And fortunately one Israeli official, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, has violated the code of unwarranted niceties and called Abbas a racist.
“I remind everyone," Steinitz says, "that Abbas denied the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, and these things need to raise questions about this man."
And I remind everyone that Abbas is perhaps the leading case of politically correct Holocaust denial; that is, political correctness requires ignoring--denying--his denial. And this is the "moderate" and the "peace partner." The whole discourse of "peace" and "two states" is mendacious.
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