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Despite Palestinian Authority lies about 10,000 years of history, Fatah official admits “Palestinian people” only started after Ottoman occupation

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is an inseparable part of our religious faith, our national identity, and our presence that has lasted thousands of years on our historical homeland Palestine, is being subjected to the most abhorrent plot by the occupation (i.e.,..."

Official PA TV narrator: "Immediately after East Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Old City [of Jerusalem] fell into the hands of the occupation (i.e., Israel), the Israeli excavations began… Excavations continued in all the areas adjacent to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, above and below ground,..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "The Palestinian people's existence has not been cut off, it has not been cut off for the past 6,000 years, since the time of the Canaanites, and even before the Canaanites. We have been in this land..."

Like Hamas, Palestinian Authority cleric preaches eradication of Israel

Egyptian Al-Azhar Cleric Sheikh Yasser Mustafa Younes: "Historically speaking, the Jews have no right to [the land], since historically speaking, they were not the first to settle in it, and there are no remnants of theirs in its territory. Also religiously speaking, the Muslims have full ownership..."

Fatah cartoon invents Palestinian heritage while erasing anything Jewish

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "We have been living in this land for over 6,000 years. The Palestinian people is the one that created the civilization and history of this land. It is the one who built all the cities in most of the..."

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: "The Israelis built their lie based on the Holocaust. What is happening in the Gaza Strip? That's a holocaust… Same formula and same means...The grandchildren of the victims of the Holocaust are the ones who are perpetrating a holocaust in Gaza."...

PA routinely denies reality as it invents its own heritage

Advisor to Head of The Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall Ayed Morrar: "If an opportunity was given to the expansionist occupation (i.e., Israel) to settle in Egypt and Jordan they would not miss the opportunity... There is no religious or emotional connection between a resident (i.e.,..."

Official PA TV host and Jerusalem researcher Fakhri Abu Diab: There are many antiquities under the ground in Silwan, which testify to the identity of this community. It contains Canaanite, Byzantine-Roman, and of course Arab-Islamic relics. Thanks to its proximity to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the...

Director-General of the PA Ministry of Culture and Antiquities in the Nablus District Dirgham Al-Fares: "The Palestinian people are a direct continuation of the original inhabitants from the Stone Age to the present (sic., see note below). The Palestinian people were pagan, who worshipped El, Baal,..."

PA Nablus District Governor Ghassan Daghlas: "We say to the world that we have antiquities. We have a history, and we have an existence [from] before the occupation arrived. The occupation wants to falsify the narrative and falsify the antiquities, and we say to the world that the occupation is..."

Fatah to kids: Palestinians will “liberate Palestine and nullify all that has happened as a result of the Balfour Declaration.”

Fatah leader: Attacks on Jews are best proof that the world is sick of them

Lack of praise from the PA for Sinwar, but vows to continue to pursue goal of ‎destruction of Israel

Syrian political commentator Husam Shuaib: "Those who remain today in Palestine as occupiers are Talmudist foreigners who stole the name ‘Israel,' and with this name they succeeded in marketing a religion with which they are not in fact affiliated, but they convinced the West that they are..."

This is what eight years of demonization look like

Official PA TV host: "The sadism of the invaders is embodied in [the Jews.] They are the heirs of Zionist criminals [from Zionist leader] Herzl to Jabotinsky and until [Israeli President] Weizmann. The list of crime extends until reaching war criminal [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu. All this..."

Palestinian Writers' Union General Secretariat member Talal Abu Afifa: "These Jews, ever since they arrived in Britain in the 18th century… at the start of the 20th century, they began to constitute a problem for Britain. Especially because the Jews, wherever they settle, they try to take control..."

PA Security Forces Maj. Gen. (ret.) and national security expert Ahmed Issa: "Israel is the only state that was not established by its people on its land. It was established through theft, and it is a product of a large colonialist project led by the colonialist states under the leadership of..."

Anniversary song and “highlights” left out civilian victims, pretending attack was ‎legitimate military battle

Official PA TV broadcast of Friday prayers and a sermon by an unidentified preacher at a mosque in Ramallah Unidentified preacher: "O Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings soon. O Allah, purify our land of the filth of the occupiers. O Allah, remove them, O Master of the..."

PLO Representative to the UN and International Organizations in Geneva Ibrahim Khreisheh: "Israel is an occupying state, and it needs to end its occupation… We as a Palestinian people have been suffering from this occupation for 57 years until now... Now they (i.e., Israelis /Jews) are talking..."