On May 13, 1:08 pm, Vngelis <meberr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> We are not engaged in a religious conflict with Jews; this is a
> political struggle to free ourselves from occupation and oppression
>
> As the Palestinian people prepare to commemorate the 60th anniversary
> of the ****ba ("catastrophe") - the dispossession and expulsion of most
> of our people from our land - those remaining in Palestine face
> escalating aggression, killings, imprisonment, ethnic cleansing and
> siege. But instead of sup****t and solidarity from the western media,
> we face frequent attempts to defend the indefensible or turn fire on
> the Palestinians themselves.
>
> One recent approach, which seems to be part of the wider attempt to
> isolate the elected Palestinian leader****p, is to ****tray Hamas and
> the population of the Gaza strip as motivated by anti-Jewish
> sentiment, rather than a hostility to Zionist occupation and
> domination of our land. A recent front page article in the
> International Herald Tribune followed this line, as did an article for
> Cif about an item broadcast on the al-Aqsa satellite TV channnel about
> the Nazi Holocaust.
>
> In fact, the al-Aqsa Channel is an independent media institution that
> often does not express the views of the Palestinian government headed
> by Ismail Haniyeh or of the Hamas movement. The channel regularly
> gives Palestinians of different convictions the chance to express
> views that are not shared by the Palestinian government or the Hamas
> movement. In the case of the opinion expressed on al-Aqsa TV by Amin
> Dabbur, it is his alone and he is solely responsible for it.
>
> It is rather surprising to us that so little attention, if any, is
> given by the western media to what is regularly broadcast or written
> in the Israeli media by politicians and writers demanding the total
> uprooting or "transfer" of the Palestinian people from their land.
>
> The Israeli media and pro-Israel western press are full of views that
> deny or seek to excuse well-established facts of history including the
> ****ba of 1948 and the massacres perpetrated then by the Hagana , the
> Irgun and LEHI with the objective of forcing a mass dispossession of
> the Palestinians.
>
> But it should be made clear that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian
> government in Gaza denies the Nazi Holocaust. The Holocaust was not
> only a crime against humanity but one of the most abhorrent crimes in
> modern history. We condemn it as we condemn every abuse of humanity
> and all forms of discrimination on the basis of religion, race, gender
> or nationality.
>
> And at the same time as we unreservedly condemn the crimes perpetrated
> by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe, we categorically reject the
> exploitation of the Holocaust by the Zionists to justify their crimes
> and harness international acceptance of the campaign of ethnic
> cleansing and subjection they have been waging against us - to the
> point where in February the Israeli deputy defence minister Matan
> Vilnai threatened the people of Gaza with a "holocaust".
>
> Within 24 hours, 61 Palestinians - more than half of them civilians
> and a quarter children - were killed in a series of air raids.
> Meanwhile, a horrible crime against humanity continues to be
> perpetrated against the people of Gaza: the two-year-old siege imposed
> after Hamas won the legislative elections in January 2006, which is
> causing great suffering. Due to severe shortages of medicines and
> food, scores of Palestinians have lost their lives.
>
> It cannot be right that Europeans in general and the British in
> particular maintain a virtual silence toward what the Zionists are
> doing to the Palestinians, let alone sup****ting or justifying their
> oppressive policies, under the pretext of showing sympathy for the
> victims of the Holocaust.
> The Palestinian people aspire to freedom, independence and peaceful
> coexistence with all their neighbours. There are, today, more than six
> million Palestinian refugees. No less than 700,000 Palestinians have
> been detained at least once by the Israeli occupation authorities
> since 1967. Hundreds of thousands have so far been killed or wounded.
> Little concern seems to be caused by all of this or by the erection of
> an apartheid wall that swallows more than [b]20% of the West Bank land
> [/b]or the heavily armed colonies that devour Palestinian land in a
> blatant violation of international law.
>
> The plight of our people is not the product of a religious conflict
> between us and the Jews in Palestine or anywhere else: the aims and
> positions of today's Hamas have been repeatedly spelled out by its
> leader****p, for example in Hamas's 2006 programme for government. The
> conflict is of a purely political nature: it is between a people who
> have come under occupation and an oppressive occupying power.
>
> Our right to resistance against occupation is recognised by all
> conventions and religious traditions. The Jews are for us the people
> of a sacred book who suffered persecution in European lands. Whenever
> they sought refuge, Muslim and Arab lands provided them with safe
> havens. It was in our midst that they enjoyed peace and prosperity;
> many of them held leading positions in Muslim countries.
>
> After almost a century of Zionist colonial and racist oppression, some
> Palestinians find it hard to imagine that some of their oppressors are
> the sons and daughters of those who were themselves oppressed and
> massacred.
>
> Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust but find themselves
> punished for someone else's crime. But we are well aware and warmly
> welcome the outspoken sup****t for Palestinian rights by Israeli and
> Jewish human rights activists in Palestine and around the world.
>
> We hope that journalists in the west will begin to adopt a more
> objective approach when covering events in Palestine. The Palestinian
> people are being killed by Israel's machine of destruction on a daily
> basis. Nevertheless, we still see a clear bias in favour of Israel in
> the western media.
>
> The Europeans bear a direct responsibility for what is befalling the
> Palestinians today. Britain was the mandate authority that handed over
> Palestine to Israeli occupation. Nazi Germany perpetrated the most
> heinous crimes against Jews, forcing the survivors to migrate to
> Palestine in pursuit of safety. We, therefore, expect the Europeans to
> atone for their historic crimes by restoring some balance to the
> inhuman and one-sided international response to the tragedy of our
>
people.http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/bassem_naeem/2008/05/hamas_condemn
> s_the_holocaust.html
****ing great statement by Hamas! Well done. So, it's me and Hamas
(and, seemingly everyone else) vs Vngelis, David Irving and David
Duke.
David
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