Israel Matzav: No difference between Hamas and Fatah on the Holocaust

No difference between Hamas and Fatah on the Holocaust

Lefty blogger Matthew Yglesias notes that Hamas is embracing Holocaust denial. According to Yglesias, 'Israeli officials' are using Hamas' Holocaust denial as a pretext for why western governments shouldn’t reconsider their attitudes to dealings with Hamas.

But if Israel were really using Holocaust denial as a 'pretext' for not talking to Hamas, it wouldn't be talking to Fatah either. 'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen is a Holocaust denier. He even earned his doctorate at the Institute for Oriental Studies in Moscow in 1982 by writing a thesis that denied the Holocaust.

The institute was headed by Yevgeny Primakov, a Jew, an Arabist, an avowed friend of Saddam Hussein and other Arab rulers, and eventually the prime minister of Russia. Of all these qualities, Abu Mazen emphasized mainly Primakov's Jewish origin.

The heading of his doctoral thesis was: "Zionist leadership and the Nazis." The introduction dealt, among other topics, with a loaded issue: How many Jews perished in the Holocaust. In the Soviet period, especially in the anti-Israel institute that Abu Mazen attended, they often dealt with such questions. The Soviet Union, more than any other country, was addicted to Holocaust denial. The victims were not recognized by their origin, but rather by their nationality. And this is what the diligent researcher Mahmoud Abbas wrote:

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Israel Matzav: No difference between Hamas and Fatah on the Holocaust