I am not shocked that Mahmoud Abbas would liken Israel to Nazi Germany in front of the UN General Assembly. That Abbas would say of Israel, "They continue to lie, like Goebbels, and they continue to lie until people believe their lies," is standard operating procedure for the Palestinian President whose term of office expired 15 years ago.
Abbas used that office last August to claim Israel had committed "50 Holocausts" on German soil in the presence of Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He is no different now than when he was 40 years ago when he wrote his doctoral thesis claiming Zionists had collaborated with the Nazis.
While I am glad Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden Administration's Anti-Semitism Envoy, denounced Abbas' statement, he ought to be persona non grata in the international community. Yet it is the international community which feted him when the UN saw fit to observe "Nakba Day" which considers Israel's creation to be a catastrophe. Most EU nations were present for this observation where Abbas called for Israel to be suspended by the UN.
Mahmoud Abbas is 87 and it is only a matter of time before he leaves the international stage. But the international community which enabled him will very likely continue to equate Israel with Nakba and thus indulge more comparisons to Nazi Germany. They shall do so until much of the so-called civilized world also equates Israel to Nazi Germany. This will be Abbas' ugly legacy.
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