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Additionally, he claimed that the much smaller number of Jews which he admitted that the Nazis did massacre were actually the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot. "The Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination."<ref name=Guardian>Chris McGreal: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/19/usa.israel Arafat forced to give up most powers to new PM] ''[[The Guardian]]'' 19 March 2003.</ref>{{verify source}} |
Additionally, he claimed that the much smaller number of Jews which he admitted that the Nazis did massacre were actually the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot. "The Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination."<ref name=Guardian>Chris McGreal: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/19/usa.israel Arafat forced to give up most powers to new PM] ''[[The Guardian]]'' 19 March 2003.</ref>{{verify source}} |
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According to a 2007 report by the [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]], "Abbas misquoted historian [[Raul Hilberg]] to support his claim that fewer than one million Jews were killed, and quoted [[Robert Faurisson]] on the nonexistence of gas chambers |
According to a 2007 report by the [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]], "Abbas misquoted historian [[Raul Hilberg]] to support his claim that fewer than one million Jews were killed, and quoted [[Robert Faurisson]] on the nonexistence of gas chambers<ref name="Wiesenthal">[http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres8/denialreport.pdf Holocaust Denial's Assault on Memory: Precursor to Twenty-First Century Genocide], H Brackman, A Breitbart, RA Cooper - Los Angeles: Simon Wiesenthal Center, 2007, p. 11</ref><ref name="Stephen E. Atkins">''Holocaust denial as an international movement'' by Stephen E. Atkins, ABC-CLIO, 2009, page 214</ref> |
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[[Rafael Medoff]] of the [[David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies]] denied the assertion by Abbas that "The historian and author, Raoul Hilberg, thinks that the figure does not exceed 890,000", and said this is "utterly false". He wrote that "Professor Hilberg, a distinguished historian and author of the classic study 'The Destruction of the European Jews', has never said or written any such thing."<ref name="Medoff"/> |
[[Rafael Medoff]] of the [[David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies]] denied the assertion by Abbas that "The historian and author, Raoul Hilberg, thinks that the figure does not exceed 890,000", and said this is "utterly false". He wrote that "Professor Hilberg, a distinguished historian and author of the classic study 'The Destruction of the European Jews', has never said or written any such thing."<ref name="Medoff"/> |
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Author | Mahmoud Abbas |
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Original title | al-Wajh al-Akhar: al-'Alaqat as-Sirriya bayna an-Naziya wa's-Sihyuniya |
Country | Jordan |
Language | Arabic |
Subject | History |
Publisher | Dar Ibn Rushd |
Publication date | 1984 |
Pages | 253 |
The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism (Arabic: al-Wajh al-Akhar: al-'Alaqat as-Sirriya bayna an-Naziya wa's-Sihyuniya. Publisher: Dar Ibn Rushd, Amman, Jordan. 1984) is the title of a book by Mahmoud Abbas,[1] published in Arabic.[1] It is based on his CandSc thesis,[2] completed in 1982 at Patrice Lumumba University (now the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia) under the title The Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement (Russian: Связи между сионизмом и нацизмом. 1933–1945), and defended at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
In the book, Abbas argues that the Nazi Holocaust had been exaggerated and that Zionists created the myth of six million murdered Jews.[3]
Some content of his doctorate and the resulting book have been considered as Holocaust denial by critics,[4] especially the parts disputing the accepted number of deaths in the Holocaust as well as the accusations that Zionist agitation was the cause of the Holocaust [5][6] a charge that he denies.[7]
Study at Patrice Lumumba University
Abbas attended at Patrice Lumumba University to prepare and present his doctoral thesis. The institute's director at the time, Yevgeny Primakov, appointed a Soviet-Palestine scholar, Vladimir Ivanovich Kisilev (Russian: Владимир Иванович Киселёв) as Abbas's dissertation adviser; he communicated with his student mostly in English and Arabic.[2] In an interview with the Kommersant magazine twenty years later, Dr Kisilev remembers Abbas as well-prepared graduate student, who came to Moscow with an already chosen research topic and a large amount of already prepared material.[2]
The Russian title of Abbas' thesis is "Связи между сионизмом и нацизмом. 1933–1945",[8] or The Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement.[9][10]) In 1984, the book based on Abbas's doctoral dissertation was published in Arabic by Dar Ibn Rushd publishers in Amman, Jordan, under the title The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism.
Content of the thesis
The thesis discussed topics such as the Haavara Agreement, by which the Third Reich agreed with the Jewish Agency to facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine,[2] as well as the Holocaust.
In the doctoral thesis, Abbas describes the Nazi Holocaust as "the Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed."[11][12][verification needed]
In the book, he wrote:
"It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement, however, is to inflate this figure [of Holocaust deaths] so that their gains will be greater. This led them to emphasize this figure [six million] in order to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions—fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few hundred thousand."[5][6][13][verification needed]
Additionally, he claimed that the much smaller number of Jews which he admitted that the Nazis did massacre were actually the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot. "The Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination."[14][verification needed]
According to a 2007 report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, "Abbas misquoted historian Raul Hilberg to support his claim that fewer than one million Jews were killed, and quoted Robert Faurisson on the nonexistence of gas chambers[15][16]
Rafael Medoff of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies denied the assertion by Abbas that "The historian and author, Raoul Hilberg, thinks that the figure does not exceed 890,000", and said this is "utterly false". He wrote that "Professor Hilberg, a distinguished historian and author of the classic study 'The Destruction of the European Jews', has never said or written any such thing."[5]
Political controversy and Abbas' clarifications
As Abbas was appointed prime minister in 2003, the Israel Defense Forces removed excerpts from the Abbas book from its website, including quotes questioning the use of gas chambers and talking of less than one million victims.[14] According to Knesset member Aryeh Eldad, speaking at the time of Abbas' appointment, the Simon Wiesenthal Center was asked to "conceal its information on Abu Mazen's Holocaust-denial writings" prior to the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the American State Department.[17]
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Simon Wiesenthal Center called for Abbas to clarify his position on the Holocaust in 1995, but he did not do so at that time. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Maariv, Abbas said, "When I wrote The Other Side…we were at war with Israel. Today I would not have made such remarks…Today there is peace and what I write from now on must help advance the peace process."[18][verification needed]
In his May 2003 interview with Haaretz, Abbas stated:
"I wrote in detail about the Holocaust and said I did not want to discuss numbers. I quoted an argument between historians in which various numbers of casualties were mentioned. One wrote there were twelve million victims and another wrote there were 800,000. I have no desire to argue with the figures. The Holocaust was a terrible, unforgivable crime against the Jewish nation, a crime against humanity that cannot be accepted by humankind. The Holocaust was a terrible thing and nobody can claim I denied it."[19]
References
- ^ a b National Library of Australia Catalogue detail
- ^ a b c d Аббас на глиняных ногах (Abbas on the feet of clay), Kommersant-Vlast No. 2(605), 17.01.2005) Template:Ru icon
- ^ Fast Facts on the Middle East Conflict. Randall Price, 2003. p.149 ISBN 978-0736911429
- ^ Profile: Mahmoud Abbas, BBC, 5 November 2009
- ^ a b c A Holocaust-Denier as Prime Minister of "Palestine"? by Dr. Rafael Medoff (The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies)
- ^ a b PA Holocaust Denial by Itamar Marcus (Palestinian Media Watch)
- ^ Akiva Eldar, "U.S. told us to ignore Israeli map reservations", Haaretz, 27 May 2003. [1]
- ^ Аббас, Махмуд (lenta.ru) Template:Ru icon
- ^ Was Abu Mazen a Holocaust Denier? By Brynn Malone (History News Network)
- ^ Abu Mazen: A Political Profile. Zionism and Holocaust Denial by Yael Yehoshua (MEMRI) April 29, 2003
- ^ American Thinker, Palestinian Peacemakers?, By Gabriel Latner. September 28, 2010
- ^ Hamas Complains, So U.N. School Will Not Teach Gaza Students About Holocaust by Patrick Goodenough, September 03, 2009. CNS News
- ^ Abu Mazen and the Holocaust by Tom Gross
- ^ a b Chris McGreal: Arafat forced to give up most powers to new PM The Guardian 19 March 2003.
- ^ Holocaust Denial's Assault on Memory: Precursor to Twenty-First Century Genocide, H Brackman, A Breitbart, RA Cooper - Los Angeles: Simon Wiesenthal Center, 2007, p. 11
- ^ Holocaust denial as an international movement by Stephen E. Atkins, ABC-CLIO, 2009, page 214
- ^ Trying To "Launder" Abu Mazen Arutz Sheva News Service 12 March 2003.
- ^ 1970s–1990s: Beginnings of Denial in Middle East Anti-Defamation League, 2001.
- ^ Interview with Mahmoud Abbas by Akiva Eldar, Haaretz. May 2003