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Holocaut accusation: Olaf Scholz outraged by "unspeakable statements" by Mahmoud Abbas

2022-08-17T07:12:05.263Z


At the press conference with Mahmoud Abbas, Chancellor Olaf Scholz was silent when the Palestinian President spoke of "Holocausts" that Israel was perpetrating against the Palestinians. Now he clearly condemns these statements.


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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD)

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz has now sharply criticized Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' accusations of the Holocaust against Israel.

"I am deeply outraged by the unspeakable statements made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas," wrote the SPD politician on Twitter on Wednesday.

»Especially for us Germans, any relativization of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable.

I condemn any attempt to deny the crimes of the Holocaust.«

Abbas accused Israel of multiple holocausts against the Palestinians at a joint press conference with Scholz in Berlin on Tuesday.

"Israel has committed 50 massacres in 50 Palestinian locations from 1947 to the present day," he said, adding: "50 massacres, 50 holocausts." apologize to Israel for the attacks on the Israeli Olympic team in Munich by Palestinian terrorists.

He did not address this in his answer.

Scholz did not reply to Abbas' statement in the press conference on Tuesday afternoon, but opposed the term "apartheid" used by Abbas.

There was sharp criticism from the opposition for the fact that he remained silent when he made the much sharper statement about the "Holocausts".

"An incredible process in the Chancellery," wrote CDU leader Friedrich Merz on Twitter on Tuesday evening.

The chancellor "should have contradicted the Palestinian president in no uncertain terms and asked him to leave the house!" he argued.

"Unforgivable!"

The deputy CDU federal chairman Karin Prien wrote with a view to Scholz: "Too little, too late." The CDU politician Armin Laschet also commented on Twitter about the incident.

He called Abbas' performance "the worst gaffe that was ever heard in the Chancellery."

CDU MP Matthias Hauer also said after Scholz's tweet: "Every citizen is rightly expected not to remain silent about anti-Semitism, but to show civil courage.

And the head of government can't even open his mouth in his chancellery or in front of the world public.

Unforgivable!"

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Source: spiegel

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