by Nan Jacques Zilberdik
For decades, Palestinian Media Watch has exposed how the PA libel that Israel is seeking to "destroy" the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Muslim holy sites has been a key motivator for Palestinian terror. This is combined with antisemitic statements that the Jewish presence at the Temple Mount is "defiling" the holy site.
"O Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque and purify our land of the filth of the occupiers" – PA TV sermon
Preacher asks Allah to "remove" Israel and "purify the Al-Aqsa Mosque… restore its sanctity and purity"
Abbas' advisor calls for "the Islamic nation and the whole world" to "protect the holy sites and religious values in Palestine and the entire world in accordance with the basic principles anchored by Islam"
Abbas' advisor urges world to help Palestinians against Israel's "dangerous attacks" on the holy sites "before they lead to igniting a religious conflict that will threaten all of humanity"
During a
sermon on official Palestinian Authority TV, a preacher called on Allah
to "remove" Israel and "purify the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings"
– i.e., the entire Temple Mount – the holiest place for Jews. Official
PA TV has broadcast many sermons with similar content:
Official PA TV sermon: "O Allah, remove this occupier, and make them disappear from this land. O Allah, purify the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings. O Allah, restore its sanctity and purity, and remove this occupation."
[Official PA TV, Dec. 6, 2024]
Earlier this year, the same preacher called on Allah to "liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque" and "purify the land from the filth" of Israelis:
Official PA TV sermon: "O Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings soon. O Allah, purify our land of the filth of the occupiers. O Allah, remove them, O Master of the Universe."
[Official PA TV, Oct. 18, 2024]
For decades, Palestinian Media Watch has exposed how the PA libel that Israel is seeking to "destroy" the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Muslim holy sites has been a key motivator for Palestinian terror. This is combined with antisemitic statements that the Jewish presence at the Temple Mount is "defiling" the holy site.
Feeling abandoned by some Arab states' normalization agreements with Israel, the PA continues to claim that the dangers to the mosque are real and to turn to the Islamic nations for help. Meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash discussed "ways to strengthen the Islamic cooperation on everything related to providing political and material aid to Palestine, its leadership, and its people." Al-Habbash specified the "dangers" to the Islamic holy sites:
"We must concentrate and unify the Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic efforts to defend the holy religious sites in Palestine, especially the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is being subjected to serious violations by the occupation (i.e., Israeli) authorities and the terrorist colonialist gangs, in order to change its historical and legal status and impose Israeli control on it."
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Dec. 9, 2024]
Al-Habbash also met with Malaysian Minister of Religious Affairs Mohd Na'im Mokhtar, with whom he discussed "ways to cooperate to protect the holy sites and religious values in Palestine and the entire world in accordance with the basic principles anchored by Islam." He stressed that the protection of the Islamic and Christian holy sites and the prevention of "a religious conflict that will threaten all of humanity" require "the Islamic nation and the whole world":
"Al-Habbash briefed the Malaysian minister… about the Israeli violations at the Islamic and Christian holy sites in the holy city [of Jerusalem], and specifically at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque – which requires the Islamic nation and the whole world to set out with determination against these dangerous attacks before they lead to igniting a religious conflict that will threaten all of humanity. He held the occupation state (i.e., Israel) and those who stand alongside it in its aggression fully responsible for the consequences of its crimes."
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Dec. 10, 2024]
Al-Habbash has specified numerous times that Jews have "no rights" on the Temple Mount:
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "The Al-Aqsa Mosque is a pure Islamic right. It is an exclusive Islamic waqf for Muslims (i.e., an inalienable religious endowment), and it is an exclusive right of the Muslims… At the UN podium, [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas spoke explicitly about the Muslims' legal claim to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and [said] that non-Muslims have no right to it… [Israel] knows that it has no right to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and that the Jews have no right to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. But they are only fanning the fire of hostility and the fire of religious war… The duty lies on the Islamic nation and the Arabs in general, with the governments, regimes, states, bodies, religious and popular sources of authority and [all] the peoples, to participate in defending the noble Al-Aqsa Mosque, starting with coming to it… and ending with liberating the Al-Aqsa Mosque by all possible means (i.e., including terror)."
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Oct. 1, 2024]
Al-Habbash's call for violence against Israel from Muslim states echoes a recent similar call for "an Islamic awakening" by Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki to save the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the "dangers":
"Zaki said that the dangers surrounding the Al-Aqsa Mosque requires ‘an Islamic awakening' to save it, and that the responsibility to defend the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque from the dangers surrounding it is laid on all the Muslims worldwide and not on the Palestinians alone."
[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page,
Oct. 26, 2024]
The following are longer excerpts of the statements by Al-Habbash and Zaki:
"[PA] Supreme Shari'ah Judge and [PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas'] Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash discussed with Malaysian Prime Minister and Chairman of the UMNO party Ahmad Zahid Hamidi ways to strengthen the Islamic cooperation on everything related to providing political and material aid to Palestine, its leadership, and its people...
During the meeting, which took place in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, ...Al-Habbash emphasized that we must concentrate and unify the Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic efforts to defend the holy religious sites in Palestine, especially the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is being subjected to serious violations by the occupation (i.e., Israeli) authorities and the terrorist colonialist gangs, in order to change its historical and legal status and impose Israeli control on it. He also warned against turning the conflict into a religious conflict, which would push the world into a frightening cycle of violence and extremism."
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Dec. 9, 2024]
Headline: "Al-Habbash discusses the cooperation to protect the holy sites and religious values with the Malaysian minister of religious affairs"
"[PA] Supreme Shari'ah Judge and [PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas'] Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash discussed ways to cooperate to protect the holy sites and religious values in Palestine and the entire world in accordance with the basic principles anchored by Islam, which prohibit harming the holy religious sites of all the religions and communities, with Malaysian Minister of Religious Affairs Mohd Na'im Mokhtar.
During their meeting, which was held in Kuala Lumpur, Al-Habbash briefed the Malaysian minister… about the Israeli violations at the Islamic and Christian holy sites in the holy city [of Jerusalem], and specifically at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque – which requires the Islamic nation and the whole world to set out with determination against these dangerous attacks before they lead to igniting a religious conflict that will threaten all of humanity. He held the occupation state (i.e., Israel) and those who stand alongside it in its aggression fully responsible for the consequences of its crimes."
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Dec. 10, 2024]
Posted text: "[Fatah Central Committee member] Abbas Zaki arrived in Turkey and met with [Turkish] Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş
Istanbul – Oct. 26, 2024
Fatah Movement Central Committee member and [Fatah] General Commissioner for Arab and China Relations Abbas Zaki arrived in Istanbul this afternoon to participate in meetings of the union of parliament members for Jerusalem and Palestine that took place in Istanbul…
Zaki presented a detailed report about the ongoing [Israeli] war crimes and genocide that have surpassed all imagination against our people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank (refers to the 2023 Gaza war; see note below -Ed.), and about what the extremist settlers are carrying out in Jerusalem, who are waving around the slogan ‘There is no state without Jerusalem and there is no Jerusalem without the alleged Temple.' …
Zaki said that the dangers surrounding the Al-Aqsa Mosque requires ‘an Islamic awakening' to save it, and that the responsibility to defend the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque from the dangers surrounding it is laid on all the Muslims worldwide and not on the Palestinians alone. Zaki called for urgent intervention by all the regional and international influential institutions and by people of good conscience to bring about a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and to condemn the massacres against our people in Palestine, in the Gaza Strip, and in the West Bank, in which the US is participating."
[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page, Oct. 26, 2024]
Mahmoud Al-Habbash also serves as Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice. In August 2019, PA Chairman Abbas dismissed all his advisors by Presidential decree. It is unclear what their status is today.
Abbas Zaki also holds the position as Fatah Commissioner for Arab and China Relations
Abbas Zaki also holds the position as Fatah Commissioner for Arab and China Relations
Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Source: https://palwatch.org/page/36758
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