Abbas’ advisor: Creation of Israel is “greatest open crime of theft in modern history”
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "On this day 78 years ago, the greatest open crime of theft in modern history occurred. An entire land was stolen from its people, and more than 950,000 Palestinians were expelled… The Palestinian people… is still suffering from its consequences and continues to pay the price of this Nakba, which was deliberately carried out against it by the decision of colonialist states that wanted to plant alongside, and perhaps even in the heart of the Arab and Islamic East, a foreign body that would allow them to control this world… In historical Palestine, between the [Mediterranean] Sea and the [Jordan] River, there are more than 7 million Palestinians. Numerically, the Palestinians are more numerous than the Israeli colonialists, or foreigners, the strangers… They want to empty the land of Palestinians of its people."
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, YouTube channel, May 16, 2026]