Once upon a time, Mahmoud Abbas inspired hope.
Elected president of the Palestinian Authority after Yasser Arafat’s death in 2004, he wore a jacket and tie, not military fatigues. He was a nationalist, not a jihadist. He denounced terrorism “by any party and in all its shapes and forms.” A year earlier, Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s prime minister, had called him “a responsible man.”Addressing the Revolutionary Council of Fatah last month, Mr.
The state of Israel, he told his audience, was “invented” by “Britain and America — not just Britain. … I am saying this so that we know who we should accuse of being our enemy.” So, Mr. Abbas has been the only game in town. And one could hope that with American help — including more per-capita aid than Europe received under the Marshall Plan — the quality of life for the average Palestinian would improve, which would lead Mr. Abbas to conclude that coming to terms with Israel was in the Palestinian interest, not to mention his own.
He later published a paper building on his dissertation, casting doubt on whether gas chambers were used to exterminate Jews and claiming that the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust might be “even less than a million.”
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