Israeli Arabs understand they are not part of Israel, says PA official
Official PA TV, special broadcast on violent Arab riots and Hamas rocket barrages
PLO-affiliated Palestinian Planning Center Investigator Jamal Al-Baba: “The Zionist project is based on three foundations: The first foundation is taking control of the Palestinian lands. The second foundation is bringing in new Zionist immigrants. And the third foundation is the expulsion of the original Palestinian residents from this land. What is happening in the Sheikh Jarrah [neighborhood of Jerusalem] is a miniature model of this Zionist outlook: Uprooting the Palestinian residents and replacing them with Zionist residents who are foreign to this land.”
(Refers to planned eviction of several Arab families illegally living in properties owned by Jews who were expelled in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence -Ed.)
Official PA TV host: “But [Israel] has lost control over these cities where the Arabs are within the occupation state. This is apparently the first time in the history of the State of Israel since its establishment that we are seeing such things.”
Jamal Al-Baba: “Well put, but I am less interested in the fact that it has lost control.”
Host: “It is the response.”
Jamal Al-Baba: “Rather the idea and the response. There is a deep understanding among these [Arab] residents that they are not part of this [Zionist] entity, but rather they are part of noble Palestine. That is the idea that has formed. This idea will seep in, strengthen, and be passed on to this generation and the next generation.”
[Official PA TV, May 12, 2021]