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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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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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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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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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Source:
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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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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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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Source:
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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