"Religious war was planned from the start by the Zionist organization’s leaders, who are the root of terror and racism" - PA

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

Headline: “We are not gunpowder for your religious wars”

“We, as a people and a liberation movement, do not think at all about religious war and do not want it, because it was planned from the start in the imagination of the Zionist organization’s leaders,who are the root of terror and racism. Simply put, they are interested in this war to establish a process of turning Judaism into a race, and to justify the occupation of Palestine by millions of the world’s Jews, who have no racial or national connection between them (sic., genetic research has conclusively proven modern Jews share a common origin in Israel), and whom colonialist states used and still use to achieve their goals: full control over the lands east and south of the Mediterranean Sea.”