https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-settlements-will-be-swept-away-palestinians-came-from-ancient-canaanites/

Abbas: Settlements will be swept away, Palestinians came from ancient Canaanites
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has asserted settlements in the West Bank will be swept into “the dustbins of history” and contended that Palestinians are the original inhabitants of the region according to the Biblical history.
Abbas made the comments over the weekend in a strongly worded speech during the course of an extremely rare visit to a refugee camp in the West Bank days after Israeli officials pushed forward thousands of new settlement homes.

“We will remain and no one will be able to move us out of our homeland. He who wants to do that: ‘Go.’ The unexpected visitor in this country has no right in this country. Thus, we tell them: ‘Every brick you laid in our land and every house you built in our land will vanish, if God permits,'” Abbas said, speaking in an event hall at the Jalazone refugee camp, which is situated north of Ramallah and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Beit El.

“Whatever homes they announce here or settlements there, they will all disappear, if God wills it. They will be in the dustbins of history and they will remember that this land is for its people, its residents and the Canaanites who were here 5,000 years ago. We are the Canaanites,” he added.

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki told The Times of Israel on Tuesday that the PA president’s comments were solely alluding to settlers in the West Bank and not all Israelis.
“He was only referring to them,” he said, adding that “all settlement homes are illegitimate and illegal, according to international law.”

Abbas made the speech in Jalazone two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently expressed support for extending Israeli sovereignty over part of the West Bank, visited Beit El, where he participated in a cornerstone-laying ceremony for 650 new housing units in the settlement.
Days earlier, the Defense Ministry pushed ahead with approvals for over 2,300 more homes in the West Bank, many of them deep inside the territory Palestinians claim for a state of their own.

Abbas’s reference to the Canaanites, an ancient people who predated the Israelites’ settling of Canaan, according to the Biblical narrative, came in response to recent comments by Netanyahu that Palestinians only recently arrived in the area, said Mohammed Odeh, an official in Abbas’s office.
“He was refuting Netanyahu’s claim that Palestinians don’t have deep roots in the land and stating that we have a long history here,” Odeh said in a phone call Tuesday.
Netanyahu said in early July that the ancestors of the Palestinians came from the Arabian Peninsula.