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AFTER OVER 50 YEARS

It took over 50 years for the New York Times to apologize for deliberately not reporting on the Holocaust while it was happening.

As I have written before, in the days before TV and the Internet, the New York Times was by far the most important media outlet in America, and had they not covered up the Holocaust throughout the Second World War, public pressure might have grown on FDR to bomb the railway lines to Auschwitz and save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Now that they have finally acknowledged Abbas for the kind of man he is, the New York Times editorial board might ask themselves why for all these years they have been so soft on Abbas.

And even now, the Times editorial on Abbas (below) downplays the problem, as well as the massive level of corruption by him and his sons (who have filled their banks accounts with diverted western aid money) making it sound as if Palestinian corruption is merely result of insufficient oversight.

JOHN KERRY AND OTHERS FINALLY TURN ON ABBAS

Just as the New York Times is finally criticizing Abbas so are his other longtime defenders in the West, including J Street, former Secretary of State John Kerry, Barack Obama’s former Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, and the European Union.

JEWS HAVE “FILTHY FEET”

The Abbas they have suddenly decided to distance themselves from is the same Abbas who has continued, year after year, to name Palestinians schools, streets, public squares, sports teams, and children’s summer camps, after terrorists and suicide bombers. It is the same Abbas who pays over $350 million per annum to reward the families of Palestinian terrorists. It is the same Abbas who, for example, in a 2015 speech said “Jews had filthy feet”.

UN ENVOY DENOUNCES ABBAS’ CONSPIRACY THEORIES

The UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Nickolay E. Mladenov, said. “Such statements [by Abbas on May 2] are unacceptable, deeply disturbing and do not serve the interests of the Palestinian people or peace in the Middle East. Leaders have an obligation to confront anti-Semitism everywhere and always, not perpetuate the conspiracy theories that fuel it.”

(Of course Palestinian school books and media, many paid for with UN funds, are full of such conspiracy theories about Jews and denials of Jewish history — Tom Gross)

The new head of the traditionally pro-Palestinian UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, tweeted:

“Joining my voice to UN envoy @nmladenov regarding comments by President Abbas. All forms of antisemitism, including Holocaust denial and relativization, are unacceptable. @UNESCO promotes Holocaust education against falsifications of history & combats antisemitism thru education.”

David Friedman, Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, said in relation to Abbas’ latest hateful remarks about Jews: “To all those who think Israel is the reason that we don’t have peace, think again.”