In a recent speech, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Israeli “occupation” is the reason for all disasters in the world.
Can Israel expect to negotiate peace with an anti-Semite such as Mahmoud Abbas, whom the LA-based Simon Wiesenthal Center named the “#1 anti-Semite of the Year”?
Again Abbas is showing that he does not recognize Israel in any borders. The entire State of Israel is an “occupation.”
Some of Abbas’ previous quotes: the war with Israel is a “war for Allah’; “we welcome every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem”; “they [Jews/Israelis] have no right to desecrate our holy sites with their filthy feet.” Abbas called Jews who visited the Temple Mount a “herd of cattle” and declared that not a single Israeli could remain in a future Palestinian state.
“Mahmoud Abbas: ‘The reason for all of the disasters’ in the world is the “occupation'”, by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, March 21, 2017:
In a recent speech, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Israeli “occupation” is the reason for all disasters in the world:
“The international community is becoming more and more convinced that the occupation of the Palestinian state by Israel is the reason for all the disasters that the region and the world are suffering from…”
[Official PA TV, March 12, 2017]Abbas’ statement echoes the antisemitic teachings of a religious scholar on official PA TV, Imad Hamato, who Abbas has also endorsed by appointing him dean of a system of schools. Palestinian Media Watch reported on a lesson in Islam where Hamato taught that the Jews are the reason for all of humanity’s problems:
“Humanity will never live in comfort as long as the Jews are causing devastating corruption throughout the land. Humanity will never live in peace or fortune or tranquility as long as they are corrupting the land. An old man told me: If a fish in the sea fights with another fish, I am sure the Jews are behind it.”
[Official PA TV, Feb. 27, 2015 and Feb. 25, 2016]In another interview, Abbas recently clarified what he means by Israeli “occupation” – saying it has lasted “70 years” – i.e., since Israel was established in 1948.
“I told him [US President Donald Trump] that we hope that he will find a solution to the Palestinian issue after 70 years of occupation that will be based on two states, a Palestinian state that will live in security and peace alongside the State of Israel.”
[Al-Watan, (Qatar), March 16, 2017]Again Abbas is showing that he does not recognize Israel in any borders. The entire State of Israel is an “occupation.”
Palestinian Media Watch has shown that the PA and Fatah routinely present all of Israel as “Palestine” and all of Israel as an “occupation”…