John R. Houk
© January 16, 2018
Mahmoud Abbas is the President of the Palestinian Authority
(PA) and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Abbas gave a two-hour
in Ramallah – located in Judea-Samaria (West Bank to Arabs and much
of the globe believing Israel is illegally occupying Arab land) – in response
to President Trump notifying the world the U.S. Embassy is moving from Tel Aviv
to Israel’s Capital City Jerusalem.
As you can guess, Abbas was less than pleased. The speech was
chock full of historical revisionism and blatant lies pertaining Israel’s
homeland and the existence of the fake people known as Palestinians. Arab
domination of the Jewish Homeland didn’t begin until the mid-600s AD (yup, I’m
a Christian preferring Anno Domini over Common Era – C.E.).
In order to get a better concept of the Promised Land’s
legacy, here are a few titles to examine ending with a 9:44 video:
Founding
National Myths - Fabricating Palestinian History; By David Bukay;
MEQ; Summer 2012.
When Was the
"Palestinian People" Created? Google Has the Answer; By Jean
Patrick Grumberg; Gatestone Institute;
11/20/17 4:00 am.
Rewriting history: Palestinian
history fabricated; Palestinian
Media Watch.
Pre-State
Israel: Jewish Claim To The Land Of Israel; By Mitchell Bard; Jewish Virtual Library.
DEFINING
PALESTINE AND THE PALESTINIANS;
Adapted from "Palestinians: Aggressors, Not Victims," by David Meir-Levi; Discover The Networks; (adaption published)
11/27/07.
The Truth About
the Palestinian People; TargetOfOpportunity.com;
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Media
Whitewashes Abbas’ Revisionism and Rejectionism
JANUARY 16, 2018
Mahmoud Abbas’ two-hour
address to the central committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization was
the diplomatic equivalent of giving the finger to Israel, the US and peace
prospects.
The speech was expected to
articulate the Palestinian leadership’s response to Trump’s Jerusalem
declaration and threatened cuts of aid for refugees.
But given how long the talk
was, it must have been a challenge for reporters to focus on sorting out the
“news” from the “rambling.” Indeed, the PA president rejected US mediation,
blamed Israel for the “death” of the Oslo accords, and dropped tidbits such as
someone offering the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis to become the
capital of a Palestinian state. (Abbas didn’t say who made the offer.)
But there was a bigger
picture that the mainstream media snoozed through. What most journalists would
consider the boring, long-winded digressions were actually part of a bigger
pattern of historical revisionism and rejection of any place for the Jews in
the Mideast.
Sign
HonestReporting’s petition to
the Foreign Press Association in Israel demanding reporters and editors
give a fuller picture of Palestinian rejectionism and refusal to recognize
Israel’s right to exist.
The Speech
The Ramallah audience of PLO
cadres, VIPs and the foreign press was regaled with Abbas’ theories of how
Israel was founded — not by Jews — but by European “colonialists,” with plans
going as far back as Oliver Cromwell in 1653. He accused Israel of sending
drugs to Palestinian kids. He ridiculed US Ambassador Nikki Haley’s high heels.
And Abbas fabricated a quote
to claim that Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, sought to
exterminate Palestinians.
“We
must wipe out the Palestinians from Palestine so that Palestine will be a land
without a people for a people without a land.”
Abbas also claimed among
other things, that the Jews of Europe chose to remain and die at
the hands of the Nazis, that Jews from Iraq and Yemen were brought to Israel
against their will, and that Israel was formed as “a colonial project that has
nothing to do with Judaism” to safeguard European interests.
The PA chief also hurled an
epithet at President Donald Trump, saying in Arabic, Yekhreb Beitak,
which means “May God destroy your home.” A Palestinian media professional
explained to me that home refers not just to the physical
house, but the household — its people and possessions. It’s a term used when
two people are in a dispute, and although Arabs may use the term somewhat
casually among themselves, it’s not a line one would use in a
diplomatic setting. That would explain why the Associated Press called it
a “jarring” language.
It’s not the first time Abbas
twisted history for his own purposes. His doctoral thesis, written as a
student in Moscow, argued that the killed “only” one million Jews, that the
Zionist leaders collaborated with the Nazis, and that Jewish leaders inflated
the Holocaust’s death toll to six million for their own advantage.
But the overall thrust of the
speech was to erase Jewish ties to the land of Israel.
The Coverage
Too many media reports
whitewashed Abbas’ coverage. Perhaps editors didn’t attach enough importance to
the speech to give their correspondents a longer word count, which might
account for the short, sanitized reports by Reuters, BBC News, CNN and Sky News.
Other news services touched
on Abbas’ rant, but didn’t delve into the significance, such as AFP, The Independent, Irish Times and the Financial Times.
While the New York Times gave a
sense of the PA chairman’s verbosity, the paper unfortunately didn’t fact-check
Abbas, giving a pass to the false quote.
“Testing
his audience’s attention, Mr. Abbas also gave a lengthy history lecture
reaching back to the 17th century, saying that Oliver Cromwell had first
proposed shipping European Jews to the Holy Land, before tracing the beginning
of Zionism to what he called the 19th-century journalist and activist
Theodor Herzl’s efforts to “wipe out Palestinians from Palestine.”
“This
is a colonial enterprise that has nothing to do with Jewishness,” Mr. Abbas
said. “The Jews were used as a tool under the concept of the promised land —
call it whatever you want. Everything has been made up.”
Indeed, Abbas has made
everything up.
Can you imagine the headlines
if an Israeli head of state denied the existence of the Palestinian people? Or
fabricated quotes?
While I didn’t see any news
coverage of the speech in The Guardian, an Ian Black commentary fretted
over how the speech would play into the hands of right-wing Israelis. And if I
didn’t know any better, I’d say the Irish Independent took
Associated Press reports one and two and scrubbed them.
Credit the Daily Telegraph and Washington Post for
acknowledging Abbas being Abbas and getting fresh quotes from analysts to
provide some meaning.
Palestinians may see Abbas as
defiantly throwing down the gauntlet while Israelis see Abbas on the verge of
imploding.
If there’s going to be peace,
we need the press to step up and enlighten us on what Mahmoud Abbas really
stands for.
Sign
HonestReporting’s petition to
the Foreign Press Association in Israel demanding reporters and editors
give a fuller picture of Palestinian rejectionism and refusal to recognize
Israel’s right to exist.
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Believe Mahmoud Abbas – Believe a Liar
John R. Houk
© January 16, 2018
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