PA: Israel was established "to get rid of the Jewish problem in Europe"

Excerpt of a column by Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily

“From the Palestinians’ perspective, the Arab nation was and still is the strategic circle they rely on in times of plenty and times of hardship – even in the most difficult conditions and even in the organized colonialist attacks, which the racist, settler, and terrorist occupation system (Israel) [parentheses in source] has been mobilized to carry out. This is in order to prevent the establishment of an [Arab] cultural territory east and south of the Mediterranean Sea, to cause the states and governments of this region to be in a state of internal conflicts, wars, and rifts, and to establish Israel – despite it being a foreign element – in the region so that it will fulfill this mission, and at the same time in order to get rid of the Jewish problem in Europe.”