Juhan: PLO Executive Committee member says retracting PLO recognition of Israel is an option

PA depicts a world without Israel

The Palestinian Authority makes no attempt to educate its people towards peace and coexistence with Israel. On the contrary,?from every possible platform it?repeatedly rejects Israel's right to exist, presents the conflict as a religious battle for Islam, depicts the establishment of Israel as an act of imperialism, and?perpetuates a picture of the Middle East, both verbally and visually, in which Israel does not exist at all. Israel's destruction is said to be both inevitable and a Palestinian obligation.

The following description of Israel's founding in a Palestinian schoolbook represents the dominant dogma about Israel:

This official PA map of "Palestine,? depicting Palestinian rule over all of Israel, was used in an official PA TV public service ad that ran daily for 3 months, Oct. ? Dec. 2007. Similar maps?presenting all of Israel as "Palestine" appear in Palestinian schoolbooks and are shown regularly on PATV.

Denying Israel's right to exist

The Palestinian Authority adamantly rejects Israel?s right to exist and rewrites history to deny the 3,000-year-old connection of Jews to the Land Israel. [See "Rewriting History" section.] The essential message of the PA to its people is that Jews have no historical connection to the land, and that the State of Israel was created by the colonial powers for two reasons: to rid their countries of Jews, and to establish a colonial bridgehead in order to control the region. One particularly horrific expression of this ideology appeared in the official PA daily as far back as 1998:

?The difference between Hitler and [British Foreign Minister] Balfour was simple: the former [Hitler] did not have colonies to send the Jews to, so he destroyed them, whereas Balfour ...[turned] Palestine into his colony and sent the Jews. Balfour is Hitler with colonies, while Hitler is Balfour without colonies. They both wanted to get rid of the Jews...Zionism was crucial to the defense of the West, [by] ridding Europe of the burden of?the Jews.?

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 6, 1998]
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This video of Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon, Abbas Zaki, shows how this distortion continues to be expressed:

"We must understand why Israel was established ? [The Europeans] wanted to get rid of the Jews. ? At that same time, energy [oil] was discovered in the Arab region ? Then, they solved the [Jewish] problem by exporting [the Jews] to Israel [and at same time] they imposed their hegemony on the region?s natural resources. The [purpose of the] State of Israel is not for the Jews but it is an ongoing [colonial] project, an outpost for Imperialism.??

[PA TV, May 14, 2008]

PLO Executive Committee member says retracting PLO recognition of Israel is an option?

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Dec. 27, 2011

???? "Member of the PLO Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi revealed yesterday that retraction of the PLO's recognition of Israel will be one of the options in the event that all possible moves are exhausted. In an interview with the Voice of Palestine radio Ashrawi explained: ?Retraction of recognition will ultimately be one of the options in the event that all possible moves are exhausted.? She also said that the decision about retracting recognition by the PLO had ?not been discussed [yet].?"

Fatah Central Committee member: Retracting PA recognition of Israel ?is an option under discussion??

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Dec. 26, 2011

Headline: "PA will make no distinction between Ramallah and Jaffa if Netanyahu continues to make no distinction between Tel Aviv and the settlements" ? Ashtiyeh: Either Israel recognizes us as a state and as a geographical territory, or we retract our recognition [of Israel]"
???? "Member of the Fatah Central Committee Muhammad Ashtiyeh hinted at what the PA might do if all paths to the peace process remain blocked. He said, 'If the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, insists on making no distinction between the settlement of Abu Ghanim [Har Homa neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem, near Bethlehem, beyond the Green Line] and Tel Aviv, then we will make no distinction between Ramallah and Jaffa.'
Ashtiyeh's statements hint at the possibility that the PA might nullify the agreements which were signed with Israel, which include mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO. This is one of the options under discussion in the PA. Ashtiyeh told Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London-based daily): 'The recognition of Israel wasn't balanced, because the PA recognized Israel as a geographical territory, but Israel recognized Palestine not as a geographical territory, but rather as an institution. It recognized only the PLO, and now we are demanding that Israel give mutual recognition.' He stated, 'We want Israel to recognize the Palestinian territories of 1967.'
Ashtiyeh's statement is the first of its kind; no senior Palestinian [spokesman] has hinted in the past at the possibility of retracting recognition of Israel if it does not amend its recognition of Palestine."

PA daily columnist: The Palestinian Arab nation owns all of the land of Israel?

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Dec. 11, 2011

In an article responding to US presidential candidate Gingrich's statements, PA daily columnist Adel Abd Al-Rahman claims the following facts:
"b. The Palestinian Arab nation has been rooted in its land for thousands of years, since the human habitation of the city of Jericho ? the oldest city in history, which this year celebrated its 10,000-year-old history.
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d. Despite the fact that the Palestinian Arab nation owns the Palestinian land from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, an area of 27,009 sq. km., and despite the fact that it has the longest history upon Palestinian land, and has no other homeland, it willingly accepted the peace option which was based on the solution of two states for two peoples, on the borders of June 4, 1967, in order to stop the cycle of violence, blood and killing, and to establish the foundations of co-existence among the nations of the region, including the Israeli apartheid state.
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g. The Jewish Prof. Shlomo Sand, author of the book The Invention of the Jewish People, says: 'Although the term 'people' is fluid and not very clear, I don't believe that a Jewish people ever existed.' For two thousand years no Jewish state existed on Palestinian Arab land.'"

PA daily refers to Israel as ?the 1948 occupied territories??

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Dec. 10, 2011

???? "At the [press] conference [in the PA Ministry of Youth and Sports], speeches were delivered by Director of the Department of Information and Public Relations in the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Badr Makki; Walid Atatra, director of the Ministry's youth affairs and overseer of the conference; and coordinator Ramzi Far'oun. They noted the continued efforts to integrate delegations from the diaspora and from the 1948 occupied territories (i.e., Israel)."

PA official: "[Israel] never had any shred of a right to exist"?

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Nov. 26, 2011

Adli Sadeq, PA Ambassador to India, in official PA daily:
???? "The demands of this enemy [Israel] are strange and amazing demands, unique in the history of conflicts... They [Israelis] are not satisfied with Palestinian recognition that is a function of their state and its existence, but want recognition of the eternal right of Israel to exist. Possibly their nature will bring them to ask for compensation for the years that have passed without their state's existence, during the time it had the right to exist upon our skulls... They have a common mistake, or misconception by which they fool themselves, assuming that Fatah accepts them and recognizes the right of their state to exist, and that it is Hamas alone that loathes them and does not recognize the right of this state to exist. They ignore the fact that this state, based on a fabricated [Zionist] enterprise, never had any shred of a right to exist... Hamas, Fatah and the others are not waging war against Israel right now for reasons related to balance of power. There are no two Palestinians who disagree over the fact that Israel exists, and recognition of it is restating the obvious, but recognition of its right to exist is something else, different from recognition of its [physical] existence."
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Britain gave Palestine to those who were "not entitled to it" [the Jews]?

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Nov. 3, 2011

The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.
Headline: "Tubas girls 'judge' Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917] in their letters"
???? "Girls from Tubas [in the West Bank] chose to mark the 94th anniversary of the cursed Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917] by writing letters of sorrow and pain to the Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, and to the British Foreign Minister, William Hague, since it was the letter by that country's Foreign Minister Arthur James Balfour, which has caused the Palestinian people ongoing suffering. During a workshop held yesterday by the PA Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with the city's Education Administration, girls from the Tubas [West Bank] high school wrote dozens of open letters to politicians and girls in Britain. Wafa Daraghmeh wrote to Queen Elizabeth, saying that she and her contemporaries are still paying the price of the Balfour promise in blood and tears, because he [Balfour] 'decided to donate a country which was not his to a nation [the Jews] which was not entitled to it, with no justification, since the Palestinian people had not attacked Britain or dreamed of invading London.' She ended the letter with thanks to the United Kingdom for having 'shattered the hopes of the Palestinian people'. Saja Daraghmeh addressed her words to a girl her age in London, whom she does not know, but who, she believes, enjoys freedom and has never tasted occupation. She addressed an open question to the girls of London: Would they agree for France to grant the Africans a national h

Fatah member: Balfour Declaration greatest crime of international community?

Source: Palestinian TV (Fatah),?Nov. 3, 2011

PA TV News: Balfour Declaration is a mark of shame on humanity?

Source: Palestinian TV (Fatah),?Nov. 2, 2011

PA daily: Balfour Declaration was a "great political crime and sin"?

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Nov. 2, 2011

The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.?
???? "The Arab League emphasized yesterday that now, more than ever, there is a need for a serious international position supporting the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and putting an end to the historical injustice done to it in the wake of the Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917] and the continued Israeli occupation. A press release by the [Arab League] Department for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Lands on the occasion of the anniversary of the Balfour promise, said: 'This cursed promise was the main reason for the catastrophe which befell Palestine in 1948, and it represented the beginning of the tragedy of the Palestinian people, which has continued for many decades...
The promise declared by British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, on Nov. 2, 1917, constitutes a great political crime and sin, leading to the uprooting of the Palestinian people and the theft of its land, and causing wars and great conflicts which still continue in the region.'"
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PA daily: Balfour Declaration promised the land to "those who had no right [to it]" ?

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Nov. 2, 2011

The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.?
???? "The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, expressed the hope of seeing Palestine as a state in the UN, on Sept. 21, 2011, and we believed him... It has been said of the Balfour promise [Balfour Declaration, 1917] that it was a promise by someone who had no ownership [of the land] to those who had no right [to it]. We said of Obama's promise that it was a promise by someone who is unable, to those whose right [to the land] it is already. Balfour's promise to the Jews of Europe - a homeland in Palestine - was a preventive step, because in his letter he sketched a road map for freeing his country and Europe of the burden of the Jewish problem, and of the bases for the spread of Communism in western Europe, which was led by the poor, the European workers, and the Jews... The Jews of the Zionist enterprise sought a promise from Balfour, who had the ability, because they knew that only the strongest power in the world at the time [Britain] could impose the conditions for the establishment of a state for the Jews. His promise was an ominous sign, [bringing] disasters upon the Palestinians, the Arabs, and the nations of the region and the world."
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PA daily: Israel is the first state in history to be established on "land belonging to others"?

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Nov. 2, 2011

The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild of the Zionist movement, which expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it.?
???? "Today is the 94th anniversary of the cursed Balfour promise [The Balfour Declaration of 1917], by which Britain awarded the Jews the right to establish a national home in Palestine, based on the false slogan, 'A land without a people for a people without a land'. ... This promise represented the first step taken by the West on the road to establishing an entity for the Jews on the land of Palestine, in accordance with the wishes of World Zionism, at the expense of a people which had been rooted in this land for thousands of years. ... The Jews made successful use of the piece of paper published by Arthur Balfour, known for his friendship with the Zionist Movement, and later the [British] Mandate and the 1947 resolution by the [UN] General Assembly concerning the Partition of Palestine: They realized their dream of establishing [the State of] Israel on May 15th, 1948, and this entity earned membership in the UN thanks to pressure by the super powers. Israel became the first country in the history of the global political system which was established on land belonging to others, and which receives international aid which has caused it to behave arrogantly in the region - expanding, swallowing more Palestinian and Arab territory, and behaving violently and mercilessly towards those among the Palestinian people who remain upon their land."
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Released terrorist prisoner: Israelis have no right to Israel?

Source: amnonnews.net (Jordan),?Oct. 19, 2011

In October 2011, the Israeli government agreed to release 1,027 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prison in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held hostage by Hamas for more than 5 years. Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi was one of the prisoners released in the exchange deal.
Video interview on Jordanian Internet website ammonnews.net with Ahlam Tamimi from her parents' home in Jordan.
Interviewer: "How did you take the sentence?" [15 life sentences]
Tamimi: "I'm a Jihad fighter for Allah. A Jihad fighter for Allah is ready for any outcome: either he will die as a Shahid (Martyr), or he will be assassinated, or he will be taken captive; [or] Allah can decree some unknown fate for him ? [for instance,] that he will live as a wanted [fugitive]."
Interviewer: "If you could set the clock back, Ahlam, would you carry out, or take part in, a major operation (i.e., terror attack)?"
Tamimi: "Of course. I don't regret what happened, absolutely not. That is the path; I give myself for the sake of Allah, to Jihad for Allah. I carried out [my mission] and Allah made me successful: you know the number of victims who were killed; all that was thanks to the success from Allah. Do you expect me to abandon what I did with that word? Regret is something that is out of the question. If time could go backwards, I would carry out what I did, in the same manner."
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Interviewer: "How would you describe the Israelis?"
Tamimi: "The Israelis are a nation upon which it was decreed that it would be dispersed over the earth. Allah decreed this upon them, but international conspiracies, the Balfour Declaration, gave them the right to something to which they have no right."
Source: http://www.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=100098
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Interview with released Palestinian terrorist: Israelis have ?no right? to Israel, Allah decreed for them to be dispersed?

Source: amnonnews.net (Jordan),?Oct. 19, 2011

Interviewer: "How would you describe the Israelis?"
Ahlam Tamimi: "The Israelis are a nation upon which it was decreed that it would be dispersed over the earth. Allah decreed this upon them, but international conspiracies, the Balfour Declaration, gave them the right to something to which they have no right."
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Note: Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi led a suicide bomber to the Sbarro pizza shop in Jerusalem in August 2001. 15 people were murdered in the attack, 7 of them children. In October 2011, Tamimi was released from Israeli prison as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal brokered between the Israeli government and Hamas.

PA daily calls Israel "the occupied territories of 1948" and "occupied 1948 Palestine"?

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Oct. 4, 2011

In October 2011, Jewish extremists set fire to the mosque in the village of Tuba Al-Zangariya in the Upper Galilee inside Israel. Discussing the crime, this article did not recognize Israel?s right to exist, but referred to Israel as ?the occupied territories of 1948.?
???? "The extremist settler terror is intensifying. Under cover of darkness two nights ago, they burned the mosque in the village of Tuba Al-Zangariya in the Upper Galilee, causing anger among the Islamic and Arab groups in the West Bank and in the occupied territories of 1948 (i.e., Israel)? Sheikh Yusuf Jum'a Salameh, speaker at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and first deputy of the Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, denounced the despicable crime? [He said] the occupation authorities have also destroyed dozens of mosques inside occupied 1948 Palestine."

PA daily calls Israel ?the territories occupied in 1948??

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Oct. 2, 2011

???? "The German-French Cultural Center in Ramallah hosted writer and activist Omar Barghouti among other events held at the literary caf?, marking the publication of his book, "Boycott, Disinvestment, Sanctions" in French? Barghouti added that the boycott campaign, which involves Palestinians wherever they may be, including in the territories occupied in 1948 (i.e., in Israel), is based on an end to the three-fold persecution of the Palestinian people ?occupation, racial discrimination, and prevention of the return of refugees? Concerning the boycott campaign, Barghouti said that he focuses not only on the boycott of Israeli goods; [rather,] it is a comprehensive campaign to boycott all Israeli goods? [as well as] boycott of international institutions and international companies which collaborate with the occupation. Barghouti added that the success of the campaign does not mean that 'Tapuzina' (Israeli soft drink) will disappear from the market, because what is far more important than this is the boycotting of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, owing to their role as partners in the occupation and apartheid regime."

PA daily calls Israel "the territories occupied in 1948"?

Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,?Sept. 29, 2011

???? "In Bethlehem the occupation authorities (i.e., Israel) decided to confiscate dozens of dunams of land in the village of Batir, south of Jerusalem. This measure was aimed at establishing facts on the ground to change the border of what is known as the Green Line. This is an imaginary line separating the territories occupied in 1948 from those occupied in June, 1967."

PA TV for kids rebroadcasts clip calling northern Israel "occupied" land?

Source: Palestinian TV (Fatah),?Sept. 17, 2011

PA TV host: "We're on a trip in the 1948 lands. On our right is Baqa Al-Gharbiya (village in Israel) , the land [home] of many friends of our program. We're on our way [to see] many beautiful areas so that you can get to know them and see how beautiful our land is, and how many beautiful places it has -- beautiful villages and cities. We're in the north of the occupied lands, the 1948 lands (Israel), on the Lebanese border."

Israeli-Arab tour guide: "We're now at the Golan Heights border (inside Israel). We are at the exact border between Palestine and Syria."
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PA TV calls the Yarkon River in Israel ?a river in Palestine??

Source: Palestinian TV (Fatah),?Aug. 1, 2011

PA TV street quiz called Hello Ramadan:
PA TV host: "A river in Palestine which starts at Rosh Ha-Nikra and flows to northern Jaffa."
[The river actually starts at Rosh Ha-Ayin]
Answer : "Al-Uja river"
(i.e., the Yarkon River in Israel)

Source: http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=433&doc_id=6068

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