Hamas rejects children's trip to Holocaust Museum

[oberliner]

Hamas condemned on Saturday the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees for its intention to take excelling Gazan students on a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.
Hamas has condemned the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees for its intention to take excelling Gazan students on a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.

The terror group called the plan "suspicious", and demanded that the initiative be dropped.

It also called on the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank to "take a national stand for halting the moral corruption of superior Palestinian youth".

"The tours on human rights which UNRWA is organizing abroad, especially in New York, include visits to the Holocaust Museum and the site on which the twin towers stood," says a statement issued by Hamas.

"UNRWA clerks have offered explanations of the Holocaust, and expressed in them empathy for theJewish people for what it underwent. UNRWA must focus on materials regarding the rights of the Palestinian refugees without dealing with persecution in other areas of the world," the statement added.

http://www.bruneinews.net/story/721345/ht/Hamas-rejects-childrens-trip-to-Holocaust-Museum

[Loudmxr]

1. Oopps! They might find out that Arabs hid Jews from the Nazis!!!

It really is disgusting that both Arabs and Israelis have this denial thing about the common fight against the Nazis in WWII.

Really a pox on both their houses. Their elders were courageous. They spit on them.

[LeftishBrit]

2. 'moral corruption'?

Ugh. I HATE far-right parties and governments; and Hamas certainly fits that description.

[applegrove]

3. Creepy. I guess they want a new generation of suicide bombers.

[oberliner]

4. And these are the democratically elected Palestinian leaders

Important not to forget that.

[Mosby]

5. sad

The world we live in.

[azurnoir]

6. why is it important not to forget that?

should it be taken into account when forming an opinion of the Palestinian situation?

[oberliner]

7. Because this is not some fringe group of extremists making such pronouncements

These are the representatives of the government elected by the Palestinian people.

I think we all are working towards a situation where people who hold those views are voted out of governing positions.

[azurnoir]

8. just who are these"fringe extremeists" what party

do they belong to?

[oberliner]

9. They are not fringe extremists

They are the elected Palestinian leadership.

[azurnoir]

10. still just who are they to which party do they belong? n/t

[oberliner]

11. The statement was issued by Hamas

Thus, Hamas is the party to which they belong.

[azurnoir]

12. Does the US, EU, or UN recognize Hamas as the current

leaders of the Palestinian people? Iran and possibly Syria may

[oberliner]

13. The Palestinian Legislative Council do

And they were elected by the Palestinian people.

Many countries don't recognize Hamas as legitimate because they are a terrorist organization, but to say Haniyeh is not part of the Palestinian leadership is preposterous.

He and other Hamas members are the only Palestinian leadership of Gaza at this time.

[azurnoir]

14. is the PLC currently representing the Palestinians before the UN? n/t

[oberliner]

15. I don't even know what that question means

They are a domestic legislative body, just like the US Congress.

To clarify - is it your understanding that Haniyeh and the Hamas members of the Palestinian legislature do not constitute any portion of the Palestinian leadership?

[azurnoir]

17. see post #16

as of now Hamas only seems to have power within Gaza

[oberliner]

18. So would you say they are the Palestinian leadership in Gaza?

I am still not getting what point you are trying to establish.

[azurnoir]

19. In Gaza Hamas is commonly refered to as the "defacto government"

but only in Gaza and to flatly state that Hamas are the leaders of the Palestinian people could be quite misleading as they are clearly not the leaders of Palestinians in general, nor is Hamas in any way shape or form currently engaged in the peace process such as it is

[azurnoir]

16. Getting the Palestinian Legislative Council out of the freezer

Ramallah - Ma‘an - With a plan proposed by Palestinian lawmakers to resuscitate the long-dormant Palestinian parliament, the Legislative Council, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas‘ call for reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah, it appears that the year old Palestinian internal crisis may be begining to ease.

Following on these developments, Ma‘an contributor Marian Houk spoke with Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, an independent member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and one-time presidential candidate.

In an exclusive interview in his offices at the Palestinian Medical Relief Services in Ramallah, Barghouthi elucidates the sometimes Byzantine problems of Palestinian parliamentary situation.

http://www.almubadara.org/new/edetails.php?id=4651

This article is from June of 2008 it would seem that for the PLC to truly be functioning that Fatah and Hamas must reach a unity agreement aomething which has not happened to date