Official PA daily refers to Israel's establishment as "the theft of Palestine"
Headline: “The large flag flies over the walls of the mausoleum of President Martyr [Yasser Arafat] in Ramallah”
“One hundred and fifty-two young men and women waved the largest Palestinian flag with pride…
The flag, given to the homeland as a present by the Palestinian community in Canada, has entered the Guinness Book of Records due to its enormous length: 66 meters that mark the years [that have passed since] the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) and the theft of Palestine, as part of the longest occupation in modern times…
[PA] Presidential Representative and Secretary of the PLO Executive Committee Yasser Abd Rabbo expressed on behalf of President [Mahmoud Abbas] and the [PLO] Executive Committee appreciation for the initiative of the Palestinian community in Canada. He said that it constitutes verification of the adherence of this people, in all corners of the world, to its right of return, and its right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
“One hundred and fifty-two young men and women waved the largest Palestinian flag with pride…
The flag, given to the homeland as a present by the Palestinian community in Canada, has entered the Guinness Book of Records due to its enormous length: 66 meters that mark the years [that have passed since] the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) and the theft of Palestine, as part of the longest occupation in modern times…
[PA] Presidential Representative and Secretary of the PLO Executive Committee Yasser Abd Rabbo expressed on behalf of President [Mahmoud Abbas] and the [PLO] Executive Committee appreciation for the initiative of the Palestinian community in Canada. He said that it constitutes verification of the adherence of this people, in all corners of the world, to its right of return, and its right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.”