The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights organization expressed its shock and deep disappointment that the Obama Administration has declared it will work with the new hybrid Palestinian Authority-Hamas government.
Photo: Meeting of Hamas-Palestinian Unity government - June 2, 2014
"The mirage of technocrats in charge of the economy cannot disguise the reality that terrorists remain in charge of the rockets. Today, no one in the Middle East believes this isanything but a victory for Hamas, a terrorist organization that has consistently shown through words and deadly actions that it has not backed away from its founding charterseeking the Jewish State's destruction," said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, dean and founder and associate dean of the human rights NGO.
"There is no fig leaf large enough to cover Hamas' blood-drenched legacy. No Israeli leader, left, right, or center, would ever agree to a Palestinian State as its immediateneighbor that includes lackeys of the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran, who have lobbed thousands of rockets at Israeli population centers and unleashed suicide bombers murdering andmaiming innocent men women and children in Israel," they added.
"We applaud US Secretary of State John Kerry's tenacity in trying to bring Israeli and Palestinians closer to peace. Unfortunately, the decision to defacto legitimize anunrepentant Hamas empowers not the peacemakers but the bomb throwers," Hier and Cooper added.
"The table for peace in the Middle East will be set when the US and the European Union hold President Abbas' PA accountable for the billions in aid they received, foreswearviolence and introduce a curriculum of peace instead of one that demonizes and delegitimizes its Jewish neighbors," they concluded.
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