Palestinian Authority TV (Fatah), May 14, 2011.
Mahmoud Abbas’s advisor and representative delivers a speech in Abbas’s name that denies that Jews have a history in the Land of Israel and claims a fictitious 9000 year-old Palestinian history dating back to 7000 BCE, which he says makes Palestinians “the owners of history.”
Transcription:
PA moderator of PA Gaza event: “The speech of President Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee and President of the Palestinian Authority, will be delivered by the comrade, the great fighter, Abdallah Al-Ifranji, representative and advisor of the President.”
Mahmoud Abbas, (delivered by his representative, Abdallah Al-Ifranji): “National reconciliation is required in order to face Israel and Netanyahu. We say to him , when he claims – that they have a historical right dating back to 3000 years BCE – we say that the nation of Palestine upon the land of Canaan had a 7000 year history BCE. This is the truth, which must be understood and we have to note it, in order to say: ‘Netanyahu, you are incidental in history. We are the people of history. We are the owners of history.'”
