By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, JNS—
Palestinian children are still being taught that “Palestine” includes all of Israel. Decades after the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority and Fatah still don’t recognize Israel’s existence.
The photo above is a prime example of this. The Palestinian Authority Presidential Guards posted this image of a young boy making the “V” symbol for “victory” while holding a Palestinian flag. Behind him is the P.A. map clearly named “Palestine” that includes all of Israel and the P.A. areas.
The names of the following Israeli cities and regions are written in the colors of the Palestinian flag on and around the map: “Haifa,” “Jerusalem,” “Safed,” “Nazareth,” “Jaffa,” “Tal Al-Rabia (i.e., Tel Aviv, see note below),” “Tiberias,” “Be’er Sheva,” “Ramle,” “Ashkelon,” “the Negev,” “Lod,” “Acre” and “Beit Shean.” “Gaza” is also marked. The text on the image, states that Palestinians will “return”:
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Text on image: “Palestine We will surely return”
Another Palestinian way of saying that all of the State of Israel is “Palestine” is to describe it as stretching “from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.” This is one of the PA’s popular slogans. Recently it was repeated by a university lecturer who described the “great Palestinian dream”: