Brussels – Abbas Says Some Israeli Rabbis Called For Poisoning Palestinian Water

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    European Council President Donald Tusk welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) ahead of a meeting in Brussels, Belgium, June 23, 2016.    REUTERS/Francois Lenoir Brussels – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday accused Israeli rabbis of calling for the poisoning of Palestinian water, in what appeared to be an invocation of a widely debunked media report that recalled a medieval anti-Semitic libel.

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    Abbas’s remarks, in a speech to the European parliament, did not appear on the official transcript issued by his office, suggesting he may have spoken off the cuff as he condemned Israeli actions against Palestinians amid stalled peace talks.

    “Only a week ago, a number of rabbis in Israel announced, and made a clear announcement, demanding that their government poison the water to kill the Palestinians,” Abbas said.

    “Isn’t that clear incitement to commit mass killings against the Palestinian people?”

    Israeli officials did not immediately respond to the remarks, which were made as Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, made a parallel visit to Brussels.

    Rivlin’s office said Abbas had turned down a European proposal that the two meet there. A spokesman for Abbas said any such meeting would require more preparation.

    Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014.

    Abbas, who received a standing ovation from EU lawmakers after his speech, gave no source for his information — and there has been no evidence over the past week of any call by Israeli rabbis to poison Palestinian water.

    MASSACRES

    Reports of an alleged rabbinical edict emerged on Sunday, when the Turkish state news agency Anadolu said that a “Rabbi Shlomo Mlma, chairman of the Council of Rabbis in the West Bank settlements”, had issued an advisory to allow Jewish settlers to take such action.

    The same day, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, on its website, cited what it said was a water-poisoning call from a “Rabbi Mlmad” and demanded his arrest.

    Reuters and other news outlets in Israel could not locate any rabbi named Shlomo Mlma or Mlmad, and there is no listed organization called the Council of Rabbis in the West Bank.

    Gulf News, in a report on Sunday, said a number of rabbis had issued the purported advisory. It attributed the allegation to Breaking the Silence, an Israeli organization of veteran soldiers critical of the military’s treatment of Palestinians.

    A spokesman for Breaking the Silence told Reuters the group had not provided any such information.

    For Jews, allegations of water poisoning strike a bitter chord. In the 14th century, as plague swept across Europe, false accusations that Jews were responsible for the disease by deliberately poisoning wells led to massacres of Jewish communities.


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    54321
    54321
    7 years ago

    This murderous Jew hater should’ve been shot dead by Israelis years ago. How they allow him to breath the air he took from Jewish souls he murdered and negotiate with him is unthinkable. How’s it different from Kastner with the Nazis?

    7 years ago

    Let’s not give the fanatic Palestinians any more ideas!
    The stabbings, car rammimgs, stonings, suicide bombings are bad enough. Let’s thank Gd that nine out of ten miraculously don’t get through, and than the Israel security services, and Israeli army for risking their lives on a daily basis in order to thwart these terrorists! At the same time the government needs to shut down the internet, and all social media in the west bank and all Palestinian areas, and ban the media, by declaring it a closed military zone, so they can make a clean sweep, which may take years, to hunt down the terrorists, and illegal firearms shops, once and for all, and institute the death penalty for those caught breaking the law.

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    7 years ago

    A better question is “What is Mr. Abbas drinking?” Where does he get his purported information from? “Mars? Pluto? What planet? How does he access them? What space agency? Please let us know!!

    pinny
    pinny
    7 years ago

    the bigger problem was the standing ovation given to him by the as usual anti-semitic europeans. its time to tell europeans to drop dead

    ayoyo
    ayoyo
    7 years ago

    Next it will be reported as factual that jews are using blood of palestinians to bake matzohs.

    7 years ago

    lav achbre ganev chire ganov when e u parlement lisens to such of the gabels tipe acusation and do not demand apologises giving a platformthay hearing what they wanted to hier that ouer globel situation andprtly the resolt of the so caled aschalte the gole H jerachem

    Boomworm120
    Boomworm120
    7 years ago

    Well, now that he’s suggesting it, that does seem like a good idea. But we’d never think of something that sick on our own. No, people like us, we’d rather bend over backwards to every ridiculous demand of the PLO in hopes that the “international community” will like us better.