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Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas on official P.A. TV news on March 31, 2019. Credit: PMW.
Palestinian Authority leader incites church against Israel in call with pope
Mahmoud Abbas repeated the libel that the State of Israel “attacks” Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech regarding the coronavirus outbreak, at the P.A. headquarters in Ramallah, May 5, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
PA to Israelis: ‘You must leave because you have no history in Jerusalem’
“Our memories in this land are too long to be counted in years, and the occupier has no memories,” stated the official broadcast narrator.
Fayez Abbas, a Palestinian “Israeli affairs expert,” has a history of anti-Semitic statements, such as using Nazi imagery to describe Israelis and Jews.
Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki said: “I think that the Palestinian people are on the brink of a great intifada.”
Mahmoud Al-Habbash described the duty of the Palestinian to “defend” not only itself, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, but nothing less than “Islam, the Koran and the entire Islamic nation.”
Official PA TV, From the Refugee Camp, April 17, 2022, via PMW
‘PA TV’ erases Israel and its borders from Mideast map
In one episode, Israel’s Mount Meron was classified as “the highest mountain in Palestine.”
Ata Abu Rmeileh, the Fatah Party’s Secretary in Jenin, called the recent terrorist attacks in Israel part of the “triumph over the occupation.”
In his Ramadan prayer, the imam calls for the “conquest and liberation of the Al-Aqsa mosque” and the death of the Jews and their “hypocritical supporters.”
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on Feb. 13, 2017. Photo by Flash90.
Palestinian National Council renounces all agreements with Israel, including Oslo
Despite the announcement, nothing has seemingly changed on the ground; the PLO and the Palestinian Authority have not said they were stopping security coordination.
Text on poster (right): “Palestine: The entire land is ours, from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River.” Credit: Facebook page of the Kafr Qaddum High School for Girls in Qalqilya, Nov. 17, 2021, via PMW.
PA minister of education to kids: ‘The entire land is ours’
The Palestinian Authority ministry wrote that similar celebrations were held “in all of the homeland’s schools.”
Palestinian Authority Youth Camp
PA police, Fatah encourage military-style training camp for teenage girls
The Palestinian Authority police administration and Fatah’s Shabiba High School Movement are teaching 50 female teenagers to view terrorist Dalal Mughrabi as a role model.
“When the PA is trying to hide its payments to the terrorist prisoners, it funnels the money through the budgetary provision for the ‘PLO institutions,’” stated Maurice Hirsch in a report published by Palestinian Media Watch.