Violent Arab riots are a “war” that was ordered by the PA leadership, says PA daily op-ed
Excerpt of an op-ed by Yahya Rabah, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “Netanyahu is smaller than his bets and Israel is weaker than its claims”
“Israel, from the first moment of its existence 73 years ago that we Palestinians document with the name the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel), is ceaselessly attempting to reduce Palestine to fabricated names and terms on its part – refugees and civilians, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, inside the Green Line (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel; the Green Line is the ceasefire line between Israel and the neighboring Arab countries, 1949-1967) and outside the Green Line. [These are] strange and foolish terms that the Palestinian people has not used, not even once, because Palestine has only one name and that is Palestine, and its people is the Palestinian people that has lived in it for more than 6,500 years (sic., the Palestinians have no history prior to modern times). Therefore, the Jerusalem uprising at the Damascus Gate [of Jerusalem’s Old City] was the beginning (refers to violent Arab riots; see note below -Ed.), the latest order that the Palestinian [PA] leadership issued its people that it declare a comprehensive popular war from the Damascus Gate in Al-Quds (i.e., Jerusalem), which is one of the most sacred beautiful holy names of Palestine.”