Zionist puppet Mahmoud Abbas is no stranger to absurd statements that demonstrate a lack of wisdom or depth. Nor are his policies and actions easy to interpret or justifiable in the larger context of the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
This also applies to his comments regarding the crime of the Nazi Holocaust perpetrated against the Jews of Europe, during a speech to members of his Fatah movement in Ramallah in late August.
However, the fiery Palestinian Open Letter condemning those statements, signed by over 200 Palestinian academics, activists, artists and others, was scarcely less strange or lacking in wisdom than Abbas’ words.
Perhaps unintentionally, the authors and signatories slipped as he did, consequently derailing the discussion from Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people to implicitly apologizing to Israel – whose representatives instigated the storm of outrage at Abbas’ remarks.
“This apology feeds the perception that Palestinians – much in the manner that Muslims have experienced in the two decades since 9/11 – are collectively responsible for what any other Palestinian says or does, and must therefore dissociate themselves from it.”
It should be recalled that Abbas’ comments were publicized and disseminated by the anti-Muslim Zionist propaganda outlet MEMRI.
MEMRI, founded and run by a former senior Nazi military intelligence officer, is notoriously known for targeting activists, preachers, media professionals, artists and academics, Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and other critics of Israel.
It is also known for distortion and taking words out of context – although it is unclear how much additional context could have excused Abbas’ comments on this occasion, given how he has expressed similar views before.
With such remarks, Abbas only provides propaganda fodder to Israel and its lobby groups like MEMRI, whose mission is to exploit any opportunity to change the subject from Israel’s crimes, set the public and media agenda and paint Palestinians in a bad light.
(📸 Thaer Ganaim / APA images)
From “The crimes of the Nazis are not Palestine’s problem” by Osama Abu Irshaid.
