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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 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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