Palestinian leader retracts rabbis water poisoning allegation

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday withdrew his affirmation that Israeli rabbis had required the harming of Palestinian water, a comment that had drawn solid judgment from Israel's executive.

"After it got to be obvious that the charged articulations by a rabbi on harming Palestinian wells, reported by different media outlets, are unmerited, President Abbas has attested that he didn't mean to damage Judaism or to affront Jewish individuals around the globe," part of an announcement by Abbas' office said.

The Western-sponsored Palestinian pioneer made the comments in a discourse to the European parliament in Brussels on Thursday, as he censured Israeli activities against Palestinians in the midst of slowed down peace talks, which crumpled in 2014..

Abbas' discourse got an overwhelming applause from European administrators, however his claim about the water harming drew solid judgment from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who termed it a "blood slander."

For Jews, assertions of water harming strike a severe harmony. In the fourteenth century, as maladie cleared crosswise over Europe, false allegations that Jews were in charge of the sickness by purposely harming wells, prompted slaughters of Jewish people group.

(Reporting by Ali Sawafta; Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Alexander Smith)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 4, 2016.

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