PLO Ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki said last week that the PLO would win control of Jerusalem and use it to take control of all of Israel.  In an interview for Lebanon’s NBN TV translated by MEMRI, Zaki said, “when the ideology of Israel collapses, and we take, at least, Jerusalem, the Israeli ideology will collapse in its entirety, and we will begin to progress with our own ideology, Allah willing, and drive them out of all of Palestine.”

Yunis al-Astal, a Palestinian Authority Parliament member from Hamas, expressed even more ambitious goals in a speech translated by MEMRI.  Al-Astal said Islam would soon conquer Rome, and from there would overtake Europe and the two Americas.  Through missionary work and “military conquests of the capitals of the entire world,” Islam would take control of the world, he said.