{"id":18042,"date":"2022-08-18T18:09:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigeria21.com\/?p=18042"},"modified":"2022-08-18T18:09:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T18:09:31","slug":"palestine-israel-commit-50-holocausts-against-the-palestinians-mahmoud-abbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeria21.com\/2022\/08\/18\/palestine-israel-commit-50-holocausts-against-the-palestinians-mahmoud-abbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine: Israel commit \u201850 Holocausts\u2019 against the Palestinians – Mahmoud Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas walked back comments made in Germany on Tuesday accusing Israel of committing \u201c50 Holocausts\u201d against the Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement released Wednesday morning, Abbas called the Holocaust \u201cthe most heinous crime in modern human history.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement, released by the Palestinian Wafa news agency, added that Abbas did not intend to \u201cdeny the singularity of the Holocaust that occurred in the last century\u201d and he condemns it \u201cin the strongest terms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is meant by the crimes that President Mahmoud Abbas spoke about are the crimes and massacres committed against the Palestinian people since the Nakba at the hands of the Israeli forces. These crimes have not stopped to this day,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

Abbas\u2019 original remarks were made during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin. With the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of 11 Israeli coaches and athletes by Palestinian terrorists approaching, Abbas was asked if he intended to apologize to Israel and Germany.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf we want to go over the past, go ahead. I have 50 slaughters that Israel committed \u2026 50 massacres, 50 slaughters, 50 Holocausts,\u201d Abbas replied.<\/p>\n

Scholz condemned Abbas on Wednesday in a statement on Twitter, writing, \u201cI am disgusted by the outrageous remarks made by Palestinian President Mahmoud #Abbas. For us Germans in particular, any relativization of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable. I condemn any attempt to deny the crimes of the Holocaust.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ich bin zutiefst emp\u00f6rt \u00fcber die uns\u00e4glichen Aussagen des pal\u00e4stinensischen Pr\u00e4sidenten Mahmoud #Abbas<\/a>. Gerade f\u00fcr uns Deutsche ist jegliche Relativierung des Holocaust unertr\u00e4glich und inakzeptabel. Ich verurteile jeden Versuch, die Verbrechen des Holocaust zu leugnen.<\/p>\n

— Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz (@Bundeskanzler) August 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n