In light of what Bush said today in Israel

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

I found this article interesting:

Hamas condemns the Holocaust

We are not engaged in a religious conflict with Jews; this is a political struggle to free ourselves from occupation and oppression

by Bassem Naeem

Guardian Unlimited (UK) - May 12, 2008

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/bassem_naeem/2008/05/hamas_condemns_the holocaust.html


As the Palestinian people prepare to commemorate the
60th anniversary of the Nakba ("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 support 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
leadership, is to portray 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 channel 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.


Sounds like Hamas is, at the very least, trying to define itself differently from the way it is usually depicted.

[stray cat]

1. Smart political move whether they mean it or not

[dipsydoodle]

2. I've never believed

that were in a religous conflict - they simply want a fair state of play.

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. K and R

[burythehatchet]

4. One of the greatest frauds perpetrated by Zionists upon the world

is to tie together the political issues with the religious issues. This is why there will never be a peaceful solution.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. I do know that there are Israeli Jews and Arabs

who have been trying to work together for peace. It isn't the religious folk who are causing the trouble as much as the politicos.

[burythehatchet]

6. as with every "religious" conflict through history, politicos coopt the religion

and pervert it into a cover for violence.