Palestinian Media Watch (Link)
- Itamar Marcus & Nan Jacques Zilberdik (May 31, 2011)
The Palestinian Authority’s ideology is to refuse to
recognize Israel’s right to exist. The media it owns and controls regularly
publish articles that demonize the modern State of Israel and its establishment
as a “colonialist plan.”
Recently, the official PA daily went even further, not just
maligning the modern State of Israel but also labeling the Jewish/Israelite
presence in the land of Judea/Israel 2000 years ago as a “crude form of
colonialism.”
Whereas Hamas openly denies Israel’s right to exist in both
English and Arabic, the PA professes in English before the international
community to have recognized Israel’s right to exist. As documented by
Palestinian Media Watch, when addressing its own people in Arabic, the PA - like
Hamas - completely denies Israel’s right to exist.
The following is the PA daily’s defining ancient
Judea/Israel as “colonialism:”
“The Zionists must acknowledge publicly, in front of the world, that the
Jews have no connection to the Palestinian Arab land, upon whose ruins arose
the colonialist settler Zionist plan that settles and expels, represented by
the Israeli apartheid state. That which occurred two thousand years ago
(i.e., the Jewish/Israeli presence in the land), assuming that it is true,
represents in the book of history nothing more than invention and
falsification and a coarse and crude form of colonialism.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 27, 2011]
At times, the PA’s denial of Israel’s right to exist serves as the justification
for its claim that Israelis should all leave their homes in Israel.
PA TV
narrator addresses the Jews of Israel, asking them to leave, because Israel has
no right to exist:
“Where are you [Israelis] from? Where are you from? Where are you from? Of
course, you’re from Ukraine; of course, you’re from Germany, from Poland,
from Russia, from Ethiopia, the Falasha (pejorative for Ethiopian Jews). Why
have you stolen my homeland and taken my place? Please, I ask of you, return
to your original homeland, so that I can return to my original homeland.
This is my homeland; go back to your homeland!”
[PA TV (Fatah), May 4 and 7, 2010]
The following are other examples of denial of Israel’s right to exist from
the official education and PA media:
In a 12th-Grade schoolbook
published by the PA Ministry of Education, and in use today:
“Palestine’s war ended with a catastrophe that is unprecedented in history,
when the Zionist gangs stole Palestine and expelled its people from their
cities, their villages, their lands and their houses, and established the
State of Israel.”
[Arabic Language, Analysis, Literature and Criticism, Grade 12, p. 104]
Mahmoud Abbas, (in speech delivered by his representative, Abdallah Al-Ifranji):
“We say to him [Netanyahu], when he claims - that they [Jews] have a
historical right dating back to 3000 years BCE - we say that the nation of
Palestine upon the land of Canaan had a 7000 year history BCE. This is the
truth, which must be understood and we have to note it, in order to say:
‘Netanyahu, you are incidental in history. We are the people of history. We
are the owners of history.’”
[PA TV (Fatah), May 14, 2011]
Abd Al-Rahman, columnist for the official PA daily, on the anniversary of the
Balfour Declaration:
“Today is a painful anniversary for the Palestinian people, the 93rd
anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, in which those who had no ownership
of the Palestinian soil and homeland - the British colonialists - gave to
those who had no connection to the land, neither near nor distant - the
Zionists, in order to realize a colonialist aim, in the service of the
objectives of the colonialist West in the Arab region.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 2, 2010]
Adel Abd Al-Rahman, columnist in the official PA daily:
“The history and heritage of Jericho confirm the Arab-Palestinian-Canaanite
narrative concerning the entire Palestinian land, from the [Mediterranean]
sea to the [Jordan] river, negating anything else, especially the false
Zionist narrative.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 21, 2010]
PA TV documentary program on the UN Partition Plan features Jordanian
academic Muhammad Dohal:
“The Jews are hated in every society in which they have lived, because of
their behavior relating to their great love of money. ... This was the
source of their harm to the societies around them, including Palestinian
society, Arab-Palestinian society. We all know that the Jews lived in
Palestine and the Palestinian people adopted them, so to say, and they lived
in dignity. But they contrived schemes by means of their secret
organizations, which gave rise to the idea of the need to purchase tracts of
land and to seize control of them, and then to claim that they were the
owners of a great area of the land, and that they were the original
inhabitants of this land, and that the people which had adopted them was
simply accidental in this land... Their behavior led to [Shakespeare’s]
famous story, the story of Shylock about money lending, which clings to the
Jews. This is how they harmed the societies that embraced them.”
[PA TV (Fatah), Oct. 10 and 17, 2010]
Adel Abd Al-Rahman, columnist in the official PA daily:
“The false story of the Zionists, according to which Palestine is ‘the
promised land,’ is simply a lie without any basis. No person of the Jewish
faith who was born in any country of the world has the right to return to
Palestine, other than Jews who were born in Palestine.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 16, 2010]
Adli Sadeq, columnist for the official PA daily:
“The very least [we can do] is to declare explicitly that recognition of
Israel’s right to be a state in this region represents an environmental and
security hazard; it creates the basis for acute internal and regional
tensions, and distorts history, just as it poisons the future.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 18, 2010]
PA Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash:
“History proves the Arab, Islamic and Palestinian right to this land and
disproves all the Israeli claims that they have religious and historical
rights in this land.”
[PA TV interview (Fatah), March 2, 2010]
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