Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated in a speech this week near Ramallah, "Palestinians cannot be removed from their homeland and that every building built by the Zionist occupation will be destroyed and thrown in the garbage bin of history.” He went on to say the entire Palestinian nation will enter Jerusalem as millions of fighters, along with the Arab, Islamic, and Christian nations. Abbas claimed that the Palestinians are the Canaanites who have lived in Palestine for 5,000 years.