Excerpt from this day’s program:

…No, Abbas did not know he was lying, for truth and falsehood are of no interest to him. Barnea, who surely sees himself as a cosmopolitan who has transcended the ghetto-like insularity of Jews, is nonetheless a hopeless provincial for his inability to take the full measure of this man Abbas and his society, his culture in which truth is not objective but subjective. The truth is that he and his people were humiliated by the loss of Balestine. He in particular who as a 13 year-old in 1948 ran away to Lebanon and did not fight when 13 year-old Jewish boys did what they could to support the war of independence. They did not run away.

Abbas is also an Arab and from time immemorial raiding other tribes and stealing their property was a way of life and nothing to be ashamed of. One raided other tribes and made off with their goats, sheep, camels and women in the knowledge that when their victims recovered, they would counter-attack to take back what was taken from them and then some. That was the way of the world.

In this life and death struggle with al-Yahud, one can say whatever one wants so long as it wounds the enemy. Abbas, no less than before the “Zionism is racism” smear of 1975, sees Jews as Nazi-like in their aggression and so genocide fits their behavior, for genocide was the crime of the Nazis, which crime the Jews have used to blackmail the world into recognizing their right to independence in Balestine. Well, if the Jews are guilty of genocide, they lost that right; and if the Balestinians are victims of genocide, they too have the right to statehood in Balestine just like the Jews…