Black Pope Francis Praises Mahmoud Abbas As An 'Angel of Peace'

From Will at THE OTHER NEWS:

Black Pope Francis meets 'Angel of Peace' . (INN).

Pope Francis praised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as an "angel of peace" during the meeting at the Vatican. 

Francis made the compliment during the traditional exchange of gifts at the end of an official audience in the Apostolic Palace. He presented Abbas with a medallion and explained that it represented the angel of peace "destroying the bad spirit of war." 

Francis said he thought the gift was appropriate since "you are an angel of peace." During his 2014 visit to Israel and the West Bank, Francis called both Abbas and Israeli President Shimon Peres men of peace. 

The meeting at the Vatican also comes a day before the pontiff is due to canonize two Palestinian nuns, who will become the first Palestinian Arabs to gain sainthood. Hmmm....One 'Palestinian nun only lived three years in 'Palestine'. 

Related: Mariam Baouardy 'Palestinian' Saint to be, was nearly murdered by Muslim, only lived three years in Palestine.

The truth is, Mahmoud Abbas wrote his Doctoral Dissertation on the idea that "Zionists" conspired with Nazis to create the Holocaust of Jews, to give the Zionists an excuse to establish Israel as a state.

In other words, his Doctoral Dissertation, and the later book published under his name based upon that Dissertation, are an expression of conspiracy theory and Holocaust Denial:

In the book, Abbas argues that the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust had been exaggerated. He further claimed that those Jews which were killed by the Nazis were actually the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot aimed to fuel vengeance against Jews and to expand their mass extermination.

Another source:

The book repeatedly attempts to cast doubt on the fact that the Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews, according to a translation provided by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. 

"Following the war," he writes, "word was spread that six million Jews were amongst the victims and that a war of extermination was aimed primarily at the Jews...The truth is that no one can either confirm or deny this figure. In other words, it is possible that the number of Jewish victims reached six million, but at the same time it is possible that the figure is much smaller -- below one million." 

Abbas denies that the gas chambers were used to murder Jews, quoting a "scientific study" to that effect by French Holocaust-denier Robert Faurisson. 

Abbas' book then asserts: "The historian and author Raoul Hilberg thinks that the figure does not exceed 890,000." 

That is, of course, utterly false. Hilberg, a distinguished historian and author of the classic study "The Destruction of the European Jews," has never said or written any such thing. 

Abbas believes the 6 million figure is the product of a Zionist conspiracy: "It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement...is to inflate this figure so that their gains will be greater," he writes. "This led them to emphasize this figure in order to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions -- fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few hundred thousand." 

Another falsehood. In fact, no serious scholar proposes such a figure. 

After reducing the magnitude of the Nazi slaughter so that it no longer seems to have been a full-scale Holocaust, Abbas seeks to absolve the Nazis by blaming the Zionist leadership for whatever killings did take place. According to Abbas, "A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement...[the Zionists gave] permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine." 

In addition to encouraging the persecution of Jews so they would immigrate to the Holy Land, the Zionist leaders actually wanted Jews to be murdered, because -- in Abbas' words -- "having more victims meant greater rights and stronger privilege to join the negotiation table for dividing the spoils of war once it was over. However, since Zionism was not a fighting partner -- suffering victims in a battle -- it had no escape but to offer up human beings, under any name, to raise the number of victims, which they could then boast of at the moment of accounting."