German Chancellor Olaf Scholz assured his Israeli counterpart on Thursday August 18 thatcondemn severelyany attempt to relativize the Holocaust after remarks in Berlin by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who compared Israeli policy towards the Palestinians to the Jewish genocide by Nazi Germany.
“President Abbas’ statements in Berlin are unbearable and completely unacceptable“Said Olaf Scholz during a telephone interview with Yaïr Lapid, according to remarks reported by the German chancellery in a press release.
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The German chief executive underlinedstrongly condemn any attempt to deny or relativize the Holocaust“. Olaf Scholz and Yair Lapid agreed on a “next visitof the head of the Israeli government in Berlin, added the chancellery, without further details. Questioned on Tuesday at the very end of a joint press conference with Olaf Scholz on the attack fifty years ago during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, fatal to 11 Israelis and perpetrated by a Palestinian commando, Mahmoud Abbas compared the situation in the Palestinian Territories occupied by Israel to the Holocaust.
“From 1947 to today, Israel has committed 50 massacres in 50 Palestinian cities (…), 50 massacres, 50 holocausts and still today there are deaths caused by the Israeli army every day“, he said, causing an outcry mainly in Israel and Germany. Olaf Scholz said to himself “disgustedthe next day with these statements, but his lack of immediate reaction earned him sharp criticism in Germany, especially from the conservative opposition and many media.
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