{"id":2029424,"date":"2023-09-12T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hold-on-a-second-are-you-telling-me-the-plo-hates-jews\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:23:29","slug":"hold-on-a-second-are-you-telling-me-the-plo-hates-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hold-on-a-second-are-you-telling-me-the-plo-hates-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait, so the PLO hates Jews?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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-the-plo-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=2029424&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 Disturbing Holocaust Denial<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During a speech to 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 not an act of antisemitism but rather that it was prompted \u200bby \u201csocial functions \u2026\u200c related to money, and usury.\u201d From \u201cHitler\u2019s point of view,\u201d Abbas went on, it was the\u200d Jews who \u201cwere sabotaging, and therefore he hated them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m not sure what kind of interest rates those Jewish kids who ended up in gas chambers were charging Germans, but Abbas \u2014 who, granted,\u200c usually has a better grasp of \u201cHitler\u2019s point \u2063of view\u201d than\u2062 most \u2014 \u2063is <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> and \u2064engaged in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hold-on-a-second-are-you-telling-me-the-plo-hates-jews\/\" title=\"Wait, so the PLO hates Jews?\">nefarious victim blaming<\/a>. Still, Abbas\u2019s\u200c Holocaust denialism came as a great shock to many of\u200c our top Middle East experts. They are simply flummoxed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2111763378\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6fe724cff687a9e6071a04b7490fe788 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6fe724cff687a9e6071a04b7490fe788\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI have been despairing about how to respond to Abu\u2062 Mazen\u2019s profoundly anti-Semitic diatribe,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Martin_Indyk\/status\/1701371120132448463?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a> Martin Indyk, \u201cDistinguished \u2062Fellow in International Diplomacy\u201d and former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-former-ag-barr-initiated-spying-program-on-americans-back-in-1992\/\" title=\"FLASHBACK: Former AG Barr Initiated Spying Program on Americans Back in 1992\">executive vice president<\/a>\u200d of Brookings Institute, calling Abbas by his preferred Arabic name. \u201cHow could someone who has treated me as a personal friend for three decades at the same time harbor such hateful views of my people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How, indeed. If Indyk didn\u2019t know that Abbas, a man who pays the families of terrorists who murder Jewish civilians stipends, \u2062was an antisemite, what does that say about\u200d his expertise? The media\u2019s go-to expert on the Israel-Palestinian situation did not despair in\u200b 2018, when his close personal friend said virtually the exact thing at the 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 editorial board\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/02\/opinion\/abbas-palestine-israel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u2062\u201cLet Abbas\u2019s Vile Words Be His Last \u200das Palestinian Leader.\u201d Does the distinguished fellow of international diplomacy not\u2064 read the \u2064paper of record?<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, Indyk\u2019s BFF spent decades being mentored by the father of modern terrorism, Yasser Arafat. It is \u200dno accident that Abbas \u200dmakes numerous appearances in Robert Wistrich\u2019s masterful history of antisemitism, \u201cA Lethal Obsession.\u201d \u201cAbu \u2064Mazen\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 behind the Munich Massacre of Israeli athletes in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas has also long\u2064 championed Arthur Koestler\u2019s discredited 1976 book, <em>The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage<\/em>, which contends \u2064that Ashkenazi\u200c Jews are actually descendants of the Khazars, a nomadic Turkish people who\u200c set up a medieval Eastern European <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/khazars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kingdom<\/a> and then converted to Judaism. For Abbas, \u2063this fiction is\u2063 meant to stress that European Jews have no real ties to Israel,\u2064 a claim that has been disproven\u2064 not only by \u2064rudimentary reading \u2063of 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<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-17f18e1a153b4d37b06106daacfeaee8 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-17f18e1a153b4d37b06106daacfeaee8\"><\/div>\n<p>Did Indyk ever ask Abbas about\u200b Koestler or\u2064 Munich or, for that matter, about his 1982 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? The thesis questioned not only the number of Jews \u2063killed but the existence of\u2063 gas chambers \u2014 which he contends were merely for \u201cincinerating bodies, out of concern for the spread of disease and infection.\u201d Say \u2064what you will about \u2062the Nazis \u2014 they were hygienic.<\/p>\n<p>You need not, however, go back too far in time. This summer, \u200cAbbas revived calls for a unity government\u200d 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 of Allah over every inch of Palestine\u201d and insists, \u201cThe Day of Judgment\u2063 will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them.\u201d This is the unity government that would end up running \u200ba Palestinian state that the Biden administration wants Israel to create\u200c next door. 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 and takes over.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2064 don\u2019t want to cast aspersions on the sacred bond of \u200cfriendship, but a cynic may\u200b speculate that Abbas needed Indyk\u2063 because he\u2019s exactly \u200bthe type of Middle East diplomat who will keep the funding spigot for \u2062his <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 \u200bpressuring Israel into\u2063 never-ending \u2063concessions. Indyk has always been far more likely to be critical of Israel than the authoritarian Palestinian regime. Abbas had to deny the \u2064Holocaust for 45 years for Indyk to say anything \u2014 and even now, he despairs at the\u2063 very thought.<\/p>\n<p>The media loves to quote this \u201cveteran Mideast diplomat,\u201d yet never \u200bonce\u200c did he bring anyone closer to peace. Quite the opposite. By\u200d the time Obama tapped him to serve as the U.S.\u2064 Special Envoy for Israeli\u2013Palestinian Negotiations in 2013, his greatest 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> the \u201cfirst serving U.S. ambassador to be stripped of government security clearance.\u201d By any genuine standard, \u200bhis career in diplomacy was a \u2064complete disaster. Though, \u2062to be fair, his\u2062 career in accumulating Washington think tank titles was wildly successful.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-10a73047ea7f31d1a18a0f85147ff3a5 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-10a73047ea7f31d1a18a0f85147ff3a5\"><\/div>\n<p>Then \u200cagain, \u2064the fact that Indyk is confused about how a lifelong Holocaust denier and third-world strongman could treat him as a close personal friend while engaging in antisemitism says\u2062 everything you need to know about his expertise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7891aa9c2cbc019cc831b354982e1141 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7891aa9c2cbc019cc831b354982e1141\"><\/div>\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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