(Gatestone Institute) Bassam Tawil - PA leader Mahmoud Abbas continues to rewrite history. On Feb. 12, Abbas addressed an Arab League conference in Cairo and repeated his false claim that there was no connection between Jews and Jerusalem, as well as the Western Wall of the Temple Mount, part of the retaining wall from the Second Temple of Solomon that was destroyed in 70 CE - more than 500 years before the Islamic Prophet Mohammad was born. Abbas also once again argued that Israel was created because the Europeans wanted to get rid of the Jews living in their countries, when in fact the Jews have continuously lived in area since at least 1550 BCE. Two days after Abbas' latest attempt to rewrite history, his friends in the Biden administration and some European countries issued a joint statement attacking Israel for advancing plans to build new homes for Jewish families in the West Bank, claiming that this would "exacerbate tensions between Israelis and Palestinians." It is the Palestinian leadership's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people and to erase history that is exacerbating tensions between Israelis and Jews. It is the Palestinian leadership's massive campaign of incitement against Israel and Jews and continued glorification of terrorists that is aggravating tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Abbas made it clear in Cairo that the Arabs' problem with Israel started back in 1917, when the Jews were promised a homeland of their own. The conflict started long before the construction of even one house for Jews in the West Bank.
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