Några sanningens ord om Mahmoud Abbas och hans påhejare

Palestinian Dictator Mahmoud Abbas Gets a Free Pass (David Keyes)

"Vilken "moderat" arabisk president kramade senaste vecka offentligt om Sudans ledare som är efterlyst för folkmord?

Vilken "reformator" i Mellanöstern påbörjade nyligen sitt tionde år av en fyraårig mandatperiod?

Vilken ledare som är allierad med väst beordrade för några dagar sedan en undersökning för att utreda om en karikatyrtecknare möjligen hade ritat Muhammed?

Svaret på frågorna är palestiniernas president Mahmoud Abbas."

These three stories barely made it into Western press. Why? Put simply, the bar has been set so low that they were not deemed newsworthy. An Arab leader who doesn’t allow elections? Yawn. A Middle Eastern president who embraces one of the worst mass murderers in recent history? Nothing to see here.
There is a tragic disconnect between Western rhetoric and Arab reality. Abbas, if one listens to leaders of the free world, is a moderate, reformer and ally. He is better than Hamas, after all, isn’t he?
Never mind that Abbas said in 2013, “There is no difference between our policies and those of Hamas.” The point is this: Being better than a genocidal terrorist organization does not a “moderate” make. Pretending it does demeans the word. It is condescending to Palestinians and insulting to true moderates. "