He asserted instead that Israel’s creation was simply a “colonial project”. It did so amidst pressure from Arab states and the Arab population of Palestine.Ībbas then appeared to deny the Jewish people’s historic connection to the land of Israel. The president’s words ignored the fact that Britain, then the ruling power in Palestine, ended virtually all Jewish emigration in 1939. By 1948, Jews in Palestine were no more than 640,000, most of them from Europe,” he said. Even during the Holocaust, they did not emigrate. “The Jews did not want to emigrate even with murder and slaughter. Perhaps the most explosive was Abbas’ suggestion that Jews were so hostile to the establishment of Israel that they preferred to remain in Europe rather than emigrate, even as the Nazis embarked upon their wholesale murder.
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However, Sunday’s speech made a series of charges against the Jewish state that appeared designed to wound Israelis, excuse his own failures and feed a deeply ingrained Palestinian narrative of victimhood. We won’t allow them to do so and we will do whatever we can to defend Jerusalem.” They have no right to desecrate them with their filthy feet. As the 2015 “knife intifada” – which has seen 61 Israelis murdered in terrorist attacks and nearly 900 injured – was commencing, for instance, he made the incendiary claim that Israel was attempting to alter the status quo at the Temple Mount, vowing: “Al-Aksa is ours and so is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Israelis have become used to Abbas’ fiery rhetoric. The 82-year-old president – now serving the 13th year of a four-year term – appeared to suggest his political career may be coming to a close, telling the PLO Central Council: “This may be the last time you see me here.” He returned back to the ideas he expressed decades ago, when they were no less terrible.” Referring to Abbas’ past history of Holocaust denial, Israel’s president, Reuben Rivlin, said: “What we heard … from Mahmoud Abbas was terrible. In an angry, some believe valedictory, address on Sunday evening, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, delivered a series of broadsides against Israel, rejected the nascent US peace plan and vowed to continue paying salaries to convicted Palestinian terrorists.Ībbas’ speech drew sharp criticism from across the Israeli political spectrum, with Labor leader Avi Gabbay accusing him of peddling “antisemitic fictions”.
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