Mahmoud Abbas Fury Over Palestinian Leader S 50 Holocaust Statement
Abbas had been asked by a journalist whether he would apologize for the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics, when members of the Israeli team were taken hostage by Palestinian gunmen, at the time part of a splinter group of Abbas’s Fatah party, which led to the deaths . by 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, and a West German police officer, after an armed confrontation. This September marks 50 years since the Munich attack....