[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: It is this simple: under the rules of the PA, it
would be a capital offense to sell real estate to Jesus.]
PMW Bulletin
May 17, 2013
Official PA daily:
"Palestinians [are] Jesus' descendants"
and "Jesus' story is his
[Palestinian] people's story"
"Jesus... the virtuous patriotic Palestinian forefather...
brought forth his New Testament and spread it among mankind - which led the
Jews to persecute him
until they caught him, crucified him, and murdered him"
"The Zionist movement... wanted to falsify historical facts,
to exile and crucify the Palestinian Arab nation
and then murder it"
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=8979
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@palwatch.org
f: +972 2 624 2803 w: www.palwatch.org
Having no ancient Palestinian history, the Palestinian Authority has tried
for many years to convince its people that they have a history going back
many thousands of years, that there was an ancient Palestinian nation, and
that one of the great figures of history, Jesus, was their "forefather" and
they are "Jesus' descendants."
The fact that in Christian tradition Jesus is a Jew from the nation of Judea
and that the historical record has no record of a Palestinian Arab people,
is not taught by the PA. The PA also ignores the fact that Rome only changed
the name of Judea to "Palestine" after the Judean Bar Kochba Rebellion in
the year 136, long after the death of Jesus. Furthermore, according to
Christian tradition, Jesus did not marry, had no children, and therefore
Palestinians could not be "Jesus' descendants."
The following is another presentation of Jesus as a Palestinian. According
to this op-ed in the official PA daily, Jesus the Palestinian was oppressed
and persecuted by the Jews, similar to today's Palestinians, who are
likewise oppressed and persecuted by the Jews. Nonetheless, just as Jesus
was resurrected, so too "the Palestinians, Jesus' descendants, rose from the
ashes," the op-ed states.
Palestinian Media Watch has documented the PA's presentation of Jesus as a
Palestinian and as an Islamic Martyr (Shahid).
The following is a longer excerpt from the op-ed in the official PA daily:
Headline: "The resurrection of Jesus, the resurrection of the state"
Op-ed by Adel Abd Al-Rahman
"Easter... is not a holiday for Christian Palestinians only but a holiday
for Palestinian nationalism, because Jesus, may he rest in peace, is a
Canaanite Palestinian. His resurrection, three days after being crucified
and killed by the Jews - as reported in the New Testament - reflects the
Palestinian narrative, which struggles against the descendants of modern
Zionist Judaism, in its new colonialist form, that conspires with the
Western capitalists who claim to belong to Christianity.
Jesus, may he rest in peace, the virtuous patriotic Palestinian forefather,
who renewed the Old Testament, split away from its followers, brought forth
his New Testament and spread it among mankind - which led the Jews to
persecute him until they caught him, crucified him and murdered him.
Afterwards, he rose from the dead like the phoenix and set out to spread his
teachings that still exist and will exist as long as mankind exists.
Jesus' story is his [Palestinian] people's story; the Zionist movement -
tool of the capitalist West - wanted to falsify historical facts, to exile
and crucify the Palestinian Arab nation and then murder it by means of
ethnic cleansing... But the Palestinians, Jesus' descendants, rose from the
ashes, like the phoenix, from the ruins of the Nakba (i.e., "the
catastrophe," the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of
Israel) and the Naksa (i.e., "the setback," Palestinian term for Israel's
victory in the Six Day War.) They dressed their wounds and raised the flag
of nationality again by founding parties and factions...
Easter is a distinct [Palestinian] national holiday which doesn't concern
only Christians but rather all Palestinians believing in the different
religions - Islam, Christianity and Judaism."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 6, 2013]
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