He was the brains behind the murder of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. An old time PLO/Fatah gang leader, Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) seeks to destroy Israel through the so-called Staged Plan, i.e. the first stage being to set up a PLO terror state within Israel and use this state as a base to conquer the rest of Israel. \n\nA little known fact about Abbas is that he wrote a book-length doctoral thesis denying the Holocaust, for which he received his Ph.D. from a Russian university. Yes, he actually holds a Ph.D. in denying the Holocaust. The president of Iran can't even match that!