Former Israeli minister says public brainwashed about Abbas

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On April 22, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, spent over an hour and a half talking to senior Israeli journalists. They had been invited to the Muqata headquarters during one of the most crucial weeks of the peace talks to serve as a direct conduit for his messages to the Israeli public.

snip*Former Labor party Minister Efraim Sneh at his office, 2014

The text of the interview follows:

Sneh: The Israeli public has undergone brainwashing in recent years, so that even if Abbas says something right, no one listens to him. This, in my view, is more of a failure of the opposition than an achievement by the government. I’m going to say something harsh, and I don’t care if I’m attacked for it: The propaganda and brainwashing that the Israeli public has undergone on the Palestinian issue are Goebbelsian in style [remeniscent of the Nazi propagandist]. This is Goebbelsian propaganda.

Al-Monitor: Isn't this an exaggeration?

Sneh: I mean what I say. The people in Israel are brainwashed. They’ve simply been led to despair of peace and told that Mahmoud Abbas is the next thing after Antiochus. The anti-Palestinian propaganda is Goebbelsian propaganda. That’s the way it is. If an Israeli government minister says about Mahmoud Abbas that he’s the leader of the greatest terrorism on earth, what can one say? As we know, it was Abbas who, in the second intifada, spoke out very courageously against the violence and against [PLO leader Yasser] Arafat. He has traditionally objected to violence. So the minute the public hears more and more of these things, it trickles down.

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1. Bibi never fails to deliver: Netanyahu: Hamas is trying to start another Holocaust

Israeli PM responds Abbas' condolences to Holocaust victims saying he should stop 'trying to appease international public opinion'.

Ynetnews
Published: 04.27.14

As Israel geared up to mark its annual memorial day for the Holocaust, Prime Minister Benjamin netanyahu renewed his attack on the new Palestinian unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas by drawing a comparison between Hamas and the Nazis.

"Hamas is trying to start another Holocaust," the prime minister told his cabinet at the start of its weekly meeting Sunday. "We hope that he will withdraw from the alliance and return to the path of peace."

Netanyahu also reportedly dismissed a statement by Abbas on Sunday, in which the Palestinian leader branded the Holocaust "the ugliest crime in modern history."

"Instead of issuing statements designed to placate global public opinion, Abu Mazen needs to choose between the alliance with Hamas, a terrorist organization that calls for the destruction of Israel and denies the Holocaust," the prime minister said.


"The main difference between the helplessness of the Jews in the Holocaust to the situation of Jews today is that today we have a strong country with a strong army that defends us," said the Prime Minister.


Netanyahu took the opportunity to lash out at other countries in opposition to Israel saying, "Iran tops the list of those who seek our lives; it has declared its intention to destroy us. In addition to its effort to arm itself with nuclear weapons, Iran arms, finances and trains Hamas and other terrorist organizations on our borders. Hamas denies the Holocaust even as it attempts to create an additional Holocaust by destroying the State of Israel."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4513668,00.html