PMW Bulletin
Abbas: Israel "is a colonialist project that is not connected to Judaism"
-Host on official PA radio: Israel is "cancerous entity... Everyone knows
[the Jews] have no right to this land"
-Fatah official: Fatah "has never recognized Israel"
-Fatah official calls for "escalating the intifada"
-Young Palestinian kid with real automatic weapon at Fatah anniversary
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Jan. 15, 2018
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=24799
[Please see the PMW website for all the auido and video material in the
report]
Denying Israel's right to exist continues to be the fundamental component of
Palestinian ideology and the fundamental cause of the conflict. It was
expressed again by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas yesterday in his speech to the
PLO leadership.
In his speech Abbas repeated the Palestinian revision of history that
Israel's creation was not founded on Jewish history in the area, but was the
European solution to its alleged problem with the Jews and its way to create
a presence in the Middle East - a repeating PA libel documented by
Palestinian Media Watch.
Mahmoud Abbas: "'The significance of Israel's functional character is that
colonialism created it in order to fill a specific role; it is a colonialist
project that is not connected to Judaism, but made use of the Jews so they
would serve as pawns, and they were, under the motto 'the Promised Land' and
'the Beloved Land,' and they brought them here'... There is an important
matter - how will the Jews immigrate [to Palestine]? The Jews do not want to
immigrate because of killing and slaughter. Even during the Holocaust that
took place they did not immigrate [to Palestine]."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 15, 2018]
Many PA and Fatah leaders regularly rewrite history to deny the Jewish
people's connection to the land. Earlier this month, describing Israel as a
"cancerous entity" planted by colonialists, a host on official PA radio also
repeated this claim:
Official PA radio host: "Those who established and support the Zionist
movement created these religious illusions and lies in the holy city [of
Jerusalem]... in order to plant the cancerous entity [of Israel] in the Arab
region as part of a new colonial scheme to control it... Everyone knows that
in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions they [the Jews] have no right
to this land, and these are firm facts."
[Official PA radio The Voice of Palestine, Sign of Hope, Jan. 1, 2018]
The PA radio host made this statement in response to US President Trump's
recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital on Dec. 6, 2017. PMW has
documented the Palestinian condemnations of the American decision as well as
calls for violence.
Not only do the PA and Fatah not accept Jerusalem being recognized as the
capital of Israel, they reject Israel's entire existence. A member of
Fatah's Central Committee explained this recently:
Fatah Central Committee member Al-Haj Ismail Jaber: "All matters are on the
[PLO] Central Council's agenda... Indeed, we in Fatah have not recognized
Israel, never. This should be clear. We have never recognized [Israel]. The
PLO recognized it. We are part of the PLO, true. And we, as Fatah, have not
recognized Israel."
[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Jan. 1, 2018]
Denial of Israel's right to exist leads to ongoing calls for terror and
violence by PA and Fatah leaders as PMW has exposed repeatedly.
One such call was made by the Head of the Communications Department of the
Fatah Movement Mobilization and Organization Commission Munir Al-Jaghoub,
who called for "escalating the intifada":
"Al-Jaghoub noted in a special statement to Donia Al-Watan that the
[celebration of the] Launch [of Fatah] will be limited to lighting the torch
of the Launch and escalating the intifada."
[Donia Al-Watan, independent Palestinian news agency, Dec. 25, 2017]
The photo above of a young Palestinian boy carrying a real M-16
semi-automatic assault rifle at a Fatah event celebrating the 53rd
anniversary of the movement is illustrative of this message advocating
violence coming from the PA and Fatah.
At the Fatah event, the District Governor of Qalqilya Rafe' Rawajbeh
"emphasized that the popular uprising (i.e., term used by Palestinians,
which also refers to the use of violence and terror) must be escalated, and
that all of the Palestinians need to participate in it in order to collect
the price of the occupation of our Palestinian land from the occupation, and
to force it to leave [the land] by the force of the popular resistance and
the support of the brothers and friends from all of the world's states."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 1, 2018]
The terms "peaceful uprising/resistance," and "popular uprising/resistance"
are used by PA leaders at times to refer to peaceful protest and at times to
refer to deadly terror attacks and terror waves. For example, Mahmoud Abbas
defined as "peaceful popular" the murderous terror during the 2015-2016
terror wave ("The Knife Intifada"), in which 40 people were killed (36
Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded by
stabbings, shootings, and car ramming attacks: Abbas said: "we want peaceful
popular uprising, and that's what this is."
Expressions of the Palestinian "peaceful resistance" was publicized in the
official PA daily under the headline: "Trump's declaration will not pass."
Similar photos from riots and rock throwing was published daily by the paper
right after Trump's declaration.
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 13, 2018]
The following are longer excerpts of the reports above:
Excerpt of a speech given by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to the PLO Central
Council on Jan. 14, 2018
Headline: "The [PA] president: We are meeting here in order to defend
Jerusalem"
"Egyptian intellectual Abd Al-Wahab Al-Masri, may his memory be a blessing,
was one of the most important people that spoke about the Zionist and Jewish
movement... He described this entity with these words: 'The significance of
Israel's functional character is that colonialism created it in order to
fill a specific role; it is a colonialist project that is not connected to
Judaism, but made use of the Jews so they would serve as pawns, and they
were, under the motto 'the Promised Land' and 'the Beloved Land,' and they
brought them here'...
There is an important matter - how will the Jews immigrate [to Palestine]?
The Jews do not want to immigrate because of killing and slaughter. Even
during the Holocaust that took place they did not immigrate [to Palestine]
(sic., there were many attempts to immigrate to the Land of Israel, many of
which were blocked by the British). By the way, the number of Jews in
Palestine in 1948 did not exceed 640,000 (sic., according to Israeli
government statistics the Jewish population in 1948 was 660,920), and most
of them came from Europe. [Theodor] Herzl [a founder of modern Zionism] used
to say: 'Antisemitism is the engine of Zionism' - in other words, the more
antisemitic a person is, the more beneficial he is to us [the Jews]. This is
because he advances the Zionist goal - to expel the Jews from their
countries to Palestine."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 15, 2018]
The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign
Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that "His Majesty's
government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national
home for the Jewish people." In 1922, the League of Nations adopted this and
made the British Mandate responsible for putting into effect the
declaration," which led to the UN vote in 1947 and the establishment of the
State of Israel.
"Thousands of Qalqilya district residents and members of the Fatah Movement
participated in lighting the torch of the 53rd anniversary of the Launch
(Intilaqa), under the slogan Continuing for Jerusalem and Independence.
The mass participation procession set out from the [PA] Ministry of Interior
directorate building, with the participation of District Governor of
Qalqilya Rafe' Rawajbeh...
The district governor emphasized that the popular uprising (i.e., term used
by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror) must
be escalated, and that all of the Palestinians need to participate in it in
order to collect the price of the occupation of our Palestinian land from
the occupation, and to force it to leave [the land] by the force of the
popular resistance and the support of the brothers and friends from all of
the world's states."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 1, 2018]
The boy in the photo above has the words "Jerusalem is ours" written on his
forehead with face paint, and likewise has a Palestinian flag drawn on his
right cheek and the number "53" on a yellow background on his left cheek
referring to the 53rd anniversary of "the Launch" of Fatah. The boy and man
are both wearing keffiyehs (Arab headdresses) around their necks. In the
background yellow Fatah flags are waved by participants in the procession,
and on the flags is the Fatah logo that includes a grenade, crossed rifles,
and the PA map of "Palestine" that presents all of Israel as "Palestine"
together with the PA areas.
Headline: "Al-Jaghoub: The Fatah rally will focus only on lighting the torch
and escalating the intifada"
"Head of the Communications Department of the Fatah Movement Mobilization
and Organization Commission Munir Al-Jaghoub denied that a central rally
will take place for the 53rd anniversary of the Launch (Intilaqa) of the
Fatah Movement.
Al-Jaghoub noted in a special statement to [the independent Palestinian news
agency] Donia Al-Watan that the Launch will be limited to lighting the torch
of the Launch and escalating the intifada."
[Donia Al-Watan, independent Palestinian news agency, Dec. 25, 2017]
Intilaqa - "the Launch" refers to the beginning of Fatah on Jan. 1, 1965,
when it carried out its first terror attack against Israel, attempting to
blow up Israel's National Water Carrier.
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