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PA daily denies Jewish history in Israel: “Every stone in this land speaks Arabic”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 22, 2012
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"Hebron, the fourth holiest city to Islam, will remain, Allah willing, a firm fortress holding out against Zionist attempts to forge its history and its landmarks. The establishment of the settlement of Kiryat Arba by the Zionist movement and Israel is a poisoned dagger in the side of the holy city…
Every step, every village, and every town in our land has a story of history and culture, and every stone in this land speaks Arabic."
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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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Fatah official: “Israel has no right to Jerusalem – not religiously... and not historically”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 29, 2011
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| "Palestinian philosopher and member of the Fatah Advisory Council, Ahmed Ghneim, called to adopt what he referred to as a program for the Palestinization of Jerusalem as well as a clear Palestinian world-view for dealing with the program of Israelization which Israel is carrying out in Jerusalem… This was during a conference held by the Ministry of Information in Qalqilya yesterday evening… Ahmed Ghneim spoke about the historical background of Jerusalem… Ghneim reviewed the repeated efforts of the Zionist movement to seek a legend that would draw Jews throughout the world, and turn them from a religion into a nation… He noted that the insistence on declaring Jerusalem the eternal capital [of the Jewish people] means that the war is a religious war, even though Israel has no right to Jerusalem – not religiously, not legally, not politically, and not historically." |
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PA daily article by omits Judaism as one of the three monotheistic religions in “Palestine”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 28, 2011
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The article starts with general information about the establishment of Fatah, the start of its armed activity, and the attempt to sabotage the Israeli National Water Carrier.
Headline: "47th anniversary of beginning of Fatah activity"
"Islam and the Monotheistic Religions in Fatah Strategy
Palestine is the holy land to the three monotheistic religions. Islam is the religion of most of the Palestinian people, and it is the official religion of the government and the state. Christianity and the Samaritan religion have the same sanctity and respect. The Fatah movement will not permit any discrimination among Palestinians on the basis of religious background and level of faith, and it respects everyone's freedom of worship.”
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Mufti of Ramallah warns of Israeli plan to seize Al-Aqsa Mosque and build the “alleged Temple”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 14, 2011
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Headline: "Mufti of Ramallah updates delegation from Carter Center on Israeli plotting"
"[Mufti of the Ramallah and El-Bireh district Sheikh Ibrahim Awadallah] stated, during his meeting with the [Carter Center] delegation yesterday, that the plots testify to the strong Israeli desire to carry out the plan of the extreme right-wing in Israel, relating to the seizure of this [Al-Aqsa] Mosque and the building of the alleged Temple."
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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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The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is “an Islamic mosque; the Jews have no connection with it”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 15, 2011
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Headline: "The occupation closes the Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hebron to Muslims for two days"
"Director of the [department for] Religious Trusts in Hebron, Ziyad Al-Ja'abari… emphasized that the Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs) is 'in all its areas and parts solely an Islamic mosque; the Jews have no connection with it, and all the measures adopted against it are wrong."
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Bir Zeit University Professor claims Israelis are foreigners to the land
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 4, 2011
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PA TV program Good Morning Jerusalem on Palestinian membership in UNESCO and the history of Palestine with Dr. Jamal Amer of Bir Zeit University
Amer: "There is no occupation [in Palestine], rather, it's an exchange, whereby one culture is brought down in its entirety and replaced by immigrants from all over the world who don't know Hebrew, don't know Palestinian geography, don't belong to the Jewish religion, aren't familiar with the people's culture, and they humiliate the respected and mighty Palestinian people every day at the roadblocks…
The issue now is their focus on Al-Aqsa [Mosque], in order to break up the [concentrations of] people around it. Therefore, the first action they undertook was that Muslims from all over the world could not come to Al-Aqsa; that was the first thing. Thereafter the Palestinians inside Palestine (i.e., Israel) found themselves in a situation where they cannot come to Al-Aqsa. After that it was the residents of the West Bank, [just] a meter away – and that's [thanks to] the racist Nazi separation fence – who found themselves in a situation where they cannot enter Al-Aqsa… Now those who rule the country [Israel] are people… who are indecisive; they have no polity, they don't understand what a political cabinet is about, they don't understand diplomacy, they don't initiate. [Speaking of recent tensions between Israel and Germany:] They have broken off their connection with the most important lifeline in the world [for them]: and that is the blackmail which they employed against the Nazis in Germany, because of which they [Germany] are still paying them thousands of billions of dollars." |
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Fatah member: Balfour Declaration greatest crime of international community
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 3, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
PA TV News interview with Fatah member Faiz Abu Aitah:
"Yesterday we had the [anniversary of the] Balfour promise - the greatest crime that the international community is responsible for, and specifically the British government. The time has come for the international community to repair the sin against the Palestinian people and to give the Palestinian people today its right to live like the nations of the world, on its land, within its independent Palestinian state."
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PA TV News: Balfour Declaration is a mark of shame on humanity
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 2, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
PA TV News reader: "Today is the 94th anniversary of the cursed Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917], by means of which those who had no ownership (Britain) permitted those who had no right (the Jews) to establish a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine."
Reporter: "A promise that brings a mark of shame upon humanity, because it [humanity] ignored the colonialist frenzy. Balfour will continue to turn in his grave because of the historical injustice which Britain committed against the Palestinian people."
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PA daily: Balfour Declaration was a "great political crime and sin"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 2, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
"The Arab League emphasized yesterday that now, more than ever, there is a need for a serious international position supporting the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and putting an end to the historical injustice done to it in the wake of the Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917] and the continued Israeli occupation. A press release by the [Arab League] Department for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Lands on the occasion of the anniversary of the Balfour promise, said: 'This cursed promise was the main reason for the catastrophe which befell Palestine in 1948, and it represented the beginning of the tragedy of the Palestinian people, which has continued for many decades...
The promise declared by British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, on Nov. 2, 1917, constitutes a great political crime and sin, leading to the uprooting of the Palestinian people and the theft of its land, and causing wars and great conflicts which still continue in the region.'"
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PA daily: Balfour Declaration promised the land to "those who had no right [to it]"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 2, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
"The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, expressed the hope of seeing Palestine as a state in the UN, on Sept. 21, 2011, and we believed him... It has been said of the Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917] that it was a promise by someone who had no ownership [of the land] to those who had no right [to it]. We said of Obama's promise that it was a promise by someone who is unable, to those whose right [to the land] it is already. Balfour's promise to the Jews of Europe - a homeland in Palestine - was a preventive step, because in his letter he sketched a road map for freeing his country and Europe of the burden of the Jewish problem, and of the bases for the spread of Communism in western Europe, which was led by the poor, the European workers, and the Jews... The Jews of the Zionist enterprise sought a promise from Balfour, who had the ability, because they knew that only the strongest power in the world at the time [Britain] could impose the conditions for the establishment of a state for the Jews. His promise was an ominous sign, [bringing] disasters upon the Palestinians, the Arabs, and the nations of the region and the world."
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PA daily: Israel is the first state in history to be established on "land belonging to others"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 2, 2011
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The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
"Today is the 94th anniversary of the cursed Balfour promise [The Balfour Declaration of 1917], by which Britain awarded the Jews the right to establish a national home in Palestine, based on the false slogan, 'A land without a people for a people without a land'. ... This promise represented the first step taken by the West on the road to establishing an entity for the Jews on the land of Palestine, in accordance with the wishes of World Zionism, at the expense of a people which had been rooted in this land for thousands of years. ... The Jews made successful use of the piece of paper published by Arthur Balfour, known for his friendship with the Zionist Movement, and later the [British] Mandate and the 1947 resolution by the [UN] General Assembly concerning the Partition of Palestine: They realized their dream of establishing [the State of] Israel on May 15th, 1948, and this entity earned membership in the UN thanks to pressure by the super powers. Israel became the first country in the history of the global political system which was established on land belonging to others, and which receives international aid which has caused it to behave arrogantly in the region - expanding, swallowing more Palestinian and Arab territory, and behaving violently and mercilessly towards those among the Palestinian people who remain upon their land."
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Mufti of Jerusalem on PA TV: The Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb are heritage sites of the Palestinian people alone
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 2, 2011
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PA TV live broadcast from gathering to honor released prisoners from Jerusalem district, Shuafat refugee camp.
Muhammad Hussein, Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine: "Not so long ago the occupation (i.e., Israel) claimed that the Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs) and the Bilal Ibn Rabbah Mosque (Rachel's Tomb) are Jewish antiquities, and that goes against the truth and history. Today [now that Palestine has been accepted into UNESCO] we are able to tell the UN, via UNESCO, that these places are cultural and heritage sites of the Palestinian people."
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PA TV: Israel’s claim that it has a historical and cultural right to the land is “based on illusions and fables”
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Oct. 31, 2011
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PA TV News special broadcast marking acceptance of Palestinians into UNESCO.
PA TV host: "The heritage and culture and the entire history is being snatched at this time by the occupation, which has tried by all methods for Palestine not to reach this stage and this very important point."
Dr. Al-Mutawakkil Taha, Palestinian Minister of Information: "[The occupation] claims that it has legitimacy in three areas. It argues that it has the historical right to the land, and argues that it has the right to the [unintelligible]… and the holy places. It argues that it has the cultural right to all its cultural components – I refer to the clothing, the food and drink, the poetry and the language, and the heritage and the folklore and so on. Now, we must consistently work on a world-view which will stand up to this forcible theft, with the occupation aspiring to seize the three areas of [our] rights [historical and cultural rights, and rights to the holy places]. We must have means on the level of the narrative, the anchoring of history – on the level of united action and cultural unity. We have a vision, we have an established and professional strategy, to respond on all fronts to the false claims of the Zionists that they have the right… As to the occupation – we know [their claims], we are in an eternal, endless struggle with the occupation over legitimacy…
We have the three rights [historical, cultural, and holy places] and they [Israel] have false claims, and a narrative which is based on illusions and fables, on Torah beliefs, and these two theories which are used about this land – we ourselves must be able to fill the theory which we adopt, so it will be stronger and more provable, and more acceptable – not only on the Palestinian and the Arab front, but also on the international front."
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Fatah Central Committee member belittles Jewish ties to Israel, as expressed in Netanyahu’s UN speech
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 24, 2011
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| "Member of the Fatah Central Committee, Tawfiq Tirawi, said that the speech by President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN was a historical [speech] par excellence, expressing the tragedy of the entire Palestinian people, from 1948 until today, and presented the Palestinians' demands with regard to independence, freedom, and the establishment of a state. He said, 'This was a historical speech at a historical time and at a historical place.' In response to Netanyahu's speech, he said: 'This was a pale speech that repeated itself and said nothing new; in it he expressed the occupation regime [and said] that it has historical rights to this land, as though the world doesn't know that the Prophet [Muhammad] ascended [to heaven] from the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Netanyahu spoke as though this was the land of his forefathers, forgetting that we have been here for tens of thousands of years.'" |
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Mufti of Jerusalem: “Jerusalem is an Islamic, Arab city and will never be anything but that”
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 6, 2011
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Headline: "150,000 people hold prayers on first Friday of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the occupation's strict measures"
"The Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, called upon the residents [of Jerusalem] to head for the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan and during the rest of the year. He said, 'You advance [on Jerusalem] today in order to declare that you will never abandon a single grain of the soil of your mosque and of your city. You emphasize, through your advance, that Jerusalem is an Islamic, Arab city and will never be anything but that."
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Abbas representative at graduation ceremony: “Al-Quds is not Jerusalem” no matter “how much you forge history and geography"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 9, 2011
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Headline: "Arab-American University celebrates graduation of its eighth class of students"
"Dr. Mohammad Shtayyeh, head of the university's Board of Trustees and representative of President Mahmoud Abbas, at the graduation ceremony… added: 'On your behalf I would like to tell [Israeli PM] Netanyahu that Al-Quds is not Jerusalem, that Ahmad is not Solomon, that Nablus is not Shekhem, and that Ariha is not Jericho. It makes no difference how much you forge history and geography: The land of Palestine will remain Palestinian and Arab. A plant from Brooklyn will not survive in Palestinian soil. We are the children of this land; we were hewn from it and we shall return to it."
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Jerusalem, Hebron, Tel Aviv and other cities originally had Arabic names
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 1, 2011
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Official PA daily's columnist on religious affairs, Is'haq Feleifel:
"The great and exalted Allah commanded the angel Gabriel to place Muhammad upon the riding beast [named] Al-Buraq, which was a cross between horse and donkey. The night journey was both physical and spiritual... Once he [Muhammad] reached the Al-Aqsa Mosque, (PMW note: the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was not yet built in the time of Muhammad. The "night journey" mentioned in the Quran is dated to 621 CE. The mosque was built on the Temple Mount by the son of Ummayad Caliph Abd Al-Malik 84 years later in 705 CE.) the angel Gabriel removed Muhammad from upon Al-Buraq's back, and then he tied the beast to the Al-Buraq rock, which was called the 'Al-Buraq Wall'. The Jews changed its name to the 'Wailing Wall', because the Jews are always trying to change Arabic names into Hebrew names, especially when it comes to prayer sites or names of towns and villages. For example, they call Al-Quds 'Jerusalem'; Al-Khalil [they call] 'Hebron'; Atara - 'Atarot, Nablus - 'Shechem', Tal Al-Rabia - 'Tel Aviv' (PMW note: 'Rabia' is the Arabic translation of the Hebrew word 'aviv', meaning 'spring'); Askelan - Ashkelon. There is not enough room to list all the names which have been replaced with false names. Even the 'Torah' falsified, changed and forged; this is the way of the Jews - they always try to change the real names to other, false names, in order to erase the [historical] facts."
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