Jews are “Khazars” who have no right to be in Israel, says PA daily op-ed
Excerpt of an op-ed by Yahya Rabah, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “The month of May – the memory of pain and the dawn of unity”
“Every year in May the painful memories rise up anew, and therefore we have called it ‘the month of the Nakba’ (i.e., “the catastrophe,” the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel). Palestine and its people who love life became a torn and bloody painting, because one who had no right, [former] British [Foreign Secretary Arthur] Balfour, gave one who was unworthy – a mixed multitude of Khazars who called themselves ‘Israelis’ (sic., genetic research has conclusively proven modern Jews share a common origin in Israel and are not the descendants of Khazars) – a heinous and unfair promise that contradicts all forms of justice in human history…
In May, which is full of memories and meanings, were concentrated many events that made it such that it is not characterized only by grief and tears but also glows with pride, Palestinian honor, and more sacred sentiments: Palestinian unity. No longer is there a distinction between a Palestinian refugee and a civilian; there is no difference between what is 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 what is outside the Green Line; and there no longer is an invalid separation between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Acre, Safed, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Nazareth, and the Negev (i.e., Israeli cities and regions) all became the names of living and present Palestine (refers to violent Israeli Arab riots; see note below -Ed.)… Even the events that appeared normal, like the uprising of the Damascus Gate and the Sheikh Jarrah [neighborhood] in Jerusalem, are not normal events, but rather promises for the future and not lamentations over the past.”