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BERLIN (AP) — The German Chancellor said on Wednesday that he was "disgusted with the outrageous statements" made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Berlin, saying Israel had been in Palestine for years. He accused people of committing "50 Holocausts".
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz' statement on his Twitter, Abbas accused Palestinian militants of fatally attacking Israeli athletes at his 1972 Munich Olympics It was announced the day after he refused to do so. Instead, Abbas countered by saying he could point to "50 Holocausts" by Israel.
"I am sick of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' outrageous statements," Scholz said. "Especially for us Germans, the relativization of the Holocaust singularity is intolerable and unacceptable. We condemn any attempt to deny the crimes of the Holocaust."
Section During the Three Reichs, the Germans and their minions murdered 6 million Jews across Europe.
At a joint press conference with Scholz at the prime minister's office on Tuesday night, Abbas said, "From 1947 to today, Israel has committed 50 massacres in her 50 Palestinian villages." I did," he said.
"Fifty genocides. Fifty Holocausts," he added.
Dani Dayan, chairman of the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center, called Abbas' remarks on the Holocaust "appalling" and said that the German government had "apologised for the forgiveness that has taken place internally." I urged them to respond to "acts that want to Federal Chancellery.
The remarks came weeks before plans to mark his 50th anniversary of the Munich attack in which Palestinian militants killed 11 members of his Israeli Olympic team. . Relatives of the killed Israeli player said they planned to boycott the ceremony after failing to reach an agreement on greater compensation from the German government.
