Barhoum declares Israel is a “permanent and well-rooted enemy” of the Palestinians
Excerpt of a column by Bassem Barhoum, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “Palestinian nationalism – who are its greatest enemies and who are its greatest friends?”
“[Palestinian] nationalism has had many enemies at different stages, but the permanent enemy is the Zionist movementand its expression, which is the State of Israel. This is because Zionism, whether it is Jewish or Christian (the Zionist Christians) [parentheses in source], was established on the basis of denying the existence of the Palestinian people, and from here came the most dangerous Zionist slogan ‘A land without a people for a people without a land.’ It may be that this slogan along with the 1917 Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration) are what necessitated expressing Palestinian nationalism, as Zionism and Zionist Israel are the permanent and well-rooted enemies of Palestinian nationalism and of the Palestinian people’s connection to its land.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 19, 2023]