It is one thing to wish for a group of people to have self-determination. But does such a hateful, violent jihadist group which seeks the destruction of a member state of the United Nations deserve recognition?
If Europe and the world truly care about Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and terrorism as current laws declare, they must confront the reality of the current state of Palestinian Arabs and demand fundamental changes before it can be given any recognition on the world stage.
Music video on Hamas (music by CSNY): Hamas teaches the Palestinian children well: that the murder of millions of Jews did not happen in the 1940s, and to kill millions of Jews today.
Sources:
Abbas Holocaust denial paper: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143752#.VMuN-ps5BTw
Holocaust denial criminal offense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial
Abbas calling a “genocide” by Israel: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/09/abbas-israel-waging-war-genocide-gaza-201492616952287680.html
Palestinian law banning the sale of land to Jews:
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/PA-affirms-death-penalty-for-land-sales-to-Israelis
Left-wing article on left-wing journalist barred from Bir Zeit University: http://jfjfp.com/?p=65375
Birzeit University bans Jews: http://www.timesofisrael.com/haaretz-writer-booted-from-palestinian-school-because-shes-israeli/
Calling Jews “sons of pigs and apes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhG1IyfqXg#t=13
Hamas charter: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
Palestinian poll September 2014: http://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/496
- If presidential elections, Hamas would win and Abbas would place third in a three-person race
- 81% Hamas’s “way of resisting occupation”
Palestinian terrorists attack Jews all over world: http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/israel-news/timeline-attacks-synagogues
United Nations task force on terrorism: http://www.un.org/en/terrorism/
ADL anti-Semitism report: http://global100.adl.org/public/ADL-Global-100-Executive-Summary.pdf
Laws against anti-Semitism: http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/Legislation%20Against%20Antisemitism%20and%20Denial%20of%20the%20Holocaust
UN discussion on anti-Semitism: http://hosted2.ap.org/ORBEN/*/Article_2015-01-22-UN–United%20Nations-Combatting%20Anti-Semitism/id-358f417966bc4fb5abfc89d95535fc39#.VMhQASyVnEY
EU reverses on Hamas terrorist label: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/europe/hamas-palestinian-statehood-vote-european-parliament.html?_r=0
Related First One Through articles:
Europe punishing Israel instead of Palestinians to advance peace process: https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/european-narrative-over-facts/
Failure of Europe in the peace process: https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/failing-negotiation-102-europe/
Abbas knows Racism: https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/abbas-knows-racism/
Palestinians are not “resorting” to violence: https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/the-palestinians-arent-resorting-to-violence-they-are-murdering-and-waging-war/
Abbas shift on the Holocaust: https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/frightening-new-york-times-42714-article-on-mahmoud-abbas-shifts-on-holocaust/
Hamas is more extreme than the Nazis: https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/extreme-and-mainstream-germany-1933-west-bank-gaza-2014/