Demonstrations In New York Make Several Things Clear

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105. "needs to respect legitimate Palestinian leaders," Like who exactly?

Mahmoud Abbas?
Last elected in 2005 but still in power?

There are frequent allegations that officials of the Palestinian Authority, including Abbas, have systematically embezzled public funds.

The Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement 1933–1945 is the title of Abbas's CandSc thesis.
Some content of his thesis has been considered as Holocaust denial by some Jewish groups,[107] especially where he disputed the accepted number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust and claimed Zionist agitation had been the cause of the Holocaust.

In 1984, he published a book titled "The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism" (Arabic: Al-Wajh al-Ākhar: Al-'Alāqat aL-Sirriyya bayn al-Nāzīyya wa al-Sahyūniyya) based on the dissertation. In the book Abbas dismissed as a "myth" and "fantastic lie" that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust,[109][110] writing that the real figure was at most "890,000" or "a few hundred thousand"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas