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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 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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