Officials Condemn Abbas's Speech on Jews and Holocaust

Source: BBC News - EuropeGerman and Israeli officials have condemned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for comments he made about Jews and the Nazi Holocaust in a speech. Mr. Abbas said Adolf Hitler ordered the mass murder of Jews because of their "social role" as moneylenders, rather than his animosity to Judaism. The German ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, responded: "The Palestinians deserve to hear the historical truth from their leader, not such...