Israel PM dismisses Abbas Holocaust remarks

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=693302

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The prime minister of Israel on Sunday dismissed President Mahmoud Abbas' remarks mourning victims of the Holocaust as a public relations stunt aimed at placating the international community.

Benjamin Netanyahu also told his cabinet that Abbas should choose between his agreement to form a unity government with Hamas and make a true peace with Israel.

"Instead of issuing statements designed to placate global public opinion, Abu Mazen (Abbas) needs to choose between the alliance with Hamas, a terrorist organization that calls for the destruction of Israel and denies the Holocaust, and a true peace with Israel."
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Earlier Sunday in Ramallah, Abbas called the Holocaust the "the most heinous crime against humanity in modern history" and extended his condolences to the "families of the victims and the innocent people who were killed by the Nazis including the Jews and others."

This is rich, my fellow DUers. The PM of Israel is chiding Mahmoud Abbas over remarks mourning victims of the Holocaust, and yet Israel is doing everything in its power to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people out of their homes and farms. They have done everything from take their lands in the West Bank, illegally dumped their RW nutjob settlers on the Palestinians, destroyed their property, confiscated their property (illegally mind you) harassed, assaulted and murdered. And Bibi has the nerve to chide Abbas over an olive branch?

There is one thing that is clear, IMHO. The Palestinians have become the victims of the victims.

End Israeli apartheid now!

[GoneFishin]

1. That pattern of the victim becoming the abuser seems to be innate to human beings.