| Rewriting history |
| Rewriting the history of the Land of Israel in order to deny Israel's right to exist is central to Palestinian Authority (PA) policy. Long before it started the Terror War in 2000, the PA was fighting a history war – erasing Jewish history and replacing it with a fabricated Palestinian history. This rewriting has two central goals:
1- Erase the Jewish nation's 3,000 year history in the Land of Israel;
2- Invent ancient Palestinian, Muslim and Arab histories in the land.
The goal of this historical revision as a political strategy was first expressed publicly at a conference of Palestinian historians in 1998, when rewriting history was linked to the political goal of denying Israel's right to exist:
"Dr. Yussuf Alzamili [Chairman History Department, Khan Yunis Educational College] called on all universities and colleges to write the history of Palestine and to guard it, and not to enable the [foreign] implants and enemies to distort it or to legitimize the existence of Jews on this land... [History lecturer Abu Amar] clarified that there is no connection between the ancient generation of Jews and the new generation." [Al-Ayyam, Dec. 4, 1998].
Erasing Jewish history in the land of Israel is followed by the PA’s invention of ancient and modern histories that support its political ideology and claim to the land of Israel. The Holocaust and other aspects of Jewish history are alternately denied, downplayed or distorted. Another distortion is to hide from Palestinians that Jesus was a Jew who lived in the Land of Judea/Israel. PA leaders repeatedly define Jesus as a Palestinian who preached Islam, thus denying not only Jewish history, but also the history and legitimacy of Christianity.
Citing numerous examples, this section will document that these and other historical revisions are an integral part of Palestinian policy and are used to create political ideology. |
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| Jewish history rewritten |
| Denial of 3,000 years of Jewish history in the land of Israel is the foundation of all PA political ideology. To accomplish this, the PA systematically distorts both ancient and modern history, ignoring both archeology and historical documentation, and replaces them with an odious fictitious history. The new history demonizes Jews, accusing them of having been evil and destructive throughout history, and thereby triggering non-Jews to justifiably hate, persecute and expel them. This rewriting forms the basis for the Palestinian Authority denial of Israel’s right to exist. |
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Jewish history in Land of Israel erased
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Denial the Jewish history and connection to the Land of Israel has been policy since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority.
This video is a recent example of a PA academic, denying the existence of thousands of Hebrew language coins, Hebrew texts and Hebrew Bullas (seals) carrying biblical names that that have been found in the Land of Israel.
Lecturer, Urban Planning, Bir-Zeit University, Dr. Jamal Amar:
"There is a view that where it [the Dome of the Rock] stands was the Holy of Holies of the fictitious Temple – and by the way, that is merely an illusion. There is no remnant of it. It's a myth. A story of no value, like the Arabian Nights, and other legends… Only in Palestine… [after] 60 years of digging, and they've found nothing at all. Not a water jug, not a coin, not any earthen vessel, no bronze weapons, no piece of metal, absolutely nothing of this myth, because it's a myth and a lie. This digging has not left a single meter [unturned], but it has achieved absolutely nothing.” [PATV, June 23, 2009]
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Israel has no heritage, tries to steal from Palestinian national identity
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), May 19, 2010
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| "The Israeli apartheid state, possessing no cultural heritage nor any collective symbol for a society born from the womb of the Zionist and Western imperialist attack, aspires and exerts efforts to appropriate and take over symbols and elements of the Palestinian national identity.” |
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PA Min of Religion: History disproves all Israeli claims to land
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 2, 2010
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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."
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Jordan conference: 'Zionist' history of Palestine must be rewritten
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), Nov. 15, 2009
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Headline: "...Al-Quds [Jerusalem] Conference Religion and History in Jordan calls for inclusion of the history of Jerusalem in the Arab curriculum."
"Participants at the congress called upon Western historians and Western research centers to revisit the ancient history of Palestine and of Jerusalem in a critical, fair and accurate manner, since this history was written in accordance with Torah - and Talmudic thought, which is far removed from accuracy and objectivity. [The conference participants] also called upon researchers of the city of Jerusalem to relate to the commentary on the findings of the archaeological excavations carried out by the occupation - with great diligence, and with renewed investigation of the reports and commentaries that are the basis for the studies which have been dominated by the Zionist institutions of the world." |
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Jerusalem's Jewish history and the Temple denied
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Denial of the Jewish history in Jerusalem and the existence of the Jewish Temple is a central component PA political ideology. This denial started with Yasser Arafat and continues to be reiterated by academics, politicians and religious leaders. The PA systematically distorts the ancient history of Jerusalem, ignoring the vast historical documentation and thousands of archeological finds related to Jewish history that have been found in Jerusalem.
This music video, broadcast regularly on PA TV through 2008 and 2009, denies any historical connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem, repeats the libel that Israel is planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque and calls on Allah to protect the mosque. “Oh [Sons of] Zion, no matter how much you dig and no matter how much you destroy, your imaginary Temple will not come into being… [Allah protect Al-Aqsa] from every thief and every oppressor.”
Full text: “Al-Aqsa [Mosque] is ours, Oh Muslims, Al-Aqsa is ours, our Al-Aqsa screams and shouts, Al-Aqsa is ours. Oh Arabs and Muslims, no, no, Al-Aqsa is ours. Oh [Sons of] Zion, no matter how much you dig and no matter how much you destroy, your imaginary Temple will not come into being… My land, my Jerusalem, my blood and my honor will not be scorned. Al-Aqsa is ours, how you suffer! How you have bleed for years! How you scream! How you call out to the millions! What are you hoping for, what are you crying for? Saladin [Muslim conqueror of Jerusalem in 1187] ! Al-Aqsa is ours. Oh Allah, protect Al-Aqsa, Oh Allah, Al-Aqsa is ours, [protect Al-Aqsa] from every thief and every oppressor.” [PA TV (Fatah) Sept. 23, 2008 – Sept. 25, 2009]
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PA Mufti denies Jewish connection to Western Wall
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), June 26, 2010
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PA Mufti, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein:
"Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine… in the Friday sermon and prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque yesterday… pointed out that the occupation authorities are vigorously embarking on carrying out scary, terrifying plans, directed towards the respected plaza of the Al-Buraq Wall (the Western Wall), which represents part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and is an Islamic trust for Muslims alone.”
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PA Mufti denies Jewish connection to Western Wall
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), June 14, 2010
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PA Mufti, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein:
"The meeting concerned recent developments in the Palestinian sphere, especially the repeated [Israeli] violations against the holy places, foremost among them the Al-Aqsa Mosque… The Mufti warned of implementation of the plans for Judaization of the Al-Buraq Wall (the Western Wall), aimed at turning it into a center for the Jewish nation.”
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PA's former PM denies Jewish history in Jerusalem
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), June 23, 2010
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Headline: "He [former PA Prime Minister Abu Alaa (Ahmad Qurei)] demanded of the international community to intervene in order to prevent war – Abu Alaa warns of a religious war breaking out in view of the fact that Israel continues with the Judaization and Israelization of the holy city"
"[Abu Alaa said that Israel's demolition order in Jerusalem is] part of feverish efforts to blur and to erase Palestinian existence in Jerusalem, to melt the Palestinian, Arabic and Muslim Jerusalem characteristics, and to color them with artificial Jewish Talmudic symbols." |
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Zionism – European plot to get rid of Jews
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The PA created an odious alternative history to denigrate the rebirth of the State of Israel and deny Israel’s right to exist. Since Jews, they say, never had a history in the Land of Israel and therefore never would have started the Zionist movement on their own, an imaginative story had to be created to explain Jewish renaissance in Israel. Accordingly, they teach that Jews were so evil in every country they inhabited for thousands of years that the nations of the world were forced to persecute and often expel them – as acts of self-defense. According to the PA libel, the repeated persecutions and expulsions of Jews are proof that the world agrees about the evil nature of Jews. Britain and Europe were suffering last century from their Jews in their countries, and therefore created Zionism in order to be rid of their Jewish “burden.” The Land of Israel was chosen by the Europeans, in this scenario, as the place to send the Jews in order to control and steal the “natural resources” of the Middle East. This is what the PA is referring to in its schoolbooks and official media when they refer to Israel as an imperialist colonial implant.
This article is an early expression of this ideology in the official PA daily in 1998:
“The difference between Hitler and [British Foreign Minister] Balfour was simple: the former [Hitler] did not have colonies to send the Jews so he destroyed them, whereas Balfour… [turned] Palestine into his colony and sent the Jews. Balfour is Hitler with colonies, while Hitler is Balfour without colonies. They both wanted to get rid of the Jews… Zionism was crucial to the defense of the West’s interests in the region, [by] ridding Europe of the burden of its Jews.” [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), June 12, 1998]
This video is a recent expression of this PA ideology, on PA TV:
“Europe, led by Britain, founded Israel... We, as Arabs, as negotiators, as Palestinians when we meet with Europeans [should say]: 'You created and implanted a thieving entity upon Palestinian land...' As they implanted [Jews here] they got rid of [Jews there] and I do not wish to elaborate on this. The Jews in the time of Herzl caused European societies to lose sleep. They wanted to be rid of them, and implanted them in Palestine."
[Fathi Buzia, PA political commentator, PATV, June 17, 2009]
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Fatah MP: The world implanted Israel in our body
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 1, 2010
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PA TV daily talk show and news program Palestine This Morning:
Subject: Israeli boarding of the Gaza flotilla ship
Interview with Najat Abu Bakr, member (Fatah) of Palestinian Parliament
Abu Bakr: "I am certain that the State of Israel – this entity which the world implanted in our body, in our bones, in our history – this [Gaza flotilla incident] is the beginning of the end of this oppressive entity."
Host: "Correct." Click here to view |
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Europe created criminal Israel out of guilt complex
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 16, 2010
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"While the world was raising its voice to judge the Nazis and putting up gallows to hang the criminals in Nuremberg, other criminals were spreading killing, destruction and expulsion in Palestine, before the eyes of the world. This is the free world – the world that could judge the criminals [in Nuremberg], but at the same time created out of the victim a future criminal, and released its reins, under the pretext of a guilt complex – a complex stimulated and invoked only when the victim was clearly Jewish or, later, Israeli."
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Europe established Israel as giant ghetto to get rid of Zionists
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 2, 2009
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On the PA TV program "Palestine This Morning":
Abd Al-Karim Samara, political commentator: "In 1917 Britain was a world power... and the Zionist movement was able to apply great pressure within the British government and, seemingly, also within British society, and this weight began to move – at a certain stage, when Germany was close to becoming the top world power, the Zionist movement tried to woo Hitler at that time, but the [Zionist] movement was hesitating whether to turn towards the Soviet Union or towards America… and when the compass pointed towards America, a great deal of activity began to increase the Zionist influence and the Zionist lobby in the United States. In other words, there is always an attachment to the strongest power and an attempt to influence its decision. And so it was – Balfour was one of the dignitaries who were at first hostile towards Zionism, but they began to work on him and to pressure him until he surrendered, and the Balfour Declaration was issued…
The Balfour Declaration is a vague promise, in general, but it was put to use – it spoke about a national entity or homeland for the Jews in Palestine… as though the Palestinians were primitive local inhabitants… in need of development.
Host: "In what way could it be said that Europe, and some countries outside Europe, had had enough of the Jews, and therefore made efforts to find a region or [place for a] concentration for Jews, to export them from the ghettos in their countries to a larger ghetto, and Palestine was chosen – or, other areas were chosen, too, but it was Palestine's misfortune that Israel was established here." |
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