- Abbas on Israel's creation:
"A disgrace to humanity"
- Abbas on terrorists who were imprisoned:
“Our brave prisoners, the living conscience of our people… these people cannot be described in words.”
- Abbas on terrorists who were killed:
“The righteous martyrs … will remain symbols that the Palestinian generations will remember with gratitude and reverence, generation after generation.”
- Abbas on the murderer of seven Israelis:
“Heroic prisoner Nasser Abu Hmaid”
In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas again demonstrated why he and the Palestinians have rejected every Israeli offer of peace.
Denying and simultaneously rewriting history and the present reality, Abbas touched on most of the true impediments to peace. From his description of the creation of the State of Israel as a “disgrace to humanity” and a “heinous crime” through his pledge of unwavering support to the “righteous martyrs” – i.e. dead terrorists – and the terrorist prisoners, and his homage to the mother of six terrorist murderers, to his demand that the UN now implement the 1947 UN Partition plan that was rejected by all the Arab countries, Abbas presented to the world the real explanation for the absence of Israeli-Palestinian peace.
While almost every sentence of Abbas’ speech lacked a factual basis, the following are just a few excerpts of the speech that encapsulate the PA ideology, put into context with a brief PMW commentary.
Abbas:
“I speak to you on behalf of more than fourteen million Palestinian people, whose parents and grandparents lived through the tragedy of the “Nakba” seventy-four years ago, and they are still living the effects of this “Nakba”, which is a disgrace to humanity, especially those who conspired, planned and carried out this heinous crime.
Moreover, more than five million Palestinians have been suffering under the Israeli military occupation for fifty-four years.”
PMW:
While at times pretending that he and the Palestinian leadership support a “two-state solution”, in this speech Abbas expressed the PA wordview that
rejects Israel’s right to exist as a national homeland for the Jewish people. From his perspective, the creation of Israel - in any borders - was a “disgrace to humanity” and a “heinous crime.” In Abbas’ eyes, the decision of the international community in San Remo in 1920 and the decision of the League of Nations in 1922, to
recognize the historic connection of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and endorse the reconstitution of the Jewish homeland was nothing more than a conspiracy against the “Palestinians”. All this, while simultaneously claiming that it is Israel “which disavows the resolutions of international legitimacy.”
Abbas:
“Israel is carrying out a frantic campaign to confiscate our lands and spread its colonial settlements and plunder our resources, as if this land was empty and had no owners, just as it did in 1948.”
PMW:
When Abbas talks about “our lands” and “our resources” he is trying to reinforce the fictional idea that a Palestinian people once owned the entire Land of Israel. This notion lacks any factual basis. No independent country called “Palestine” ever existed. In fact, from 1517 to 1917, the general area called “Palestine” was merely another province of the Ottoman Empire. Prior to that, it had been conquered by a long list of invaders, since the Romans expelled the Jewish people in 70 CE. From 1917 to 1948, “Palestine” was administered by the British under a Mandate of the League of Nations. The express purpose of the Mandate was to
reconstitute the Jewish national homeland.
Furthermore, while many individual Arabs did and still do own land, Abbas ignores the fact that much of the area was indeed uninhabited and that these areas, similar to the status of uninhabited lands in many countries around the world, are considered “state lands.” Abbas also denies the fact, mentioned in the 1930 Shaw Report, following the Arab massacre of 130 Jews in 1929, that the Jews who moved to Israel following the adoption of the Mandate purchased huge areas of land from the Arabs “frequently at a very high price.”
While Abbas’ statements lack factual basis, they do expose a fundamental PA message, often highlighted by PMW. According to the PA, Israel has no right to exist. All of Israel is “Palestine” and
no one has the right to relinquish any part of it.
Abbas:
“Israel has left us nothing of the land to establish our independent state in light of its frenzied settlement attack, so where will our people live in freedom and dignity? Where will we establish our independent state to live in peace with our neighbors? The settlers now constitute about 751,000, which constitutes 25% of the total population in the West Bank and Jerusalem.”
PMW:
This claim by Abbas similarly defies reality on multiple levels. Firstly, Abbas fails to explain why no independent “Palestinian State” was created from 1948-1967 when Israel did not control either the Gaza Strip nor Judea and Samaria, and no “settlements” existed. He similarly failed to explain why he rejected the
2008 peace offer of then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. That offer included creating a “Palestinian State” on a territory greater than that of Gaza, Judea and Samaria, prior to 1967. He also fails to note that today Palestinians control all of Gaza and at least 40% of Judea and Samaria – the areas defined as areas A and B in the Oslo peace accords. 95% of the Palestinian population lives in these areas. In addition, the PA has also promoted and funded wide-scale, illegal,
Palestinian land grabs in area C. In these land grabs, according to the Israeli NGO Regavim, Palestinians have built tens of thousands of illegal structures. In comparison, figures recently released suggest that the “Israeli settlements” in area C cover no more than 2.5% of that area.
Abbas:
“Therefore, I present today to this UN organization, the title of international legitimacy in this world, with a formal request to implement General Assembly resolution 181, which formed the basis for the two-state solution in 1947, as well as resolution 194 calling for the right of return of Palestine refugees.”
PMW:
Having already called the creation of Israel a catastrophe, and added sundry lies and libels against Israeli and Israelis, Abbas then demanded that the UN implement the 1947 UN Partition Plan. Clearly, in Abbas’ eyes, it is possible to turn back the hands of time to implement a defunct decision that was thoroughly rejected by the Arabs at the time.
Regarding the implementation of resolution 194, as PMW has already
demonstrated, when Abbas and the PA talk about the implementation of the so-called “Palestinian right of return,” what they are really calling for is for Israel to commit national suicide.
Abbas:
“All glory to the righteous martyrs of the Palestinian people who enlightened the path of freedom and independence with their pure blood. They will remain symbols that the Palestinian generations will remember with gratitude and reverence, generation after generation, and we remain accountable to them.
As for our brave prisoners, the living conscience of our people, who sacrifice their freedom for the sake of the freedom of their people, these people cannot be described in words. They are living martyrs, they are heroes and firm leaders, and we have an obligation to secure their freedom, and we will not abandon them. We will not leave their sons and daughters and their families, and we tell them and our detained children and the heroic prisoner Nasser Abu Hmaid and his companions that dawn is coming, and it is time for their chains to be broken. Greetings from me and our entire people to all our heroic martyrs and families. I salute from this podium Nasser’s mother, the mother of prisoners and martyrs, and it is unfortunate that the occupation authorities did not allow her to see her captive, heroic son for one minute as he is struggling with death due to medical negligence.”
PMW:
Having denounced Israel’s creation, demanded that Israel commit national suicide and that the UN turn back the hands of time to implement a defunct decision, ignored reality and rewritten history, Abbas then turned to the only subject that he can truly identify as his lasting legacy to the Palestinians and the Israeli Palestinian peace process:
Glorifying terror and terrorists.
The “righteous martyrs” and “brave prisoners” Abbas refers to include thousands of dead terrorists, including suicide bombers and also murderers such as Abdallah Barghouti, responsible for the murder of 67 people, Ibrahim Hamed, responsible for the murder of 54 people, and scores of other terrorist murderers.
His support for these murderers includes paying them generous
monthly salaries and demanding their release, as a precondition to any future peace agreement. Abbas’ dedication to the terrorists is not mere lip service. Rather, it is a reflection of the priorities of the Palestinian Authority which puts the interests of the terrorists above the
welfare, education, and health of the Palestinians.
Put into context, this statement is the equivalent of Osama Bin Laden standing on the podium of the UN and singing the praises of Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi, and their accomplices, the terrorists who carried out the 9/11 terror attacks.
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Abbas demands that UN turn back the hands of time
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