The expectation that Palestinians under thumb for 75 years can plan, present, and articulate as well as the Israelis or are even expected to is a form of Apartheid in itself. Colonisers for hundreds of years have been running arguments like this. Australia for one has been doing it for 200 years
Mahmoud Abbas hasn’t been an effictive leader, and certainly not for a very long time, and his outbursts are just embarrassing. Had he taken the opportunity of the stage in Berlin to bring home to a German audience the magnitude of the human rights crisis faced by Palestinians, he might have done some good. As it is, by trying, pitifully, to appropriate the language of Holocaust for his people’s dilemma, he made himself look small, and a little crazed.
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