RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has disavowed comments he made this week about an alleged plot by rabbis calling on Jewish settlers to poison the drinking water of Palestinians. In a fiery speech to the European Union in Brussels, Abbas repeated unsubstantiated claims of a plot to poison Palestinian wells, sparking accusations of anti-Semitism. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Abbas showed his 'true face' by spreading such a 'blood libel' and called on him to cease inciting against Israel. On Saturday, Abbas' office acknowledged that his comments were 'baseless.' Abbas rejected the anti-Semitic accusations leveled against him and said he 'didn't intend to do harm to Judaism or to offend Jewish people around the world.'