The scumbag Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has apologized for saying that the Holocaust was the fault of the Jews for their actions in the banking industry.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has apologised after he was accused of antisemitism in which he suggested that historical persecution of European Jews had been caused by their conduct, not by their religion.
On Friday, Abbas said he rejected antisemitism “in all its forms” and called the Holocaust the “most heinous crime in history” in a statement issued by his office in Ramallah after a four-day meeting of the Palestinian National Council (PNC).
“If people were offended by my statement in front of the PNC, especially people of the Jewish faith, I apologise to them. I would like to assure everyone that it was not my intention to do so, and to reiterate my full respect for the Jewish faith, as well as other monotheistic faiths,” he said in statement published in English and Arabic.
Here’s what he said earlier:
During his more than two-hour-long speech on Monday, Abbas jumped between angrily rejecting the US as peace mediator and his views on world history, which included calling Israel a “colonial enterprise that has nothing to do with Jewishness”.
Abbas suggested in his address that Jewish people’s relations with banking and moneylending had led to persecution against them.
“From the 11th century until the Holocaust that took place in Germany, those Jews – who moved to western and eastern Europe – were subjected to a massacre every 10 to 15 years. But why did this happen? They say: ‘It is because we are Jews,’” he said.
He cited “three books [written by Jews]” as evidence that “hostility against Jews is not because of their religion, but rather their social function”, saying he meant their “social function related to banks and interest”.
We should not be surprised that he said these things, but rather that he apologized. That could show just how much Trump is forcing a realignment in the Middle East because of his forceful backing of the Saudis, who themselves are influencing the Palestinians…