Politic?: Nazi Germany, Fatah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad

"If we want to go over the past, go ahead ... I have fifty slaughters that Israel committed ... 50 massacres, 50 holocausts."
"And until today, every day we have more killed by the IDF [Israeli military] by Israel."
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

"I 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."
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

"[Mahmoud Abbas spoke a] monstrous lie."
"Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, including one and a half million Jewish children."
"History will never forgive him."
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid

The press conference ended without comment from Scholz (right) in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust remarks- from Abbas (left)

On a trip to Germany, the Palestinian Authority president shared a news conference with his host, Chancellor Scholz. A discussion between the two men was recorded live and a question was posed to Abbas by a reporter, enquiring whether the PA leader was prepared to apologize on the 50th anniversary of the Munich Massacre when eleven Jewish Olympians were murdered by a branch of Abbas's own Fatah movement.

Germany has much to answer for. It will never be forgotten that Nazi Germany orchestrated a precise, wide-ranging institutional scheme to annihilate all of Europe's Jews. The stage was set before the process of the Holocaust began by pernicious slander to convince Jew-haters everywhere that they had good reason for their antipathy toward Jews for they were subhuman scum of the Earth and the world should be rid of them.

The kind of propaganda that has its reflection in very fact, in the Palestinian vendetta against Israel, that a Zionist horde returning to its ancestral roots to reclaim its four thousand-year-old homeland had criminally prevented Arabs originally from Egypt and Jordan from declaring the land their possession, taking the ancient descriptive of Judeans as Palestinians, as their own.

Abbas bridled at the question, launching into one of his predictable tirades usually restricted to an Arab-speaking audience. Perhaps reasoning that in the very Europe where Jews were systematically murdered his audience would be receptive to his 'genocidal' accusations of Israeli 'slaughter of Palestinians'. The very Palestinians that Abbas is so fond of inciting from childhood forward to a career of terrorism turning their antisemitism to the violent elimination of Jews; mimicking the Nazi ideology in fact.

Chancellor Scholz, taken by surprise may have been appalled at this lack of civil courtesy to say the least, but his immediate reaction left much to be desired. The very image of calm courtesy toward a guest, he said nothing in exchange. Until much, much later, when he saw fit to reject the tone, tenor and grievous slander emanating from the mind and lips of a Holocaust 'scholar' who achieved a doctorate from Moscow's-then Patrice Lamumba University for his argument that Zionists schemed with Hitler in the Holocaust.

It took a day before Chancellor Scholz responded. It took a day before Abbas's retraction and correction explaining he had no intention to "deny the singularity of the Holocaust", "the most heinous crime in modern human history". For him, a bit of house-cleaning, anxious to regain his credentials in the West as a champion of the Palestinian 'cause' which must be pursued in a manner different than his statements not meant for European ears of delicate temperament.

That filthy Jewish feet would not be permitted to desecrate the Noble Sanctuary, built atop the remains of the Temples of Solomon, the most sacred site in Judaism; that Jerusalem 'belongs' to 'Palestinians', a wholesale rejection of the presence of Jewish authority and custodianship of the holiest city in Judean history and heritage.

Black September's hostage-taking and murder of the eleven Israeli athletes in 1972, a supreme act of terrorism and Arab revelling in the death of Jews is not an event that Abbas would feel obliged to apologize for, to regret, and any recriminations coming his way as a primary representative of the Palestinian movement to destroy Israel fail to take into account Abbas's proud penchant of doling out handsome rewards to Palestinian terrorists for slaughtering Jewish Israelis.