Don’t Make Excuses for Mahmoud Abbas’s Rantings
Donald Trump didn’t drive the Palestinian president to anti-Semitism.
January 18, 2018
Don’t Make Excuses for Mahmoud Abbas’s Rantings
Donald Trump didn’t drive the Palestinian president to anti-Semitism.
At a meeting of Palestinian officials on Sunday, Mahmoud Abbas gave a lengthy speech denying Jewish connections to the land of Israel, explaining Zionism and the Holocaust as part of a 400-year-old European colonial plot, and accusing Israel of poisoning Palestinians’ water. The obvious explanation for the oration, writes Eli Lake, is that Abbas was simply telling his audience what he believes. But some are not satisfied with such an explanation; they reason that “Abbas doesn’t really mean it,” and that the fault lies instead with President Donald Trump, whose actions have driven the Palestinian president to distraction and despair. Lake continues:
January 18, 2018
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