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Festival under the auspices of PA Prime Minister Fayyad misrepresents Israeli cities as "Palestine"

Official Palestinian Authority TV  |

https://palwatch.org/page/4223 

[Sign:] "Under the auspices of Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad:
The 3rd Summer Nights Festival in Jerusalem"

Lyrics:
O flying bird, circling around

By Allah, O traveling [bird], I burn with envy.
My country Palestine is beautiful...

Go to Jenin and bring me from its valley
greetings to Nablus, Tulkarem and their soil.

Drink the water of Jaffa's port,

don't forget Ramle and Ramallah.

O flying bird, circling around

By Allah, O traveling [bird], I burn with envy.
My country Palestine is beautiful...

Turn to Safed, and then to Tiberias,
and send regards to the sea of Acre and Haifa.

Don't forget Nazareth, the Arab fortress,
and tell Beit Shean about its people's return.

[PA TV, Oct. 24 and Oct. 29, 2012, May 16, 2013]


The full lyrics misrepresent the following Israeli cities as in “Palestine”:
  Safed, Tiberias, Acre, Haifa, Nazareth, Beit Shean, Jaffa,
  Ramle, Be'er Sheva.

and Palestinian cities:
  Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron,
  Jericho, Gaza.

 

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