He said Scholz and Lapid had agreed to speak "about this incident" by phone on Thursday. Hebestreit added that Abbas's comments "cast a dark shadow over Germany's ties with the Palestinian Authority". "The chancellor's foreign and security policy advisor (Jens Ploetner) told him in no uncertain terms that the chancellor expects the Palestinian president to recognise the singularity of the Holocaust without exception." German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit later Wednesday told a regular media briefing that the head of the Palestinian representative office in Berlin had been summoned to Scholz's chancellery. "One would have liked (Scholz's) clarification to be more immediate," wrote Der Spiegel magazine.Ĭhristoph Heubner, executive vice president of the International Auschwitz Committee, said he found it "astonishing and disconcerting that the German side was not prepared for Abbas's provocations, and that his statements on the Holocaust were left unchallenged at the press conference". The German chancellor had drawn heavy fire for failing to immediately condemn Abbas while standing alongside him. The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday issued a statement saying that "the Holocaust is the most heinous crime in modern human history".Ībbas's "answer was not intended to deny the singularity of the Holocaust that occurred in the last century", said a statement published by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, adding that he condemns the mass murder "in the strongest terms". History will never forgive him.- יאיר לפיד - Yair Lapid Aug'Dark shadow' Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, including one and a half million Jewish children. Mahmoud Abbas accusing Israel of having committed "50 Holocausts" while standing on German soil is not only a moral disgrace, but a monstrous lie. "Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, including one and a half million Jewish children. "Mahmoud Abbas accusing Israel of having committed '50 Holocausts' while standing on German soil is not only a moral disgrace, but a monstrous lie," Lapid wrote on Twitter. In Israel, Abbas's remarks drew a hail of condemnation from Prime Minister Yair Lapid and others. Please come to peace, come to security, let's build trust between us and you," added the 87-year-old. The Palestinian leader did not give a direct reply but instead spoke of the situation faced by Palestinians, accusing Israel of committing "50 massacres, 50 Holocausts" against Palestinians since 1947. Scholz was criticised both in Germany and Israel for not rejecting Abbas's comments immediately at the press conference he held with him on Tuesday night at the Chancellery.Ībbas, standing beside Scholz on Tuesday, was asked if he would apologise on behalf of the Palestinian militants who carried out the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage-taking in which 11 Israelis were killed. Ich verurteile jeden Versuch, die Verbrechen des Holocaust zu leugnen.- Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz August 17, 2022 Gerade für uns Deutsche ist jegliche Relativierung des Holocaust unerträglich und inakzeptabel. Ich bin zutiefst empört über die unsäglichen Aussagen des palästinensischen Präsidenten Mahmoud #Abbas.
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