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PA Leader Rajoub: “The Greatest Palestinian in History Since Jesus is Yasser Arafat” (VIDEO)

December 28, 2012 4:47 pm 2 comments

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Aryeh Savir / Tazpit News Agency

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Mufti Muhammad Hussein. Photo: PMW/Youtube

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reports that the Palestinian leadership’s falsification of history, by presenting Jesus as an ancient Palestinian, has increased in regularity this holiday season. In the last month alone, PA media has broadcast six misrepresentations of Jesus as a Palestinian, including this statement by the Governor of the Ramallah district, Leila Ghannam: “The Palestinian pain is one and the joy is one. We all have the right to be proud that Jesus is a Palestinian and that Palestine is the birthplace of the religions…”

A Palestinian historian, Khalil Shoka, further added on Dec. 16th: “The Christian religion started here [Bethlehem]… The entire world is focused on this city because of its important historical and traditional role… because in the final analysis, Jesus is a Palestinian.”

Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories, said on PA TV on Nov. 30th: “The Palestinian nation is rooted in this land since the Canaanites and the Jebusites. The Arab presence – Christian and Islamic – on this land is uninterrupted. Jesus is a Palestinian par excellence.”

In addition, an ongoing attempt to connect Jesus to Palestinian leaders themselves is apparent. Senior PA leader Jibril Rajoub, a Fatah Central Committee member, said on PA TV on Nov. 29th: “The greatest Palestinian in history since Jesus is Yasser Arafat,” and an editorial in the PA’s official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida referred to Arafat, Jesus and Abbas as the Palestinian “holy Trinity:” “Jesus is a Palestinian; the self-sacrificing Yasser Arafat is a Palestinian; Mahmoud Abbas, the messenger of peace on earth, is a Palestinian. How great is this nation of the holy Trinity!”

PMW has documented ongoing historical revision, which aims to falsely connect the current Palestinian-Arab population to a fabricated ancient Palestinian-Arab nation. Although there is no record of any Palestinian-Arab history, and no people ever identified as being part of a Palestinian-Arab nation until relatively recently, the PA claims they are part of an ancient Palestinian people in an attempt to compete with Israel’s well-documented Jewish history in the land.

While Christian tradition and the historical writings of the period portray Jesus as a Jew living in the land of Judea in Israel, the PA consistently tells its constituents that they are the ones connected to Jesus. This is not only a distortion of Jesus’ personal history as reported in Christian writings, it is also an anachronism. The Romans changed the name of Judea to “Palestine” in order to punish the Jewish nation after its unsuccessful rebellion, 136 years after the birth of Jesus.

Videos of the statements from PA leaders can be viewed below.

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Tina

December 29, 2012
1:28 pm

What a BIG FAT LIE!!! As a Christian this is my faith and what I know as Truth…Jesus came to earth and was born a Jew, grew up a Jew, perfect in everyway, as the ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’ He died a Jew and Rose Again for all of mankind to come to G-D!

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