Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who was named by a former Palestinian arch-terrorist as having secured funding for the <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skeyspkrq">brutal Palestinian terrorist attack</a> at the 1972 Munich Olympics in which 11 Israel athletes were murdered, engendered harsh criticism after having claimed, as <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mahmoud-abbas-holocaust-israel-germany-condemn-munich-olympics-rcna43459">NBC News</a> reported, that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts.”
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The PLO leader would have gained sympathy if he had apologized for the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics 1972. Accusing Israel of „50 Holocausts“ instead is the most disgusting speech ever heard in the German Chancellery <a href="https://t.co/35O8QYcPYt">pic.twitter.com/35O8QYcPYt</a>
&mdash; Armin Laschet (@ArminLaschet) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArminLaschet/status/1559617142982643718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Abbas made his incendiary remarks after being asked as a Palestinian leader whether he planned to apologize to Israel and Germany for the 1972 attack, since the 50th anniversary comes next month.
The Palestinian terrorist group “Black September,” which was linked to the Fatah party headed by terrorist Yasser Arafat and Abbas, took the Israeli hostages at the Olympic Village on Sept. 5, 1972. According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/sports/long-hidden-details-reveal-cruelty-of-1972-munich-attackers.html?_r=1">The New York Times</a>, the widow of one of the murdered Israeli athletes said photos showed the Palestinian terrorists castrated her husband during the attack.
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official Mohammed Oudeh, known as Abu Daoud, claimed to be the mastermind of the attack; in his autobiography, he named Abbas as having secured the funding, <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/07/does-mahmoud-abbas-murky-past-matter.html">Slate</a> noted.
The connection between “Black September” and Fatah was acknowledged in a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/how-arafat-got-away-with-murder">March 13, 1973 telegram</a> that then U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers sent to American embassies around the world. The telegram alluded to an intelligence brief prepared by the department and the CIA that stated, &#8220;The Black September Organization (BSO) is a cover term for Fatah&#8217;s terrorist operations executed by Fatah&#8217;s intelligence organization. . . . Fatah funds, facilities, and personnel are used in these operations. . . . For all intents and purposes no significant distinction now can be made between the BSO and Fatah.”
Abbas’ comment about “50 Holocausts” elicited reactions like these:
Olaf Scholz, the Federal Chancellor of Germany: “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.”
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I am disgusted by the outrageous remarks made by Palestinian President Mahmoud <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Abbas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Abbas</a>. 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.
&mdash; Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz (@Bundeskanzler) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bundeskanzler/status/1559780922714734597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid: “Mahmoud Abbas accusing Israel of having committed ‘50 Holocausts’ while standing on German soil is not only a moral disgrace, but a monstrous lie.  Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, including one and a half million Jewish children.  History will never forgive him.”
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Mahmoud Abbas accusing Israel of having committed &quot;50 Holocausts&quot; while standing on German soil is not only a moral disgrace, but a monstrous lie.
Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, including one and a half million Jewish children.
History will never forgive him.
&mdash; יאיר לפיד &#8211; Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) <a href="https://twitter.com/yairlapid/status/1559651133563539461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions: “France must firmly condemn the abject remarks of Mahmoud Abbas accusing Israel of ‘50 Holocausts.’ By wanting to nazify Israel, it defiles the memory of the victims of the Shoah and despises the work of memory carried out in Europe. It is a hateful revisionism to be denounced.”
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La France doit condamner avec fermeté les propos abjects de Mahmoud Abbas accusant Israël de &quot;50 Holocaustes&quot;. En voulant nazifier Israël, il souille la mémoire des victimes de la Shoah et méprise le travail de Mémoire réalisé en Europe. C&#39;est un révisionnisme haineux à dénoncer.
&mdash; Yonathan Arfi (@Yonathan_Arfi) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yonathan_Arfi/status/1559823477758205955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The group Stop AntiSemitism: “6 million Jews &#8211; two out of every three in Europe &#8211; were massacred in the Holocaust.  Meanwhile the Palestinian population has exploded in numbers.  For Mahmoud Abbas to call the I/P conflict a &#8216;Holocaust&#8217; is atrocious Holocaust inversion deemed antisemitic by IHRA.”
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6 million Jews &#8211; two out of every three in Europe &#8211; were massacred in the Holocaust.
Meanwhile the Palestinian population has exploded in numbers.
For Mahmoud Abbas to call the I/P conflict a &quot;Holocaust&quot; is atrocious Holocaust inversion deemed antisemitic by IHRA. <a href="https://t.co/MoGnLEtj7q">pic.twitter.com/MoGnLEtj7q</a>
&mdash; StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1559669292358041600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan: “Mahmoud Abbas also accused Israel of committing ‘50 Holocausts’ against Palestinians. Yup you heard it right. 50 Holocausts. Imagine your whole cause is based on stealing terms from others; South African Apartheid and Jewish Holocaust.”
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Mahmoud Abbas also accused Israel of committing “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians. Yup you heard it right. 50 Holocausts 🤦🏽‍♀️
Imagine your whole cause is based on stealing terms from others; South African Apartheid and Jewish Holocaust. <a href="https://t.co/CecV6CsWK7">https://t.co/CecV6CsWK7</a>
&mdash; Sarai (Sarah Idan) Miss Iraq (@RealSarahIdan) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSarahIdan/status/1559637667574214656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Even some Palestinians denounced Abbas:
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Terrible and antisemitic rhetoric from Abbas. As a Palestinian, I apologize to every Jew and every Israeli for these abhorrent comments. <a href="https://t.co/LMU32lRbhx">https://t.co/LMU32lRbhx</a>
&mdash; Abdelhalim Abdelrahman- عبد الحليم عبد الرحمن (@AbdelA1924) <a href="https://twitter.com/AbdelA1924/status/1559751637564022784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Absolutely shameful. Mahmoud Abbas in Germany refuses to apologize for the Munich massacre (which he helped finance) and accuses Israel of “50 Holocausts” in what <a href="https://twitter.com/ArminLaschet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArminLaschet</a> called the “most disgusting speech ever heard in the German Chancellery”
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&mdash; Emily Schrader &#8211; אמילי שריידר (@emilykschrader) <a href="https://twitter.com/emilykschrader/status/1559627018953711621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Mahmoud Abbas accusing Israel of committing &quot;50 Holocausts&quot; against the Palestinians in front of the German chancellor is as good as time as any to remind you that Abbas got his PhD in Holocaust Denial from a university in Moscow.
&mdash; Blake Flayton (@blakeflayton) <a href="https://twitter.com/blakeflayton/status/1559625197782704128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Utterly vile, reprehensible and pure Holocaust distortion and unhinged Jew hatred. Mahmoud Abbas underscoring beyond shadow of a doubt why there will never be peace, as long as he remains Palestinian leader! <a href="https://t.co/1Rsv9mMgU5">pic.twitter.com/1Rsv9mMgU5</a>
&mdash; Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1559655953888382981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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From paying salaries to murderers of Jews to outright Holocaust distortion, can we put to rest once and for all that Mahmoud Abbas is any kind of &#39;partner for peace&#39;. <a href="https://t.co/brWMsJpRPz">pic.twitter.com/brWMsJpRPz</a>
&mdash; Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1559798672111566850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Mahmoud Abbas is not a man of peace.
He is a Holocaust denialist. 
He is a Jew hater. 
He is a supporter of terrorism.<a href="https://t.co/eRGwzdJYZu">https://t.co/eRGwzdJYZu</a>
&mdash; Julie Lenarz (@MsJulieLenarz) <a href="https://twitter.com/MsJulieLenarz/status/1559882672893300736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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At a certain point, all the 2-state-solution supporters will have to deal with the fact that the man they pin their hopes on, the &quot;moderate&quot; Mahmoud Abbas is a Holocaust denying, Nazi-style Jew hater who is also a terrorist and an embezzler.
&mdash; Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1559732789016141831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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‘Monstrous Lie’: Mahmoud Abbas Harshly Condemned After Claiming Israel Had Committed ’50 Holocausts’

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was caught raging against other nations during a profane rant that was leaked to the media.
The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/palestinian-president-unleashes-profane-rant-against-rest-of-the-world/">reported</a> that the rant was fueling questions about the 85-year-old&#8217;s health with critics speculating that he is in poor mental and physical health.
&#8220;When asked by an unidentified attendee at the Fatah political party&#8217;s April 19 meeting what his message to China is on the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, Abbas went ballistic,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;&#8216;F**k the c**t of China with a shoe!&#8217; Abbas screamed, according to an independent Arabic translation of his remarks provided to The Washington Free Beacon. &#8216;That good for you?'&#8221;
Moments later, Abbas allegedly yelled, &#8220;And Russia, America, and all the Arabs. What&#8217;s wrong with you? All of you go to hell!&#8221;
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Leaked audio recording of Mahmoud Abbas cussing out Russia, the Arabs, and China (Fatah Central Committee meeting April 19,2021) <a href="https://t.co/bLngjLMXl8">pic.twitter.com/bLngjLMXl8</a>
&mdash; Fadi Elsalameen فادي السلامين (@Elsalameen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Elsalameen/status/1385246464629170181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The leak comes as roughly the same time that The New York Times published a report documenting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leaked-audio-of-irans-foreign-minister-john-kerry-told-us-israel-behind-200-attacks">leaked</a> remarks from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Key takeaways from the leaked audio:
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<li>Former Secretary of State John Kerry informed him that Israel had attacked Iranian interests in Syria at least 200 times, to his astonishment, Mr. Zarif said.</li>
<li>Zarif said the Revolutionary Guards Corps call the shots, overruling many government decisions and ignoring advice.</li>
<li>[Zarif] also says that by assassinating [Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Guards’ elite Quds Force] in Iraq, the United States delivered a major blow to Iran, more damaging than if it had wiped out an entire city in an attack.</li>
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The Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-admin-repeatedly-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-iranian-official-revealing-john-kerry-sold-out-israel">repeatedly</a> refused to address the report, but Kerry later did and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-kerry-denies-allegations-he-ratted-on-israel-to-iran-never-happened">denied</a> it.
The report sparked calls for an investigation into Kerry and calls for him to immediately resign from his position, including:
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<li>Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-criminal-act-calls-grow-for-kerry-to-resign-following-explosive-report-gop-demands-investigations">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX): “If this tape is verified, it would signal catastrophic and disqualifying recklessness by Envoy Kerry to Foreign Minister Zarif that endangered the safety of Americans and our allies. And it would be consistent with his long pattern of empowering Iran’s regime. Kerry poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the Ayatollah’s terrorist bank accounts, was a close confidant with Zarif during the Obama administration, and was caught repeatedly meeting with him during the Trump administration (notwithstanding the Logan Act) — and has never publicly accounted for what they discussed.”</li>
<li><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pompeo-on-kerry-report-while-i-was-briefing-president-trump-kerry-was-briefing-zarif">Mike Pompeo</a>, former Secretary of State and CIA Director: &#8220;It looks like from this reporting, that it’s confirmed what we can already believe, which was that while I was briefing President Trump, Kerry was briefing Zarif on intelligence that related to Israeli operations, I hope that’s not true. John Kerry needs to come forward, Secretary Kerry needs to speak to the American people and explain to them why he was meeting with Zarif. We know he did that, he’s admitted as much, what he was talking about. We believe that he was absolutely telling the Iranians hang on, this pressure campaign, the power that’s being exerted by America against you, it’ll be over, we’ll win this election. It’ll just be four years, you can hang in there. Don’t, don’t for a minute negotiate with the Trump team. And so Secretary Kerry’s got an awful lot of explaining to do. There’s no reason to think that these remarks that Zarif made,  according to The New York Times, they were made in private, he didn’t think they were going to come out, there’s no reason to think that he wasn’t telling you that he was truly surprised that he did not know about these Israeli operations, until Secretary Kerry told him about them.&#8221;</li>
<li>Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1386718357903364097">Elise Stafanik</a> (R-NY): “his is a criminal act and John Kerry must be immediately investigated and PROSECUTED. President Biden must immediately remove John Kerry from any government or advisory position.”</li>
<li>Former U.N. Ambassador <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1386722467062816769">Nikki Haley</a>: “This is disgusting on many levels. Biden and Kerry have to answer for why Kerry would be tipping off Iran, the number one sponsor of terror, while stabbing one of our greatest partners, Israel, in the back.”</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1386664340510674951">Donald Trump Jr.</a>: “Imagine for a second a Trump official sitting on the NSC, like Kerry does, told Iran details about Israeli strikes? I believe the media would be screaming TREASON and they wouldn’t be too far off, but of course they’ll say and do nothing because they’re useless propagandists.”</li>
<li>Rep. <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/pompeo-pushes-investigation-into-kerry-for-leaking-secrets-to-iran/">Jim Banks</a> (R-IN): “John Kerry must resign immediately. The investigation should be retrospective.”</li>
<li>Sen. <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/pompeo-pushes-investigation-into-kerry-for-leaking-secrets-to-iran/">Tom Cotton</a> (R-AR): “These reports are concerning—I’d like the opportunity to ask Secretary Kerry about this in a closed hearing.”</li>
<li>Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1386857052388069380">Marsha Blackburn</a> (R-TN): “If intel leak rumors are true, John Kerry should seriously consider resignation.”</li>
<li>Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Rick Scott (R-FL) <a href="https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1386786319242833926">both</a> called for Kerry to resign.</li>
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Vice President of the United States Joe Biden in West Bank

Palestinian President Rages: ‘F**k The C**t Of China With A Shoe!’ Russia, America, Arabs ‘Go To Hell’

The Trump administration secured a key victory yesterday at the hostile United Nations, as Holocaust-denying, kleptocratic, jihad-subsidizing Palestinian Authority (PA) chieftain Mahmoud Abbas failed to rally sufficient support to merely force a U.N. Security Council vote on a Palestinian draft resolution that would have rejected the Trump administration&#8217;s recently unveiled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-deal-of-the-century-for-israel-palestinians-a-realistic-plan-with-arab-states-backing-it">&#8220;deal of the century&#8221; peace plan</a>.
The Security Council vote assuredly would have been vetoed by the United States, a permanent member, but the failure to even successfully garner support to stage a symbolic vote represents a monumental embarrassment for Abbas, the PA successor to unrepentant terrorist Yasser Arafat — himself a mentee of <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/">Hitler ally Haj Amin al-Husseini</a>, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem. The diplomatic effort to stymie the symbolic vote, halting it dead in its tracks, thus also represents a clear win for the Trump administration&#8217;s United Nations diplomatic team. The United Nations, of course, is a body <a href="https://unwatch.org/2019-un-general-assembly-resolutions-singling-out-israel-texts-votes-analysis/">infamously hostile to the Jewish state</a> and infamously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-palestinian-frauds-unrwa-called-out-lying-josh-hammer">mollycoddling of the Palestinian-Arab cause</a>.
Abbas is speaking today at a special meeting of the U.N. Security Council. He had initially hoped to stage a Security Council vote on the &#8220;deal of the century&#8221; to follow his speech.
&#8220;This is a significant setback for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,&#8221; Barak Ravid <a href="https://www.axios.com/palestinian-mahmoud-abbas-security-council-vote-81c12553-d692-4a77-a122-10dd7cc141ff.html">opined</a> yesterday for Axios. &#8220;The postponement follows efforts from Jared Kushner and other administration officials over the last few days to dilute the text of the resolution and prevent a vote.&#8221;
&#8220;U.S., Israeli, and Palestinian officials say the text had to be softened because several Security Council members wanted to avoid a confrontation with the U.S.,&#8221; Ravid continued. &#8220;Several sentences that referred directly to the Trump plan were removed.&#8221;
According to Ravid, PA officials still hope to bring the condemnatory resolution up for a Security Council vote later this week.
&#8220;There was immediate speculation that the delay was a backhanded way of pulling the resolution because it lacked the requisite support of nine members for passage,&#8221; The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/International/US-suggests-amendments-for-UNSC-resolution-on-Trump-peace-plan-617115">reported</a>. &#8220;Otherwise, it would have been considered that the resolution had failed. The delay comes amid U.S. pressure to soften the language of the resolution towards the U.S. and Israel. A U.S. source with direct knowledge of the negotiations between the members of the Security Council told the Post earlier on Monday that if the resolution would get a vote, a number of countries are expected to abstain.&#8221;
&#8220;The softening of the language comes after U.S. special envoy Jared Kushner’s briefing with [Security Council] members last Thursday,&#8221; the Post continued. &#8220;Kushner was accompanied by Trump&#8217;s assistant and special envoy for international negotiations Avi Berkowitz, and U.S. envoy Brian Hook. The source added that &#8216;there are numerous countries who are considering abstaining&#8217; if the wording is not changed.&#8221;
The U.S. has historically often used its permanent seat the Security Council to veto anti-Israel measures — a trend <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/choosing-not-to-veto-obama-lets-anti-settlement-resolution-pass-at-un-security-council/">notably bucked in December 2016 by the outgoing anti-Israel Obama administration</a>, with respect to U.N. Security Council Resolution 2234.
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Abbas Embarrassed: Trump Admin Secures Key Victory At Hostile United Nations

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On a recent trip to Israel, I met a Palestinian student who studies at a diverse international school. I asked her if any of the Palestinian groups believe in Gandhian non-violence to redress their grievances. She knew of only one group — the small communist party to which she belonged. Only one.
If this sounds like an exaggeration, it is not by much. Nor is it surprising. The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has inculcated a culture of violence and hatred of Jews in each successive generation of Palestinians since it was founded by Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1964.
Israeli journalist Eliezer Whartman <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/When-Egypt-was-in-Gaza">wrote</a> that when he visited Gaza in 1967, after Israel had driven out the Egyptian army, he found that:
<blockquote>&#8220;Indoctrination to hatred of Israel started at the very tenderest years. I saw pictures which children had drawn, with the encouragement of their teachers, depicting themselves killing Israeli children. The textbooks dripped venom. One text for the third grade, entitled Arabic Islamic History read: &#8216;The Jews are always the same, in every time, every place. They live only in darkness. They secretly plan to do evil; they fight only from hidden places because they are cowards. We must purify holy Palestine from their filth in order to bring peace back to the Arab homeland.'&#8221;</blockquote>
This trend has continued, unbroken, to the present day.
In Lebanon in 1982, Israel encountered hundreds of preteen and early teenage Palestinian boys specially trained by the PLO to use rocket-propelled grenades.
In 2016, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of this phenomenon:
<blockquote>&#8220;I want you to imagine a day in the life of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy, I&#8217;ll call him Ali. Ali wakes up before school, he goes to practice with a soccer team named after Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the murder of a busload of 37 Israelis. At school, Ali attends an event sponsored by the Palestinian Ministry of Education honoring Baha Alyan, who last year murdered three Israeli civilians. On his walk home, Ali looks up at a towering statue erected just a few weeks ago by the Palestinian Authority to honor Abu Sukar, who detonated a bomb in the center of Jerusalem, killing 15 Israelis.&#8221;</blockquote>
&#8220;Imagine your child undergoing this brainwashing,&#8221; Netanyahu said. &#8220;Imagine what it takes for a young boy or girl to break free out of this culture of hate. Some do but far too many don&#8217;t. How can any of us expect young Palestinians to support peace when their leaders poison their minds against peace?&#8221;
The PLO has signed peace agreements before, each time with forked tongue. One notable occasion was the 1993 Oslo peace process, which earned PLO head Yasser Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize. While he spoke of peaceful coexistence at the White House, he was singing a very different tune to Arab and Muslim audiences. On May 10, 1994, Arafat was secretly recorded speaking at a mosque in Johannesburg, South Africa. He <a href="https://iris.org.il/arafats-johannesburg-speech/">said</a>:
<blockquote>&#8220;This agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement which had been signed between our prophet Mohammed and Koraish, and you remember the Caliph Omar had refused this agreement and [considered] it a despicable truce.
But Mohammed had accepted it and we are accepting now this peace offer. But to continue our way to Jerusalem, to the first shrine together and not alone. We are in need of you as Moslems, as warriors of Jihad.&#8221;</blockquote>
(The treaty with the Koraish, known as the Treaty of Hudaybiya, was a peace treaty Mohammed signed with the Koraish tribe of Mecca at a time when his army was not strong enough to conquer the city. Two years later, however, Mohammed&#8217;s forces had gained in strength, so he abrogated the treaty and conquered Mecca.)
A few years later, when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Arafat everything he asked for as part of the agreement, Arafat rejected the offer and subsequently launched one of the bloodiest waves of terrorism in modern Israeli history.
In 2015, Palestinan Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas said: &#8220;We welcome every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem. This is pure blood, clean blood, blood on its way to Allah. With the help of Allah, every shaheed (martyr) will be in heaven, and every wounded will get his reward.  &#8230; Al-Aqsa is ours, and the (Church of the) Holy Sepulcher is ours, everything is ours, all ours. They (the Jews) have no right to desecrate them with their filthy feet and we won&#8217;t allow them to.&#8221;
The PLO is poison. It has destroyed the prospect of peace and it holds hostage the aspirations of the Palestinians. If there is to be peace someday, it will be when the legacy of the PLO is undone.

Mahmoud Abbas at U.N.

MITSOTAKIS: The PLO’s Poison

Yasser Arafat

In a speech near Ramallah, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas not only stated that millions of Muslims would march and throw every home built by the Jews in Israel into the “garbage bin of history,” but the Muslim nation would be joined by the Christian nation, ranting, “We shall enter Jerusalem — millions of fighters! We shall enter it! All of us, the entire Palestinian people, the entire Arab nation, the Islamic nation, and the Christian nation … They shall all enter Jerusalem.”
Excerpts from the speech, <a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/palestinian-president-mahmoud-abbas-refugee-camp-martyrs-not-terrorists-canaanites-liberate-jerusalem/transcript">translated by MEMRI</a>, also show that Abbas regards the terrorists who willfully murder innocent Jews as heroes. He also repeated the canard that the Palestinians, many of whom are <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Immemorial-Arab-Jewish-Conflict-Palestine/dp/0963624202/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=From+Time+Immemorial&amp;qid=1566582129&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1">descended from emigrants from countries bordering Israel</a>, are descendants of the ancient Canaanites, (whom the Jews conquered when they entered the land under the Biblical Joshua).
Some excerpts:
<blockquote>We shall remain, and nobody can remove us from our homeland. If they want, they themselves can leave. Those who are foreign to this land have no right to it. So we say to them: Every stone you have [used] to build on our land, and every house you have built on our land, is bound to be destroyed, Allah willing …
No matter how many houses and how many settlements they declare that they [plan to build] here and there — they shall all be destroyed, Allah willing. They will all go to the garbage bin of history. They shall recall that this land belongs to its people. This land belongs to the people who live on it. It belongs to the Canaanites, who lived here 5,000 years ago. We are the Canaanites!
We said to them: No to the meetings in Warsaw! No to the meetings in Manama! No to anything that is unacceptable to the Palestinian people! Jerusalem, whatever they call it … &#8220;United&#8221; … They moved their embassy … Jerusalem is ours whether they like it or not.</blockquote>
His audience responded: “To Jerusalem we march, martyrs by the millions! To Jerusalem we march, martyrs by the millions! To Jerusalem we march, martyrs by the millions!”
Abbas continued: “We shall enter Jerusalem — millions of fighters! We shall enter it! All of us, the entire Palestinian people, the entire Arab nation, the Islamic nation, and the Christian nation … They shall all enter Jerusalem. We will not accept their designation of our martyrs as terrorists. Our martyrs are the martyrs of the homeland. We will not allow them to deduct a single penny from their money. All the money will go back to them, because the martyrs, the wounded, and the prisoners are the most sacred things we have.”
Abbas’ inclusion of the “Christian nation” flies in the face of the fact that for many Christians who view the state of Israel as the Holy Land, the fact that Israel welcomes Christians and also the fact that Christians and Jews share much of the same Bible might well preclude them from participating in Abbas’ apocalyptic prediction for the destruction of the Jewish state.

Abbas At UN

Palestinian President Abbas: ‘Christian Nation’ Will Help Palestinians Destroy Israel

Christianity

In what will surely be music to the ears of the pro-Israel communtiy, the Palestinian Authority <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Palestinians-renounce-all-bilateral-US-funds-including-for-security-578058">announced</a> this week its renouncing of all U.S. aid and financial assistance.
Given the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s sordid jihad-supporting <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-freezes-30m-in-aid-to-palestinians-over-payments-to-terrorists/">history</a>, the reason given &#8212; avoiding legal liability for U.S. court decisions demanding payment for terror attack victims &#8212; ought to be unsurprising. Per <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Palestinians-renounce-all-bilateral-US-funds-including-for-security-578058">The Jerusalem Post</a>:
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The Palestinian Authority has formally renounced all financial assistance from the United States, in order to avoid liability for US court decisions demanding millions in payment for terrorist attacks.
PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah informed the Trump Administration of the decision in a letter he sent to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo&#8230;
At issue is the 2018 Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act, which Congress passed into law in October 2018 and goes into effect at the end of this month.
It ties American financial assistance to the Palestinians to the issue of legal jurisdiction within the US.
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Per The Post, Hamdallah taunted that, &#8220;as of January 31, 2019, [the Palestinian Authority] fully disclaims and no longer wishes to accept any form of assistance referenced in&#8221; the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act.
Well, to borrow from 2004&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVejEB5uVk">Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story</a>, that&#8217;s a bold strategy, Cotton &#8212; let&#8217;s see if it works out for them.
Because here is the kicker. As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Frank Camp <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32341/report-united-states-halts-aid-palestinian-frank-camp">reported</a>, President Trump in March signed into law the Taylor Force Act &#8212; which actually already halted all American aid to the Palestinian Authority.
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The Taylor Force Act demands that the Palestinian Authority ceases payment of &#8220;salaries to terrorists serving in Israeli prisons, as well as to the families of deceased terrorists, is an incentive to commit acts of terror.&#8221; The law is named after Taylor Force, a 29-year-old American who was stabbed to death in 2016 by a Palestinian man while in Tel Aviv.
The Palestinian Authority has a long history of rewarding terrorists and their families with monthly stipends, and lawmakers in the United States have long debated withholding funding to the PA until they officially denounce and discontinue the practice.
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The text of the Taylor Force Act does provide for some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32341/report-united-states-halts-aid-palestinian-frank-camp">exceptions</a>, such as &#8220;assistance for wastewater projects not exceeding $5,000,000 in any one fiscal year; and &#8230; assistance for any other program, project, or activity that provides vaccinations to children not exceeding $500,000 in any one fiscal year.&#8221;
One major question, moving forward, will be how the &#8220;news&#8221; of a Palestinian rebuffing of (largely non-existent) U.S. aid will affect the Trump administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/jared-kushner-israel-palestinian-peace-plan/2019/01/23/id/899485/">upcoming proposed peace plan</a> for Israel and the Palestinian-Arabs. The Post reports that Jared Kushner will be taking the lead in promoting the thus-far unannounced plan, in advance of the 2020 presidential election. Many pro-Israel hawks, such as Middle East Forum President Daniel Pipes, are already dreading Kushner&#8217;s proposed plan. On Wednesday night, Pipes <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-mideast-deal-of-the-century-may-be-a-raw-one-for-israel-11548288038?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&amp;utm_campaign=5f00e66184-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_24_02_02&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_086cfd423c-5f00e66184-33999429">wrote</a> in The Wall Street Journal:
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So far the administration&#8217;s hints have aroused minimal concern in the American pro-Israel community, which blithely but wrongly trusts Mr. Trump as one of their own. But a plan as inimical to Israel as Mr. Trump&#8217;s appears to be will have major negative implications not only for the Jewish state but for Mr. Trump&#8217;s re-election hopes. Therefore, Americans who support Israel and Republicans hoping for the president&#8217;s re-election both need to protest and obstruct the prospect of this misbegotten &#8220;deal of the century.&#8221;
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It is always a strong possibility that Palestinian-Arab obdurateness, in terms of refusing to even come to the negotiating table, will paradoxically relieve pro-Israel hawks of any fears they may have.

LOL: Palestinians Renounce All U.S. Aid. They Forgot One Big Thing.

As The Daily Wire has<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35968/thousand-mourn-american-israeli-who-was-stabbed-kassy-dillon"> reported</a>, in another monstrous act of terrorism, on Sunday a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist, Khalil Jabarin, stabbed American Israeli Ari Fuld, 45, a father of four, to death from behind. Fuld saved an Israeli woman&#8217;s life even as he was dying, chasing and shooting the terrorist before he could attack her. The 17-year-old was lightly wounded and wound up in an Israeli hospital.
And guess what? Because the Palestinian Authority rewards Palestinians who murder Jews, not only has the terrorist&#8217;s family reportedly received over $3,300, they could reap over $1.7 million if the murderer receives a life sentence.
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Israeli media is reporting that the family of the Palestinian who stabbed American Israeli Ari Fuld to death yesterday has already received an initial payment of $3,350 from the Palestinian Authority; if he&#8217;s given a life sentence, they will ultimately receive over $1.7 million.
&#8212; Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1041779347349295116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2018</a></blockquote>
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According to the report on Israel&#8217;s Channel 20, the payment took place mere hours after the murder, as Fuld&#8212;a married father of four&#8212;was being laid to rest. <a href="https://t.co/scqUKBaeme">https://t.co/scqUKBaeme</a>
&#8212; Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1041779971428167680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-wants-trump-to-stop-palestinian-payments-to-prisoners-and-families-of-martyrs/2017/05/18/72d08c90-39af-11e7-a59b-26e0451a96fd_story.html?utm_term=.6679d2510464">reported</a> in May 2017, Israel&#8217;s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, who urged the United States, Europe and others to cut funding for the Palestinians, noted that Palestinian attackers sentenced to 30 years in Israeli jail get $3,000 a month. Since the murderer is only 17, there&#8217;s every possibility that he could serve at least 50 years in jail, which would amount to $1.8 million.
All too predictably, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas acted outraged over the murder. <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-daily-reports-israel-shot-arrested-child-over-claim-he-killed-ari-fuld/">The Times of Israel</a> reported that after a meeting with former Israeli politicians, including former justice minister Yossi Beilin, a notorious leftist, Beilin told the Times of Israel that Abbas appeared &#8220;visibly angry about the attack.&#8221; Beilin claimed, &#8220;He said he&#8217;s against violence and while he supports an opposition to Israeli policies, he only supports a peaceful and non-violent one. He said everyone loses from violence.&#8221;
Beilin&#8217;s acceptance of Abbas&#8217; supposed anger seems particularly naïve when you consider how the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida covered Fuld&#8217;s murder; the headline of the article read: &#8220;Child Khalil Jabarin is wounded by gunfire and arrested based on the claim he killed a settler near &#8216;Etzion.&#8217;&#8221;
Additionally, The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Palestinian-factions-applaud-terror-attack-that-killed-Ari-Fuld-567321">noted</a>, &#8220;Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, and the Resistance Committees also welcome the attack, stressing the necessity of resistance &#8216;against settlements, Judaization of the land, and occupation crimes.'&#8221; Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades are the military arm of Fatah: Abbas is a member of Fatah.
In May 2017, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly said to Abbas, &#8220;How can you speak about peace with Israel and at the same time pay murderers who spill the blood of innocent Israelis?&#8221; He added, &#8220;Fund peace, not murder,&#8221; <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.786678">according to</a> Haaretz.
Danon was even more direct: &#8220;Put simply, this is official Palestinian blood money, rewarding terrorists who kill Jews.&#8221;
UPDATE: According to the<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-hasnt-yet-paid-family-of-terrorist-who-killed-fuld-but-theyll-be-eligible/"> latest reports</a>, the Palestinian government has not made the roughly $3,300 payment to the family.

BLOOD MONEY: Palestinian Government Could Hand $1.7 Million To Terrorist Murderer Of American-Born Israeli

On Wednesday, The New York Times, decades too late, finally expressed the <a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/opinion/abbas-palestine-israel.html">opinion</a> that Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas is an anti-Semite and should be deposed so Palestinians and Israelis can create a genuine peace &#8212; but it was as disingenuous an op-ed as the Times has ever written.
The Times noted Abbas&#8217; recent comments in which he said millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust were killed because of their financial dealings, not simply because they were Jews. As the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43967600">BBC</a> reported, speaking before the Palestinian legislative body, Abbas ranted, &#8220;So the Jewish question that was widespread throughout Europe was not against their religion, but against their social function, which relates to usury (unscrupulous money lending) and banking and such.&#8221;
The Times wrote that Abbas &#8220;shed all credibility as a trustworthy partner if the Palestinians and Israelis ever again have the nerve to try negotiations.&#8221;
The Times acknowledged Abbas&#8217; <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43967600">dissertation</a> from over 30 years ago in which he denied six millions Jews were murdered in the the Holocaust. The Times tried to palliate Abbas&#8217; dissertation by quoting him saying in 2003, &#8220;The Holocaust was a terrible, unforgivable crime against the Jewish nation, a crime against humanity that cannot be accepted by humankind.&#8221;
After citing the disastrous 1993 Oslo Accords when Abbas watched Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and PLO arch-terrorist and leader Yasser Arafat sign an agreement as a testimony to Abbas&#8217; peaceful intentions, despite the fact that the cynical Arafat, who engineered the murderous intifada of 2000, never wanted peace with Israel, the Times mitigated its attack on Abbas by mounting its all-too-typical attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government:
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Since the last serious peace talks collapsed in 2014, Israel&#8217;s hard-line government has expanded settlement building to cover more of the land envisioned for a Palestinian state. Although President Trump promised a peace plan, none has materialized, but reports suggest it would favor Israel.
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The Times then lamented that other Arab states, who in the past had been counted on to oppose Israel, suddenly had bigger fish to fry than worrying about the Palestinian-Israeli issue:
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Arab nations, once the Palestinians&#8217; patrons, have lost interest and have turned their attention to fighting wars in Yemen and Syria and checking Iran&#8217;s regional influence. During a <a href="https://www.axios.com/saudi-crown-prince-tells-jewish-leaders-palestinians-should-take-what-they-are-offered-or-stop-complaining-1525025098-e7f0faf8-4f3f-442c-8478-6737ddb5a553.html">recent meeting</a> with Jewish-American leaders, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia faulted Palestinian leaders for complaining and rejecting past Israeli peace offers.
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Then the Times twisted the facts by stating that Abbas favored a non-violent approach to Israel:
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Mr. Abbas opposed Mr. Arafat during the 2000-2005 second intifada, recognized Israel, and committed himself to a nonviolent approach to negotiations for peace and a two-state solution. He was valued by the West as Mr. Arafat&#8217;s successor, and for years he has deployed Palestinian forces to help Israelis maintain security in the West Bank.
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It was reported in August 2017 that Abbas insisted he would always <a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/153840-170825-abbas-tells-us-he-won-t-stop-paying-terrorist-families">pay the families of murderous terrorists</a> who had been jailed by Israel, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t intend to cease payment for families of prisoner martyrs, even if it costs me my seat, I will continue to pay them until my last day.&#8221; Then in March 2018, after Congress passed the Taylor Force Act, halting economic aid to the Palestinian Authority until it stopped paying money to families of terrorists, the Palestinian Authority <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5204886,00.html">earmarked</a> NIS 687 million for the families of terrorists who were killed while carrying out terror attacks or in attempted attacks against Israel.
Hilariously, the Times, which says it wants peace, faults Abbas for not forming closer ties with the violent group Hamas, which is intent on destroying Israel, writing, &#8220;He has also failed to unify the Palestinians in the West Bank, where his Fatah faction dominates, with those in the even more desperate circumstances of the Gaza Strip, where Hamas holds sway.&#8221; As Javier Solana, the European Union&#8217;s foreign policy chief, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012600372.html">stated</a> in 2006, the Palestinian people elected Hamas &#8220;democratically and peacefully.&#8221;
The Times concludes, &#8220;Palestinians need a leader with energy, integrity and vision, one who might have a better chance of achieving Palestinian independence and enabling both peoples to live in peace.&#8221;
If the Times really wanted peace, it would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30156/major-new-billboard-campaign-targets-new-york-hank-berrien">stop lying about Israel</a>, stop chanting that Hamas could ever make peace with Israel, and in general, do penance for its decades of anti-Israel hostility.

Israel-Hating NY Times Calls For Abbas’ Ouster. But Read Between The Lines.

New York Times

Former Secretary of State John Kerry, whose bias against Israel has been well-documented, has once again illustrated how partial he is toward the Palestinian Authority, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Kerry-to-Abbas-confidante-Stay-strong-and-do-not-give-in-to-Trump-539643">according to the Israeli newspaper Ma&#8217;ariv</a>, telling a close associate of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that Abbas should &#8220;hold on and be strong &#8230;that he should stay strong in his spirit and play for time, that he will not break and will not yield to President Trump&#8217;s demands.&#8221;
Kerry reportedly met Hussein Agha in London; Agha then reported back to PA officials in Ramallah. A senior PA official confirmed the meeting to Ma&#8217;ariv. He allegedly told Agha that Trump will not remain president for a long time.
Kerry apparently told Agha he would help them present their own peace plan by utilizing any and all of his contacts, including those in Europe and the international community, suggesting, &#8220;Maybe it is time for the Palestinians to define their peace principles and present a positive plan.&#8221; Kerry reportedly requested that Abbas refrain from attacking the current administration or America in general and restrict himself to attacks on Trump personally, allegedly using derogatory terms to describe Trump.
In his typical self-aggrandizing way, Kerry reportedly said that his age would not present an obstacle to running for president in 2020.
Kerry has hated Israel for years; in 2014, speaking to the Trilateral Commission a few days after PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas signed a unity deal with the murderous Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups, Kerry<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-John-Kerrys-Jewish-best-friends-350734"> said</a> that if Israel didn&#8217;t make a deal with the Palestinians, it would either cease to be a Jewish state or become &#8220;an apartheid state.&#8221;
Kerry has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/23775/john-kerry-issues-another-huge-lie-israel-doesnt-hank-berrien">whitewashed</a> the Palestinian Authority for any connection with violence, saying in 2016,&#8220;The Palestinians have done an extraordinary job of remaining committed to nonviolence.&#8221;
In December 2016, radio host Mark Levin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11999/levin-destroys-kerry-over-anti-israel-speech-hank-berrien">eviscerated</a> Kerry for a speech he had given, noting how Kerry cherry-picked facts, never bothered to mention when speaking of history that Palestinian Arabs collaborated with Nazis, and most importantly, refused to mention the 5,000 year-old connection Jews have with the land of Israel.

REPORT: Kerry To Palestinians: ‘Hold On … Play For Time … Do Not Yield To Trump’s Demands’

Donald Trump

John Kerry

On Monday, speaking at the joint press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission in the Juncker Commission, made clear the <a href="https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/38551/remarks-high-representativevice-president-federica-mogherini-joint-press-statements_en">EU&#8217;s disdain</a> for President Trump&#8217;s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, saying, &#8220;I want to, first of all, reassure President Abbas and his delegation of the firm commitment of the European Union to the two-state solution, with Jerusalem as shared capital of the two states &#8212; the State of Israel and the State of Palestine.&#8221;
Of course, there is no &#8220;State of Palestine.&#8221;
Mogherini continued by attacking the building of Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel, stating, &#8220;We oppose the settlement activity that we consider illegal under international law.&#8221;
As Robert Stark has <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-israeli-settlements-are-not-a-violation-of-international-law/">explained</a>, the settlements are, in reality, completely legal under international law:
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In order to find Israel&#8217;s settlements to be a violation of international law, first, Israel must be considered an occupier of foreign territory. Yet, Israel&#8217;s legal claim to the territory in question was recognized by the international community on several occasions. First, the land on both sides of the river Jordan were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home by the <a href="http://www.cfr.org/israel/san-remo-resolution/p15248">1920 San Remo Conference</a>. This was endorsed by the League of Nations (predecessor to the United Nations) in the <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/palmanda.asp">1922 League of Nations Mandate</a> to Britain, and affirmed by <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2011/09/22/article-80-and-the-un-recognition-of-a-%E2%80%9Cpalestinian-state%E2%80%9D/">article 80</a> of the United Nations charter in 1945. When Israel&#8217;s leaders declared sovereignty in all territory relinquished by England on May 15, 1948 (including the territory that anti-Israel people call the &#8220;West Bank&#8221;) it was recognized as the State of Israel by the General Assembly and Security Council by <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/international-recognition-of-israel">May1949</a>.
Jordan invaded (along with four other Arab states) and conquered this specific territory in 1949, annexed it in 1950, and gave it a new name: &#8220;West Bank&#8221; (of the river Jordan). Only two countries in the entire world recognized Jordan&#8217;s annexation (England and Pakistan) and not a single Arab country recognized this annexation. Furthermore, <a href="http://www.un.org/en/sc/repertoire/principles.shtml#rel2">article 2 of the UN charter</a> forbids the acquisition of territory through war. Thus, Jordan&#8217;s acquisition and annexation of the territory was illegal under international law.
In 1967, Jordan again initiated war against Israel (along with two other Arab states) but Jordan was pushed out of the territory (back to Jordan&#8217;s recognized boundaries on the east bank of the Jordan river) by Israel. This re-acquisition of the territory by Israel was legal because <a href="http://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/chapter-vii/">article 51 of the U.N. charter</a> permits a nation to defend itself from attack. It is understood that national self-defense often necessitates control of any territory from which the initial aggression was launched. If the territory would have been recognized as within the borders of the State of Jordan by either Israel or the international community between 1949 and 1967, then it would have meant Israel&#8217;s return to the territory was an occupation, regardless of previous title. But Jordan&#8217;s annexation was not recognized by the international community, nor did the Jordan-Israel ceasefire agreement represent acquiescence to new borders by either side.
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Mogherini then endorsed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/17107/anti-israel-un-agency-caught-pretending-picture-hank-berrienhttps://www.dailywire.com/news/17107/anti-israel-un-agency-caught-pretending-picture-hank-berrien">Israel-hating</a> UNRWA:
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The European Union and its Member States are collectively by far the largest donor, the largest supporter for the Palestinians. And our support will continue, including to UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East] which is doing invaluable work, supporting the Palestinian refugees inside and outside Palestine, and ensuring their access to basic services such as education, health and jobs, pending resolution of their situation.
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Not even one word on Abbas&#8217; lunatic speech. 
Mogherini, you are a disgrace for Europe<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EuropeanUnion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EuropeanUnion</a> <a href="https://t.co/oJ9j5qTLXZ">pic.twitter.com/oJ9j5qTLXZ</a>
&#8212; eldad beck (@eldadbeck) <a href="https://twitter.com/eldadbeck/status/955480688488341504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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European Union Exec Disdains Trump’s Jerusalem Decision, Embraces Abbas

European Union

On Sunday, Palestinian Authority terrorist leader <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/bitter-abbas-to-trump-we-reject-your-peace-deal-of-the-century/">President Mahmoud Abbas</a>, who has funneled millions of dollars toward terrorism, tore into President Trump, threatened the United States, and fictionalized the history of the Holy Land, rewriting it to exclude Jews.
This is, according to the Left, Israel&#8217;s peace partner.
This is, according to the Left, the legal authority which should be given authority over the holiest sites in Jerusalem.
Abbas explained, &#8220;We told Trump we will not accept his project, the &#8216;deal of the century,&#8217; which has become the &#8216;slap of the century.&#8217; But we will slap back.&#8221; Abbas was speaking at the opening of the Palestine Liberation Organization&#8217;s Central Council in Ramallah. He continued by targeting Trump, who had tweeted out that Abbas and the Palestinians were walking away from the table. &#8220;Shame on you,&#8221; Abbas said. &#8216;When did we reject the talks? Where is the negotiation that we rejected? May God demolish your house.&#8221; Abbas accused Israel of ending Oslo, and stated, &#8220;resistance&#8230;is our path to force out the occupation from our land.&#8221;
That amounts to an open call for terrorism. Abbas doubled down on that call, stating that he would not stop paying families of terrorists.
He didn&#8217;t stop there. He said that anyone who criticized him could &#8220;go to hell.&#8221; He threatened Nikki Haley, stating, &#8220;She threatens to hit people who hurt Israel with the heel of her shoe, and the response to her speech will be harsher.&#8221; And he said that Israel was a colonialist project of the West: &#8220;They wanted to bring Jews here from Europe to maintain European interests in the region. They asked Holland, which had the largest navy in the world, to transfer the Jews. Israel is a colonialist project that has nothing to do with the Jews.&#8221;
Naturally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Abbas, rightly stating, &#8220;The root of the conflict between us and the Palestinians is their continuous refusal to recognize the Jewish state in any borders.&#8221; That is obviously true.
But the hard Left, in their casual anti-Semitism, will refuse to recognize that obvious reality. Abbas has always been a Holocaust denier; he denies any Jewish identity to Israel; he leads a terrorist organization. Yet Israel is consistently portrayed as intransigent.
The insanity of that perspective was on full display in Abbas&#8217; words. But don&#8217;t expect the Leftists who see Israel as a Western occupier to pay any attention. They&#8217;re too busy pandering to people who pay terrorists to stab innocent Jews on the streets of Jerusalem.

Palestinian Dictator Abbas: ‘May God Demolish Trump’s House,’ Israel Isn’t Jewish, I’ll Keep Paying Terrorists

On Wednesday, ranting at an Organization of the Islamic Conference summit in Turkey, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the Trump administration and the United States, warned the world of more violence (now there&#8217;s a switch), called on countries to terminate their recognition of Israel, and issued the usual claim that somehow the 3,000 year history of the Jewish people and Jerusalem was a lie.
Courtesy of a <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/fiery-speech-palestinian-president-abbas-condemns-united-states-threatens-violence-denies-jewish-history/">translation</a> from the Washington Free Beacon, here are some nuggets from the gold mine of hostility and violence that Abbas offered:
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These unilateral steps by President Trump will not give any legitimacy to Israel in Jerusalem. It is a Palestinian Arab Muslim Christian city, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine. There can be no Palestinian state without the city of Jerusalem as its capital. Moreover, there will be no peace in the region and in the world without it.
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Funny how the Koran never mentions Jerusalem, while it is mentioned over 600 times in the Torah (the Jewish Bible).
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The U.S. Congress issued 27 resolutions saying we are terrorists, even when we have signed an agreement with the U.S. and 83 other states on fighting terrorism. Despite that, Congress insists we are terrorists, and we are not; it is they who invented terrorism. We have complied with all understandings between us and successive U.S. administrations, including this administration, but these illegal resolutions on Jerusalem have crossed all red lines, which will not make it possible for us to keep our commitments unilaterally.
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Complying with understandings? Like mentoring Palestinian children to hate Jews? See <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Palestinian-text-books-in-UNWRA-schools-reportedly-teach-of-killing-Jews-472012">here</a>, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-kids-taught-to-hate-israel-in-un-funded-camps-clip-shows/">here</a>, and <a href="https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-palestinians-teach-children-to-hate-and-kill/">here</a>.
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International law says that the state must meet three conditions: authority [i.e., government], population, and borders. But the third condition is not available in Israel, and I challenge it to say where its borders are. This leads us to [the conclusion] that recognizing it is invalid.
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I wonder, how can world nations remain silent to these violations of international law, and how can they continue to recognize Israel and deal with it while it mocks everyone, and continues to violate the agreements signed with it, and persists in its repressive and colonialist practices, and the creation of an apartheid, and the desecration of our peoples and our Christian and Islamic sacred [places].
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Apartheid? Like the Judenrein Arab cities within Israel? Oh.
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In all our conferences and resolutions, we have unanimously agreed that Jerusalem is a red line, and now we must translate all this into actions that force the United States to retreat from this sin and prevent other countries from taking similar steps.
To demand that the countries of the world review their recognition of the State of Israel as long as it insists on violating the rules of international law, and on violating all international resolutions since its establishment in 1948. We will go with your company and your support next week to the Security Council in order to obtain for full membership in the United Nations. If we do not succeed, we will go the following week, and so on. There are countries that have applied dozens of times to obtain full membership, and they obtained it in the end.
Jerusalem &#8230; is the capital of Palestine, the blessed Holy Land, the place where the heavenly messages came down, where our honorable Prophet Muhammad &#8212; peace be upon him &#8212; journeyed and from which he ascended to heaven. It is the cradle of Christ, peace be upon him, and the resting place of our master Abraham, peace be upon him. Jerusalem is the city of peace, the gate of heaven, the city of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first of the two Qibla, the second mosque and the third of the two holy mosques, the city of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. This city is the eternal capital of the state of Palestine which will remain steadfast in the face of the attempts to target it, and it will emerge victorious.
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Hmm, wasn&#8217;t it under Israeli rule that members of all religions were allowed access to their holy places? Isn&#8217;t it true that until 1967 and the Six-Day war in which Israel recaptured Jerusalem, Jews were not permitted access to the holiest place in their faith?
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The occupation is trying to falsify history. The Torah says that the Canaanites were present before our master Abraham, peace be upon him, and their presence has not ceased to this day. Our right to Jerusalem, and to other parts [of the country], exists forever. The whole claim that the modern-day Palestinians are descendants of the original Canaanites was debunked long ago by Joan Peters in her heavily-researched tome, &#8220;From Time Immemorial.&#8221;
If the State of Palestine is not established with its capital Jerusalem on the borders of June 4, 1967, there will be no peace in the area, the region or the world, and they must choose.
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So what&#8217;s different than before? Most of the Arab world has never allowed Jews in Israel to live in peace; Anwar el-Sadat was assassinated when he boldly made peace with Israel. Does anyone ever believe Abbas when he says he wants to make peace? His history is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24527/no-big-deal-abbas-snubs-pence-upcoming-israel-hank-berrien">exactly the opposite of that</a>.

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