The Palestinian national identity is all a lie by Itamar Marcus and Ephraim D. Tepler - Feb 27, 2025

PALWatch : Of the steady stream of Palestinian Authority lies, possibly the most farcical is its claim to be a 6000-year-old nation together with its denial of the thousands of years of Israel's documented history. This recent cartoon appearing on an official Fatah website reinforces the lie.

While the PA knows that there is no such thing as an ancient Palestinian Arab history prior to the last few decades, it appropriates the history of multiple ethnic groups present in the Land of Israel thousands of years ago as its own, declaring them to be "Palestinian."

This propaganda is constant, coming from all PA leaders, so-called academics, and religious figures, and it is prevalent across all the PA's controlled education and media. The headline of the cartoon above is called "The history" and the caption states:

"The Palestinian people have a long history of culture, and they were part of ancient cultures, as their lands were characterized by diverse cultures over the generations, from the Canaanites to the Phoenicians."

[Falestinona, Fatah's Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, Feb. 19, 2025]

Cartoons like these are a snapshot of how the PA systematically brainwashes its people to deny Israel's right to exist through distortion or denial of history. This education forms the core of how the PA educates children while it is also preached consistently by PA leadership.

One example of how this kind of PA/Fatah false education can be seen in Fatah's children's magazine:

"Palestine has belonged to the Palestinians for thousands of years. Therefore, the Palestinian people rejected this [UN] resolution that gives rights to our land and our homeland to foreigners who came from all ends of the earth, foreigners who did not know Palestine and did not live in it – neither them nor their fathers and forefathers. Their color is not our color, their skin is not our skin, and their customs are different from our customs. They do not even have one color or one ethnic origin – they are a strange and odd mixture of different races."

[Waed, Issue 36, p. 2]

The facts are that Israel/Judea suffered invasion and expulsions by the Assyrian Empire (722 BCE) and the Babylonian Empire (586 BCE); experienced invasion and return from exile under the Persian Empire (538 BCE); occupation by the Greek Empire (329 BCE) and expulsions by the Roman Empire (70 CE and 135 CE), who also renamed the land "Syria-Palestina" in 135 CE. Since then, Jews remained and survived in the Land of Israel and in exile during 2,000 years of invasions and occupation by foreigners until the State of Israel was reestablished in 1948.

None of this matters to PA/Fatah. Besides denying Israel's ancient history, it instead rewrites actual aspects of Jewish history as "Palestinian history":

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