Itamar Marcus, Director of the Palestinian Media Watch, has provided a self-portrait of Palestinian Authority prime minister, Mahmoud (Abu Mazen) Abbas, in his latest PMW Bulletin. Marcus explains that, based on Abu Mazen's own statements, "the four terrorist attacks committed by Palestinian terrorists over the weekend that killed nine Israelis are all legitimate according to the Abbas doctrine." According to the PMW Director, this doctrine includes such principles as: "The use of arms against Israeli civilians within Israel should be stopped for a year due to its current
ineffectiveness... The use of arms against Israeli civilians within the Disputed Territories should continue." Such "territories" include French Hill in Jerusalem, where seven Israelis were murdered in a recent suicide bombing, says Marcus, as the PA claims that land as its own. Furthermore, Itamar Marcus notes, Abu Mazen supports the flooding of Israel with Arab "refugees" and has denied that the Holocaust ever occurred.
Abu Mazen's statements detailing his doctrines and beliefs, as provided by the Palestinian Media Watch in its "Self-Portrait of Mahmoud Abbas", include the following:
"The armed struggle necessitates certain conditions and opportunities that do not exist for us in Palestine. We cannot equate what is happening in Palestine with what is going on Lebanon or Algeria. Therefore, military activities under these circumstances and means are ineffective. For this reason, we stated that we have no choice but to stop it [i.e. military activities] for a year, which is not a submission from our point of view." [A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, March 3, 2003]
Regarding the possibility of continued Hamas terrorism, Abu Mazen said: "The Authority will convene and decide what would be appropriate while avoiding internal conflict, as we maintain our internal unity." [Al-Quds, February 25, 2003]
On terrorism in Judea, Samaria and Gaza: "The Intifada must continue, along with the right of the Palestinian people to rise up and use whatever it can to protect its existence and being. I add and say that if the Israelis come to your land to establish a settlement, it is within your rights to protect what is yours. with every means and weapons, when they come to your homes. This is the right of uprising." [A-Sharq Al-Awsat, March 3, 2003]
As for the long-term arrangement with Israel, PA television news reported, on February 2, 2000, that "Abu Mazen referred to the right of the refugees to return to the homes from where they were expelled in 1948. He stated that the PLO possess five million files that contain detailed information on the refugees, and these documents will be made public at the right time. The PLO will not sign any peace agreement that does not include the restoration of all the rights of the Palestinian people."
Abu Mazen has also made it clear, reports Marcus, that PLO leader Yasser Arafat is still the authority behind the PA, by his very existence. If Israel expels Arafat, Abu Mazen said, "I do not think that they will find people, not even one person to form a new Authority.... It is important to stress that any harm done to President Yasser Arafat, or any statements regarding the reduction of his authority or his removal, will spell destruction for the Authority." [Al-Quds, February 25, 2003]
As for Mahmoud Abbas' Holocaust revisionism, Marcus provides quotations from "The Other Side: The Secret Relations Between Nazism and the Leadership of
the Zionist Movement" by Mahmoud Abbas, 1983, (translation by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles):
"A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement... [the Zionists gave] permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine.... Having more victims meant greater rights and stronger privilege to join the negotiation table for dividing the spoils of war once it was over. However, since Zionism was not a fighting partner -- suffering victims in a battle -- it had no escape but to offer up human beings, under any name, to raise the number of victims, which they could then boast of at the moment of accounting.... Following the
war word was spread that six million Jews were amongst the victims and that a war of extermination was aimed primarily at the Jews.... The truth is that no one can either confirm or deny this figure...."
ineffectiveness... The use of arms against Israeli civilians within the Disputed Territories should continue." Such "territories" include French Hill in Jerusalem, where seven Israelis were murdered in a recent suicide bombing, says Marcus, as the PA claims that land as its own. Furthermore, Itamar Marcus notes, Abu Mazen supports the flooding of Israel with Arab "refugees" and has denied that the Holocaust ever occurred.
Abu Mazen's statements detailing his doctrines and beliefs, as provided by the Palestinian Media Watch in its "Self-Portrait of Mahmoud Abbas", include the following:
"The armed struggle necessitates certain conditions and opportunities that do not exist for us in Palestine. We cannot equate what is happening in Palestine with what is going on Lebanon or Algeria. Therefore, military activities under these circumstances and means are ineffective. For this reason, we stated that we have no choice but to stop it [i.e. military activities] for a year, which is not a submission from our point of view." [A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, March 3, 2003]
Regarding the possibility of continued Hamas terrorism, Abu Mazen said: "The Authority will convene and decide what would be appropriate while avoiding internal conflict, as we maintain our internal unity." [Al-Quds, February 25, 2003]
On terrorism in Judea, Samaria and Gaza: "The Intifada must continue, along with the right of the Palestinian people to rise up and use whatever it can to protect its existence and being. I add and say that if the Israelis come to your land to establish a settlement, it is within your rights to protect what is yours. with every means and weapons, when they come to your homes. This is the right of uprising." [A-Sharq Al-Awsat, March 3, 2003]
As for the long-term arrangement with Israel, PA television news reported, on February 2, 2000, that "Abu Mazen referred to the right of the refugees to return to the homes from where they were expelled in 1948. He stated that the PLO possess five million files that contain detailed information on the refugees, and these documents will be made public at the right time. The PLO will not sign any peace agreement that does not include the restoration of all the rights of the Palestinian people."
Abu Mazen has also made it clear, reports Marcus, that PLO leader Yasser Arafat is still the authority behind the PA, by his very existence. If Israel expels Arafat, Abu Mazen said, "I do not think that they will find people, not even one person to form a new Authority.... It is important to stress that any harm done to President Yasser Arafat, or any statements regarding the reduction of his authority or his removal, will spell destruction for the Authority." [Al-Quds, February 25, 2003]
As for Mahmoud Abbas' Holocaust revisionism, Marcus provides quotations from "The Other Side: The Secret Relations Between Nazism and the Leadership of
the Zionist Movement" by Mahmoud Abbas, 1983, (translation by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles):
"A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement... [the Zionists gave] permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine.... Having more victims meant greater rights and stronger privilege to join the negotiation table for dividing the spoils of war once it was over. However, since Zionism was not a fighting partner -- suffering victims in a battle -- it had no escape but to offer up human beings, under any name, to raise the number of victims, which they could then boast of at the moment of accounting.... Following the
war word was spread that six million Jews were amongst the victims and that a war of extermination was aimed primarily at the Jews.... The truth is that no one can either confirm or deny this figure...."