Al Arabiya Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust “the ugliest crime humanity has known in modern history,” a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish suffering during the Nazi genocide.Abbas also said he felt compassion for the victims and their families. Some 6 million Jews perished in the Nazi genocide during […]
TIME Magazine By Sam Frizell Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime” of modern history. “[W]hat happened to the Jews in the Holocaust is the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era,” Abbas said in a meeting with the American rabbi Marc Schneier, […]
Los Angeles Times By Batsheva Sobelman and Kathleen Hennessey At a time when the Middle East peace process appears stymied, Israel received an unexpected olive branch when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the Holocaust and expressed sympathy with its victims. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu labeled the comments a play for public opinion […]
Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era.” The statement, made in advance of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah, was published Sunday by Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency. It also featured a call […]
Haaretz By Barak Ravid Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas released a special message on Sunday in Arabic and in English on the occasion of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which he decried the murder of Jews in the Holocaust as “the most heinous crime against humanity in modern history. This is the first time a Palestinian […]
Fox News RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime” of modern history and expressed his sympathy for the victims, a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish suffering during the Nazi genocide. Abbas’ comments appeared, in part, aimed at reaching out to Israeli public […]
El Mundo By Sal Emergui Con una rotundidad sin precedentes, el presidente palestino, Abu Mazen, ha condenado el asesinato de seis millones de judíos en el Holocausto perpetrado por los nazis. En Israel -que esta noche inicia las conmemoraciones del solemne y emotivo Yom HaShoah (Día del Holocausto)- suelen recordar que en 1982 Abu Mazen escribió una polémica tesis en la […]
CNN By Ben Brumfield and Josh Levs Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the Holocaust the most heinous crime in modern human history, his office said in a statement Sunday. He called the Holocaust an embodiment of racism, in response to a question by Rabbi Marc Schneier on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the […]
CBS News RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime” of modern history and expressed his sympathy for the victims, a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish suffering during the Nazi genocide. Abbas’ comments appeared, in part, aimed at reaching out to Israeli public […]