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In this mailing:
by Khaled Abu Toameh
• October 5, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Hamas spokesman
Sami Abu Zuhri would like the Europeans to understand that they need
not worry about terrorism by the Islamist movement because the
attacks will be directed only against Israel.
- The European
Court of Justice (EJC) is sending the message to Hamas that
Europeans see no problem with Hamas's desire to destroy Israel and
continue to launch terrorist attacks against Jews. This message also
undermines those Palestinians who still believe in a peace with
Israel.
- The EJC
recommendation to remove Hamas from the EU's terrorism blacklist
comes at a time when countries such as Egypt, Jordan, the United
Arab Emirates and even Saudi Arabia, as well as the Palestinian
Authority, are doing their utmost to weaken Hamas.
- Appeasing
terrorists is a dangerous game: it has already backfired on its
foolhardy players and will continue to do so. This is exactly how
Muslims conquered Iran, Turkey, North Africa and much of Europe,
including Hungary, Greece, Poland, Romania, and the Balkans --
countries that still recall a real "occupation," an
Islamist one, and abundantly want none of it.
- The EU and the
ECJ need to be stopped before they do any more harm to Palestinians,
Christians and Jews -- or to Europe.
Thousands of armed Hamas troops showed off their
military hardware at a Dec. 14, 2014 parade in Gaza, marking the
organization's 27th anniversary. (Image source: PressTV video screenshot)
Once again, the Europeans seem to be in Alice's Wonderland when they
consider Palestinian affairs in particular and the Middle East in
general. The renewed attempt by the European Union to remove the
Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas from its terrorism list is a case in
point.
Recently, an advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ)
recommended that Hamas be removed from the EU's terrorism blacklist. In
2014, the EU's second-highest court ruled that Hamas should be taken off
the list on "technical" grounds. It argued that Hamas's listing
was not based on evidence, but on "factual imputations derived from
the press and the internet."
by Majid Rafizadeh
• October 5, 2016 at 4:00 am
- "You
[Iranian officials] will be in the future etched in the annals of
history as criminals. The greatest crime committed under the Islamic
Republic, from the beginning of the Revolution until now, which will
be condemned by history, is this crime [mass executions] committed
by you." — Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who was one of the
founding fathers of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Intriguingly,
all those people whom Montazeri is addressing and warning in the
audio, currently appear to enjoy high positions.
Jahangir Razmi's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of
the execution of Kurdish men and others by the Iranian Islamic regime in
1979.
Iran's massacre of more than 30,000 people was recently disclosed by
Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri's son, Ahmad, a moderate cleric, who
posted a confidential audio of his father on his website but was ordered
by Iran's intelligence service to remove it.
Born in Esfahan, Iran, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri was one of
the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He is a human
rights activist, an Islamic theologian, and was the designated successor
to the Islamic revolution's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
until the very last moments of Khomeini's life. His pictures were posted
next to Khomeini's in the streets.
In the recording, Montazeri states:
"You [Iranian officials] will be in the future etched in the
annals of history as criminals. The greatest crime committed under the
Islamic Republic, from the beginning of the Revolution until now, which
will be condemned by history, is this crime [mass executions] committed
by you."
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