Zangariya in the Upper Galilee, causing anger among the Islamic and Arab groups in the West Bank and in the occupied territories of 1948 (i.e., Israel)… Sheikh Yusuf Jum'a Salameh, speaker at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and first deputy of the Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, denounced the despicable crime… [He said] the occupation authorities have also destroyed dozens of mosques inside occupied 1948 Palestine."
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PA daily calls Israel “the territories occupied in 1948”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 2, 2011
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| "The German-French Cultural Center in Ramallah hosted writer and activist Omar Barghouti among other events held at the literary café, marking the publication of his book, "Boycott, Disinvestment, Sanctions" in French… Barghouti added that the boycott campaign, which involves Palestinians wherever they may be, including in the territories occupied in 1948 (i.e., in Israel), is based on an end to the three-fold persecution of the Palestinian people –occupation, racial discrimination, and prevention of the return of refugees… Concerning the boycott campaign, Barghouti said that he focuses not only on the boycott of Israeli goods; [rather,] it is a comprehensive campaign to boycott all Israeli goods… [as well as] boycott of international institutions and international companies which collaborate with the occupation. Barghouti added that the success of the campaign does not mean that 'Tapuzina' (Israeli soft drink) will disappear from the market, because what is far more important than this is the boycotting of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, owing to their role as partners in the occupation and apartheid regime." |
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PA daily calls Israel "the territories occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 29, 2011
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| "In Bethlehem the occupation authorities (i.e., Israel) decided to confiscate dozens of dunams of land in the village of Batir, south of Jerusalem. This measure was aimed at establishing facts on the ground to change the border of what is known as the Green Line. This is an imaginary line separating the territories occupied in 1948 from those occupied in June, 1967." |
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PA daily: Israeli Arabs from Nazareth referred to as “people of ’48”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 27, 2011
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| "A delegation of journalists from the city of Nazareth was hosted yesterday at the [PA] Ministry of Information, as part of a program aimed at institutionalizing the bond between media people of '48 [territories] and Palestinian media people… Deputy Minister of Information, Al-Mutawakkil Taha, praised the fact that our people in the '48 territories (i.e., Israeli Arabs) do not accede to theft and exile; this has bolstered their historical rights in the face of the discrimination and crushing which are sought by the Zionist establishment." |
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PA daily refers to Israel as “the ’48 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 26, 2011
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| "Groups of extremist Jews infiltrated the Old City of Jerusalem yesterday, in provocative processions which passed through many of the streets of Jerusalem on the way to the Al-Buraq Wall (Western Wall) plaza, in order to celebrate the Hebrew New Year… These groups tried to hold one procession after another around the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, against the background of calls by leaders of the extremist Jewish right-wing to break into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to lay the cornerstone there for the alleged Temple… Israeli occupation forces detained a truck loaded with wood, belonging to Abd Al-Fatah Yusuf Abu Bakr, from the village of Yaabad in the southern part of Jenin district. Abu Bakr stated that the occupation forces had detained the truck since yesterday evening, with the excuse that it is prohibited to bring wood from the '48 territories (i.e., Israel) into Palestinian Authority territories for use in the coal industry." |
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PA daily reports on a bank’s press release that refers to Israel as “occupied land (’48 territories)”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 25, 2011
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| "Al-Quds Bank announced yesterday the beginning of provision of services during evening hours in some branches. The bank said, in a press release: 'This step arises from consideration by the bank directorate for the clients' needs… whether they are clerks in the private or public sector, or workers in the West Bank or on occupied land ('48 territories), or in private institutions and companies." |
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Fatah Central Committee member belittles Jewish ties to Israel, as expressed in Netanyahu’s UN speech
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 24, 2011
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| "Member of the Fatah Central Committee, Tawfiq Tirawi, said that the speech by President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN was a historical [speech] par excellence, expressing the tragedy of the entire Palestinian people, from 1948 until today, and presented the Palestinians' demands with regard to independence, freedom, and the establishment of a state. He said, 'This was a historical speech at a historical time and at a historical place.' In response to Netanyahu's speech, he said: 'This was a pale speech that repeated itself and said nothing new; in it he expressed the occupation regime [and said] that it has historical rights to this land, as though the world doesn't know that the Prophet [Muhammad] ascended [to heaven] from the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Netanyahu spoke as though this was the land of his forefathers, forgetting that we have been here for tens of thousands of years.'" |
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PA daily calls Israel ”the ’48 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 21, 2011
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| "Ibrahim Hasan Tamiza (52), from the village of Idhna in the Hebron district, was killed during the course of his work in the '48 territories (i.e., in Israel)." |
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PA TV for kids rebroadcasts clip calling northern Israel "occupied" land
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Sept. 17, 2011
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PA TV host: "We're on a trip in the 1948 lands. On our right is Baqa Al-Gharbiya (village in Israel) , the land [home] of many friends of our program. We're on our way [to see] many beautiful areas so that you can get to know them and see how beautiful our land is, and how many beautiful places it has -- beautiful villages and cities. We're in the north of the occupied lands, the 1948 lands (Israel), on the Lebanese border."
Israeli-Arab tour guide: "We're now at the Golan Heights border (inside Israel). We are at the exact border between Palestine and Syria."
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Instead of "Israel" say "the Israeli colonialist occupation" - on PA TV
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Sept. 8, 2011
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PA TV program Media Cafe with discussion about use of terminology that serves the Palestinian people. PA TV host to guest, writer and journalist Professor Muhannad Abd Al-Hmeid:
Host: "Let's look at some terms, which in most cases, journalists mistakenly use in their reports and articles."
[List of 'wrong' terms with the 'correct' forms that should be used is shown on screen:]
[Wrong term:] "Negotiations are the only way" -- [correct term:] "Negotiations are one of the ways"
[Wrong term:] "Israel" -- [correct term:] "the Israeli colonialist occupation"
[Wrong term:] "the Nakba" -- [correct term:] "ethnic cleansing"
[Wrong term:] "settlements" -- [correct term:] "colonies"
[Wrong term:] "terror" -- [correct term:] "resistance"
[Wrong term:] "separation fence" -- [correct term:] "racist separation wall"
[Wrong term:] "casualties" -- [correct term:] "Martyrs" (Shahids)
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PA daily non-recognition terminology: Israeli-Arabs are “Palestinians of the Interior”
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Al-Ayyam, Sept. 8, 2011
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Headline: "Ida'is: The occupation is in a race against time to give Jerusalem a Jewish character"
"Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice and deputy Supreme Shari'ah Judge, Sheikh Yusuf Iddais said: 'The Israeli occupation is in a race against time to give Jerusalem and its holy places a Jewish character.'
Iddais stated yesterday in a press release that the number and scope of the Israeli tunnels under the Al-Aqsa Mosque and in its environs are growing from day to day. He described what is being done to the Al-Aqsa Mosque as something very serious… He called upon the Palestinian people in the occupied city and the Palestinians of the [Israeli] Interior (i.e., Israeli Arabs) to come to the Al-Aqsa Mosque regularly in order to pray and to stop the schemes of the Israeli occupation which aim to destroy it, in order to establish the alleged Temple in its stead."
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Zayzafuna youth magazine: Israeli city of Lod referred to as "occupied Lod"
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Zayzafuna magazine, Aug. 1, 2011
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“An interview with a Palestinian artist who hails “from the [Israeli] occupied city of Lod, [and was] born in El-Bireh.”
Note: Zayzafuna is a PLO magazine for children funded by the PA. The magazine, which includes material written by both the magazine’s staff and child readers, represents the values of the educators and serves as a window into the minds of the Palestinian children submitting material to the magazine. PMW’s book Deception includes a chapter on Zayzafuna. Following PMW’s exposure of Hitler glorification in the February 2011 issue, UNESCO halted it’s funding of the magazine. View UNESCO’s statement and PMW's bulletin on the December 2011 issue of the magazine. |
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PA TV calls the Yarkon River in Israel “a river in Palestine”
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Aug. 1, 2011
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PA TV street quiz called Hello Ramadan:
PA TV host: "A river in Palestine which starts at Rosh Ha-Nikra and flows to northern Jaffa."
[The river actually starts at Rosh Ha-Ayin]
Answer : "Al-Uja river"
(i.e., the Yarkon River in Israel)
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Director of PA radio calls Israel “the regions inside the 1948 Green Line”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 30, 2011
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Headline: “[Official PA radio] Voice of Palestine to amplify its broadcasts at beginning of the month of Ramadan…”
“Executive Director of [Official PA] Voice of Palestine Radio, Ahmad Zaki Al-Araidi, announced that the station’s engineers are working to amplify Voice of Palestine broadcasts in Nablus and its environs at frequency 99.4.
He said, ‘Voice of Palestine will be providing its services around the clock to new areas in Tulkarem, Qalqilya, southern Jenin and the eastern part of Nablus. Broadcasts will also include the Palestinian coast, at the same frequency. Voice of Palestine is working to amplify its broadcasts throughout all Palestinian regions, including the regions inside the 1948 Green Line.”
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Children’s summer camp teaches that it is a national and religious duty not to buy or eat Israeli products
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Al-Quds, July 26, 2011
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Headline: "Educational encounter for children at summer camp in Madama on subject of boycotting Israeli goods"
"The Popular campaign to boycott Israeli Merchandise, in cooperation with the directorate of the summer camp for children of Madama, under the name "Let us discover ourselves through learning, play and joy", with 60 participants aged 6 to 12, held an encounter yesterday with children of the summer camp. The encounter focused on the boycott and included a speech by Khaled Mansour, a member of the political bureau of the People's Party and the coordinator of the Popular Campaign to Boycott Israeli Goods. Mansour emphasized that the children can be fighters through their commitment to the boycott, because it means harming the economic interests of the occupation. In addition, Mansour drew a connection between the settlements, which steal Palestinian land and besiege it, and the boycott, which is one of the ways of responding to the settlers. Mansour called upon the children not to buy any goods with Hebrew writing on it, and instructed them to buy Palestinian, Arab and foreign merchandise [instead]. He told them to ask storekeepers not to bring any Israeli merchandise into the town of Madama. Mansour also spoke about the boycott as a religious obligation, in addition to being a national obligation. He explained to them that a person who is fasting [during the month of Ramadan] sins if he eats Israeli products at the meal breaking the fast. He reinforced his words by means of an incident from the life of the Prophet Muhammad, who asked of the Muslims of Medina to boycott Jewish merchants because of their evil conduct, after one of them had tried to harm a Muslim woman."
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PA daily refers to Israel as “the territories occupied in ‘48”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 20, 2011
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Headline: "Bethlehem police discovers international network for smuggling antiquities, spread over Jordan, West Bank, and '48 [territories – i.e., Israel]"
"The Bethlehem police has discovered an international network for smuggling and disseminating of antiquities, spread over Jordan, the West Bank, and the '48 territories (i.e., Israel). It has apprehended suspects after setting a trap…
An announcement released yesterday by the public relations administration of the police stated that the tourism and antiquities police had received information according to which a group of people was planning to smuggle and disseminate valuable archaeological items...
They also tried to bring them in via the territories occupied in '48, and smuggled them into the West Bank.' … This operation is part of a campaign to fight the trade in antiquities and to protect our people's cultural and historical heritage."
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Fatah official: Israel "is not worthy of having a homeland" or "a place on earth"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), July 18, 2011
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PA TV live broadcast of third day of Palestine Popular Resistance Conference. Live broadcast from town Budrus in Ramallah district close to the security fence. Panel on national unity and popular resistance.
Member of the Fatah Central Committee, Sultan Abu Al-Einein, calls the Palestinian people to take part in the popular resistance and says:
"We must change the foundations of the conflict with this evil enemy, and I say that I have no fear of condemnation and criticism when it comes to Allah, because a nation whose land is occupied and who relinquishes resistance in all its forms, styles and manners – I say that this nation that relinquishes its elementary rights to all forms, styles and manners of resistance, is not worthy of having a homeland and is not worthy of having a place on earth. We must inculcate resistance in all its forms in every region, especially as we are situated just a few meters from our land, from the land of our ancestors, which was occupied in 1948."
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Official PA daily refers to Israel as the "'48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 18, 2011
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Headline: “’Fantasia’ group from Shfaram presents shows for Jenin children”
“The ‘Fantasia’ group from the city Shfaram, in the ’48 territories (i.e., Israel), brought some joy to hundreds of children from the Jenin district yesterday.”
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PA daily: Israel is "the '48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 16, 2011
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| “The British Supreme Court decided yesterday to release the head of the Islamic Movement in the ’48 territories (i.e., Israel), Sheikh Raed Salah, who has been detained in London for the past two weeks.” |
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Official PA daily refers to Israel as "Palestine occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 16, 2011
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Headline: “Under the auspices of the Prime Minister [Abbas] and with an unprecedented official and popular turnout – commencement of the third Summer Nights in Jerusalem Festival in Beit Anan”
“Husam Al-Sheikh, Chairman of the Cultural Forum Center in Beit Anan, which is organizing the festival, estimated that since its commencement two years ago, the festival has immortalized cultural and geographical [Palestinian] diversity in its events, and that this year this diversity will be highlighted through the hosting of artists and groups from all the Palestinian districts as well as from Palestine occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel).”
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PA Minister of Culture refers to Israel as “Palestine occupied in 1948”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 14, 2011
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Headline: “During a press conference in the presence of the Minister of Culture [Siham Barghouti], [Head of the Jerusalem unit of the Presidential Office, Ahmed] Al-Ruweidi, and Al-Rijbi – opening of the ‘Summer Nights’ festival in Jerusalem, emphasizing the identity of the city and its inhabitants to the world”
“Minister of Culture Siham Barghouti and Jerusalemite speakers yesterday opened the ‘Summer Nights’ festival in Jerusalem… Husam Al-Sheikh, director of the cultural club in Beit Anan and organizer of the festival, said that since its introduction two years ago, the festival acts to increase its cultural and geographical diversity. He said that this diversity is highlighted in the fact that that a number of artists and artistic groups from all the Palestinian districts and from Palestine occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel), are being hosted [at the festival]. The festival will host the artist Maher Al-Halabi and groups from the Golan.”
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PA daily refers to Israel as “Palestine occupied in ‘48”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 14, 2011
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| “The popular campaign to free the fighter leader Marwan Barghouti and the rest of the prisoners has publicized a statistical report, published by the Israeli Prison Service at the end of April 2011, according to which the number of prisoners in the Israeli occupation’s prisons is 5,554 men and women prisoners… The report indicates that the number of Palestinian detainees from the West Bank and Jerusalem is 4,688, and from Gaza – 647 prisoners, of them two who were detained as ‘unlawful combatants’, and 178 from Palestine occupied in ’48.” |
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PA Minister of Health says the Israeli city of Nazareth is in “’48 territory”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 12, 2011
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"Health Minister Fathi Abu Mughli said that the government will start implementing the first, experimental stage of the 'long-distance medicine' project at the beginning of next month.
During his meeting yesterday with a German delegation specializing in the technique of 'long-distance medicine', he added that the program will allow doctors at [Palestinian] government hospitals to communicate with their colleagues in major German hospitals, such as the German Heart Institute in Berlin, as well as Jordanian hospitals, hospitals in East Jerusalem, and the hospital in Nazareth, within '48 territory [i.e., Israel]."
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District Governor of Jenin calls Israeli-Arabs “our people within the ’48 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 8, 2011
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| "District Governor of Jenin, Qadura Musa, yesterday briefed a delegation of the 'Acre Women' association on the activities of the women's centers in the [Jenin] district. During his meeting with the delegation… Musa emphasized the need to be in contact with our people within the '48 territories (i.e., Israel), and especially with the women's associations. This is because Palestinian women have consistently proved their success, since the Nakba of '48 (i.e., the “catastrophe”, term used by Palestinians to refer to the establishment of Israel), in that they have sent out their sons from the tent to the revolution, and have preserved the cohesion of the Palestinian family." |
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Official PA daily refers to Israel as "the Interior occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 5, 2011
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"The Islamic Jihad movement has decided to name its summer camps, due to commence at the beginning of next week in Gaza, after Palestinian towns and villages in the Interior occupied in 1948 (i.e., inside Israel.) The head of the central committee for the camps, Ahmad Al-Midlal, said: 'We have decided to name the summer camps after occupied Palestinian towns in order to anchor awareness and to strengthen the grasp of the [younger] generations on their land and on their historical and cultural identity…
Al-Midlal emphasized that they would exert efforts to obstruct the path of the Zionists who are trying to strip the towns and villages subjected to their occupation of their Arab and Muslim identity. He stated that the occupation would not succeed in forging the facts and erasing the history, the culture, and the heritage of the Palestinian people, no matter what it tried."
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PA TV for children: Israel is "the Interior" and the "the '48 interior"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), July 1, 2011
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On PA TV children’s program The Best Home, TV host Walaa talks about the summer vacation, which has begun for PA schools:
“Our friends, children, some of the schools in the Interior, the ’48 interior (i.e., Israel), have not yet finished their examinations, and today we received a letter that some have completed their studies.”
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PA daily: Lod is an "occupied Palestinian city," Israel is "territories occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 23, 2011
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“Under the slogan, ‘Palestine is closer: Lod shall remain’, the ‘Khutwa’ youth group, in cooperation with a group of Palestinian youth from the West Bank and from the territories occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel), held a charity performance to support the resolve of our people in the occupied Palestinian city of Lod…
Manal Taha, one of the organizers of the event… [said that Israel’s aim is] to threaten the resolve within the occupying entity, which continues through the actions of the authorities in Jaffa, Acre, Haifa, Jerusalem, and other occupied Palestinian cities. She added, ‘Through this event we hope to turn the spotlight onto the suffering of our people in the Interior (i.e., in Israel). In addition, we aim for this event to be a first step on the road to restoring the spiritual connection between Palestinians wherever they may be, by carrying out other activities in the future for these purposes. Taha called upon everyone to participate in this activity, whose aim is to energize the connection between the Palestinians of the territories occupied in 1948 and [those in] the territories occupied in 1967.”
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Israeli Supreme Court is the "so-called Israeli Supreme Court," says PA TV
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 22, 2011
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As part of report on commencement of work to change the route of the security fence in the Bil’in area, in compliance with the ruling of the Israeli Supreme Court:
PA TV reporter: “Since early this morning, the occupation authorities have begun removing sections of the fence, in accordance with the decision of the so-called Israeli Supreme Court from 2007.”
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Israeli Arabs adopt PA language of non-recognition of Israel
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 21, 2011
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Headline: “Families of ’48 (i.e., Arab-Israeli) prisoners: Non-inclusion of our sons in the [prisoner] exchange deal is like sentencing them to execution”
“The families of the ’48 prisoners (i.e., Israeli Arabs imprisoned for terror related crimes) said yesterday that the exclusion of their sons in any prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas would be like sentencing them to execution, especially with regard to 20 of them who have sat in the occupation’s prisons for between 20 and 29 years. The families of the prisoners added, in a letter which they sent to the Hamas leadership, a copy of which reached the office of MP Ibrahim Sarsour of the Islamic Party and was passed on to the media: ‘If recent media reports concerning the finalizing of an exchange deal that does not include the prisoners of ’48, are true, then this represents a precedent in the history of our Palestinian people and a deviation from its religious and national principles.’
They wrote in their letter: ‘This decision by the Hamas leadership will lead to the deaths of these prisoners in the gloom of the prisons, and to the deaths of their families from sorrow and terrible lack of hope.’ They demanded of Hamas ‘to engage in profound soul-searching and to retract immediately this unfair decision, which buries our sons and our progeny under the monument of oblivion, only because they adhered to their identity and their people, struggled and fought for… Jerusalem and for Palestine, the land, and the people.’”
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PA daily uses language of non-recognition of Israel: “The Palestinian Interior”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 21, 2011
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Headline: “Ramallah – Civilian organizations call to launch international campaign for prisoners and call upon the world’s organizations to intervene”
“The network of Palestinian civilian organizations… wrote in a statement it issued: ‘… The measures being taken by the occupation authorities against the prisoners of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Interior [i.e., Israeli Arabs], and Arab prisoners…”
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Israel is a state "for the Jewish filth of Europe upon the land of Palestine"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 20, 2011
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“At the age of almost eighty, the great poet Yousuf Al-Khatib (the ‘Sword of Palestine’) has passed away...
From occupied Palestine, the head of the Palestinian Arab Writers’ Union in Haifa, poet Sami Mahana, said: ‘[Al-Khatib was] a poet who lived as a great man... Two weeks prior to his death, the General Union of Palestinian Writers… published the full collection of the great poet’s works. ...
[From the preface written by poet Al-Khatib:]
‘It really happened that after the catastrophe of June, 1967 (the Israeli victory in the Six Day War) that all my poems which had preceded that date – and later on, also all those that followed – were brought before a hellish Spanish Inquisition court, with the claim that they were responsible (along with the works of many others) for this painful catastrophe coming about. This was because my natural, wild and stubborn nature refused [to accept] the principle of tame and blind obedience to the UN resolution of 1947, to establish a state for the Jewish filth of Europe upon the land of Palestine, and also because it rejected any submissive view of peace on the basis of that cursed, Satanic resolution." |
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PA daily: Israel is the "Palestinian Interior" and "the interior areas occupied in ’48"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 13, 2011
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Headline: “Opening of National Shopping and Industries Festival in Tulkarem”
“Today, the Tulkarem district will launch the events of the first Tulkarem National Shopping and Industries Festival… in the presence of the Ministers of Finance, Agriculture, and Culture, as well as several businessmen from Palestine and from the interior areas occupied in ’48 (i.e., Israel)…
Daoud Al-Nasser, organizer of the festival… said: ‘The festival is first and foremost [an] economic [event]… and the first [to be held] on the Palestinian level, including the Palestinian interior (i.e., Israel).”
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PA daily cartoon presents Oslo Accords as tragedy
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 7, 2011
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 As a man prepares a headstone for a grave, he sits and wonders which date to inscribe to complete the text. The headstone reads:
"The deceased: 'Arab History'
[Date of] death..."
The man considers which year to add to the inscription as the year Arab history died. The dates he thinks possible are "1948, 1967, 1993, 2003, 2008 and 2010."
The dates refer to events considered negative for and by the Arab world. Significantly 1993, the year the Oslo Accords were signed, is included.
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PA TV song presents Oslo Accords as tragedy
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 3, 2011
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 This visual appeared in a music video of a song encouraging Palestinians to overcome their tragedies. Children are seen sitting around a table drawing. One drawing included in the video shows the dates "1948, 1967, 1993."
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PA daily: "The Jews have no connection to the Palestinian Arab land (i.e., Israel)"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 27, 2011
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"The Zionists must acknowledge publicly, in front of the world, that the Jews have no connection to the Palestinian Arab land, upon whose ruins arose the colonialist settler Zionist plan that settles and expels, represented by the Israeli apartheid state. That which occurred two thousand years ago (i.e., the Jewish/Israeli presence in the land), assuming that it is true, represents in the book of history nothing more than invention and falsification and a coarse and crude form of colonialism."
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PA daily calls Israel "the territories occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 25, 2011
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| “Yesterday saw the conclusion of the project to distribute hearing aids to the hearing impaired in the Tulkarem district, which began a month and a half ago in the other districts, with the participation of Physicians for Human Rights in the territories occupied in 1948 (i.e., the organization is actually called “Physicians for Human Rights – Israel”), the American company Starkey, and the Israeli Sheba Tel Hashomer hospital.” |
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PA daily: Israel is "Palestine that was occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 24, 2011
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| “The Al-Najah National University signed a joint academic educational agreement with the Al-Qasemi Academy in Baqa Al-Gharbiyeh. The agreement was signed on behalf of the university by its president, Rami Hamdallah, and on behalf of the Al-Qasemi Academy by its president, Muhammmad Al-Isawi. Hamdallah emphasized that Al-Najah University is fully willing to cooperate with the academy in such a way as to serve the common interest, and to act for the sake of higher education among our people in the West Bank and in Palestine that was occupied in 1948.” |
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Zionism was an integral part of an "imperialist plan to seize the Arab homeland"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 19, 2011
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On PA TV history program Witnesses and Testimonies, Palestinian scholar Anis Fawzi Al-Qassam talks about the drafts of the Balfour Declaration drawn up by Haim Weizmann and claims that one of them read, ‘The Zionist movement is the sole and legitimate representative of the so-called Jewish nation’ and other scholars express the belief that Zionism was part of a colonialist plan:
Palestinian scholar Khaled Ayed: “The Zionist enterprise in its entirety is essentially a settlement enterprise which began at the end of the 19th century. It was and remains based on bringing over Jewish immigrants, seizing Arab land in Palestine by all possible means, and establishing colonies.”
Lebanese scholar Mas’oud Zaher: “The Zionist enterprise is an integral part of the imperialist plan to seize the Arab homeland and other parts of the world. This period of the imperialist plan witnessed every sort of fascism, Nazism, Zionism, dictatorship and military regimes – all of these served the imperialist master plan. Zionism, like fascism, Nazism, dictatorship and the military regimes, including the Arab ones, served – and continue to serve – this plan.”
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Hamas stance on negotiations with Israel: "Resistance is the sole option"
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Ma’an, Palestinian news agency, May 19, 2011
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Headline: "Hamas leader: No change on negotiations"
"Hamas' position on negotiating with Israel has not changed, a top official said Wednesday.
Mahmoud Zahhar said remarks by politburo chief Khaled Mash'al in Cairo did not represent Hamas' position, which 'is based on resistance as its political program - not negotiations.'
Mash'al had said in Cairo this month that Hamas was willing to allow the PLO to negotiate with Israel for a period of time in order to prove that negotiations would lead nowhere.
But Zahhar told the Al-Quds newspaper that 'we have not granted Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] a chance to negotiate, and we have not agreed to or encouraged negotiations. On the contrary,' he said.
'There has been no change on the movement's position in regard to resistance, which is the sole option.'" |
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Official PA daily calls Israeli "the occupied Interior"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 18, 2011
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| “Dozens of representatives of the official institutions, representatives of national organizations, and residents of the town of Taibe [in the West Bank, not the town Taibe in Israel], north-west of Jenin, planted trees in Haifa Park, which was laid out by the Popular Committee for Refugee Services in the Jenin region, in coordination with the Supreme Committee for events marking the day of catastrophe (“The Nakba” – the establishment of the State of Israel)… Parallel with the event a gathering was held which included speeches emphasizing the Palestinian people’s adherence to its land and its insistence on the right of return, in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy. During the gathering, artistic performances inspired by the event were also presented, and scouts groups from local schools participated in a demonstration in the Haifa Park region. The park was named after the city of Haifa in order to commemorate it. The supreme committee for events marking the day of catastrophe has begun planting parks throughout the West Bank which are named for towns and villages in the occupied Interior (i.e., in Israel).” |
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Columnist in PA daily: Haifa and Jaffa are the "Interior"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 16, 2011
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Bader Makki, sports columnist:
“Yes, the whole world is in Palestine. It has come to emphasize the revival of Palestinian memory, which the occupation tries to erase, and to push away and to eliminate, but our cities, our villages and our towns in the Interior (i.e., in Israel) – which speak fluent Arabic – will not forget that the return to the land is a historical inevitability. This entity [Israel] has not yet learned that the will of the people will prevail, and that a right is not lost so long as it is backed up by demands. Yes, our strength is waning with age, but the dream will become a reality. Ask the mother of the Shahid and the mother of the prisoner, awaiting her son’s return in order to continue the struggle, up until Jerusalem, Haifa, and Jaffa. We shall see it.” |
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PA daily: Israel referred to as "the so-called State of Israel"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 16, 2011
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Headline: “Execution was the way of getting rid of them – Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs: The matter of the detainees was not documented during the catastrophe (“The Nakba” – the establishment of the State of Israel)”
“The Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs said that the issue of the Palestinian and Arabic detainees during the 1948 war remains undocumented and outside of history, and that the history of the prisoners’ national movement must start from that period. ...
The Ministry’s report says that talk about the existence of captives began [only] after the catastrophe and after the establishment of the so-called State of Israel, and the UN recognition of it. Meantime, the real tragedy of the captives was during the years of the war, when it was the Zionist gangs and militias, first and foremost the Haganah, who led the battles and were devoid of any official, moral or human aspect in their attitude towards the Palestinian captives. These were terrorist gangs, whose aim was to murder, to destroy and to expel, and they considered any Arab a suspect deserving of death. …
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PA daily columnist: "Palestine, from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, is our land"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 15, 2011
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Columnist Mahmoud Abu Al-Haija:
Headline: “Right of Return”
“It is true that today we are seeking only to remove the results of the ‘recurring blow’ [the Six Day War], in which Israel took the rest of the land of Palestine, in ’67; and it is true that we were willing to be satisfied with the [only] possible solution– that we and Israel would divide our land, for the sake of peace, which is also possible. However, what is true and completely realistic is that we will never forget that Palestine, from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, is our land, belonging to us, and will never belong to anyone else. The right of return to it is a sacred right which is not affected by time. I, personally, will not consider myself to have returned as long as I am unable to get to my village, Ayn Howd, near Haifa, without Israeli approval.”
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Official PA daily: “’48 Palestinians” (i.e., Israeli Arabs) chant “We shall not abandon Jaffa” at rally
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 15, 2011
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Headline: “Senior figures in the homeland and in the diaspora mark the day of the catastrophe with the demand that the right of return be fixed in the memory of all generations”
“The organizations and institutions of our people in the homeland and in the diaspora held several events yesterday marking the 63rd anniversary of the catastrophe, which was caused by the Zionist gangs in 1948...
Thousands of residents of Jaffa and Nazareth demonstrated yesterday… demanding the right of return. More than a thousand residents participated in a demonstration yesterday in Jaffa…, calling, ‘We shall not abandon Jaffa, we have the right to return to our villages.’ Hundreds of ’48 Palestinians [i.e., Israeli Arabs] arrived in Jaffa, waving Palestinian flags. Some Jews tried to attack them, but they stopped them and sent them away from the area.
Participants in a procession shouted, ‘From Jaffa to Beirut, a single nation which will not die.’ They condemned the policy of the Israeli government towards the Arabs, and accused it of racism and rightist fascism.” |
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Israeli Supreme Court is the "so-called 'Israel Supreme Court of Justice'" on PA TV
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 11, 2011
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PA TV News:
“In occupied Jerusalem, the so-called ‘Israel Supreme Court of Justice’ is expected to rule on the fate of 88 homes in the Al-Bustan neighborhood. Member of the Silwan and Al-Bustan Neighborhood Defense Committee, Fakhri Abu Diab… emphasized that occupation forces are trying to remove the neighborhood altogether and to expel its residents, numbering more than 2,500, with the aim of building Talmudic parks which serve the myth and legend of the alleged Temple.”
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Abbas: Khamis "was a Palestinian from among our '48 [territories – i.e., Israeli] brothers"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 11, 2011
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| "The President addressed the members of the [Fatah] Revolutionary [Council] and said that the deaths of Juliano Khamis and Vittorio Arrigoni are a mark of shame upon those who carried out the crimes. He added, ‘These two events are a mark of shame upon those who carried out the crimes, because Juliano Khamis was a Palestinian from among our ’48 [territories – i.e., Israeli] brothers, and he worked with us in theater, in art and in culture.’” |
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PA TV: Israeli Independence Day is "the so-called '63rd anniversary of Israel’s Independence Day'"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 8, 2011
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PA TV News:
“The occupation authorities (i.e., Israel) have imposed a full closure on the Palestinian territories with the excuse of the so-called ‘63rd anniversary of Israel’s Independence Day’, starting on the day of catastrophe of the Palestinian people (“The Nakba” – the establishment of the State of Israel) when they occupied the Palestinian territories, destroyed many cities and towns, and our people was expelled throughout the world.”
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PLO youth mag: Israel is "the occupied Arab lands" and the Israeli city of Jaffa is "occupied Jaffa"
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Zayzafuna magazine, May 1, 2011
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“The Al-Jamil school, including male and female students and the educational staff, went on an outing to the occupied Arab lands. The outing included a visit to occupied Jaffa.”
A girl in 3rd grade wrote about the trip: “How wonderful my school is, and what wonderful activities it undertakes... We went on an outing to the city of Jaffa, which is dear to our hearts. The sky is so beautiful there, and it’s the same sky. And how beautiful the soil of my land – and the land is the same land. The amazing thing was that I went together with my friends, to see the beauty of Palestine, which is the flower of life and the fragrance of the whole world. May Allah lengthen your life, oh my land, with you proud and liberated, and with us planted upon your soil like olive trees.”
Note: Zayzafuna is a PLO magazine for children funded by the PA. The magazine, which includes material written by both the magazine’s staff and child readers, represents the values of the educators and serves as a window into the minds of the Palestinian children submitting material to the magazine. PMW’s book Deception includes a chapter on Zayzafuna. Following PMW’s exposure of Hitler glorification in the February 2011 issue, UNESCO halted it’s funding of the magazine. View UNESCO’s statement and PMW's bulletin on the December 2011 issue of the magazine. |
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PA daily refers to Israeli cities as in "the 1948 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 24, 2011
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Headline: “More than 46 injured when bus overturns near Tayibe in the ’48 territories”
“Forty-six Palestinians (i.e, Israeli Arabs) from Majd al-Kurum in the 1948 territories (i.e. in Israel) suffered various degrees of injury yesterday when a bus overturned near the town of Tayibe.”
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PA daily calls Israel "the '48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 13, 2011
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| “President Abbas met last night with the great Palestinian [Druze] poet Samih Al-Qasem, and with the director of the Mahmoud Darwish Institute in the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel), Issam Khouri.” |
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Israeli Arabs are “Palestinians of the Interior”
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Al-Ayyam, Apr. 12, 2011
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Headline: “Al-Sana: The racist Israeli laws will not intimidate Palestinians of the Interior (i.e., Israeli Arabs)”
“Chairman of the Arab Democratic Party inside the Green Line (i.e., in Israel), Talab Al-Sana, described Israel yesterday as a Nazi and racist state, whose racist laws will not intimidate the Palestinians of the Interior (i.e., Israeli Arabs). Al-Sana spoke about the recent developments during an open session at the Arab-American University in the Jenin district. He said that ‘the laws of Nazi Germany are passed these days in Israel by a majority – for example, the law forbidding commemoration of the day of the Nakba (i.e., "catastrophe," Palestinian term for Israel’s establishment) and its erasure from the study curriculum.’ He described Israel as a racist state which acts to establish cities for Jews only, like the cities for white inhabitants which were established in South Africa during the Apartheid era. He said that these laws will not intimidate the Palestinians of the Interior, and they will end up in the dustbin of history…
He noted that Israel works day and night to fight against Palestinian instruction and culture as part of its efforts to inculcate ignorance, and uses study curricula to achieve Zionist aims. It proves daily that it is a racist state with regard to the native Arab inhabitants, and a democratic state with regard to the Jews…
He called upon the Fatah and Hamas movements to end the situation of rift [between them] immediately, and to achieve national unity.” |
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PM Fayyad’s advisor: "Racist Israeli apartheid state" founded on "colonialism"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Apr. 8, 2011
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Political advisor to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Omar Al-Ghoul, criticizes Israel's attack on Hamas and uses the opportunity to demonize Israel and attack Israel's legitimacy as a state:
"Israel is a country that was founded on aggression and colonialism, and it lives on the continuation of bloodshed, war and violence. The racist Israeli apartheid state is incapable of turning to peace and coexistence between nations... This aggression is currently focused on Gaza, under the pretext of a shell being fired at an Israeli bus. The [school] bus wasn't that badly damaged, but Israel wants to use the attack on the bus as an excuse for its latest war crime against our people."
Note: Hamas fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus just minutes after dozens of children had gotten off. The one child who remained on the bus was killed.
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Girl on PA TV: Jaffa [Israeli city] is "Palestine"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Apr. 6, 2011
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PA TV news feature about Palestinian Children’s Day.
Girl recites poem:
“My grandfather instructed my father, and my father instructed me:
Describe the address of our home with stories and songs.
He made me promise by Allah that I would keep the pledge;
He gave me the key of the house in Jaffa.
He instructed and said to me: Do not forget Palestine!
The right of return is a sacred right, even if it takes years.”
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PA daily refers to Israel as "the 1948 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 17, 2011
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| “The Special Unit of the Israeli Police has detained a youth from Sakhnin in the 1948 territories [i.e., in Israel], on suspicion of having threatened a Muslim officer in the Israeli army and publicizing details about his work on Facebook. The Israeli Police claims that the detained youth set up a Facebook page called ‘Traitor to the homeland with no homeland’, in which he publicized details about the Muslim officer’s work and incited to murder him and to harm him and members of his family.” |
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Official PA daily refers to Israel as “the Interior occupied in ‘48”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 27, 2011
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Headline: “Delegation from Sakhnin and the surrounding villages visits the Jenin district and the Arab-American [University]"
“Jenin district governor Qadura Musa met yesterday with a delegation from the town of Sakhnin and the surrounding villages, in his office, to discuss ways of strengthening cooperation and reinforcing the national connection among members of the Palestinian people who are residents of the Interior occupied in ’48 [i.e., Israel] and the inhabitants of the Jenin district and its dignitaries.” |
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PA Minister of Culture: Haifa is in "the '48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 8, 2011
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Headline: “Met with delegation of the Association of Interior writers (i.e., Israeli-Arab) – Minister of Culture calls to build bridges of attachment and cooperation with writers and intellectuals in the ’48 territories”(i.e., Israel)
“Minister of Culture Siham Al-Barghouti emphasized that it is important to build bridges of attachment and cooperation between the Ministry and the writers and intellectuals in the ’48 territories, since they are an inseparable part of the united Palestinian cultural process. During a meeting yesterday in the Ministry building in Ramallah with a delegation from the Palestinian Writers’ Union in Haifa, in the ’48 territories, Barghouti noted that maintaining cultural identity requires working with all parts of the homeland, and not submitting to the divisions enforced by the Israeli occupation through isolation of the Palestinians and erecting intellectual and ideological barriers between them.”
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PA daily: Israel is "the lands occupied in '48"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 17, 2011
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“A delegation of youth from the ‘Baladna’ [“Our Country”] organization in Haifa and the Palestinian Center for Peace and Democracy visited the Jenin refugee camp. The delegation was welcomed by… MP Shami Al-Shami; Director of the ‘Lest We Forget’ association, Farha Abu Al-Haijaa; and representatives of the refugee camp institutions.
Abu Al-Haijaa greeted the delegation, which included a group of youth from the lands occupied in ’48. Abu Al-Haijaa emphasized the importance of strengthening ties between our people in the Jenin refugee camp and our people in the lands occupied in ’48 (i.e., Israel). She expressed her appreciation for the role played by the [Palestinian] people in the Interior occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel) throughout the stages of the Palestinian struggle, and especially in the events in the Jenin refugee camp.”
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Official PA daily: Israel is "'48 Interior Palestine"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 24, 2010
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| Caption: “Minister Karake during the reception for the Druze Contact Committee” |
Headline: “Karake welcomed the head of the Druze Contact Committee and opponents to mandatory service in the occupation army”
“A delegation comprising 90 people from the Druze community of ’48 Interior Palestine visited Ramallah. Among those who welcomed them was Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Karake… Sheikh Abu Muhammad Ma’adi, head of the Druze Contact Committee, delivered a speech in which he said that since its establishment the Druze-’48 Arabs Contact Committee had declared [its] continued contact with our families and the members of our people in the Interior [i.e., Israel] and throughout the Arab world. During our visit to Jerusalem and Ramallah and to the grave of Yasser Arafat, we emphasized the unity of the ranks and of destiny, and the unity of the downtrodden and oppressed nation. We are in the trenches together in facing the racist Israeli policy of discrimination.”
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PA Minister calls Israel "Palestine occupied in 1948"
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Al-Ayyam, Dec. 10, 2010
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“Marking the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs yesterday at the El-Bireh municipality honored the oldest prisoner in the occupation’s prisons, Sami Younes (Abu Nader) from Ara, inside the Green Line, who is over 80, and the female prisoner Hadil Abu Turki of Hebron (15). … [Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa] Karake emphasized: ‘Our position, in the Palestinian Authority, is that the prisoners of Jerusalem and of Palestine occupied in 1948 must be a basic and fundamental part of any political solution, and they must not remain outside of any agreement, as Israel wishes [them to], claiming that it regards them as Israeli citizens, while it denies them elementary civil rights.’ Karake called upon those responsible on the Palestinian side for a prisoner exchange deal for Shalit, not to submit to the Israeli wishes, and to insist on including the prisoners of Jerusalem and Palestine occupied in 1948 in this deal.”
Note: Hadil Abu Turki tried to stab an Israeli soldier in Hebron in 2009. Sami Younes (Abu Nader) assaulted an Israeli soldier, took his weapon and killed him in 1981. The picture shows Karake bestowing the award of honor to the family of Sami Younes. |
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PA daily calls Carmel Mountains "the occupied Palestinian Carmel Mountains"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 8, 2010
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Column in the sports section of official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida following Qatar’s selection to host the 2022 World Cup:
Headline: "Great Qatar and small Israel"
"That night we followed the news. The most prominent items on the news broadcasts were the selection of Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup, and the fire that broke out in the occupied Palestinian Carmel Mountains [Israeli mountain range near Haifa]...
Israel, which used to pride itself on – and still boasts of – its power, is crumbling in the face of the fire. A state of fear and confusion is washing over the Israeli street." |
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PA helped extinguish fire in "'48-territories" (i.e., Israel) because it’s Palestinian land
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Dec. 5, 2010
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Interview with the Director-General of the Palestinian Civil Defense, Ahmad Rizq, about the Palestinian participation in extinguishing the fire in the Carmel region:
PA TV News reader: "Have you received any criticism through the Internet or in statements as to why the [Palestinian] Civil Defense participates in extinguishing the fire in the '48-territories (i.e., Israel) or with the Israelis?"
Head of the PA civil defense, Ahmad Rizq: "I believe that the majority of the Palestinian people still think that this land [northern Israel] is Palestinian."
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Note: In December 2010, a major forest fire broke out in northern Israel. The PA sent fire-fighters and equipment to help contain the fire, drawing mixed reactions among Palestinians. |
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Israel denies Palestinian history and "sow[s] legends" in its place
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 5, 2010
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Headline: “The real Israel and the false Israel” (Daily column by Yahya Rabbah)
“We hope that the regional and international firefighting team... will be able to gain control of the fire, which is swallowing the Mount Carmel forests... In the depths of our Islamic Arab culture, even if an aggressive foreigner (Israel) occupies our home and steals it, we don’t wish for the home to burn. In addition, the Carmel and its pine forests are an eternal part of our Palestinian memory. The Zionist movement, and its deformed child – Israel – continues to deny this memory, in order to sow in its place legends with no truth and no roots, but they did not succeed... What is important is that Israel... stood helpless in the face of the fire, and in every real test it returns to its true dimensions and reveals that the false, legendary and mythological Israel, is nothing [but] an illusion.”
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Note: In December 2010, a major forest fire broke out in northern Israel. The PA sent fire-fighters and equipment to help contain the fire, drawing mixed reactions among Palestinians. |
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PA euphemisms for Israel: "Palestine occupied in 1948" and "Interior"; Israeli Arabs are "1948 Palestinians"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 29, 2010
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| “Minister of Education, Lamis Al-Alami, met today at the Ministry’s office in Ramallah with a delegation of heads of academia who are active in the educational sphere in Palestine occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel). [The delegation included] professors and members of the Academic Council of the ‘Young Academics’ project, headed by the chairman of the Higher Monitoring Committee for the Palestinian public in the Interior (i.e., Israel), Muhammad Zaidan.” |
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Israel referred to as “occupied Palestine” in PA daily
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Al-Ayyam, Nov. 11, 2010
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Headline: "Gaza: Two documentary films about the life of Abu Jihad, including rare photographs"
Gaza: "Professional teams working in Gaza recently completed two documentary films about the life of Shahid (Martyr) Khalil Al-Wazir, 'Abu Jihad', who was assassinated by Israel 22 years ago while at home in Tunis. [The films] show rare footage of the man talking with fighters about carrying out attacks in the heart of Israel… One footage from one of the films, shows Abu Jihad in a rare recording, in which he is explaining the resistance operations to Palestinian self-sacrificing fighters, and the nature of the target areas inside occupied Palestine (i.e., Israel). |
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Northern Israel is "occupied" land says PA TV host to kids
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Oct. 22, 2010
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PA TV host: "We're on a trip in the 1948 lands (i.e., Israel). On our right is Baqa Al-Gharbiya (town in Israel), the land of many friends [viewers] of our [TV] program. We're on our way to many beautiful areas so that you can get to know them and see how beautiful our land is, and how many beautiful places it has -- beautiful villages and cities. We're in the north of the occupied lands, the 1948 lands (Israel), on the Lebanese border."
Tour guide: "We're now at the Golan Heights border (inside Israel). We are at the exact border between Palestine and Syria."
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PA TV: Tel Aviv residents are also "settlers"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Oct. 6, 2010
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 In a PA TV program about the history of Jaffa (southern Tel Aviv), pictures of a Muslim cemetery in Jaffa included the caption:
"Jaffa's holy sites are in the hands of the settlers." |
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PA TV: "Safed, Acre, Jaffa, Haifa must remain in the child's mind"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Sept. 21, 2010
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Official PA TV broadcast a special daily quiz program in which residents were asked to name five cities "in Palestine." Most of those interviewed for this quiz program were not able to name the five Palestinian cities “correctly” as the Palestinian narrative would have them – including all Israeli cities. The following was a discussion on a PA TV talk show about this issue:
Badr Zama’areh, director of Sharek Youth Club:
“Safed must remain in the child’s mind, along with Acre, Jaffa, Haifa, Jenin, Hebron and Nablus.”
Note: Safed, Acre, Jaffa and Haifa are cities in Israel.
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PA daily news story: Israel is "the Interior"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 16, 2010
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| “The National Union of Families of Shahids (Martyrs) distributed schoolbags to 180 needy students… The distribution of these schoolbags is being carried out with the support of the Arab Balad party in the Interior [i.e., Israel].” |
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PA TV song presents Mount Carmel, Lod, Ramle and Jerusalem as Palestinian
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Sept. 12, 2010
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Band member recites a poem:
"Fight, brother, the flag will never be lowered,
the torches will never die out."
On [Mt.] Carmel (in Israel) and in the [Jordan] Valley,
we are rocks and streams.
In Lod (Israeli city) we are poems, and in Ramle (Israeli city) – grenades.
We, my brother, shall remain the revolution of the fighting nation."
Vocalist sings:
"The Zionists went out from [their] homelands,
compounding damage and enmity.
But the Palestinian revolution awaits [them].
The orchard called us to the [armed] struggle.
We replaced bracelets with weapons.
We attacked the despicable [Zionists].
This invading enemy is on the battlefield.
This is the day of consolation of Jihad.
Pull the trigger.
We shall redeem Jerusalem, Nablus and the country." Click here to view |
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PA daily: Israel is "the areas occupied in 1948"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 4, 2010
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| Reporting on a political event in Lebanon the PA daily wrote: “…there are political means and means of struggle which complement this role, the first of which is the role of the Palestinians [i.e., Israeli Arabs] in the areas occupied in 1948 [i.e., Israel] and in the West Bank, and the commencement of a widespread Intifada.” |
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PA daily: Israel is "Palestinian homeland occupied in '48," Israeli Arab town is an "occupied Arab town"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 2, 2010
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Headline: “Results for the [Israeli] Arab teams in the Interior [i.e., Israeli] league – Sons of Sakhnin United team [Israeli Arab team] ends in a draw with Netanya…”
“In the second week of the premier league of the Palestinian homeland occupied in ’48 (i.e., Israeli premier league), the Sons of Sakhnin team ended in a draw against the team from Um Khaled [Netanya], in a game that was held on Monday evening at the Doha stadium in the occupied Arab town of Sakhnin [in Israel].”
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PA daily: Israel is "Palestinian Interior"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 1, 2010
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| “At a press conference yesterday the Committee for Cancellation of the Distancing from Al-Aqsa Mosque announced the commencement of its activities. Its aim is to cancel the Israeli policy of barring [admittance to the Mosque], which applied to dozens of residents of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Interior (i.e., Israel).” |
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PA daily: Arab Member of Knesset represents “our Arab population in the '48 territories”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 31, 2010
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| “Chairman of the Arab Democratic Party, Member of Knesset Taleb A-Sanaa,… conveyed to [Hamas] Member of Parliament Abu Tir [imprisoned by Israel] the good wishes of our Arab population in the ’48 territories [i.e. Israel], and their identification with him… Member of Knesset A-Sanaa and [Hamas] Member of [Palestinian] Parliament Abu Tir discussed the deportation [order against Abu Tir] and Israel’s attempt to empty Jerusalem of its original inhabitants, to Judaize it and to seize control of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.” |
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Official PA daily calls Israel "’48 occupied land"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 30, 2010
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| “[PA] Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Karake… visited the home of the Palestinian Shahida (Martyr)… Her body is still being held in the numbered military cemetery [i.e., Israeli cemetery for terrorists] within ’48 occupied land (euphemism for Israel).” |
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PA TV to kids: Israeli cities Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Acre are all "occupied cities"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Aug. 25, 2010
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PA TV host to girl: "You live in Jerusalem. Do you visit the 1948 occupied cities (Israeli cities)?"
Girl: "I've been to Hebron."
TV host: "No, Hebron is a city [in the Palestinian Authority] that we all can enter. The occupied cities - such as Lod, Ramle, Haifa, Jaffa, Acre (all Israeli cities) - have you visited them?"
Girl: "I've been to Haifa and Jaffa."
TV host: "Tell us, are they beautiful?"
Girl: "Yes..."
TV host: "We hope all children of Palestine will be able to go to the occupied territories, which we don't know and have never been able to see. Personally, I have never been there."
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PA TV quiz: Jerusalem, Haifa, and Jaffa are part of "occupied Palestine"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Aug. 11, 2010
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 Host: "Name five cities in Palestine and we'll give you a prize."
Teenage Girl: "Haifa, Acre, Ramallah, Jaffa, and Jerusalem."
Note: Haifa, Acre, Jaffa and Jerusalem are cities in Israel. The girl was rewarded $100 for correct answer.
Host: "Can you name five cities in Palestine?"
Woman: "I'm here for a visit; I don't know."
Host: "You don't know five cities in Palestine?"
Woman: "No."
Host: "You mean you haven't heard of Jerusalem?"
Woman: "I've heard of Jerusalem."
Host: "But not Gaza? Ramallah?"
Woman: "And also occupied Palestine."
Host: "Palestine is completely occupied, and we want it liberated. Say the names after me: Jerusalem, Gaza, Ramallah, Haifa, Jaffa, Bethlehem."
Note: Jerusalem, Haifa, and Jaffa are cities in Israel. The woman was handed $100 for correct answers.
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PA TV broadcasts song teaching children denial of Israel's right to exist
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Aug. 8, 2010
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"My homeland, my land is very pretty. It has forests, stone houses and a sea
My homeland, my land is very pretty. It has hills, lemon and olive trees
I live in my village. My village in my homeland. My homeland is so pretty…
The smell of a fig tree. The aroma of jasmine…
Do you know what happened in '48? [the year Israel was established]
They took everything. The room they burned. The houses they broke.
The forests they destroyed. The village they erased. The names they changed.
They changed the names. My homeland - its name is Palestine."
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Note: This song was broadcast during a children's program showing children visiting Bethlehem. The music video of the song is the longest running video for children broadcast on PA TV. It ran repeatedly for more than 10 years from 1998 to 2009. |
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PA daily: Israeli Arab team returned to "occupied Palestine"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 30, 2010
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“The [Israeli-Arab city] Sons of Sakhnin United football team returned Monday evening to occupied Palestine [i.e. Israel], following the conclusion of its training camp in Brasov, Romania…
On a different note, the directorate of the team signed an agreement with the Arab Bank in occupied Palestine [Note: the correct name is: “The Arab Israel Bank”], to sponsor the club’s football team during the 2010-2011 season.”
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PA TV: The "Jewish entity" was established "at the expense of the authentic Palestinian nation"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), July 28, 2010
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 A painting of Jews wearing prayer shawls and with rifles, sitting around a table filled with skulls, and other images demonizing Jews was shown on PA TV while the following text denying Israel’s right to exist was narrated:
“At the beginning of the 20th century, the European colonialists – especially Britain – found that their interests fit the aspirations of the developing World Zionist Movement, and they began to offer their patronage and support, not only with promises, but with all means that would allow this racist movement [Zionism] to realize its primary goal: the establishment of a Jewish entity upon the land of Palestine, at the expense of the authentic Palestinian Arab nation… The Palestinian National Authority was established on some of the Palestinian areas, seeking to establish an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, on condition that its capital would be Jerusalem. However, the oppressive Zionist enemy never missed an opportunity to shatter the Palestinian dream.”
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PA daily: Israel is "Palestinian Interior" and "the 1948 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 23, 2010
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| “The Islamic Movement in the [Palestinian] Interior (i.e., Israel): The Al-Aqsa Mosque is currently in the sights of the Israeli sniper... The Islamic Movement in the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel) published an announcement yesterday concerning the violation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.” |
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Israel is a foreign "implant" created to prevent Arab and Muslim development
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 22, 2010
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Article by columnist, Fayyad Abd Al-Karim Fayyad:
“[At the end of the 19th century] the Committee of Union and Progress, which was a perfect tool of the Zionist movement and of the Freemasons, executed directly by the Dönme Jews, carried out perfectly the role given it immediately after the First Zionist Congress [1897] and the publication of the Campbell Conference recommendations: to act to permanently end the Islamic Caliphate, to crush the Ottoman state (the ‘sick man’), and to create a foreign body in the Arab region, which is Israel... At this conference, the nations of the world were divided into three categories: the First World, which is Europe, North America, and Australia, and they are the lords of the world; the second category, which is the neutral and friendly states and nations - Russia (before the Bolshevik Revolution), China, Japan and the peoples of eastern Asia; and the third group were categorized as enemies who would not be permitted progress in science, growth, development, unity, and life's pleasure. These are the Arabs and the Muslims, into whose region a foreign body had to be implanted in order to prevent them from unifying and in order not to allow them to develop. The specifications for the required [foreign] body sat well with the Zionist proposal to establish Israel upon the land of Palestine, close to the Suez Canal.”
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PA daily calls Israeli Arab prisoners "1948 prisoners"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 20, 2010
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| “The 1948 prisoners (euphemism for Israeli Arabs in Israeli prisons for terror offenses) called on the Hamas negotiators not to give up on them and to demand they be included in any future [prisoner exchange] deal.” |
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Minister of Culture: "Jerusalem will remain Arabic-Islamic"
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Al-Ayyam, July 20, 2010
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PA Minister of Culture, Mufti of Palestine, and President of Al-Quds University:
“The Al-Quds Open University in the Ramallah district yesterday celebrated the publication of the encyclopedic volume of the university’s journal, which deals with Jerusalem ...”
[Participants at the ceremony included, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Habbash - Minister of Religious Affairs; Siham Barghouti - Minister of Culture; Sheikh Muhammad Hussein - Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine; Dr. Hana Issa - senior official of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, responsible for Christian affairs; Dr. Younes Amr, President of the university, and lecturers at the university.]
“[Minister of Culture] Siham Barghouti said: ‘We at the Ministry [of Culture] and at the universities are partners in collating, studying and inscribing the true version of the history and culture of Jerusalem.’ She drew attention to the fact that the Israeli activities do not end with an attempt to harm the character of the holy city, but attempt to erase and to steal its cultural heritage. [The Mufti] Hussein stated that regardless of the occupation’s actions, Jerusalem will remain Arabic-Islamic... [President of Al-Quds University] Amr drew attention to the fact that the Jews’ connection to Jerusalem is no more than the connection of a military occupation.”
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PA TV presents Israeli city Haifa as situated on "the Palestinian coast" and under "occupation"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), July 18, 2010
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 PA TV host: “This idea [art project involving water from all over the world] occurred to you based on the fact that Palestine has no sea – or, we have a sea, but we can’t get to it, as a result of the occupation.”
Visual of the Israeli city Haifa is shown.
PA TV reporter: “This [Haifa] is the Palestinian coast, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. We are still prevented from reaching it and vacationing in its waves.”
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PA daily: Israeli internet media is in "the occupied homeland"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 15, 2010
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Headline: “The so-called ‘peace team’ concludes its participation at the festival in Vancouver, Canada”
“[Israeli] Internet media sources in the occupied homeland [i.e. Israel] said that the Palestinian-Israeli peace team, which comprises both nationalities, reached second place in the football Peace Festival which recently concluded in Vancouver, Canada. The sources alleged that the team was represented by Arab and Jewish players.”
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PA daily: Israel is "Palestinian Interior"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 9, 2010
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“[Israel] extended the military order prohibiting the Chairman of the Islamic Movement in the Palestinian Interior (i.e., Israel), Sheikh Raed Salah, from entering any part of the city of Jerusalem until Sept. 29, 2010... In response, the spokesman for the Islamic Movement in the Palestinian Interior, Adv. Zahi Nujidat, released a statement on behalf of the movement...”
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PA daily: Arabs of Israel live in "the Palestinian homeland occupied in '48"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 20, 2010
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The official PA daily interviewed an Israeli-Arab commentator about Israeli-Arab football players who play on the Israeli national team. The PA daily referred to the Arabs of Israel as living not in Israel but in "the Palestinian homeland occupied in ’48."
Headline: “[Israeli] Arab sports personalities express their pride and refuse to wave the Israeli flag”
“Day after day, the Palestinian Arab population in the Palestinian homeland occupied in ’48 (i.e., Israeli Arab citizens) express their rootedness and their pure Arab affiliation, despite the attempts [by Israel] to carry out Israelization and Judaization, which have been going on at full steam since the catastrophe (Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) which befell the Palestinian people and their dispersion throughout the world [since 1948]..."
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National football league in the "occupied homeland"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 18, 2010
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| "The Al-Ahali [football] club in the [Israeli] Arab city of Um El-Fahm held a large ceremony of appreciation honoring its first football team, to celebrate the team's rise to the national league in the homeland occupied in '48." |
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PA TV host: Israelis "stole Palestine in search for an alleged homeland that would take them in"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 17, 2010
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PA TV news item about disagreements among Israeli ethnic groups:
PA TV host: "This [internal Israeli conflict] is not the first time, nor will it be the last, in the history of the [internal] conflicts between the [different Israeli] ethnic populations of the world among those who stole Palestine in a search for an alleged homeland that would take them in."
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PA schoolbooks portray Israel as foreign colonial occupier, not legitimate state
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Source:
National Education, Grade Six, June 13, 2010
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"Colonialism: Palestine faced the British occupation after the First World War in 1917, and the Israeli occupation in 1948."
[National Education, sixth grade, p. 16, PA schoolbook currently in use. http://www.pcdc.edu.ps/textbooks/watanyeh_G6.pdf - accessed June 13, 2010] |
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PA daily praises Helen Thomas for calling for Jews to leave Israel and "return" to Germany and Poland
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 10, 2010
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"The old lady in the White House… There is not a person who doesn’t recognize the face of Helen Thomas… The old lady had enough, and she said something nice at the end of her professional career. For a long time she had urged her journalist colleagues to present the truth about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict fairly, and to awaken from their coma of media falsification, but her final declaration at the White House, where a [press] conference was held concerning Jewish heritage, reverberated between the walls of the presidential home. She shouted: ‘The Jews should get out of the lands of Palestine and go back to where they came from. It is occupied land that belongs to the Palestinians; it's not the land of the Germans or the Poles. They must go back to their homes in Poland, Germany, America and wherever else.’"
Note: Following her remarks, Helen Thomas was fired from her job of 40 years in the White House press corps. |
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PA TV: "All of the land is occupied by Israel" and must be liberated
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 9, 2010
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Dr. Nasri Qamsiyeh, Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ):
"The scenarios for a solution in Jerusalem must not be separated from the scenarios for a solution of the Palestinian issue as a single unit, since all of the land is occupied by Israel, and the liberation of the entire land without exception, is a personal individual [religious] commandment [Arabic: fard ayn]." |
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PA daily euphemisms for Israel: "Interior Palestine," "occupied in 1948," and "48 territories"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 1, 2010
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| “Demonstrations were held yesterday in several Palestinian towns in the Interior [of Palestine] occupied in 1948, to denounce the massacre that the occupation forces carried out against the freedom flotilla. At the same time, the occupation forces declared a state of alert in order to deal with any developments in the '48 territories. The Supreme Monitoring Committee in the '48 territories has decided to declare a strike today in protest against the assault by the Israeli occupation authorities on the freedom flotilla.” |
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Israeli Arab journalist: Must protect Palestine from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 17, 2010
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Israeli Arab Journalist Sa'id Hasanein:
"This visit [by Israeli-Arab Um El-Fahm soccer team to Hebron] is natural between people of the same nation... There is no difference between all the people of Palestine, and our obligation is to protect it [Palestine], from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river."
Redwan Sidr, secretary of the [Palestinian] Al-Khalil Youth Foundation:
"We welcome our brothers [Israeli Arabs]… to the city of the Martyrs, Hebron… I also hope to see a group [of Israeli Arabs] from Interior Palestine in the International Hebron Youth Tournament."
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Hebron is "city of Martyrs," Israel is "Interior Palestine"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 17, 2010
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Redwan Sidr, secretary of the Al-Khalil Youth Foundation:
"We welcome our brothers [Israeli Arabs]: to the city of the Martyrs, Hebron: I also hope to see a group from Interior Palestine [i.e., Israeli Arabs] in the International Hebron Youth Tournament."
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PA TV: Israel stole land, identity of the Palestinian people
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 17, 2010
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PA TV news broadcast, item on PLO main ceremony marking the 62nd anniversary of the "Nakba":
PA TV Host: "They [Israel] stole the land, stole the [identity of the] people, stole the holy places, and do not want the Palestinian people to commemorate this painful anniversary." |
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Arab Member of Israeli Parliament: Jaffa, Acre, Haifa, Lod and Ramle are Palestinian cities
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 17, 2010
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Israeli Member of Parliament Dr. Jamal Zahalka, introduced at PLO rally commemorating 62nd anniversary of the "Nakba" as: "Our representative within the '48 territories":
Israeli MP Zahalka: "We want the women of Ramallah, who were harmed in the Nakba –greetings to them – to return, and I mean to Jaffa, to Haifa, to Lod, to Ramle and to all the cities of Palestine… I want you to know that you have family in Jaffa, that you have family in Lod, in Ramle, in Haifa, and in Acre. Those who keep the flame, those who have preserved the identity of the land. They are the remaining remnant, and living testimony that Jaffa is a Palestinian Arab [city], and that Lod and Ramle are Palestinian Arab [cities], and likewise concerning Haifa and Acre… We are facing a Zionist plan that divides our people… We oppose and do not submit to this division, and emphasize the unity of our Palestinian people: a single entity, a single nation, a single memory, a single fate, and a single future for a single nation – the nation of Palestine.” |
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PA newspaper calls Israel "occupied Palestine of '48"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 14, 2010
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PA-owned Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported on the coach of an Israeli Arab football team from a city in northern Israel:
"... leading the team to the second division league for the first time in the history of the city of Um El-Fahm, one of the largest Arab cities in northern occupied Palestine. The Football Association of occupied Palestine of '48 [euphemism for Israel] resolved: to suspend the player and the coach for one week." |
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PA TV video denies Israel's right to exist
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 7, 2010
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Palestinian narrator on PA TV program about refugee camps:
"I am [a Palestinian] from Jaffa, I'm from Haifa, I'm from Acre, I'm from Nazareth, I'm from Gimzu, I'm from Zakariya, I'm from Ein Kerem (West Jerusalem) (i.e., all places in Israel). Where are you [Israelis] from? Where are you from? Where are you from? Of course, you're from Ukraine; of course, you're from Germany, from Poland, from Russia, from Ethiopia, the Falasha (i.e., a pejorative for Ethiopian Jews). Why have you stolen my homeland and taken my place? Please, I ask of you, return to your original homeland, so that I can return to my original homeland. This is my homeland; go back to your homeland."
Click here to view
Note: This video appeared on May 4 and 7, 2010. |
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Senior Fatah member: Fatah will not recognize Israel
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Apr. 18, 2010
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Azzam Al-Ahmad, Fatah Central Committee member:
"We, as the Fatah movement, have not recognized Israel and will not recognize Israel, as the Fatah movement. We call upon all the factions not to recognize Israel, as Palestinian national action factions. Why? Because recognition is an act of governments. From our perspective, when our government, known as the PLO, exchanged documents of recognition with Israel following the Oslo Accords, that was the end of the matter." |
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Recognition of Israel is hazard, has only harmed Palestinians
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 18, 2010
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Article by Adli Sadeq, PLO Ambassador to India and regular columnist for official PA daily, in response to the rededication of a synagogue:
"If we cannot respond to the fire of oppression with the fire of justice and legitimate struggle, the very least [we can do] is to declare explicitly that recognition of Israel's right to be a state in this region represents an environmental and security hazard; it creates the basis for acute internal and regional tensions, and distorts history, just as it poisons the future. It may be that the most important ramification of the recognition of Israel's right to be a state with which we shall participate – or not participate – in a peace process, is encouragement of the Arab polity to support American strategy in the region… with the pretext that Washington is acting for the sake of peace…
From our point of view, nothing is currently as pressing as the destruction of the constructions of words which have been built within the framework of the peace process. Recognition of Israel has harmed us and has brought us the opposite results, for these occupiers are not worthy of goodwill gestures, political rapprochement, or negotiations of any form. They have made their decision, as part of a joint plan with the Americans, such that the challenge now requires a new spirit, a different language, and a rationale that will create the basis for a unifying Arab understanding of the nature of the sudden danger, whose proof is what is now happening in Jerusalem." |
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PA TV kids' host: Israel is "1948 territories" and "occupied Palestine"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Feb. 26, 2010
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PA TV kids' TV host, Walaa:
"Soon, if it works out, we will be among you [Israeli Arabs] in the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel) the occupied territories. Our friends from the 1948 territories - the occupied territories - they write wanting us [to broadcast] there with them. Many of them have come here, trying to be friends [of the program] and they are truly dear friends and regular [viewers]. There are also [some] from Lod (Israeli city) and also Ahmad from Nazareth (Israeli city) and there are so many. There's Adnan from Be'er Sheva (Israeli city). Dear [Israeli Arab] children: We will definitely always remain in contact with you, because you have the right, and this program is definitely yours too, just as it belongs to every Palestinian child, since you [Israeli Arabs] are part of occupied Palestine." Click here to view |
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Fatah "does not recognize Israel"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Feb. 8, 2010
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Ahmad Assaf, Fatah spokesman:
"Fatah is not responding [to the Goldstone Report], is not apologizing, is not sorry, and does not recognize Israel. It is the PLO that negotiates on behalf of the Palestinian people."
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Ahmad Bahar, Acting Chairman of Parliament (Hamas): Accepting two states is betrayal of Allah
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Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Sept. 11, 2009
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Ahmad Bahar, Acting Chairman of Parliament (Hamas):
"We say to our Palestinian nation: The significance of the Jewishness of the State [of Israel] – someone who accepts the Jewishness of the State betrays Allah, His messenger and believers. The significance of the Jewishness of the State is that the Palestinians don't exist. Your brethren in the 1948 territories [i.e. the Israeli Arabs]. The Jewishness of the State – recognizing it means recognizing Jewish existence in the land of Palestine. And I'll tell you something else: even recognition of two states, as they say, is a crime against the Palestinian cause. Two states – a Jewish state and a Palestinian state. Where is the Palestinian state? It can't exist! It has no sovereignty! It has no authority to make decisions! The state that the Jews want is a state in which we will be servants, messengers, of the Jews. And one who accepts this is betraying Allah, His messenger, and [Muslim] believers. We will not accept and not recognize a state for the Jews here on Palestinian land! We will not recognize it! It makes no difference what this will cost us."
[Friday prayer and sermon (third Friday of Ramadan) from the Salem Abu Muslim Mosque in Bet Lahiya.] |
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PA teacher taught Balfour Declaration for exam only
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Al-Filistiniya TV (Fatah Party), Sept. 10, 2009
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Palestinian TV broadcast an interview with Mustafa Othman, an Arab teacher in Israel, in which he describes what he teaches Israeli Arab youth in Israeli schools:
"I used to teach about the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration, in relation to us, from 1917 November 2nd, was a curse… In the Jordanian curriculum – or the Palestinian one, permit me to say – this material was studied on the basis [of the fact] that they [Israel] occupied our country by force of arms, stole it, destroyed its homes, expelled its people from the towns and from the villages. When I taught the Israeli curriculum, I told the students, 'It's only for the exam, you shouldn't consider it as information.' We may say that the Balfour Declaration is a victory for Zionism." |
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Hamas Chairman of Parliament: No two states!
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Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Aug. 28, 2009
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Ahmad Bahar, Acting Chairman of Parliament (Hamas):
"I also say to you: Recognition of two states, as they are saying, is one of the gravest sins and most serious mistakes. We will not recognize two states! If we were to recognize a Jewish state, we would be awarding them the right to rule and to establish their supposed state." |
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PA chief negotiator: No one asked Hamas to recognize Israel or abandon terror
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Aug. 19, 2009
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Saeb Erekat, member of Fatah Central Committee, PA chief negotiator:
"No one asked the Hamas movement to recognize Israel, or to abandon the resistance [terror], or to abandon their code of behavior. We said to them: The functioning of the government is one matter, while the functioning of the [Hamas] party is a different matter, and political activity yet another. The demand to be committed to the idea of two states, to agreements and to UN resolutions is made of the [possible Fatah-Hamas] government, not of Hamas." |
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PA chief negotiator: "No one asked Hamas to recognize Israel"
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Al-Filistiniya TV (Fatah Party), Aug. 9, 2009
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Saeb Erekat, member of Fatah Central Committee, PA chief negotiator:
“No one asked Hamas to recognize Israel, nor the principle of two states, nor the signed agreement, or anything you might think of.” |
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Fatah MP: Fatah still for armed resistance and does not recognize Israel
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Al-Quds, July 22, 2009
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Rafik Al-Natsheh, president of the Fatah Movement's Disciplinary Court, head of PA Parliament:
"The Fatah Movement will prove at its Sixth Congress to all the collaborators and know-nothings that it will continue to maintain the option of resistance in all its forms, and will not recognize Israel." |
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Nabil Shaath, Fatah: Hamas should not recognize Israel
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), July 19, 2009
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Nabil Shaath, member of Fatah Central Committee and former PA Foreign Minister:
"The return to the idea of a national unity government gives rise to the subject of the PLO commitments – recognition of Israel, recognition of the Oslo Accords, and the like... Fatah's position is, we don't want Hamas to recognize Israel. We want it [Hamas] to recognize a government that can deal with the international situation and open a door for us to end the siege.” |
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PA children's video: "Israel took everything in 1948"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 1, 2009
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A music video for children summarizes the essence of PA ideology, and the motivation for the continuing hatred and war against Israel, in the words: "Israel took everything in 1948.”
"My homeland, my land is very pretty. It has forests, stone houses and a sea
My homeland, my land is very pretty. It has hills, lemon and olive trees
I live in my village. My village in my homeland. My homeland is so pretty…
The smell of a fig tree. The aroma of jasmine…
Do you know what happened in '48? [Year of Israel’s creation]
They took everything. They burned the room. The houses they broke.
The forests they destroyed. The village they erased. The names they changed
They changed the names. My homeland, her name is Palestine." Click here to view
[PA TV, 1998-2009, repeatedly] |
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Abbas: "I will not accept a Jewish State"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Apr. 27, 2009
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Mahmoud Abbas, PA Chairman and Head of Fatah:
"The 'Jewish state.' What is a 'Jewish state?' We call it, the 'State of Israel.' You can call yourselves whatever you want. But I will not accept it. And I say this on a live broadcast... It's not my job to define it, to provide a definition for the state and what it contains. You can call yourselves the Zionist Republic, the Hebrew, the National, the Socialist [Republic] call it whatever you like. I don't care."
Click to view video
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Neither Fatah nor PA recognizes Israel
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 23, 2009
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Azzam Al-Ahmed, Chairman of Fatah Party in PA Parliament:
"We have already said in public and in official statements that it is not correct that we demand that Hamas recognize Israel. Fatah does not recognize Israel. The Democratic [Front] does not recognize Israel... The one that recognizes Israel is the Palestinian government [PLO]. The Palestinian government which represents the Palestinian people, and not the Palestinian Authority government [of Abbas].” |
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Fatah leader Dahlan: Fatah demands non-recognition of Israel
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 16, 2009
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Muhammad Dahlan, senior Fatah leader:
"They [Hamas] always say that the Fatah movement wants Hamas to recognize Israel. This is a gross deception. I want to say for the thousandth time, we demand of the Hamas movement not to recognize Israel, because the Fatah movement does not recognize Israel, even today. I maintain the position of the Hamas and of the Fatah not to recognize Israel, but the [PA] government is required to offer medical treatment, to make education easier. It's required of the government [to recognize Israel] but not of the Fatah, so that this goverment will be able to offer the necessary assistance, to carry out the necessary reconstruction... This can be dealt with [only] by a government that has relations with the international community, one that is acceptable to the international community, in order that we can work together and benefit from the international community."
Click here to view |
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Israel protects freedom only to attract immigrants
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 5, 2009
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Hassan Al-Barghouti, director of a Center for Human Rights on PA TV Talk show:
"Look at the State of Israel. When it extended rights, it extended rights and freedoms that exceeded [those of] the European countries, without any social struggle, because the aim of this settler who came to Palestine was to establish these people on this land, to which they do not belong… The fundamental aim was to establish [them]; such that a person would find a better alternative than the country from which he had emigrated." |
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PA TV teaches kids: Be'er Sheva-Israel is "occupied"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), July 21, 2008
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Child: “I’m from Be'er Sheva [Israel].”
Adult Host: “From the occupied Be'er Sheba … of course, from the occupied Negev [southern Israel]. We bless all our children of the Negev and I’m very happy that our children from the occupied areas in Palestine are calling, those [areas] which Israel occupies.” |
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PA crossword: Israel is artificial entity
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 18, 2008
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 Clue 1: “African Arab state that has relations with the artificial Israeli entity.”
Answer: "Mauritania."
Clue 7: “Arab state which has relations with the artificial Israeli entity.”
Answer: "Egypt." |
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Israel established to rid Europe of Jews
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 14, 2008
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Abbas Zaki, PA representative to Lebanon:
"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… 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 is an ongoing [colonial] project, an outpost of Imperialism.”
Click to view video |
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PA TV lauds Facebook forum calling to "delete" Israel
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 9, 2008
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PA TV Host:
"Facebook as a new battleground between the Arabs and Israel. "Israel is not a country... Delete from Facebook as a country!" This is the title of an Arab forum which includes thousands of Americans, foreigners and even Jews, on the well-known Internet site, Facebook... The group demands that Israel be regarded as an occupying entity and not as a country... there is an abundance of information [in the forum] about Palestinian history and about the connection of the Palestinian people to this land, which has, of course, been stolen from us..." |
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Abbas: We reject the Jewishness of the state
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Source:
Al-Dustour (Jordan), Feb. 28, 2008
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Mahmoud Abbas, PA Chairman:
[The Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas emphasized his rejection of what is described as the Jewishness of the state (Israel), and said:] "We rejected this proposal at the Annapolis conference last November in the USA, and the conference was almost aborted because of it." |
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Abbas: Only a government needs to recognize Israel, not Hamas
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Al-Dustour (Jordan), Feb. 28, 2008
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Mahmoud Abbas, PA Chairman:
"I don't demand that the Hamas movement recognize Israel. I only demanded of the [Palestinian] national unity government that would work opposite Israel in recognition of it. And this I told to Syrian President Bashir Assad, and he supported this idea." |
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Palestinian youth: "There is no Israel"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Feb. 20, 2008
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Palestinian girl: “I am calling the Israeli leadership, stop dreaming of a big homeland and illusion of security, because there is no Israel, but there’s a homeland called Palestine, and its capital is Jerusalem. By Allah’s will.”
Click to view video |
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Palestinian government recognizes Israel - for money transfers
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Oct. 3, 2006
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Abbas to Condoleezza Rice: "Hamas must recognize Israel"
[The Jerusalem Post, Oct. 4, 2006]
Abbas to Arabs, broadcast on PA TV and Al-Arabiya (Dubai):
"It is not required of Hamas, nor of Fatah, nor of the Popular Front, to recognize Israel. Every person has the right to say, 'I do not recognize,' okay? It's your right. It is the right of any organization. But the government which will be formed, and which will function opposite the Israelis on a daily basis - how can this government, or these ministers, not recognize their counterparts, and then solve people's problems? The Palestinian finance minister has to come to an agreement with the Israeli finance minister about the transfer of the money. So how can he make an agreement with him if he does not recognize him? So I do not demand of Hamas nor any others to recognize Israel. But from the government that works with Israelis in day-to-day life, yes."
Click to view video |
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PA TV presents a "prisoners' play" in which Israeli cities are "Palestine"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Sept. 25, 2005
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Prisoner 1: “The soldier asked me, ‘where are you from?’ I said, ‘from Jaffa,’ so he hit me. He asked me again, ‘where are you from?’ I said, ‘from Jaffa,’ so he hit me. I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I told him, ‘tell me what to say!’ He said, ‘say you are from Gaza. Jaffa and Haifa are not yours.’”
Prisoner 2: “No! Definitely not! Jaffa and Haifa are ours! Jaffa and Haifa are ours!”
Click to view video |
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Palestinians reject all territorial compromises
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Dec. 31, 2004
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| “[Sharon said] ‘No to the return to the ‘67 borders’. I will not add my voice to Sharon’s voice, but raise it above his voice and tell him: No to the return to the ‘67 borders. We are interested in returning to our genuine borders. We want to return to the 1948 [pre-Israel] borders...” |
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Jews have no national homeland
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Apr. 4, 2004
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Ibrahim Mudayris, Official, PA Ministry of Religious Trusts and Religious Affairs:
"Those [Jews] do not know what a homeland is and do not know what a land is... Concerning Palestine, it belongs to us... They came, expelled from every land, came to this land from every country and claming to have a national homeland on the land of Palestine, with the help of Britain. That vengeance still stands between us and them; [a vengeance] that will not be forgotten except by a coward or traitor." |
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PA child contest winner: "You [Israel] don't deserve Lod"
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Al-Quds, May 28, 2003
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PA Ministry of Education children's letter writing contest, chose as first place winner child who denied Israel rigth to exist: "You [Israel] do not deserve Lod":
"I will yet return to Lod. I am Lara from Lod, and I am an 11-year-old girl living in the city of Ramallah. I used to accept that Ramallah is a substitute for Lod, and that the large [Mediterranean] sea has been exchanged for a small pool... you [Israel] do not deserve Lod, and after this day I will no longer accept the small pool. I will dream of the sea at Jaffa and the sunshine in Lod." |
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Evil Britain brought about the corrupt entity Israel
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Radio Voice of Palestine (Fatah), Dec. 28, 2001
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Yousuf Abu Sneina, Imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque:
"The infidel countries under the leadership of the US made up an excuse and justification to wage their dirty war [post 9-11 war in Afghanistan] against Islam and the Muslims... Concerning evil Britain, which directly brought about this corrupt entity [Israel] on Palestinian land: Britain forgot that it is the height of terror and the height of hatred against Islam and Muslims." |
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Maps teach children to envision world without Israel
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), July 25, 2000
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Palestinian children taught to seek Israel's distruction on Fatah TV:
TV Host: "We have a very pretty picture here. It was sent by Muhammad Abu Naji. Thank you Muhammad for your letter and for this beautiful drawing, there is a man, and very beautiful things, a tree, Palestine. Palestine! A picture of the map of Palestine with chains around it, and by Allah's will, my dear ones, these chains will be freed one day and Palestine will remain ours forever." Click here to view |
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Israel “the occupation state” will cease to exist
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 18, 1999
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Imad Falugi, PA Minister of Communications:
“Our people have hope for the future, that the occupation state [Israel] will cease to exist, and that it makes no difference [how great] its power and arrogance." |
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PA: Balfour thought Jews were "Semitic human waste"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 27, 1998
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PA Daily editorial:
“Balfour, whose natural tendency to Antisemitism ruled over his head and heart throughout his entire life… was bothered by his failure to convince the head and priests of world Zionism to agree to Uganda as their designated homeland, when he saw in this land an ideal place in which to isolate the Jews and their dreams, and it was a garbage dump which had enough room for the inhuman Semitic human waste.” |
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Zionism was a British tactic to get rid of Jews
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Apr. 9, 1998
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Tallal Abu Afifa, Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Youth:
“Britain had an interest in creating a foreign human body in the Middle East and to get rid of the Jewish existence in Europe…and the Zionists also had an interest in establishing for themselves a homeland in Palestine, in the framework of these interests Britain succeeded in entering Palestine.” |
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