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Palestinian Authority: Israel is "Judaizing" Jerusalem,
creating a false Jewish history,
and destroying Arab Muslim Palestinian history
PA Deputy Minister:
Palestinians were present in Jerusalem
"centuries before the Jewish religion"
and Israelis "are stealing history and geography"
Official PA TV:
Israeli excavations are "evil projects" to achieve an "evil goal":
"Full control over the Al-Aqsa Mosque
and building the alleged Temple in its place"
"The Judaization octopus devours the [Palestinian] historic sites"
[Website of Fatah's Information and Culture Commission, July 13, 2015]
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Today, on Tisha B'Av, Jews mourn the destruction of the first and second
Temples in Jerusalem (586 BCE and 70 CE). However, the Palestinian
Authority denies that there ever was a Temple, consistently referring to
Solomon's Temple as "the alleged Temple." Moreover, the PA also teaches
its people that there was never a Jewish history in Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Authority claims persistently that Israel is "Judaizing" Jerusalem, as Palestinian Media Watch has documented. Israel is said to:
- falsify historical artifacts in order to prove a "false" Jewish history in Jerusalem
- destroy Palestinian and Islamic relics and signs of an Arab presence in the city
in its stead
The
cartoon above published by Fatah captures this Palestinian narrative.
Israeli soldiers are shooting their rifles and rolling a Torah scroll
over the word "Jerusalem" which is bloodstained.
[July 13, 2015] Israel is said to be forcing a fake Jewish history on Jerusalem.
Five recent PA TV programs repeated these historical revisions:
1. PA Deputy Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Salwa Hadib recently declared
that "the Palestinian people has been present in it [Jerusalem] for
thousands of years... centuries before the Jewish religion." She also
claimed that Israelis "are stealing history and geography":
PA Deputy Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council Salwa Hadib:
"Jerusalem is not only a religious city. Jerusalem is civilization. It
has been a Canaanite city for thousands of years. The Palestinian people
has been present in it for thousands of years, whether it was in
Babylon, Assyria or Canaan, they [the Palestinians] gathered in the area
before anything else, centuries before the Jewish religion... An
Israeli engineer and an archeologist brought Israeli coins - shekels and
agoras - and threw them on the ground before the renovation [of the
Al-Karmi neighborhood in Jerusalem] in order to prove, after dozens and
hundreds of years, that 'we (i.e., the Israelis) were present here.'
They are stealing history and geography."
[Official PA TV, May 24, 2015]
2.
A PA TV host agreed with a researcher of political Islam who stated on
PA TV that "the vision of the Zionists" is to "destroy the Al-Aqsa
Mosque" and "find the Temple." The researcher claimed Israel has not
found "even one remnant" that proves the existence of the Temple:
Political Islam researcher Muhammad Hijazi:
"The vision of the Zionists and the extremist settlers for the holy
city: They try to take over and divide the Al-Aqsa Mosque. They want to
destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque while talking about the Temple of Solomon.
For 20 years, Israel has been digging under the foundations of the
Al-Aqsa Mosque. They have conducted tens of thousands of research
projects in order to find the Temple of Solomon under the Al-Aqsa
Mosque, but they haven't found even one remnant that verifies this. The
political goal is to Judaize the entire city of Jerusalem and expel its
Palestinian residents..."
PA TV host:
"They hope that tomorrow morning the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be
destroyed... As you said, they are trying to actually destroy the
Al-Aqsa Mosque..."
Member of General Secretariat of the Union of Religious Scholars in Syria, Saber Al-Fara: "Not just for 20 years. They have been trying to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque for 60 years!"
[Official PA TV, June 4, 2015]
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3. Official PA TV recently stated that Israeli excavations are "evil
projects" to achieve an "evil goal": "full control over the Al-Aqsa
Mosque" and "building of the alleged Temple in its place":
PA TV narrator:
"The Jews conquered it [Silwan neighborhood] along with Jerusalem [in
1967]. From then on, there have been plans to Judaize and to erase Arab
and Muslim antiquities through tunnel excavations and theft of
antiquities, and by fabricating a fake Jewish name, such as the 'City of
David.' This is Silwan... Through these evil projects, the Israeli
occupation seeks to restore the alleged Kingdom of David and to build
his palace there, in order to achieve its evil goal: Full control over
the Al-Aqsa Mosque and building the alleged Temple in its place."
[Official PA TV, May 9, 2015]
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4. A PA TV program entitled The Citadel of David, strong resolve and pride against the Israeli forgery, claimed that the Israeli Tower of David Museum has become "a Judaizing museum" that tells of "the alleged Temple":
Official PA TV narrator:
"In 1980, the occupation changed it [David's Citadel] into a Judaizing
museum called the 'David Citadel Museum' (i.e., Tower of David Museum),
which tells the story of the alleged temple. It displays the Talmudic
narrative, remains of rocks - that are claimed to be from the period of
the Temple, paintings, exhibits, models, signs, and advanced audio
systems - that tell an imaginary Hebrew history, especially the Talmudic
details about the alleged temples, the first and second ones."
[Official PA TV, March 14, 2015]
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5. Yet another PA TV narrator reiterated the libel that Israel is
erasing Palestinian landmarks, referring to "the Judaization octopus"
which "is spreading [its arms] to devour what is left of the historic
sites that left their mark on the city for thousands of years."
PA TV narrator:
"The occupation authorities are working incessantly to change the
character of occupied Jerusalem. The Judaization octopus is spreading
[its arms] to devour what is left of the historic sites that left their
mark on the city for thousands of years. One of those sites is the
Silwan Spring (i.e., Gihon Spring), which the occupation later turned
into Talmudic walking trails..."
PA TV reporter: "We are at the Silwan pool. This is a historic site with definite Arab-Palestinian-Canaanite roots and history."
[Official PA TV, March 11, 2015]
The denial of Jewish history in Jerusalem and rejection of the existence of the Temple by the PA and Fatah - both headed by Mahmoud Abbas - has been documented in depth by Palestinian Media Watch, as has the PA claim of Israeli falsification of artifacts and heritage theft.
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