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January 17, 2018

The “New York Times” Ignored Mahmoud Abbas’s Paranoid Rant about Jewish History

Abbas’s you-only-live-once moment.

At a gathering of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s central council on Sunday, Mahmoud Abbas delivered a two-hour speech assessing the current situation of the Palestinians, setting forth his ideas as to how they should proceed, and railing against the Trump administration. He also elaborated on Palestinians’ claims to the land of Israel and the illegitimacy of Jewish claims, and expounded a complex web of conspiracy theories—ranging from the anti-Semitic to the insane—that, to him, explain Palestinian suffering. But none of this made it into the New York Times’ coverage of the speech, as Noah Pollak reports:

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January 17, 2018

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    Abbas’s you-only-live-once moment.

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