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Interview with psychologist Dr. Lubna Jabara about how to explain to Palestinian children about the 2023 Gaza war Psychologist Dr. Lubna Jabara: “I tell [the children] that Palestine is a blessed land, and therefore they [Israelis] took it from us. That is how I explain the matter [of the war] to...”

PA condemns or embraces Hamas based on politics, not principle

Interview with Itamar Marcus

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “It is not possible, if we are objective, to call the human Israeli component a ‘nation’. There never existed a Jewish nation nor a nation of Israel. They [Europeans] invented this issue in order to...”

Fatah Tubas Branch Secretary Mahmoud Sawafta: ”The Martyrs’ blood is what is igniting the revolution and the intifada, it is igniting the Palestinian national struggle. The Martyrs’ blood is the lighthouse of unity guiding us all, the compass we are following. They are outlining the map of the...”

Secretary of Fatah and the PLO Factions in Beirut Samir Abu Afash: “In 2028 the number of our people in the Palestinian Interior (i.e., Israel and the PA areas) will be equal to the number of [Jewish] settlers or colonialists who have come from outside. We are in favor of the right of return for...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “The Israeli aggression is an aggression of more than 7 decades in the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem… Israel is attacking the Palestinian people and lying when it says that it wants to...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Since the start of the Zionist idea, they have been dreaming to see Palestine as a land without a people. But they have failed in this for more than 100 years since the Balfour Declaration (see note...”

Official PA TV host: “We have sacrificed hundreds of thousands of Martyrs, wounded, and prisoners on this path that is adorned with all kinds of resolve and adherence to the Palestinian land for more than 75 years. This occupation, Israel, will come to an end, regardless of how long it takes.”...

The first video shows archive footage of an event in which then PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat and Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin are sitting next to each other in the front row making statements to the press PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat: “Allah willing, we will pray together at the Al-Aqsa...”

PA: This is holy war, we’re carrying out

Like Hamas, the Palestinian Authority Also Wants to Eradicate Israel

Palestinian political commentator Kamal Zakarneh: “They [Europe and America] are demonstrating a lot of solidarity with the Israeli occupation. I tell you there is something hidden here, and it is that they are not expressing these positions out of love for ‘Israel’ in quotations, but rather they –...”

Hamas’ or PA’s dream?

PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “We are being subjected to American aggression. [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas said this clearly: The one who is occupying Palestine is the US… It claims that it is sponsoring the peace process. This is a lie. The one who is thwarting...”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations and PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash posted a video and text in support of Hamas’ terror war on Israel: Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “[Israel] doesn’t want to understand that...”

Official PA TV host: “[Israeli PM Netanyahu] said that there will be no PA [ruling Gaza] whose President didn’t condemn what happened to the Israelis. That’s what Netanyahu said regarding Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ massacre of Israelis).” Head of the PLO Political and National Guidance Commission...

Official PA TV posted a video on its YouTube channel Video: The video shows a speech by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at the 8th National Forum for Digitization and Innovation. [Official PA TV, YouTube channel, Oct. 3, 2023] PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: The independence of the State of Israel… When...

By Alan Rosenbaum While the Abraham Accords have led to many peaceful exchanges and a lessening of antisemitism, within the Palestinian Authority, the scourge of antisemitism is flourishing unabated... What are the root causes of antisemitism in Palestinian society, and how does it impact prospects...

Official PA Daily claims the Israeli government promotes murder among Israeli Arabs

The PA omitted all the anti-American and anti-British hate speech by Abbas in its summary in English published by the PA’s official news agency.

Released prisoner Khaled Al-Sawarkeh: “Today… the last word directed to me by the Israeli Security Service officer [was]: ‘Say: Bye bye, Israel.’ I told him: ’There is no such thing called Israel. Welcome to Palestine. This is Palestine.’” [Official PA TV, I Call You, July 24, 2023] Released...

In response to Hamas Spokesperson’s statement calling for terror, Fatah quotes him jokingly

Fatah calls Palestinians “to set out on a procession of rage,” saying “The revolution is until victory”

Official PA TV host: "This site will remain the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall), to which only the Muslims have a right. Not as the occupation claims in its mistaken Zionist narrative that this is the Wailing Wall. And it will return to its original state when the transient settlers leave…..."