PA: Israel is a “bastard state” established to “realize the will and strategy of its lords from the colonialist capitalist Western states”
One of the repeating PA conspiracy theories is that the “colonialist capitalist Western states” established Israel so it could serve as their pawn in the Middle East.
One of the official PA daily’s regular columnists stressed this libel, calling Israel the “bastard state” that is still being “funded and armed” by the West. Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul claimed that the goal with the creation of Israel was that it should “realize the will and strategy of its lords from the colonialist capitalist Western states.” He further argued that the plan of the Western states still is to prevent “the Arab homeland” from developing and instead “turn them into hired slaves”:
“The Western circles funded and armed and are still funding and arming this bastard state to achieve the aforementioned goal – in order to leave the Arab homeland, its peoples, and its national liberation movement devoid of any power and on the margins of the movement of history, and to turn them into hired slaves in service of their goals, by imposing rulers who have sold their conscience and history on the slave market of the West and made it easy for it to steal their peoples’ resources.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 16, 2023]
The official PA daily printed a similarly hateful statement by Al-Ghoul earlier this year when he labeled the Jews “a Satanic pawn” of the West. He also repeated another PA libel that Israel was created because Europe wanted to “get rid of the Jewish problem”:
“All the western and eastern European states led by Washington wanted first of all to get rid of the Jewish problem, and to exploit the Jews wandering in their countries so that they would fulfill the role of a satanic pawn. This was to realize the goals of the global tycoons in general, and of the Zionist Jewish families in particular: Ripping apart the great Arab world and dividing it, dismantling the Arabs’ unity, and settling accounts from ancient history with the Arabs and Muslims in general, in other words, [revenge for losses during] the Crusades.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 23, 2023]
Palestinian Media Watch has documented these PA libels for decades, and it has been repeated by top PA officials, such as PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas this year at the UN:
“Britain and the United States… decided to establish and plant a foreign entity in our historic homeland, for colonialist purposes of their own... The truth is that these Western countries wanted to get rid of the Jews–and profit from them in Palestine. 'Two birds with one stone’.”
[Archive news, You tube channel, May 15, 2023]
PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh also disseminated this libel:
“We are the ones who gave Palestine its name and the land its value and its status. This land is ours. Israel is a colonialist state that was established by colonialists and settlers, and which expanded like every settler colonialism throughout history. We have learned from history that colonialism passes in the end.’”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 21, 2023]
The following is a longer excerpt of the column cited above:
Excerpt of a column by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for official PA daily and former advisor to former PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on national affairs
“[Israel is] a state that was established on denying the other and the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) of the other – the owner of the land, the history, and the cultural heritage – and on committing one of the most despicable crimes of the modern age in order to realize the will and strategy of its lords from the colonialist capitalist Western states… This state and its successive governments, leaders, and military, security, cultural, religious, and legal institutions have not left any weapon or crime that they did not use in order to realize their goal to destroy, eliminate, and [ethnically] cleanse the Arab Palestinian land of its children. The Western circles funded and armed and are still funding and arming this bastard state to achieve the aforementioned goal – in order to leave the Arab homeland, its peoples, and its national liberation movement devoid of any power and on the margins of the movement of history, and to turn them into hired slaves in service of their goals, by imposing rulers who have sold their conscience and history on the slave market of the West and made it easy for it to steal their peoples’ resources.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 16, 2023]
Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul is also a former PLO Central Council member.