PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “Israel behaves like any state or side with colonialist ambitions and conflicts. It is attempting to change the existing situation in the territory under occupation. It is also trying to create and invent a historical and religious narrative that will justify what it is doing in the Palestinian territories, such as the discourse on historical and religious rights, which all the historical and archaeological findings prove to be pure lies and fabrications that have no connection to the truth.

There has never been any state in the true sense for the Israelis on the land of Palestine, neither in the past nor later. The inventions brought by the Zionist movement are purely colonialist inventions intended to justify the occupation of the Palestinian land, its takeover, and the changing of its features. Israel is attempting to invent a religious narrative, invent a religious right, [such as] the discourse about rights at the Al-Aqsa Mosque [plaza] and the Ibrahimi Mosque (i.e., Cave of the Patriarchs). These rights have no basis whatsoever. They are pure lies and inventions... Just as they stole the geography and the land, now they are attempting to steal the history. They are falsifying history to complete the facets of the plot, the takeover, the occupation, the theft, and the international deception process that Israel is carrying out in the Palestinian territories.”

[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, YouTube channel, Dec. 7, 2025]

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