(Oliver Hoslet/European Pressphoto Agency)JERUSALEM — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has walked back on comments he made that accused Israeli rabbis of calling for the poisoning of Palestinian water wells. The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at an event in Brussels. Isn't that clear incitement to commit mass killings against the Palestinian people?”[Palestinian president uses anti-Semitic trope against Israel in E.U. They had also invited Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and European Parliament President Martin Schulz in the hope the two presidents would meet. They were also flatly denied by the Israelis, who compared Abbas’s words to the anti-Semitic blood libels of medieval Europe.

Source: Washington Post June 25, 2016 08:37 UTC