Hamas: Teaching About The Holocaust is a War-Crime

A few months ago, UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency], the main UN body that deals with the affairs of Palestinian refugees, decided to include the Holocaust in Gazan textbooks. Hamas stated that including the Holocaust in Gazan textbooks is a war-crime. Hamas Spiritual leader Younis al-Astal wrote in a statement,”I do not exaggerate when I say this issue is a war crime, because of how it serves the Zionist colonizers and deals with their hypocrisy and lies.” He also stated that the including the Holocaust is “marketing a lie and spreading it.”When objecting to teaching the Holocaust in Gazan textbooks, he used the notorious Holocaust denying anti-Semitic term “so-called Holocaust”. He said,”We think it’s more important to teach Palestinians the crimes of the Israeli occupation.”

So, to the screwed up world of Hamas, firing rockets at civilians in Israel for 8 years, committing terrorist attacks even longer, hiding among civilians when sending rockets, and promoting hatred toward the Jews on TVs, the media and schools is not a war-crime, while teaching about the Holocaust is? This makes me say,”What the f**k?! This is the “legitimate resistance” organization that Israel is asked by at least much of the world to negotiate with? Yet Hamas’s apologists and whitewashes will dismiss this, just as they dismiss Hamas’s terrorism, their refusal to recognize Israel’s basic right to exist, and their Islamo-Fascist policies, on the basis that Hamas was democratically-elected. Well, isn’t that lovely? Guess who else was democratically elected? Adolf Hitler!

This just makes me hate Hamas even more. Make no mistake about it. Hamas represents a form of evil. If Hamas is not evil, then I don’t know WHAT THE HECK is evil!

Hamas would rather teach the Palestinians about the “crimes” of the Israeli “occupation”. Yet too bad that the crimes form Hamas’s Islamo-Fascist policies is incomparably worse than anything Israel ever did to the Palestinians. For one thing, form 1967-the Oslo “peace” process, thanks to Israeli policies, the quality of life improved. Under Israeli rule, the Palestinian economy became modernized into the 20th century. The West Bank and Gaza were the fourth-fastest growing economies. Basic necessities such as stoves, refrigerators, electricity and toilets became nearly universal. Televisions also became nearly universal. Israel improved the water supply. Under Israeli rule, universities and public schools were established, a lot of the time with the funding of the Israeli government and/or Jewish donors. Israeli policy also at least nearly exterminated the diseases in the territories. Plus, the Arabs in the territories had better access to health care. So the Israeli “occupation” actually saved Palestinian lives. The roadblocks and other restrictions of movement didn’t even come until the second intifada, when there was a terror uprising on Israel, with more terrorist attacks on Israel than ever before. In fact, after Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day War, the restrictions were taken down. Arabs could come into Israel; while Jews could go into the West Bank and Gaza. In fact, the Israeli settlements actually helped the territories economically. Where the settlements were established was where there were more Palestinian shops and more Palestinian homes. The Palestinian businessmen and women saw what was in their business’s interest, not on the ethnic group of the customers or whether it was Jewish or Arab money.

I think you’d get the point. As I said, what Hamas is doing in Gaza is far worse than anything Israel did. After all, a little while before Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, the Al-Hayat reported that Hamas passed a new bill. According to the bill, “drinking to making wine will be subjected to 40 lashes… drinking and harassing the public will be punishable by 40 lashes and three months in jail”. The bill stated that those “engaging in games of chance, offending religious beliefs and defaming others’ character” would also be whipped. That bill also stated that “any Palestinian found guilty of raising a weapon against Palestine in favor of the enemy; countering Palestine’s interests in a negotiation with a foreign government; and placing Palestine’s existence in danger by committing an act of aggression against a foreign country… will be sentenced to death”. You can even see Hamas’s Islamo-Fascist policies here. After being democratically-elected, Hamas tried to shove these Islamo-Fascist policies down the thoats of all of the Palestinians. Since the illegal coup in 2007, Hamas lost power in the West Bank, which remained under the control of Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah. Hamas used their power in Gaza to impose Islamo-Fascist rule. As a result, Gaza right now is an Islamo-Fascist hell hole.

This just goes to show the hypocritical stupidity behind Hamas’s statements. They claim that it’s more important to teach about Israel’s “crimes” toward the Palestinians; despite the fact that Israel just seeks to defend itself and that Hamas is far worse to the Palestinians. Apologists and whitewashers of Hamas wine about Hamas not getting a chance to govern because of Israel and America. Yet Israel and America [as well as the EU] have sought to get Hamas to end its terrorism, to recognize Israel’s basic right to exist and to get Hamas to choose the course of peace and co-existence with Israel instead of continuing the terror struggle against Israel. Yet Hamas instead chose to continue the terror war on Israel, continued to be opposed to peaceful coexistence with Israel and fired more rockets. Hamas continued to promote hatred of Jews and Israel and continued to promote terrorism against Israel. Hamas still uses their TVs, media and schools to teach call for the murder of Jews, the destruction of Israel and for terrorism on the Jewish state, as well as to call for the establishment of an Islamo-Fascist caliphate. Yet, in the twisted world of Hamas, none of this is a war-crime; but teaching about the Holocaust is. And Israel is expected by much of the world to negotiate with Hamas and to give Hamas a “chance” to govern. It’s like asking the black community to negotiate with the KKK and to give them a “chance” to govern.