{"id":2029400,"date":"2023-09-12T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hold-on-a-second-are-you-telling-me-mahmoud-abbas-hates-jews\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:07:56","slug":"hold-on-a-second-are-you-telling-me-mahmoud-abbas-hates-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hold-on-a-second-are-you-telling-me-mahmoud-abbas-hates-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait, so you&#8217;re saying Mahmoud Abbas hates Jews?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhold-on-a-second-are-you-telling-me-mahmoud-abbas-hates-jews%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2029400&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Abbas&#8217;s Distorted View of History<\/h2>\n<p>During a\u200d speech \u2063to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Palestinian dictator Mahmoud Abbas <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/palestinian-leaders-comments-holocaust-draw-accusations-antisemitism-us-103005275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> that Adolf Hitler\u2019s destruction of European Jewry was\u200b not an act\u2063 of antisemitism but rather that\u200d it was prompted by \u201csocial functions \u2026 related to money, and usury.\u201d From \u201cHitler\u2019s\u200d point of view,\u201d Abbas went on, it was the Jews\u2064 who \u201cwere sabotaging, and therefore he hated them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m not sure what kind of interest rates those Jewish kids who \u200bended\u2064 up in gas chambers\u2063 were charging Germans,\u2063 but Abbas \u2014 who, granted, \u2062usually has a better grasp of \u201cHitler\u2019s point of view\u201d than most \u2014\u200d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hold-on-a-second-are-you-telling-me-mahmoud-abbas-hates-jews\/\" title=\"Wait, so you're saying Mahmoud Abbas hates Jews?\">spreading gross historical inaccuracies<\/a> \u2064and engaged in \u2064nefarious \u2064victim blaming.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Abbas\u2019s Holocaust denialism\u200c came as a great\u2064 shock \u2062to many of our top Middle East experts.\u2062 They are simply flummoxed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Questioning Abbas&#8217;s Expertise<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI have been \u2063despairing\u2064 about how to respond to Abu Mazen\u2019s profoundly anti-Semitic\u200c diatribe,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Martin_Indyk\/status\/1701371120132448463?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a> \u200dMartin Indyk, \u200d\u201cDistinguished Fellow in International Diplomacy\u201d and former executive\u2062 vice president of Brookings\u200d Institute, calling Abbas by his preferred Arabic name.\u200b \u201cHow could someone who\u200b has treated me as\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-responds-to-report-cuomo-under-investigation-over-nursing-homes-florida-did-it-right\/\" title=\"DeSantis Responds To Report Cuomo Under Investigation Over Nursing Homes: Florida Did It Right\">personal friend<\/a> for three decades at the same time harbor such hateful views of my people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How, \u200dindeed. If Indyk didn\u2019t know \u200bthat Abbas, a man who \u2062pays the families of terrorists who murder Jewish civilians stipends, was an\u200b antisemite, what does\u2063 that say about his expertise? The media\u2019s go-to expert on the Israel-Palestinian situation did not despair\u200d in 2018, when his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meghan-markle-biographer-and-confidante-duchess-may-have-been-wrong-about-royal-familys-racism-preventing-son-from-being-prince-archie\/\" title=\"Meghan Markle Biographer And Confidante: Duchess \u2018May Have Been Wrong\u2019 About Royal Family\u2019s Racism Preventing Son From Being \u2018Prince Archie\u2019\">close personal friend<\/a> said virtually the exact thing at the\u200d Palestine National Council in Ramallah, arguing that a \u201csocial role\u201d in \u201cusury\u201d had caused Hitler to target the Jews. Even the customarily Israel-critical New York Times\u2064 editorial \u2064board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/02\/opinion\/abbas-palestine-israel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>,\u200c \u201cLet Abbas\u2019s Vile \u2064Words Be His Last as Palestinian Leader.\u201d\u200c Does the distinguished fellow \u200cof international diplomacy not read the paper of record?<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, Indyk\u2019s BFF spent decades being mentored by the father of\u2062 modern terrorism, Yasser Arafat. It is no accident that Abbas makes numerous \u200dappearances in Robert Wistrich\u2019s masterful history of antisemitism, \u201cA Lethal Obsession.\u201d \u201cAbu Mazen\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/mahmoud-abbas-and-the-munich-massacre-time-to-face-the-truth\/\">lik<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/mahmoud-abbas-and-the-munich-massacre-time-to-face-the-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">e<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/mahmoud-abbas-and-the-munich-massacre-time-to-face-the-truth\/\">ly<\/a> one of the masterminds \u2064behind the\u200c Munich Massacre of Israeli athletes in \u200b1972.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Abbas has also \u2062long championed Arthur Koestler\u2019s discredited 1976 book, <em>The Thirteenth\u2062 Tribe: The Khazar Empire and \u200bits Heritage<\/em>, which contends that Ashkenazi Jews are actually \u200cdescendants of the Khazars, a \u2062nomadic Turkish people who set up a medieval\u200b Eastern European <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/khazars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kingdom<\/a> \u200b and then converted to Judaism. For Abbas, this fiction is meant to stress that European Jews have no real\u2063 ties to Israel, a claim that has been\u200d disproven not only by rudimentary reading\u200d of history but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2010-06-10\/ty-article\/landmark-study-proves-90-of-jews-are-genetically-linked-to-the-levant\/0000017f-e0bb-df7c-a5ff-e2fba5950000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">science<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Indyk&#8217;s Troubling Connections<\/h3>\n<p>Did Indyk ever ask Abbas about Koestler or Munich or, for that matter, about his \u20641982 Ph.D. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/reports\/palestinian-leader-number-jewish-victims-holocaust-might-be-even-less-million-zionist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dissertation<\/a>, written when Abbass was a \u200cfresh-faced 47-year-old?\u2062 The thesis questioned not only the number of Jews \u2064killed but the \u2064existence of gas chambers \u2014 which he contends\u2062 were merely for \u201cincinerating bodies, out of concern for the spread of disease and infection.\u201d Say what you\u200d will about the Nazis \u2014 they were hygienic.<\/p>\n<p>You need not, however, go back in time. This summer, Abbas revived calls \u200dfor a unity government with Hamas, an entity <a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/20th_century\/hamas.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that<\/a> \u201cstrives to raise the banner\u2062 of Allah over every inch of Palestine\u201d \u2063and insists, \u200d\u201cThe Day of Judgment will not \u200dcome \u200babout\u2062 until Muslims fight \u200bJews and kill them.\u201d This is the unity government that\u200c would end up running a Palestinian \u2064state\u2062 that the Biden administration \u200cwants Israel to create next door.\u2063 Well, until Hamas starts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2007\/06\/11\/palestinian-horror-2-thrown-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defenestrating<\/a> Fatah officials\u200c and takes over.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don\u2019t want to\u2064 cast aspersions\u200d on\u200b the sacred \u200cbond of friendship, but a \u200ccynic may speculate that Abbas\u2064 needed Indyk because he\u2019s exactly the type of Middle East diplomat who will keep \u200dthe\u200b funding spigot for his <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2012\/06\/05\/the-brothers-abbas\/\">corruption<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CHRG-112hhrg74960\/pdf\/CHRG-112hhrg74960.pdf\">racket<\/a> going while pressuring Israel into never-ending concessions. Indyk has\u200d always been far more likely to be critical of Israel than the\u200d authoritarian Palestinian regime. Abbas had to deny the Holocaust for 45 years for Indyk to say anything \u2062\u2014 and even now, he despairs at the very\u2063 thought.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The media\u200b loves to \u2064quote this \u201cveteran Mideast \u2064diplomat,\u201d yet never once did \u200che bring anyone closer\u2062 to peace. Quite the opposite. By\u2064 the time Obama \u200dtapped him to serve as the U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli\u2013Palestinian \u2063Negotiations \u2062in 2013, his\u200b greatest\u2063 claim to fame was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2000-oct-11-mn-34808-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">being<\/a> \u2064the \u201cfirst serving U.S. ambassador to \u2062be \u2063stripped of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-agents-voice-fears-over-end-of-title-42-next-month\/\" title=\"Border Patrol Agents Voice Fears Over End of Title 42 Next Month\">government security clearance<\/a>.\u201d By any genuine standard,\u2064 his career \u200cin diplomacy was a complete disaster. \u200bThough, to be fair, his career in accumulating \u2063Washington think tank titles \u2062was wildly \u200csuccessful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Then again, the fact that\u200d Indyk is confused about \u2062how a lifelong \u2064Holocaust denier and third-world strongman could treat him as a close personal friend while \u2062engaging in antisemitism says everything you need to \u2063know about his expertise.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a speech, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas controversially stated that Hitler&#8217;s actions against European Jews were not driven by antisemitism, but rather by economic factors like money and usury. 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