Abbas: "We Muslims and Christians will remain in this land forever, while the Jewish attackers have no place in Jerusalem and no place here"

Official PA TV News, on PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas meeting in Ramallah with Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem Theophilos III

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “We are first and foremost one people, and we work for the benefit of this people, and work with all the power and possibilities that we have to raise it up and strengthen it in its land. We know that the prime Zionist goal is emptying this land of its Christians and Muslims. They don’t want there to be anyone here other than them, and the Christians before the Muslims, because the Christians were here on this land before the Muslims, and there is no one who can deny this at all.

Therefore, if these plans indicate something then they indicate that we are one people, that we are working for [the people’s] benefit, and we do not discriminate against any one of them. We do not discriminate against any one of them. The Muslim is the brother of the Christian and the Christian is the brother of the Muslims. They celebrate together, suffer together, live together, work together, and fight together against their enemy, because we have been the owners of this land since this land’s existence. And let us not forget Umar’s Assurance (refers to a document from the 638 Christian surrender to the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem, stipulating no Jews were to live in the city –Ed.), you are currently realizing Umar’s Assurance exactly as it was brought forth 1,400 years ago… We will remain in this land forever, while the attackers have no place in Jerusalem and no place here.”