More relaxed than ever, and without anyone in the crowd around him in the distinguished hall trying to challenge him or confront his claims, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas spoke from the UN podium on Monday and began to read the Nakba speech.
Israel boasted of the diplomatic effort invested in making more countries absent from the hall during the speech. At the end of the event took place. As far as the Palestinians are concerned, the goal has been achieved. "For the first time, the UN held an event marking 75 years of the Nakba. No matter how many people were in the hall, the main thing is that we managed to put our narrative on the table, the importance of the event in its very existence," they say in Ramallah.
The PLO flag flies during Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, photo: AP
Under "exclusive ownership of the Islamic Waqf." The Western Wall (Archive), Photo: Jonathan Zindel
"Undemocratic" Israel and Comparison to Goebbels
Anyone who watched Abbas during his statement could not have missed that the podium at the UN headquarters in New York was one of his favorite places. There he is always at his best, allowing himself to deviate from the written text and even the time frame allotted to him. And so, for nearly an hour, we received a show of delegitimization against Israel while denying basic historical facts. Mahmoud Abbas sought to refute the assertion that the State of Israel is the largest democracy in the Middle East. "This is a big lie," he noted.
"It commits all its crimes under the cover of being a democracy while operating an apartheid regime." Mahmoud Abbas then accused Israel and the settlers of desecrating Muslim burial places, and claimed that the Western Wall was owned exclusively by the Islamic Waqf. In between, he sailed back in history and rejected the claim that Israel's wars were in self-defense. All this was just "picantry" for another statement that came out of his mouth, in which he declared that Israel was lying, like Goebbels, the propaganda minister of Nazi Germany. Incidentally, Abbas tried to negate "the false claim that it was Israel that made the Palestine wilderness bloom."
Against the claim that Israel's wars stemmed from self-defense. Ariel Sharon during the Yom Kippur War (archive), photo: IDF Archive at the Ministry of Defense / IDF Spokesperson
False claims against the settlers. Judea and Samaria (archive), photo: Michelle Dot Com
Holocaust motifs and cries of support from those present
"As if Palestine had spoken until the Zionists came... They lie," Abbas again commits a sin with the use of Holocaust motifs in his speeches. Last time it happened during his visit to Germany when he declared that Israel "committed 50 Holocausts against the Palestinians." The Palestinian leader has denied in the past that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, claiming that the number is smaller.
There was no gospel in this speech. Even the two-state issue and peace efforts were suppressed and mentioned only in passing towards the end. He repeated the same messages and asked the world for protection, his words peppered with entertainment and cynicism. "Protect us. Aren't we human beings? Even animals are protected. If you had an animal, wouldn't you protect it?"
Mocking style. Former US President Donald Trump (archive), photo: AP
Next stop: a meeting over coffee with the Egyptian actor. Muhammad Ramadan (left), photo: None
There is no doubt that the 88-year-old leader felt quite liberated. His mocking style reached its peak when he called former U.S. President Donald Trump "my favorite." Not only did no one interrupt his speech, but at the end of his remarks, he was also cheered by those present who shouted "Freedom for Palestine." Perfumed with his "success," he continued to the next stop, which earned him a brief break of meeting over coffee with Egyptian actor Mohamed Ramadan.
Both Abbas's opponents and supporters are quick to ask, "Has the man lost it?" He was given the prestigious stage of the United Nations, and at certain moments it seemed almost like a circus. His words and style indicate a desperate leader, some would say detached, who is no longer looking for breakthroughs and achievements, but only wants to get through his remaining period without shocks.
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