REPOST: WSJ, "'Even Hitler,' Says the Palestinian President"
The Wallstreet Journal did something few other news giants are willing to do: Share a story badmouthing Palestinian dictators. A poll below the story had 94% respond that it is “Not at all likely” that “ the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be resolved in the near future.” When the more peaceful Arab dictator is still spewing Nazi propaganda, and only one paper dares cover the story, this is unsurprising.
I wish there was a person to thank, but admitting the truth about Arab dictators is dangerous. So WSJ did not throw one author under the bus here. Or, since it relates to Palestine, they did not throw stones at one…
Note: The article was written today (Sep 7) but relates to a speech from Aug 24.
Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/even-hitler-says-the-palestinian-president/ar-AA1glQrr
'Even Hitler,' Says the Palestinian President
Story by The Editorial Board
It’s never a good sign when a dictator delivers a rambling historical lecture, in the style of Fidel Castro or Vladimir Putin. Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, proved the point on Aug. 24 before the Fatah Revolutionary Council. His subject? The Jews.
Most media will ignore his comments, which were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. They don’t fit the liberal narrative that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a clash of two nationalisms that can be resolved in a “peace process” if Israelis make more concessions. The comments also don’t fit the narrative, gaining ground among Democrats, that the Israelis are extreme and the Palestinians progressive.
“The truth that we should clarify to the world,” Mr. Abbas began, “is that European Jews are not Semites. They have nothing to do with Semitism.” He cited the Khazar hypothesis, which speculates that Ashkenazi Jews aren’t descended from the Holy Land, hailing instead from the medieval Tatar kingdom.
This has been discredited by a century of scholarship; today, it’s a theory one expects to find only in online fever swamps. But its usefulness in denying the Jewish connection to the land of Israel has made it a mainstream claim among Palestinians.
Mr. Abbas kept going. “They say that Hitler killed the Jews for being Jews, and that Europe hated the Jews because they were Jews. Not true,” he averred. Europeans “fought against these people because of their role in society, which had to do with usury, money and so on.”
“Even Hitler,” he added, “said he fought the Jews because they were dealing with usury and money.” Yes, even for Hitler, “this was not about Semitism and anti-Semitism.”
Three days before Mr. Abbas’s speech, his Fatah party’s military wing competed with Hamas to take credit for the murder near Hebron of a Jewish preschool teacher, Batsheva Nigri, in front of her child. If you wonder why the Oslo peace process hit a dead end and stayed there, consider that Mr. Abbas and Fatah have been described for decades as “moderates.”
At age 87, Mr. Abbas isn’t likely to abandon his conviction that Jews are interlopers in every part of Israel. His predecessor, Yasser Arafat, once stunned President Clinton’s negotiators by denying even that Jerusalem had been the site of the Jewish Temple. Maybe it’s time American liberals stopped being surprised. There’s a reason Arab-Israeli negotiations have moved past the Palestinian veto.
For those new to my blog, one of my first posts on the Israel-Arab conflict was a long and convuluted one that mentioned the direct relationship between pan-Arab ideology/Palestine supporter ideology and Nazis. I frequently have said that the Palestine narrative is straight from Mein Kampf,
the Zionists try to make the rest of the world believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn’t even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organization for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks.
It’s sad that people are still choosing to deny this, without any other explanation. The death cult that is #FreePalestine just changed Jew to “Zionist” and called it a day.
