'Moderate' PA Leader: Jews Brought the Holocaust on Themselves

'Moderate' PA Leader: Jews Brought the 

Holocaust on Themselves

Senior member of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, Jibril Rajoub, calls
Israelis 'the new Nazis', says Israel committing a 'holocaust' in Gaza.

By Ari Soffer

First Publish: 7/30/2014, 5:16 PM

Jibril Rajoub

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Former Palestinian Authority security chief Jibril Rajoub, often touted as a
"Palestinian moderate", has accused Israel of inflicting a "holocaust" on Gaza -
while saying that Jews deserved the genocide inflicted on them by the Nazis.

In an interview with Palestinian Authority TV, translated by MEMRI (Middle
East Media Research Institute), Rajoub - who is a senior member of the Fatah
party's Central Committee - labeled Israeli society as "a fascist society", adding
that "the racism of this fascist society is unparalleled throughout history."

One parallel that Rajoub could find, however, was with Nazi Germany,
 claiming that Israelis were "the new Nazis", and that "Israel, (especially)
the Israeli right wing, constitutes a replica of Hitler,  Eichmann and Goebbels."

His statements followed a long introduction by his interviewer, who also
equated Israeli actions with the holocaust, accusing "the people who today
evoke the spirit of Nazism" of "master(ing) the art of genocide."

Towards the end of the interview, Rajoub made the oft-repeated claim by
Palestinian officials and their supporters that the establishment of the
State of Israel was the result of European guilt over the holocaust,
intentionally ignoring the indigenous status and nearly 4,000-old ties of
the Jewish people to the land of Israel.

Going further, he claimed that Jews had only suffered the holocaust because
of their own "behavior". "...they say that six million of them were killed -
while the whole world stood idly by, because their behavior led them to
those circumstances."