German chancellor calls on head of Jewish state government to distort Palestinian president’s attempt to “minimize or deny” genocide
A day after publicly denouncing parallelism made Tuesday in Berlin by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, comparing Israeli policies in Gaza and the West Bank to the Holocaust, Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz made another attempt to distance himself from the Holocaust. to take the controversy. Amid criticism for being slow to respond to the controversial comment, the head of the German government telephoned his counterpart in the Jewish state, Yair Lapid, on Thursday to make clear that any attempt to “minimize or ameliorate the Nazi genocide.” deny” is “unacceptable”.
The Israeli prime minister’s office said in a statement that Scholz stressed early in the conversation that he rejected and condemned the comments and said it was important to clarify this to Lapid both personally and publicly. “Prime Minister Lapid thanked him, both as Prime Minister of Israel and as the son of Holocaust survivors,” the government said in its note. For its part, the German Chancellery
The Israeli prime minister’s office said in a statement that Scholz stressed early in the conversation that he rejected and condemned the comments and said it was important to clarify this to Lapid both personally and publicly. “Prime Minister Lapid thanked him, both as Prime Minister of Israel and as the son of Holocaust survivors,” the government said in its note. For its part, the German Chancellery said the two leaders agreed to meet in Berlin soon and agreed to continue cooperation between their two countries in various fields.
In any case, Scholz’s reaction comes late in the eyes of German public opinion. Not surprisingly, many voices and the country’s media criticized him for failing to respond once Abbas’s controversial intervention took place at the press conference they jointly held in the capital. In this regard, a spokesman for the German government has taken the blame for ending the conference before the chancellor could respond.
During Tuesday’s hearing, Abbas was asked if he would apologize for the Palestinians who carried out a hostage situation during the 1972 Munich Olympics that killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches. “From 1947 to today, Israel has committed 50 massacres in 50 Palestinian cities (…) 50 massacres, 50 holocausts, and even today there are deaths by the Israeli army every day,” he replied in Arabic.
After the deluge of criticism, Abbas has decided to “clarify” his stance in a statement describing the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, in which 6 million Jews died, as “the most heinous crime in modern human history”. “The president did not deny the massacres of Jews under Nazi Germany, but rather told the world not to lose sight of the massacres of the Palestinian people,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamed Shtayyeh added.
Source: La Verdad
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