Abbas unable to defend terror glorification when presented PMW's report of Fatah leader praising murder
Headline: "On Europe trip, Abbas gets red carpet - and some hard questions"
"The Hague, Netherlands
On his way to several meetings with Dutch parliamentarians last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his entourage passed 300 demonstrators flying Israeli flags.
Like the Israeli government, the protesters, who convened outside at the urging of Dutch Jewish and Christian pro-Israel groups, accuse Abbas and his government of supporting deadly attacks against Jews... At the CIDI meeting [the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, the Dutch Jewish community's main pro-Israel lobby and watchdog on anti-Semitism], the delegation patiently listened to Abbas's complaints about Netanyahu. When he was finished, Joep de Geus, the 22-year-old chairman of CIDI's youth department, read to him a quote [exposed by PMW] from Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen who, on October 7, said the murder of a settler couple the previous week in front of their children was a case of 'one fulfilling his national duty voluntarily, as best as one can.'
Looking at Abbas, de Geus asked: 'Your excellency, do we really need a trilateral committee to tell us whether this is incitement?'
'We the Palestinians are not perfect,' Abbas replied, 'but these things need to be discussed as a whole.'"
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"The Hague, Netherlands
On his way to several meetings with Dutch parliamentarians last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his entourage passed 300 demonstrators flying Israeli flags.
Like the Israeli government, the protesters, who convened outside at the urging of Dutch Jewish and Christian pro-Israel groups, accuse Abbas and his government of supporting deadly attacks against Jews... At the CIDI meeting [the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, the Dutch Jewish community's main pro-Israel lobby and watchdog on anti-Semitism], the delegation patiently listened to Abbas's complaints about Netanyahu. When he was finished, Joep de Geus, the 22-year-old chairman of CIDI's youth department, read to him a quote [exposed by PMW] from Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen who, on October 7, said the murder of a settler couple the previous week in front of their children was a case of 'one fulfilling his national duty voluntarily, as best as one can.'
Looking at Abbas, de Geus asked: 'Your excellency, do we really need a trilateral committee to tell us whether this is incitement?'
'We the Palestinians are not perfect,' Abbas replied, 'but these things need to be discussed as a whole.'"
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