PA columnist denies the Jewish people existence and history before the British Mandate
Excerpt of a columnby Bassem Barhoum, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “Palestine between the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration) and the Trump Promise (i.e., Trump’s Middle East peace plan)”
“What is strange in these colonialists like [former] British [Foreign Secretary Arthur] Balfour and [former] American [President Donald] Trump is that they decide with full level-headedness to give a land that is not theirs – and to steal it from its original people (sic., the Palestinians have no history prior to the modern period) – to another people that they invented and assembled in order to serve their interests as part of a strategy that will ensure control for them over the Arab region (sic., an abundance of evidence proves Jewish history in Israel).”