Abbas' forked tongue

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Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Israeli TV last week that Palestine's borders will be on the 1967 borders, and although he wishes to visit Safed, his place of birth, he does not wish to live there because that city is part of Israel. In contrast to this statement, Abbas' official PA TV continues to present a world without Israel in which all of Israel is defined as "Palestine." Dozens of times, PA TV broadcasts programs and music videos in which Israeli places and cities like Ashkelon, Haifa, Acre, Tiberias, Beit Shean, Jaffa, Nazareth, Ramle, Lod, Safed, Mt Carmel, the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights are described as "Palestinian," "ours" or as part of "my country Palestine."

The following are texts and links to ... videos that were broadcast as recently as last week on official PA TV:

Song broadcast on PA TV in various contexts, most recently at The Summer Nights Festival in Jerusalem, under the auspices of PA PM Salam Fayyad:

Sign: "Under the auspices of Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad: The 3rd Summer Nights Festival in Jerusalem"
Song: "Oh flying bird, circling around,
by Allah, oh traveling [bird], I burn with envy.
My country Palestine is beautiful.
Go to Jenin and bring me from its valley greetings to Nablus, Tulkarem and their soil.
Drink the water of Jaffa's port, don't forget Ramle and Ramallah.
Oh flying bird, circling around,
by Allah, oh traveling [bird], I burn with envy.
My country Palestine is beautiful.
Turn to Safed, and then to Tiberias, and send regards to the sea of Acre and Haifa.
Don't forget Nazareth, the Arab fortress, and tell Beit Shean about its people's return."

[PA TV (Fatah), Oct. 24 and Oct. 29, 2012]

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Original piece is http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=7847

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Abbas' forked tongue