PA TV claims that Israel has a plot to rule over the entire Muslim world, citing the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as evidence.
By Rachel Avraham
Palestinian Media Watch recently reported, “Official Palestinian Authority TV is the mouthpiece of the PA, and the PA uses it to transmit libels and lies about Israel. One such libel claims that Israel’s fight against Hamas is just a symptom of an Israeli plot to rule the entire Muslim world. The PA has repeated this libel for decades as Palestinian Media Watch has exposed, claiming that Israel harbors colonialist aspirations and dreams of ruling the entire Arab world.”
For example, a speaker at an anti-Israel demonstration in Algiers, who was broadcasted live on PA TV, once stated: “The goal of the Zionist enterprise is not just to eliminate the central cause, which is the Palestinian cause. Its goal is to harm the [Arab] nation, dismantle it, and tear it apart, and to establish the [Zionist] entity state (i.e., Israel) on the land of Islam, on the land of Palestine, and on all the Muslim lands.”
PA TV also quoted political science lecturer Hareth Halalmeh as stating: “Israel has an expansionist outlook. This expansionist outlook does not only include Palestine, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, but encompasses the entire Arab and Islamic entity… The Arabs are now convinced that we are facing an imperialistic, expanding, occupying, settler state that does not accept a Palestinian partner, nor an Arab partner, but rather only thinks in the language of violence and power. The Arabs are now fully convinced that if this danger will not be nipped in the bud, this danger will reach every Arab state.”
Political science lecturer Dr. Ibrahim Al-Rifa’I told PA TV in an interview that traditional colonialism was not just British or French or Italian: “It was actually Zionist colonialism… They [the Jews] think that the entire world that is outside the circle of Zionism are goyim (i.e., non-Jews) and that Zionist globalization should rule, and they have been waging a world war ever since the time before traditional colonialism. Traditional colonialism was completely Zionist. This colonialism with its various names – British, English, French – was just Zionist colonialism.”
Lebanese Shari’ah Judge Sheikh Khaldoun Oraymet also told PA TV: “We must understand, as Lebanese, Arabs, Muslims, and even Christians, that any decision made by the Zionist enemy (i.e., Israel) certainly contains traps and unannounced goals, which are necessarily not for the benefit of Lebanon [or] the Palestinian cause or the Arabs. For us to know for certain that this is their position, one must re-examine The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (i.e., antisemitic forgery), and examine – I’m not saying the Bible, but the Talmud that was written by the Jews’ rabbis.”
This PA TV coverage has been endorsed by the Palestinian Authority, even though according to Palestinian Media Watch, “PA Chairman Abbas’ advisor Al-Habbash has presented a different version of this libel, claiming that it is the US that seeks dominion over the Arab world, using Israel as “a pawn state” to reach its “colonialist goals.”
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash said on his Facebook page: “There is no strategic alliance in the true political sense between the US and Israel. What actually exists is American employment of Israel. Israel is nothing more than an American interest. It is nothing more than a pawn state or pawn entity whose goal is to serve the American and colonialist goals. The US is making sure to keep this entity and state so that it will serve its goals to keep the Arab region divided, backward, and conflict-ridden… The US is interested in continuing the situation (i.e., Israeli counter-terror operation against Hamas). It wants to pressure the Palestinian people, and to break the willpower of the Palestinian people and the Arab nation that is behind it.”
Palestinian Media Watch concluded, “Official PA TV has repeatedly served as a means for spreading the libel that Israel’s goal is to expand beyond “Palestine.” A Syrian commentator warned that Israel poses “a danger that will wash over the Arab and Islamic world”.”
Photo from Palwatch: https://palwatch.org/page/37094
