Antisemitism, the hatred of Jews, is almost as old as the religion. The Bible tells us of Jews being enslaved in ancient Egypt and of the Persian official Haman, who plotted to kill the Jews of ancient Persia.
King Edward expelled the Jews from England in 1290. They were not allowed to return until 1656. Jews were tortured into converting to Catholicism in the Spanish Inquisition, which began in 1478 and ended in 1834.
We would have never known of Mr. Abbas’ vicious remarks but for the efforts of my friends at the Middle East Media Research Institute. Three times since 2000, Israel has tried to offer the “land for peace” deal in U.N. Resolution 242, but the Palestinians rejected it. For example, in 2000, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak agreed to a plan proposed by then-President Bill Clinton that would have established a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza as well as East Jerusalem.
Why did Mr. Abbas choose to make that statement now? Why sound like an Iranian ayatollah instead of maintaining the fiction that he was trying to achieve peace with Israel?Mr. Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority in 2005 for a four-year term, and in 2009, the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s central committee voted to keep him in office indefinitely. His power has been waning for more than a decade thanks to rivals such as the terrorist organization Hamas.
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