Fatah official: “Israel was founded on a lie and falsification of the Bible”

Fatah Spokesman in the Gaza Strip Mundhir Al-Hayek: "The extremist right-wing Jews came to [first Israeli Prime Minister] Ben Gurion and said: "We want money to build religious schools." He gave them 8 million [Israeli] shekels. They came to him again with additional demands, and he said: "We invented God so He would serve us." What I understand from this story is that he told them: "Go to the Wailing Wall and pray there as much as you want and leave the State of Israel." According to my understanding, Israel was founded on a lie based on the Temple Mount and the falsification of the Bible: That they are the people of the promise and the promised land and the like. They invented a new religion for themselvesbased on remaining in Palestine and taking over Palestine, based on claims of the Temple Mount and such falsehoods… We, the pure Canaanites, the Arabs, the owners of this land, we will remain in Palestine, and we won't leave it."

[Official PA TV, Behind the Events, Nov. 23, 2025]

The Palestinians have no connection to the Canaanites who were not Arabs and have no history prior to the modern period.