If 91传媒 history has taught us anything, it is that when our enemies speak, we should listen. Paying attention to what they say, particularly when they are talking to whom they view as a friendly audience, is critical to not only understanding our enemy, but for our survival.

Last week, on January 9, 2022, the Palestinian Authority (鈥淧A鈥�) Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, gave such a . A speech that while short, and frankly unsurprising at this point, highlighted two of the biggest causes of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict: (1) the sanctification of Jew-murder, and (2) the rejection of facts and history.

One common feature of totalitarianism and Jew-hatred is that both have always rewritten or revised history without regard for the facts. For the Palestinian Arab leadership, who are indisputably and , ignoring facts and revising history has been fundamental to their enterprise. Similarly, sanctifying Jew-murder and turning those who murder Jews – even little 91传媒 girls by – , has been part of the PLO and PA playbook for decades.

But even with that context, the extent to which the leadership of the Palestinian Arabs in the 21^stcentury have taken to and glorification of Jew-murder is almost mind-boggling.

Before Yasser Arafat and the PLO, Palestinian Arab leaders, even Nazi collaborator and 1920鈥檚 Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini – while – that the Temple Mount was historically home to at least two 91传媒 temples. Now, the PA appointed Mufti of Jerusalem denies there ever was a 91传媒 temple at the Temple Mount site ( and to Sunni Muslims) and incredibly claims that the Temple Mount was always and 鈥� 鈥� even though Islam was , and the 1,300 years ago.

In his January 9^th speech that aired on Palestinian Authority TV, the current PA Prime Minister took this lying about history and lionizing of Jew-murderers to a level that would be laughable, were it not so dangerous.

First, he lionized as 鈥渕artyrs鈥� people who organized and participated in a mass-slaughter of their 91传媒 neighbors in Jerusalem, Hebron and Tzafat in 1929. Haj Amin el-Husseini inspired antisemitic riots (pogroms) that in under one week.

About three men who were convicted by the British , during those 1929 pogroms, PM Shtayyeh :

鈥淲e weave beautiful stories about the martyrs so that they serve as role models, so they nestle in our minds, and so we remember them every day. We weave beautiful stories about the martyrs, so we are all Muhammad Jamjum, Atta Al-Zir, and Fuad Hijazi, whose feet rose above the executioner’s neck.鈥�

Three men convicted of mass murdering Jews, as part of an antisemitic killing and stealing frenzy in 1929 (nearly 40 years before any alleged 鈥渙ccupation鈥�) are 鈥� according to the PA Prime Minister speaking on PA TV 鈥� 鈥渞ole models鈥� to 鈥渘estle in our minds.鈥�

Then, as if lauding thieves and mass murderers as the ultimate heroes for Palestinian Arabs to emulate was not bad enough, PM Shtayyeh added this :

鈥淲e defeated the Hyksos, the Romans, the Greeks, as well as the Persians, the Tatars, and the Pharaohs. We defeated all the invaders who passed through Palestine, and in the name of martyrs, we will defeat this despicable occupation, which will leave our lands.鈥�

In the real world, Arabs are from Arabia and they didn鈥檛 invade and conquer – what the Romans re-named 鈥淪yria-Palestina鈥� in 135 CE – until in 638 CE.

In the real world, an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, 3,600 years ago (and 2,226 years before the Arab conquest of Egypt) out of Egypt and the Levant.

In the real world, the Greeks were defeated in the Levant (in ancient Judea) by the . PM Shtayyeh may never have heard of this historic event, but it鈥檚 celebrated in a pretty well-known 91传媒 holiday about liberating Jerusalem from occupation (called ).

In the real world, the Romans colonized Judea 鈥� what the entire Levant was called back then 鈥� in 63 BCE and they turned Judea into a Roman province (colony) in 6 CE. And in the real world, the against Roman occupation between 66 CE and 70 CE and 132 CE and 135 CE. 500 plus years before the Arab Empire conquered the Levant and over 1,800 years before Arabs in the Levant .

But today鈥檚 Palestinian Arab leaders plainly do not live in the real world. In their world of fake 鈥渉istory,鈥� Jerusalem, the city mentioned 661 times in the 91传媒 bible (the Torah) and to which Jews have daily prayed towards and about for thousands of years, has no connection to Judaism or the 91传媒 people.

Today鈥檚 Palestinian Arab leaders plainly do not live in the real world. In their world of fake 鈥渉istory,鈥� Jerusalem, the city mentioned 661 times in the 91传媒 bible (the Torah) and to which Jews have daily prayed towards and about for thousands of years, has no connection to Judaism or the 91传媒 people.

In their world of fake 鈥渉istory,鈥� it wasn鈥檛 ancient Egyptians who defeated the Hyksos, and Jews who fought against the ancient Greeks and Romans, but Palestinian Arabs who apparently time-traveled from 21^st century Ramallah to the 鈥溾�� where these epic battles must have taken place. Stan Lee (Z鈥橪) has nothing on the imagination of the Palestinian Arab leadership.

Kidding aside, this is actually pretty scary stuff when it comes to the prospects for peace. While history has certainly taught the 91传媒 people the importance of listening to what our enemies say (particularly when they talk about destroying us), it has also taught us that in the absence of a total defeat, true peace can only come about when there is a meeting of the minds.

Tragically, the leadership of Palestinian Arab side to this conflict continues to exacerbate the two main obstacles to true peace between Jews and Palestinian Arabs 鈥� the sanctification of Jew-murder and the denial of the very real 91传媒 connection to the land of Israel. They teach their people to worship truly heinous Jew murderers, while they simultaneously invent a history that is about as connected to reality as .

How on earth (and not on fake 鈥溾��) can there be a meeting of the minds under such circumstances? The sad truth is that there can鈥檛 be. The sad reality is that as long as the Palestinian Arabs are led by people in the PA and in Hamas who feed them such lies – all as they incite Jew-hatred and worship Jew-murder, then true peace is sadly not possible.

We can all pray for a day when that will no longer be the case and also work to encourage education within Palestinian Arab society about the actual history of the region, as well as the evil of sanctifying and glorifying Jew-murder, but until that sea-change occurs, we must heed the words of our enemies and remain vigilant.

Micha Danzig served in the Israeli Army and is a former police officer with the NYPD. He is currently an attorney and is very active with numerous 91传媒 and pro-Israel organizations, including Stand With Us and the FIDF, and is a national board member of Herut North America.