Palestine’s president has drawn angry condemnation from US, German and Israeli officials for comments in which he suggested that Nazi Germany had murdered 6 million Jews during the Holocaust for their “social role” as money lenders, not because they were Jewish.
Mahmoud Abbas, 87, made the remarks at a meeting of the Fatah Revolutionary Council last month, which were later aired on Palestinian television and only translated and made public by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
