Senior Fatah official attacks Abraham Accords: Israel wants to rule ‘from ‎the Euphrates to the‏ ‏Nile’

PA and Fatah officials misrepresent the Abraham Accords as an expression of Israel’s alleged plan to “rule from the Euphrates River to the Nile River.”

By Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch

Abbas’ advisor: “Israel aims to control the entire Arab and Islamic region.”

US President Trump has initiated an expansion of the Abraham Accords’ Israeli-Arab normalization agreements, engaging in talks with Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia.

The PA views this as a major threat to its ability to mobilize a unified Arab position against Israel.

Accordingly, instead of recognizing Israel’s desire to expand peaceful relations, PA and Fatah officials misrepresent the Abraham Accords as an expression of Israel’s alleged plan to “rule from the Euphrates River to the Nile River,” as stated explicitly by senior Fatah official Abbas Zaki:

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki:

“If we recognize the Abrahamic Peace (i.e., the Abraham Accords), it means that the descendants of the [Jewish] settlers will say, ‘We are the descendants of Abraham, and Abraham gave us the land.” …

Anyone who thinks that Israel only wants Palestine is mistaken. It [wants to rule] from the Euphrates River to the Nile River. “The new Middle East” that it talks about is one of the types of Israel’s hegemony over the region.”

[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page,
June 30, 2025]

PA Chairman Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash echoed Zaki’s statement, claiming that Israel plans to take over “the entire Arab and Islamic nation”:

Mahmoud Al-Habbash:

“Palestine and the Palestinian people are the first line of defense for the Arab and Islamic nation as a whole. Israel is not only targeting the Palestinian people, but rather [aims] to control the entire region.

We need Arab and Islamic support so we will be able to continue our resolve against this occupation (i.e., Israel), which, as I said, aims to control the entire Arab and Islamic region.”

[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, YouTube channel, July 3, 2025]

Other PA leaders and PA education likewise present Israel as a threat to the entire Arab-Muslim world and use that as a reason that Jews should leave and “return to their origins in Europe”:

PLO Representative to the UN and International Organizations in Geneva Ibrahim Khreisheh:

“Israel is an occupying state, and it needs to end its occupation… They (i.e., Israelis /Jews) are talking about historical Palestine from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River, and later they will talk about [Israel] even bigger.

They think according to the religious stories that Greater Israel from the Nile to [the Euphrates River in] Iraq is the land of Greater Israel. Most of them came from various nations and ethnic groups from Europe and other states and stole the Palestinian land…

Those who claim their ‘historical right’ (i.e., the Jews) need to return to their origins in Europe and other states from which they came. Palestine will remain for the Palestinians.”

[Official PA TV News, Oct. 12, 2024]