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shira

(30,109 posts)
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 10:40 AM Dec 2014

Palestinian human rights activist implores Malala: No money to Hamas, UNRWA

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai asked to prevent funds from reaching terror organization or UN body; 'Hamas acts according to the principles of radical Islam, not of the UN principles,' Bassem Eid writes in open-letter.

Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid is asking Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai to keep her promise to share her award money with the children of the Gaza Strip but to prevent the funds from falling into the hands of Hamas. In an “Open Letter to Malala” Eid shared with The Media Line, the noted activist told the young Pakistani laureate that “Hamas acts according to the principles of radical Islam, not of the UN principles.”

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The text of the letter follows...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4602659,00.html
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Palestinian human rights activist implores Malala: No money to Hamas, UNRWA (Original Post) shira Dec 2014 OP
more from OP: The Letter... shira Dec 2014 #1
Self declared activist or made up one? Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #2
Eid worked for B'tselem for 6 years and then started PCHR... shira Dec 2014 #3
So not a human rights activist in the usual definition of the phrase, more an opinion reporter. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #4
He's more a human rights activist than most others in the region.... shira Dec 2014 #5
LOL. I eviserate your propaganda and you take a hissyfit, it is amusing, really it is. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #6
LOL. Hissyfit? Okay. n/t shira Dec 2014 #7
Eviscerate? King_David Dec 2014 #9
Try a dictionary leftynyc Dec 2014 #10
Finally, the spelling police to put me in my place...you guys crack me up. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #11
And your post is still leftynyc Dec 2014 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #13
You are being polite. nt King_David Dec 2014 #14
Bassem Eid won't go over well oberliner Dec 2014 #8
He's fine Scootaloo Dec 2014 #15
Bassem Eid v Ali Abunimah oberliner Dec 2014 #16
Yup....made me chuckle to . Israeli Dec 2014 #17
OMG and it so very somehow familiar too azurnoir Dec 2014 #18
and this ??...... Israeli Dec 2014 #19
I see the "AntiSemitism " accusations King_David Dec 2014 #20
 

shira

(30,109 posts)
1. more from OP: The Letter...
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 10:43 AM
Dec 2014

Dear Malala,

We see you have received the Nobel Peace Prize this week in honor of your activity for peace in Pakistan.

We congratulate you for your courage and for not being afraid to fight radical Islam in your nation.

I write these words as a proud fellow Muslim. I know how difficult it is with so many obstacles in your way, and for that reason, we need to support you. We are very proud of you.

I appreciate your decision to contribute your prize money to the children of Palestinian refugees in Gaza, because they really need your help. Yet, I must advise you that if you want to make such a donation, please come here to do so in person and not through UNRWA - the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

If you send funds through UNRWA, Palestinian refugee children will never benefit from it, because UNRWA funds in Gaza wind up in the hands of radical Islam.


You are personally invited to my home and my community in Jerusalem. We will organize a trip for you to travel to Gaza to meet Gazan school children and help you contribute your gift directly to children who need your help.

Here are the facts at your finger tips:

That rocket launchers were found at UN facilities was hardly surprising. Fifteen years ago, the Gaza-based employees of the UNRWA held elections to determine its union leaders. Hamas took advantage of the campaign and took over the entire school system. By 2012, more than 90 percent of UNRWA employees had become Hamas supporters.

As a result of the takeover, Hamas created an entire apparatus whose mission was to maintain its grip on all of the Gaza-based UNRWA schools.

The organization Al-Kutla Al-Islamiya (the Islamic Bloc), changed the school curriculum and introduced new textbooks. Anyone looking at the subject matter would see an organization bent on disseminating its lethal ideology to young Gazans.

The takeover of UNRWA was an "inside job" carried out by the Hamas representatives assigned to each school whose job is to recruit students to the Islamic Bloc. This ensures that UNRWA schools have programs that prepare pupils for the armed struggle against Israel.

This involves grooming children as “would-be shaheeds (martyrs)” and brainwashing them on the unachievable “right of return” to Arab villages from before 1948 that no longer exist.

For you to get a an idea of the indoctrination that is taking place in Gaza, it would suffice to look at the Islamic Bloc’s YouTube clips, which feature UNRWA instructors acting at Hamas’ bidding.


The footage clearly shows that Gazan children are not introduced to the values of the UN but rather to the values of jihad, “liberation of Palestine” and the “right of return,” by force and arms.

Despite all this being an open secret — all of UNRWA’s donors are in the know, including the United States and Israel — the organization is still considered a welfare and relief agency that could provide an “alternative to Hamas.”

But if you ask Gazans what UNRWA has done for them, they would say “nothing,” (that is, except perpetuate their refugee status). Hamas knows the reason. It has a vested interest in ensuring that conditions of poverty remain unchanged and that the millions of greenbacks keep flowing in. This keeps the “right of return” relevant.

To state it simply: Donors hand over funds to UNRWA officials who are affiliated with Hamas who then act according to principles of Radical Islam, not of the UN principles.


Rockets and tunnels were the most pressing concern from Gaza this past summer.

Over the long haul, it is the Hamas brainwashing of Gaza’s school children that should have us worried.

In peace,
Bassem Eid,
Human Rights Activist, Political Analyst

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
3. Eid worked for B'tselem for 6 years and then started PCHR...
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 10:50 AM
Dec 2014

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights.

PCHR reports on Palestinian Authority & Hamas violations of human rights against the Palestinian people.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
4. So not a human rights activist in the usual definition of the phrase, more an opinion reporter.
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 10:53 AM
Dec 2014

For an Israeli on line media outlet.

 

shira

(30,109 posts)
5. He's more a human rights activist than most others in the region....
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 11:15 AM
Dec 2014

His organization reports on human rights violations by committed by the PA/Hamas as well as Israel.

Understandably, cheerleaders of Hamas and PA fascism & terror don't like that very much.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
9. Eviscerate?
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 02:46 PM
Dec 2014

How?

You said absolutely nothing about him?

What exactly was your information that you added here?

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
10. Try a dictionary
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 10:06 AM
Dec 2014

and look up the word eviscerate (this is the correct spelling, by the way) because you obviously are using it wrong along with not knowing what a hissy fit looks like. Stop embarrassing yourself that way.

Response to leftynyc (Reply #12)

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
15. He's fine
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 12:15 AM
Dec 2014

But I'm getting a chuckle over how, all of a sudden, Shira holds that B'tselem is a human rights organization. Ask her next week, see what it is then

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
18. OMG and it so very somehow familiar too
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 04:30 AM
Dec 2014

this part was especially entertaining

Now here comes the big reveal. It’s Israel that actually cares about the lives of Palestinians.

The only actor in this entire region, is the people they are trying to annihilate. And the only people who are supposed to be judged by our actions, and always poorly, are the people who are doing everything possible, more than Europe – right – more than the United States more than anybody in order to protect the lives of the Palestinians.

So with all due respect, and I would love it if I could have more respect for Europe, but your treatment of Israel, your singular standard, your obsessive compulsive need to constantly pick..



now here have I heard this before?

Israeli

(4,148 posts)
19. and this ??......
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 05:43 AM
Dec 2014
“Um-I-ah-I-I-I-I consider it to be an obsession, I consider Europe’s keen interest in the Middle East, specifically Israel, to be an obsession and it’s an obsession that Jews have seen from Europeans from the time of Jesus, and ah, and we know what it is.

So it’s European anti-Semitism driving the criticism of the occupation! Now Glick’s face takes on a grave expression, lest one risk appearing not to take European history seriously:......

Now comes her diagnosis of Europe’s antisemitism as a form of obsessive compulsive disorder:


Take your pick azurnoir......you are either an anti-Semite or a self hating Jew ....life according to Glick.


King_David

(14,851 posts)
20. I see the "AntiSemitism " accusations
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:51 AM
Dec 2014

But not the self hating Jew ones, can you link to these please.
Where do you keep seeing this?

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