Mahmoud Abbas accuses Israeli government of lying like Goebbels

At a recent UN event marking what the Palestinian Authority calls the Nakba (meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic), Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas likened Israeli government officials to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels:

“Israeli and Zionist claims continue by saying that Israel made the desert bloom. As if Palestine was a desert and they made the desert bloom,” Abbas tells a UN event commemorating the Palestinian Nakba, or catastrophe, which accompanies Israel’s founding in 1948.

“These are lies,” he continues. “They continue to lie, like Goebbels, and they continue to lie until people believe their lies and they continue therefore their false claims by saying that Israel made the desert bloom. Palestine was never a desert.”

The statement like Abbas likening the Israeli government's top officials to Goebbels just shows how dismayed he is at Benjamin Netanyahu for once again obstructing the Palestinian people's right to self-determination after becoming Israel's prime minister again for a second time. Joe Biden respects the ordeals the Jews went through for over 1,800 years before before regaining their right of self-determination in 1948, he's exasperated at Netanyahu having obstructed prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

a reply to: Potlatch

he's exasperated at Netanyahu having obstructed prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Biden is exasperated with Netanyahu for obstructing peace? Did I read that right?

Boy, talk about clueless to understand hypocracy and double standards!

a reply to: Potlatch

Ummm.. there is no Peace if one side says you have no right to exist and should be driven into the sea.



There has never, in history, been a Palestinian leader who has unequivocally and demonstrably recognised Israel's right to exist. Yasser Arafat came closest through the Oslo Accords, but when push came to shove and it was time for actions, not words, he rejected a peace deal. Three times in 100 years Israel has recognised the Palestinian right to self-determination; why no recognition the other way around?

It is time to move the peace process forward, and to place pressure on the Palestinians to recognise Israel's inalienable right to self-determination - a right recognised for all other peoples.

a reply to: Potlatch

You forgot your source?

It's a floral euphemism for the kibbutz movement

On October 28th, a group known as the “Hadera Commune” (some members of which are shown in the photo in 1910 before settling in degania) arrived at Umm Juni located on the Kinneret and agreed to lease the land from Ruppin and the Jewish National Fund. According to the Degania website, the new workers wrote, “On the 25th of Tishrei 5671 (October 28th 1910), we have arrived, ten men and two women, to receive the inventory from the ‘labor conquest group’. We have proceeded to establish an independent settlement of Jewish workers in the national homeland – a Commune.”

# Abbas # Palestine
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originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: Potlatch

he's exasperated at Netanyahu having obstructed prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Biden is exasperated with Netanyahu for obstructing peace? Did I read that right?

Boy, talk about clueless to understand hypocracy and double standards!

Both those men are scum but I don’t think you read that right . It is confusing

originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: Potlatch

he's exasperated at Netanyahu having obstructed prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Biden is exasperated with Netanyahu for obstructing peace? Did I read that right?

Boy, talk about clueless to understand hypocracy and double standards!

Yes. Barack Obama (under whom Joe Biden served as VP) criticized Netanyahu for damaging prospects for a two-state solution by building settlements in the West Bank. When Joe Biden returned to the WH in 2021 for the first time since handing over the keys of the vice presidency to Mike Pence in 2017, Netanyahu was still prime minister of Israel, but in June he was succeeded by Naftali Bennett as the country's prime minister. Bear in mind that Netanyahu is a career Israeli politician, having served as prime minister for a while in the late 1990s before being succeeded by Ehud Barak.

Palestinian people's right to self-determination

And just what does that entitle ?
Inquiring minds need to know .