Mahmoud Abbas: "Jerusalem only has Islamic and Christian history, Israel's "Judaization" is stealing Jerusalem's cultural, human, and Islamic-Christian
religious history"
Mahmoud Abbas' advisor: "Israel is creating artificial heritage with a Jewish spirit at the expense of its [Jerusalem's] true and authentic [identity] as an Arab, Islamic and Christian city"
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority continue to deny Israel's 3,000 years of history in Jerusalem, claiming it is solely an Arab, Muslim and Christian city. Earlier this month, Abbas referred to Israel's presence and activities in Jerusalem as "Judaization" and stated that Israel is stealing what he called the "cultural, human, and Islamic-Christian religious history."
This is not the first time that Abbas has denied Jewish history in Jerusalem and claimed the city for Islam alone. Palestinian Media Watch has reported that Mahmoud Abbas said that taking Jerusalem from Israel is a religious Islamic obligation of the highest level, a "fard ayn" - a personal Islamic commandment incumbent on every Muslim.
In a different speech, Abbas said in 2010: "The oppressor will not last in Jerusalem; the oppression will not endure. Victory will come, Allah willing. This land is Allah's best land, for which He chooses the finest of His believers, as it is written in the words of the Prophet [Muhammad]." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 11, 2010]
Abbas' Minister of Religion Mahmoud Al-Habbash claimed that Jerusalem has been: "throughout history, the capital of the Palestinian state and the capital of the Palestinian people." [PA TV (Fatah), Aug. 20, 2010]
Neither claim is correct. There has never been a Palestinian state and Jerusalem was never the capital of an Arab or Muslim state.
Source: palwatch.org
Our Statement on this!
We as followers of (the Jewish born) Yeshua/Jesus HaMashiach/Christ:
1. Reject all (false) claims made by M. Abbas.
2. Renounce all bonds we as Christians/Messianics might have, according to the ´palestinians´, with Islam.
3. Recognise the 3000 year of Jewish history of Jerusalem and the whole of Israël.
