OTTAWA — Canada has lodged a formal complaint with the Palestinian Authority over what it says were “baseless” accusations against Israel by President Mahmoud Abbas. Is this not clear incitement, to the mass murder of the Palestinian people?”Abbas later retracted the comments, but not before Canada voiced its displeasure. “Senior Global Affairs officials raised our serious concerns with Palestinian officials within 24 hours of President Abbas’s original comments,” said Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion’s spokesman, Joseph Pickerill. “Just a week ago, a week, a group of rabbis in Israel announced, in a clear announcement, demanding their government, to poison, to poison, the water of the Palestinians,” he said. Shack said CIJA welcomed the government’s condemnation of Abbas’s “odious remarks,” which he believed had the potential to incite Palestinians to violence against Israelis.

Source: National Post June 29, 2016 02:48 UTC