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Such bigotry is hardly surprising given that he earned the Soviet equivalent of a PhD in Moscow for a dissertation published in Arabic entitled "The Other Side: the Secret Relations between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement" in which he claimed that the Holocaust didn't happen. 

He declared that the gas chambers were never used to murder Jews, and that at most 890,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis. This happened, he claimed, in part because the Zionists led a campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule in order to fuel their exterminationand so bring about the victory of Zionism.

Not only does Abbas thus odiously deny the Holocaust, but he and his cronies also repeatedly deny the history of the Jewish people in their false claim that the Palestinians, rather than the Jews, were the authentic inhabitants of the land.

Despite mouthing platitudes in English about the aim of two states living side by side, when speaking in Arabic Abbas and Co deny Israel's right to exist at all. 

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Hazlitt
October 15th, 2011
10:10 AM
Just to be clear: Tiki is saying that we in the West want a second Holocaust and are happy for the Palestinians (!) to carry it out. Laughable, but a standard Zionist trope intended to short-circuit rational debate.

Dror from Israel
October 14th, 2011
2:10 PM
Melanie Phillips, Thanks for unmasking this "mild-mannered businessman". He is also responsible for approving dozens of death penalties to Palestinians accused in collaboration with Israel. Indeed, what a great humanist... Here is a link to an interview with Abbas Zaki, a member of Fatah's centeral comittee, considered by many the successor of Mahmoud Abbas. We can learn what the Palestinians mean when they speak of peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyhuqthF2UM&feature=player_embedded#!

tiki
October 14th, 2011
10:10 AM
"appalingly, the solution that he represents risks being the final one". The EU, Britain Obama & the rest know! That's why they like & endorse him. Let the Palies do the 'dirty work and we the 'enlightened West will again mourn dead Israeli/Jews with many speeches & memorials

Hazlitt
October 13th, 2011
2:10 PM
Abbas was incompetent in negotiating Oslo. Abbas has been compliant in the implementation by Israel and the US of the textbook neo-colonial pacification of the natives. Abbas has no mandate. Abbas has not attempted to acquire a mandate, even from the section of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories. The one piece of disobedience has been to turn to the UN, in the hope that it would fulfil its duty to resolve this international dispute rather than acquiesce in the US-Isreali ploy of pretending it is a bilateral dispute between two equal parties, Israel and the Palestinians. It has long been Israeli custom to depict any prominent Palestinian as a terrorist, to persuade the world that it has no-one to negotiate with. It and its creatures have long depicted Abbas as such, even as he did their bidding and even as he and his colleagues offered up everything the Israelis demanded (see the Palestinian Papers). This little rant is just more of the same, with added pique because of the one little piece of disobedience. It deserves no further notice. It is obedient propaganda.

Anonymous
October 13th, 2011
9:10 AM
This article should be required reading for Messrs Hague and Cameron - and the rest of the European political Establishment. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Ms Phillips for highlighting these repugnant, but usually overlooked facts, and to Standopint Magazine for publishing the article. Thank you to both. Would that our lonely voices get stronger.

Joan
October 13th, 2011
12:10 AM
Hoped you would have time to read this.

Steve
October 12th, 2011
4:10 PM
Yea true, but why let facts get in the way of establishing another terrorist state???

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