‘There is no historical proof – despite all the excavations – that [the Jews] had any kind of presence in this land.’
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina denied Jewish history claiming on official PA TV that there is “no historical proof [the Jews] had any kind of presence” in the Land of Israel.
“The Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Al-Aqsa Mosque are among the foundational pillars of history, and they are Palestinian holy places, and not Jewish holy places (sic). There is no historical proof – despite all the excavations – that [the Jews] had any kind of presence in this land (sic),” he says, as noted by Palestinian Media Watch.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque mentioned by Abu Rudeina is located on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism.