John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
“Mahmoud Abbas apologises to Jewish people after Holocaust comments”
I am sorry Abbas spoke the way he did.
All he achieved was to give genuine Israeli fascists, Netanyahu and Liberman, the opportunity to go into a melodramatic flap about not making peace with such horrible people.
Which is mighty handy for them because they never intended to make peace. Quite the opposite, their course, as anyone can see, has always been set on stealing all the additional property of others that they can while expelling or degrading the people who now live there.
And I fail to see how a few words can in any way be compared to Israel's current savage behavior, literally shooting unarmed demonstrators by the thousands, sometimes with dum-dum bullets to leave horrible injuries for those not killed.
This is the third massacre of Gaza's people in a decade.
And, while they are at that hideous business, they do everything they can think of to promote a war with Iran to kill still more people. Peace-loving, decent men, that’s for sure.
The entire atmosphere of these events is simply Twilight Zone stuff. Much of the press ignores or minimizes mass slaughter and mistreatment while they give publicity to a few poorly-chosen words.
So, we have a former bar-room bouncer, seething with often-expressed hatred for Palestinians (Liberman), and an absolutely corrupt politician and mass killer (Netanyahu) receive get-out-jail-free cards by those manipulating public opinion.
