European Union acclaims Abbas whilst flogging Farage

Brexit proponent Nigel Farage has been branded a liar by the European Parliament (EUP) – but PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas can lie compulsively without the slightest EUP remonstration or rebuke.

Such hypocrisy and double standards surfaced during addresses by Abbas and Farage to the EUP within the last week.

Farage told those assembled:

The biggest problem you've got and the main reason the UK voted the way it did is because you have by stealth and deception, and without telling the truth to the rest of the peoples of Europe, you have imposed upon them a political union. When the people in 2005 in the Netherlands and France voted against that political union and rejected the constitution you simply ignored them and brought the Lisbon treaty in through the back door.

What happened last Thursday was a remarkable result – it was a seismic result. Not just for British politics, for European politics, but perhaps even for global politics too.

Farage taunted the EUP Parliamentarians:

What I'd like to see is a grownup and sensible attitude to how we negotiate a different relationship. I know that virtually none of you have never done a proper job in your lives, or worked in business, or worked in trade, or indeed ever created a job. But listen, just listen.

Amid shouts of protest – the President of the EUP – Martin Schulz - interrupted Farage in full-flight with this rebuke:

Mr Farage – I would say one thing to you. The fact that you're claiming that no one has done a decent job in their life – you can't really say that.

Jean-Claude Juncker – President of the European Commission – put the boot into Farage amidst thunderous applause:

You lied. You didn't tell the truth. You fabricated reality.

Abbas's address contained a litany of lies based on a fabricated reality from the outset:

I would also like to thank you all for all the different kinds of aid you have given, aiding us in institution-building and helping us establish the bases for a democratic regime which will be stable in the future and which will be able to comply with international criteria for democracy, and in particular we want to establish a proper rule of law and proper respect for human rights.

EUP parliamentarians – including Shulz and Juncker - silently swallowed these soothing words despite:

· Gazan and West Bank Arabs having been denied the right to vote since 2006 or to choose a President to replace Abbas whose term of office had expired in 2010.

· The "Palestinian National Authority" having been unilaterally disbanded by Abbas by decree on 3 January 2013

· Honour killings and victimisation of gays continuing under Abbas's regime

· Life imprisonment being imposed for selling land to Jews.

A duplicitous Abbas further claimed:

Our history has been, frankly, one of a continued existence in this territory since the dawn of civilization until now

Utter nonsense.

The "Palestinians" were defined for the first time in history in 1964 by article 6 of the PLO Charter:

The Palestinians are those Arab citizens who were living normally in Palestine up to 1947, whether they remained or were expelled. Every child who was born to a Palestinian parent after this date whether in Palestine or outside is a Palestinian.

The Arab citizens of Palestine formed part of the "existing non-Jewish communities" in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.

Exclusively high-jacking the term "Palestinians" constitutes racist-inspired semantic fraud.

Acclaim – not derision or condemnation – was the disgraceful EUP response to these and further outrageous lies.

Farage pointedly told the EUP:

You as a political project are in denial.

Never were truer words spoken.