Between Them, Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Clarify Israel’s Options
Anti-Semitism, violence, or the status quo?
May 4, 2018
Between Them, Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Clarify Israel’s Options
Anti-Semitism, violence, or the status quo?
Dozens of acres of Israeli forests and fields were burned in the past few days because of the so-called “incendiary kites” that Palestinians in Gaza have launched over the security fence. Meanwhile, on Monday, Mahmoud Abbas gave a speech to the Palestinian National Council—the congress of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)—in which he blamed Jews for bringing the Holocaust upon themselves with their usury and “social behavior,” explained that the Shoah was a Nazi-Zionist plot (a favorite subject of his), and decried the Jewish state as the extension of British colonialism. To Jonathan Tobin, the two events throw the choices confronting Israel in stark relief:
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