Berlin police investigate Abbas' Holocaust comments

Comments made in a political context like those of Mr. Abbas should never be the subject of any kind of law enforcement investigation. It is an affront to the right of free speech to do so.

Is the Gaza Strip like a concentration camp? That’s debatable. Are the Israelis killing people in mass like Hitler or Stalin did? No, not yet.

Poking the fire.

Incapable Abbas has been around for too long, seemingly unable to achieve anything substantial on Israel Palestine issue.

Perhaps he wants attention, to be recognized again internationally..

The truth is the truth. Israel is a terrorist state. You can deny it as much as you want, as long as you’re re not an oppressed, tortured and murdered Palestinian.

shame on Germany to apologize.

@venze

totally agree

Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments this week that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians.

Why even give a terrorist an international platform? Lock him up.

Germany doesn't recognize the Palestinian Territories as a sovereign state, a position Scholz reaffirmed Tuesday.

Well-done Germany.

Although Deutschland seems to have changed the words it uses and the targets of its 'leaders' (trans: führer(s)), the mentality we see expressed at the highest levels does not seem to have changed at all. And, of all of the times and places that the following quotation might be appropriate, HERE it is inarguable:

“To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?” -- Voltaire versus Kevin Alfred Strom

Apparently, Germany, like Japan, lost much MORE than just a war...

Incapable Abbas has been around for too long, seemingly unable to achieve anything substantial on Israel Palestine issue.

Mr. Abbas primary fault is that he will not give in to the demands of the Israelis. He will not forswear the return of lands taken from Palestinian land owners and for an independent Palestine free of Israeli control. The Israelis have the Arab kings licking their boots now but the Palestinians won't be bought off like the wealthy but corrupt rulers of the Arab nations. This infuriates the Israelis. No matter how much grief they give them, the Palestinians won't surrender. They want their land back and are not going to give in or give up. Sooner or later Israel has to deal with this honestly or cease to exist as a nation.

Why even give a terrorist an international platform? Lock him up.

By your standard maybe the Germans should lock up the next Israeli PM who visits?

The Germans are now so afraid of their own wretched history viv-a-vis the Jews that they do not have the moral courage to speak against the barbarities the Israeli government inflict on the people of Palestine, a government organized effort to strip a people of their land and their identity not all that much different from what Germany did to the Jews in WWII. Learn about the Warsaw Ghetto and you will see parallels to the Occupied Territories and Gaza in particular.

I'm a land owner. I see land ownership as a right. If a nation invaded my land and told me that because of my religion and ethnicity I would have my land taken from me and handed over to someone of the preferred religion and ethnicity of the invader I would take up arms in resistance. If an invader bulldozed my home destroying everything I have ever worked for because of something a relative did I would take up arms as well. It is the only way forward when an armed nation takes what is yours by force with no legal recourse. But when a Palestinian does this we label them a "terrorist", condemn them in the harshest possible terms and in many cases try to deny they even exist as a people. I am not blind to what the Israeli government is doing and am not afraid to speak out because I value land ownership and am personally horrified to see what Israel is doing to the land owners of the Occupied Territories.