‘A monstrous lie’: Abbas ’50 holocausts’ claim met with outrage in Israel,


Prime Minister Yair Lapid and others in Israel, Germany and the US expressed shock and outrage Tuesday night, after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of committing “holocausts” against Palestinians over the years during a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin.

Abbas’s accusation, made during a press conference alongside Scholz, also drew calls for a harsher response from Germany and its leader, who has been criticized for remaining silent rather than pushing back at the time and only later expressing displeasure with the remark.

“Mahmoud Abbas accusing Israel of having committed ’50 Holocausts’ while standing on German soil is not only a moral disgrace, but a monstrous lie,” Lapid tweeted in English. “History will not forgive him.”

Lapid’s predecessor Naftali Bennett tweeted that during his year-long tenure that ended in June, he didn’t agree to meet Abbas “or to advance any sort of diplomatic negotiations, even when facing pressure from within and outside Israel.”

“A ‘partner’ who denies the Holocaust, pursues our soldiers in The Hague and pays stipends to terrorists is not a partner,” Bennett added, referring to repeated Palestinian complaints to the International Criminal Court and to monthly salaries paid by the PA to terror convicts and families of dead assailants.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz — who met Abbas several times over the past year, reportedly with Bennett’s approval — called the remarks “despicable and false” and “an attempt to distort and rewrite history.”

“The reprehensible and unfounded comparison between the Holocaust — which was carried out by the German Nazis and their enablers in an attempt to exterminate the Jewish people — and the IDF, which ensured the rise of the Jewish people in their homeland and defends the citizens of Israel and the country’s sovereignty against brutal terrorism, is Holocaust denial,” Gantz said. “Those who seek peace are expected to acknowledge the past and not to distort reality and rewrite history.”

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman issued a statement branding Abbas a “terrorist who engages in diplomatic terrorism,” a “Holocaust denier” and a “sworn enemy of the State of Israel.” He said Abbas was “more dangerous than all the terror operatives of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”

From right, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman attend the first cabinet meeting, at the Knesset on June 13, 2021. (Yonatan…



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