The Palestinian Authority, as well as Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and virtually every authority and organization in the Palestinian territories, has made no secret about its goal of a one-state solution, i.e., of obliterating Israel “from the River to the Sea.” This is the only way that the Palestinian leadership will deem its “Palestine” to be “free.” This is the goal of the “Palestinian resistance.” The goal of destroying Israel completely is overt and firmly documented in Palestinian charters, and is even imparted to children in textbooks. Only the willfully blind cannot accept the truth about the Palestinian jihad against Israel.
PA to children: Israel’s entire coast is really “Palestine,” “under occupation since 1948,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, January 19, 2021:
The Palestinian Authority instructs Palestinian children never to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. In a recent TV program, children were taught that Israel’s entire coast is part of “Palestine” and its “gateway to the world.” Israeli ports Haifa, Acre, Jaffa, Ashdod, and Ashkelon were listed as part of the “Palestinian coastal plain” that has been “under Israeli occupation since 1948”:
Official PA TV host: “The Palestinian coastal plain (i.e., Israeli coastal plain) is Palestine’s face towards the Mediterranean Sea and the Arab world, and a cultural junction between the East and West. It constitutes Palestine’s gateway to the world. The Palestinian coast stretches from Mount Carmel in the north (i.e., in Israel) to Rafah that is on the border with Egypt in the south. It is between the Palestinian mountain ranges in the east and the Mediterranean Sea in the west. There are many ports on it such as the ports of Haifa, Acre, Jaffa, Ashdod, Ashkelon (i.e., all in Israel), and Gaza… Many nations have arrived there throughout the generations out of a desire to exploit its location. The Palestinian coastal plain has been under Israeli occupation since 1948.”
[Official PA TV, Farhan and Friends, Jan. 10, 2021]
This has always been the PA’s message to its people. Palestinian Media Watch exposed a similar broadcast focusing on Israel’s coast, which official PA TV ran numerous times over five years…
mortimer says
Historical lessons should be based on careful historiography, rather than self-serving, political interpretations that leave out the context. Prior to 1948, the entire coast of the region was ‘occupied’ by Great Britain and France, which took it militarily from the defeated Ottoman Empire, which took it from the Kurdish Empire, which took it from the Crusaders, who took it from the Abbassids, who took it from the Umayyads, who took it from the Romans, who took it from the Jews. So, when did anyone take it from the modern ‘Palestinians’?
There is no evidence that Great Britain took the Sanjak of Kuedues-i Sherif (half of modern Israel), the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, the Vilayat of Surya, the Sanjak of Akka, the Sanjak of Nablus or the Vilayat of Beirut from ‘Palestinians’. Arabs first used the term ‘Palestinian’ (to refer to Arabs) in the late 1890s, because the Arabs were imitating Jews born in the region who had begun to use the term. Furthermore, the League of Nations designated the creation of new countries in the region, one of which was to be a Jewish homeland.
Arabs almost never used the term ‘Filistin’, because they mentally conceived of the region as ‘Lower Syria’.
It’s more historically correct for these so-called ‘Palestinians’ to call themselves ‘Lower Syrians’. The government of Syria claims all of Israeli territory as a natural part of Syria.
The claim of being ‘Palestinian Arabs’ is thus based on a highly disputable interpretation, depending on whose view of history you choose.
mortimer says
The video contains many highly disputable interpretations, such as the claim that ‘many nations have arrived there to exploit its location …’ That is patent nonsense, since the region of Israel is not on any trade route … it’s easier to go around it. Under the Turks, the region was a neglected, impoverished backwater that looked like the surface of the moon! The Turks neglected the region. Arabs have traditionally ignored Israel, Judea and Samaria. Their focus has been on Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, Alexandria and Cairo. Most of those are on trade routes. Even when the Ottomans built the Hejaz Railway (opened in 1908) for pilgrims to Mecca, it went from Damascus through what is modern Jordan and did not use the coast as a route.
When some of these children who see such propaganda grow up and study history from proper, careful historians, they will hate the propagandists who produced this disreputable bilge.
Keith O says
I can only shake my head in amazement at the audacity of the the PA.
They have a captive audience, so they lie about everything, knowing that the kids will be totally brainwashed into becoming psychotic jihadis, a bit like North Korea’s grip on information.
The truth is no longer the authority in the mudslime world, instead, authority is the truth.
I have often wondered, if the mudslimes are successful in destroying Israel and take over the entire area. Where will they get the money from? They will no longer be 3rd or 4th generation “refugees” so they won’t be able to get a cracker from the UN.
Abbas and his cronies will have no foreign aid to steal from the people. Will this mean “Palestine” will become another third world, mudslime basket case that the rest of the civilised world has to bail out? Or will the mudslime countries who encouraged this war step in and support them?
I think we all know the answer to that!!!
James Lincoln says
Keith O,
If the muslims were to destroy Israel, what would be left would be another failed islamic republic.
And, amazingly, they couldn’t blame the Jews.
Just hypothetical, the IDF would never allow it…
Keith O says
James, If the IDF takes on the PA, you want to join me with some beers and nuts?
It would be all over before we finish the first six pack!
James Lincoln says
Keith O,
I’m an IPA kind of guy – nice and cold.
Goes nice with some goldfish crackers…
gravenimage says
Yes–if you want to see what vibrant, democratic Israel would look like under Muslim conquest, just look at Gaza.
Infidel says
Geographically, they’re right: ‘Palestine’ is something like Mesopotamia, but then again, Palestine would include Negev, Galilee, Judea, Samaria and even Sinai. Everything south of Phoenecia and right upto the Suez Canal
Historically, it’s Jews that had been described as Palestinians until 1948. I sometimes wonder if Israel might have been better off calling themselves Palestine, and depriving the Arabs of such a branding coup that the Soviets provided them in 1964?
gravenimage says
PA teaches children: Israel’s entire coast is really ‘Palestine,’ ‘under Israeli occupation since 1948’
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Muslims want to destroy Israel utterly.