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While the UN Talks Two States, the Palestinian Authority Talks Erasing Israel
Illustrative: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S., September 26, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Heads of state and policy makers in the EU and around the world support the establishment of a “Palestinian state” — but completely ignore the state that Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders are seeking.
World leaders refuse to acknowledge the deceitful statements made by the PA’s top officials, which Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has exposed for decades, because these statements reveal the inconvenient truth — the PA wants to destroy Israel.
PA leaders see a Palestinian state as part of its multi-stage plan to weaken and eventually dismantle Israel, and create “Palestine” “from the River to the Sea.”
The following are recent examples of this inconvenient truth, which, if not taken seriously, threatens the very existence of the State of Israel:
Fatah official’s goal to destroy Israel: “We’ll return to all of occupied Palestine” of “27,000 sq. km”
… We the refugees continue to hold the key of return that we inherited from our ancestors 77 years ago to emphasize the return and our historical right to the land of the forefathers. Allah willing, we’ll return to all occupied Palestine and won’t leave.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, June 23, 2025]
PA Shari’ah Judge in sermon: Allah’s decree will hit the Jews, “We are the owners of this land”
PA Shari’ah Judge Abdallah Harb: “… We are the owners of this land. This land is part of our faith and religion. We stand on it and will not leave it. They [the Jews] are the transient ones, and we are the owners of this land.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, May 30, 2025]
Children in summer camps taught goal is “a free Arab Palestinian land from the River to the [Sea]” – Fatah official
Fatah Nablus Coordinator of Fatah’s Cubs and Flowers Movement Hukm al-Baghdadi: “These children and campers are our hope, our hope that there will be a free Arab Palestinian land from the [Jordan] River to the river [sic., Mediterranean Sea].” [emphasis added]
Posted text: “The conclusion of the ‘Flowers of Hope and Cubs of Freedom’ [summer] camp at the [Fatah] Nablus Branch.”
[Fatah Movement – Nablus Branch, Facebook page, Aug. 23, 2025]
“We own the place,” Israel “will come to an end” – PA TV filler
Palestinian children with Palestinian flags confront and provoke Israeli police officers at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.
Official PA TV narrator: “Here we have our say. Here we own the time, the place, the land, and the identity, while the occupation [i.e., Israel] will come to an end. We will never leave!” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, May 19, 2025]
Fatah teaches kids: All of Israel “is Palestine”
Fatah Nablus Branch Secretary Muhammad Hamdan Abu Al-Mutaz: “Palestine, historical Palestine [i.e., all Israel], with its seas, rivers, skies, and lands, belongs to the Palestinians.
Male and female campers, this criminal occupier [i.e., Israel] has been attempting for decades to break the willpower of the Palestinian people. We will continue to wave the Palestinian flag.” [emphasis added]
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook, Aug. 12, 2025]
PA minister: Palestinians are “the owners of the land”
PA Ministry of Transportation Director-General Muhammad Hamdan: “The Palestinian people remains on its land. We will not leave. We are the owners of the land. The color of our skin is like that of the land, and the foreigners will leave as the others have left.”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, May 12, 2025]
Top PA official Rajoub wants to partner with Hamas, Israelis “will go to the trash can of history”
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “I say to our brothers in Hamas, we in Fatah tell you: Let us reach an agreement regarding the vision that will reap the fruits of the sacrifice that the Palestinian people has made from 1948 until today. The Palestinian struggle did not start yesterday, two years ago, or 30 years ago.
The Palestinian national struggle is the other side [of the coin] of the unilateral aggression that has been carried out against us for 77 years of struggle …
Sooner or later the Palestinian state will be established, and we will remain here, and they [Israelis] will go to the trash can of history.” [emphasis added]
[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Aug. 21, 2025]
PA misrepresents the Israeli city of Jaffa as the “territories of ’48” and “interior Palestine”
Text on screen: “Israeli police arrested 100 Palestinian workers in the city of Jaffa, within the territories of ’48.”
Official PA TV host: “We will follow the issue of the [Palestinian] workers working within the Green Line … This concerns the attack on the workers working in the “Interior” [i.e., Palestinian term for Israel] and the arrest of 100 of them in Jaffa… on the pretext that they entered without permits… The violations committed by the Israeli police in the “interior” territories.”
Text on screen: “The occupied interior” [emphasis added][Official PA TV News, Aug. 26, 2025]
PA TV host calls Israel “occupied Palestinian Interior”
Official PA TV host: “Extensive areas are planted with fruitful olive trees, and other trees. Visitors from all the districts come to photograph it … especially because it overlooks the Jordan Valley, Mount Hermon, and the territories of the occupied Palestinian Interior ]i.e., Palestinian term for Israel].” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, June 29, 2025]
Palestinian University President denies Israel’s right to exist: “Palestine includes the Galilee, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem as part of one indivisible unit”
Dar Al-Kalima University President Reverend Mitri Raheb: “Dar Al-Kalima University is hosting this wonderful exhibit, entitled ‘From Galilee to Bethlehem,’ which reflects the journey of the holy family [of Jesus] from the Galilee to Bethlehem, but today it tells the story of Palestine that includes the Galilee, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem as part of one indivisible unit.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, May 5, 2025]
Dar Al-Kalima University is in Bethlehem.
Palestinian professor: “We are the owners of this land,” Israel “steals everything testifying to the [historical] Palestinian presence”
Official PA TV host: “They [Israel] are trying to attribute the [Shuqba Cave] site to them.”
History professor Rasem Mtawa: “It is necessary that the [Palestinian] generations who live and exist today know the cultural heritage of the Palestinian cause, our heritage, our culture that is in these sites, so that we will prove to the world that the origin in this land is not the Zionist occupation.
This [Palestinian] culture exists and is represented by the Palestinian man. Its existence is represented by the fig trees, olive trees, and wheat that exist on the entire land of Palestine… The need to incorporate this culture into the Palestinian [history] books stems from the fact that our generations need to know that we are the owners of this land… The occupation is trying to steal everything Palestinian, trying to steal the name, trying to steal the history, trying to steal everything that testifies to the [historical] Palestinian presence.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, Memory Under Threat, June 4, 2025]
The Jews will return to exile – Egyptian cleric
Egyptian Al-Azhar Cleric Sheikh Yasser Mustafa Younes: “The question on the mind of everyone currently watching us is: the conflict going on between the Palestinians and the group of Zionists: Do they actually have a right to this land, have they dwelled on this land or lived in it before, so that they can demand it? Of course, all of history says the first to dwell on Palestinian land were the Canaanites … They were Arab tribes that settled on the coast of Greater Syria …
If you read the history books, the number of Jews was always small. You will always find they lived in the Jewish quarter, the Jewish street, or the Jewish town, keeping to themselves. Even when they were in exile – and [some] still are, and they will return to this state [of exile] Allah willing – their seed was few and their numbers small. In contrast, look at the Muslims.” [emphasis added]
“Allah willing, the Zionist entity will disappear” – Egyptian cleric wishes for the end of Israel
Egyptian Al-Azhar Cleric Sheikh Yasser Mustafa Younes: “Allah willing, we will all merit to reclaim Jerusalem and all of Palestine from the occupation [i.e., Israel] and the Zionist entity, Allah willing, and they will disappear.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, Palestine is Not for Sale, March 8, 2025]
Israel is “a state destined to disappear… a hated, satanic entity” – Egyptian academic
Arab Center for Political and Strategic Studies Deputy Chairman Mukhtar Ghobashi: “[Israel] is a state destined to disappear. It is an entity destined to disappear. The Palestinian right is binding and stands, the Palestinian state will inevitably come, and Jerusalem will be the capital of the Palestinian state… This [Israel] is a hated entity, an entity living in a region that hates it, a satanic entity.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, Capital of Capitals – Cairo, July 7, 2025]
The author is a contributor to Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this story first appeared.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.