Thursday, February 15, 2007

Abu Mazen, Israel’s and the world’s hope for peace?


February 14, 2007
Abu Mazen, Israel’s and the world’s hope for peace?

Mahmoud Abbas has long been secretary-general of the PLO’s ruling executive committee, which made him deputy to Yasser Arafat and heir to the PLO chairmanship. Today he leads Fatah and the PLO in Arafat’s stead.

A co-signatory to Oslo I and II, he purportedly represents “the moderate side” of the Arab world.

He is also a historical revisionist, and a Holocaust denier.

In his Arabic book, The Other Side: the secret Relationship between Nazism and Zionism, Abbas refutes “the Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed.”

Instead, this man with whom Israel’s government finds itself negotiating the future of Israel – the Jewish state born out of that very Holocaust – suggests a cynical and macabre connection between the Nazis and the Zionists, and claims that ‘only’ 890,000 Jews were killed by Hitler – these as the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot.

Abu Mazen was recently quoted in the Hebrew-language Tzamtzam News as having said:

“In Oslo we received land and didn’t give anything in return”.

At a conference of Fatah activists in mid-2002, he explained:

"Israel did not fulfil Oslo and won't do so because it made the greatest mistake of its life when it signed the Oslo agreement…

"There is another thing that we did in Oslo. We took the land without giving anything in return, and the final status issues [borders, refugees, settlements, Jerusalem] remained as they were."

These words of truth speak volumes as to where Abu Mazen stands, and yet he is the new hope for peace of the U.S., Europe and even Israel!

As Jewish Studies scholar Rafael Medoff writes:

The Japanese publisher Bungei Shunju shut down one of its magazines for printing an article denying the Holocaust.

International pressure compelled Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to publicly retract statements in his book doubting that the Holocaust had taken place. Austrian Freedom Party leader Jorg Haider was ostracized by the international community for his remarks praising members of the SS, as was French politician Jean Marie Le Pen, for questioning the existence of the gas chambers and belittling the significance of the Holocaust. A recent poll found 64 percent of Americans believe world leaders should likewise refuse to meet with Abbas.

Yet some in the media have treated Abbas with kid gloves, to say the least. The official BCC News Profile of Abbas reports: "A highly intellectual man, Abbas studied law in Egypt before doing a Ph.D. in Moscow. He is the author of several books." The New York Times recently characterized Abbas as "a lawyer and historian . . He holds a doctorate in history from the Moscow Oriental College; his topic was Zionism." Neither the BBC nor the Times offered any further explanation as to the contents of Abbas' writings.

Bestowing the title "historian" upon Mahmoud Abbas awards his writings a stature they do not deserve, and deals a grievous insult to every genuine historian.

One would then ask why, if these facts are known to the Jewish Israeli leadership, do they go along with the dangerous game of the world, and especially the Quartet, to explain, condone and even kiss this Abu Mazen in the hope of receiving peace from him in return? Thus did past Jewish leaders try to prevent greater disaster by explaining and even accommodating their enemies in the vain hope that doing so would make some co-existence possible, and they would somehow be left to conduct their lives in peace. In fact, this self-deception by many Israeli opinion makers is worse than a case of “the emperor’s new clothes!”

For it’s not simply that Abu Mazen is ‘not a peace partner’ – he is not “just naked” as far as being a hope for any kind of peace is concerned. HE IS STILL AN ENEMY; he is now in cohorts with the lethal Hamas, and he himself is armed with guns and worldwide prestige – supplied by the very state he still hopes to replace with his Palestinian Fatah-Hamas state!

And people still think the Jews are clever?
Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director
International Christian Zionist Center
www.israelmybeloved.com

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posted by David Ben-Ariel at 2:18 PM