{"id":61639,"date":"2018-05-31T17:05:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=61639"},"modified":"2018-05-30T05:51:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T03:51:49","slug":"30-00-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=61639","title":{"rendered":"Abbas Deliberately Chose to Be Photographed With Antisemitic Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Abbas Deliberately Chose to Be Photographed With Antisemitic Cartoon<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Benjamin Kerstein<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reads a newspaper inside a hospital in Ramallah, May 21, 2018. Photo: Palestinian President Office (PPO) \/ Handout via Reuters.<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas deliberately chose to be photographed reading a newspaper with an antisemitic cartoon facing the camera, a Middle East scholar has revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The photograph, taken in Abbas\u2019 hospital room, where he was being treated for an ear infection and pneumonia, shows him reading a PA newspaper. Clearly visible is a cartoon showing an Israeli soldier poisoning a Palestinian baby.<\/span><\/p>\n

Edy Cohen, chairman of the Kedem Forum for Middle East Studies, told\u00a0The Algemeiner<\/em>, \u201cI just spoke with several people very close to Mahmoud Abbas, and it was explicitly told to me\u00a0that Abbas picked the only [newspaper] where that cartoon was large. \u2026 So I understand that he chose it deliberately, because we\u2019re talking about the biggest cartoon there was, so\u00a0it would be seen. It\u2019s a subliminal message.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The photo, Cohen said, was \u201ca message to his people. Abbas is not a child. He\u2019s old. He\u2019s going to meet his maker. But he wants to go out as a hero. And the message he\u2019s sending is \u2018Even if I\u2019m in the hospital, I\u2019m against the Jews. I\u2019m against Israel.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cohen sees the move as a symptom of a deeper problem with Abbas\u2019 attitude toward Jews. Citing Abbas\u2019 book\u00a0The Other Face<\/em>, which denies the Holocaust, Cohen stated, \u201cYou cannot be a Holocaust denier without being antisemitic. It goes together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Abbas has made several statements considered openly antisemitic, including that the Jews brought the Holocaust upon themselves and that there was no Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAbbas from the beginning to today was against the Jews,\u201d Cohen said, \u201cand he always hid it. After Oslo, of course he hid it. But now, when there is no political process, he has no problem with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabbi Abraham Cooper \u2014 associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center \u2014 agreed that the photograph was a deliberate choice on Abbas\u2019 part. Asked by\u00a0The Algemeiner<\/em>\u00a0whether he thought the picture was staged, Cooper replied, \u201cOf course. No question about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cooper believed the photo was part of an ongoing ideological campaign against Jews and the State of Israel. It showed, he said, \u201chow deep is the cancer of hatred the Palestinian Authority president harbors for the Jewish state, her people and values.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe validation of that cartoon by him exposes how little difference there is between the PA and Hamas,\u201d Cooper continued. \u201cBoth continue to brainwash a new generation of children that Israelis are interlopers and latter-day Nazis. The big lie tactics employed in the so-called \u2018marches of return\u2019 gained the Palestinians nothing of practical value, with the exception that the man in the street in Turkey and elsewhere in the Middle East is convinced that Jews are baby killers, cold-blooded murderers who deserve whatever terrorist or other bombing attacks are inflicted on Jews, inside Israel and\/or around the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Particularly disturbing, said Cooper, was the use of a visual image to further this campaign. Recounting a study undertaken in the 1980s on antisemitic Soviet cartoons, he stated, \u201cWe saw that the impact, the emotional impact of a powerful cartoon, good or bad, was in under two seconds. And much more long-lasting than any op-ed or article that may have accompanied it. \u2026 At the end of the day, by posing with that image, the message, the emotional message to the Palestinian people is just reinforcing the idea that Israelis are interlopers, inhuman, baby killers. \u2026 It is pornographic, really.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The result, he added, was \u201cthe brainwashing of another generation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf that\u2019s the legacy of a sick old man that maybe is on his last breath as the leader of the Palestinian people, it just speaks volumes,\u201d Cooper lamented. \u201cThis is a man who\u2019s led his people right into the abyss.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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