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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The dream of the Zionist idea and the Zionist movement is to empty the Gaza Strip and afterwards to empty the West Bank to turn Palestine into a land without a people that will be settled by the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The truth is that Israel is just a pawn of the US, which is the inheritor of the old colonialism. The one who established Israel was the old colonialism for colonialist goals… The US is using [Israel...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “[The] goal is not as [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and senior officials of his extremist racist right-wing government claim to eliminate Hamas or eliminate the military danger and the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The occupation (i.e., Israel) is the reason that makes the Palestinians resist. The resistance is self-defense. It is a legal right. The occupation is the one that contradicts international law.” [PA...

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Without ending the occupation (i.e., Israel) we will continue to go from one cycle of violence to another. It is the problem. If there is occupation, there is resistance (i.e., violence and terror)...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The Zionist movement at its core is not a religious movement, it is a secular movement. It is a political movement with a colonialist background and nature, which the colonialist states have used to...”

Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Since the start of the [Israeli] aggression (i.e., Israeli counter-terror operation against Hamas), has anyone heard from us? From the [PA] leadership, from [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas to the last of the people in the Palestinian leadership – has anyone heard from us one word...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “From the first days of the [Israeli] aggression they [Israel] began to speak about Gaza Strip residents leaving Palestine to the Sinai Peninsula, and if that would succeed, Heaven forbid, they would...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The first goal [of the American support] is moral support for Israel, because there is internal shock inside Israel... This is an attempt to give moral support and strengthen the Israelis in order to...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The entire conflict taking place in the region is a conflict against the occupation (i.e., Israel). The issue is not just an attack by one side against another side. The root of the issue is the...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The occupation is the foundation of all the problems in the region. If there were no occupation, there would be no conflict… The essence of the issue is the occupation’s existence. Everything that the...”

Abbas’ advisor refuses to blame Hamas for current war The video shows a recorded interview with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash Interviewer (by phone): “Let’s go back to Oct. 7 [2023] … It was perhaps the excuse for this [Israeli]...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas�� Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “From the first day of their (i.e., the Israelis’) aggression, they have said that the Palestinian people- that the residents of the Gaza Strip must go towards Egypt (i.e., leave the combat zone). That...”

PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “We are in an open confrontation with this occupation in one arena of struggle that stretches from Jerusalem to the West Bank, Jenin, Hebron, the Gaza Strip, every inch of the Palestinian land. We are standing against one occupation...”

PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “We are being subjected to American aggression. [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas said this clearly: The one who is occupying Palestine is the US… It claims that it is sponsoring the peace process. This is a lie. The one who is thwarting...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations and PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash posted a video and text in support of Hamas’ terror war on Israel: Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “[Israel] doesn’t want to understand that...”

Official PA TV, special broadcast on the Hamas terror war: Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “We are enacting our legitimate right in resisting these invaders by defending ourselves, and defending our holy sites and our people… This occupation is temporary. Regardless of...”

Addas announces he need all the Palestinians to “unite around the PLO” to deal with the “crimes being committed” by Israel

PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The cause of Palestine and the struggle in Palestine is the greatest existential struggle, and the global struggle that is taking place here. It began in the West, where the idea ripened to invent Israel, to invent a state of Jews, a state for the...”

PA high official denies Jewish and Roman history in Hebron, claiming “those who are not Muslims have no right” to the Cave of the Patriarchs

Habbash denies Jewish history in Jerusalem, saying the Temple Mount along with all its plazas, yards, and the Western Wall “is a pure Islamic heritage”

A new Shari’ah judge from the Gaza Strip is sworn in before the PA supreme Shari’ah judge

Al-Habbash posits that "if Jerusalem is humiliated and occupied, this is proof of the nation’s condition of weakness and lowliness… so we will defend Jerusalem with our property and our lives and victory is approaching"

PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ Advisor says Israel is creating "a war against the Islamic world which will ignite the region and the entire world" while "emphasizing that the Palestinian people will continue to defend our Jerusalem, regardless of how heavy the sacrifices may be"

Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas' Advisor promises that "in the end the occupation will pass from the world" while claiming that Palestinian terrorism "is a legitimate right anchored in international conventions for oppressed peoples"