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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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