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Titolo: How much should Palestinian children know about Nazi war crimes?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/08/hamas-and-the-holocaust/
EDITORIAL: Hamas and the Holocaust
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
How much should Palestinian children know about Nazi war crimes?
According to Hamas, only enough to know the Holocaust is a lie.
A row erupted last week when Palestinian refugee camp committees
complained to John Ging, the Gaza director of the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), that a proposed change to the Gaza
school curriculum "confirms the Holocaust and raises sympathy for
Jews." The camp committees said they "categorically refuse to let our
children be taught this lie created by the Jews and intensified by
their media." They offered two rationales: the Holocaust is not a
fact, and the U.N. is trying to "mess with our children's emotions."
Mustafa al-Sawwaf, editor of the Hamas-run newspaper Filastin, said
the U.N. "should also be prevented from implementing this destructive
policy that harms our history and civilization as well as our people's
culture." Yes, the official Palestinian history would be harmed by
recognizing historical events that their leaders have torn from the
record. Palestinian civilization might be threatened too, if you call
life in Gaza civilization.
The controversy may have arisen because the human rights section of
the curriculum is based on the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
The declaration was issued in 1948 in large measure as a response to
Nazi war crimes. It is difficult to discuss the document without
reference to the Holocaust, and its history is incomprehensible
without such discussion -- and the U.N. may have made inquiries about
how much of this forbidden history it can go into. For its part, UNRWA
has publicly condemned Holocaust denial and does not share the view of
Gaza education committee head Abdul Rahman el-Jamal, who said the
Holocaust is a "big lie."
But no need to fret; the U.N. issued a swift disclaimer. Karen
AbuZayd, commissioner-general of UNRWA, said on Sept. 1 that the
curriculum at the Gaza schools contains no references to the
Holocaust. "I can refute allegations that U.N. school curriculum
includes anything about the Holocaust," she said. "Anyone can have a
look at the schoolbooks." The lesson plans are drafted in the regional
U.N. office in the Gaza Strip and reviewed by Palestinian editors.
There is no chance the odd Auschwitz reference or quote from Anne
Frank's diary can slip in.
It's not that the Palestinians aren't interested in a good atrocity
story. A high-level panel is forming to investigate charges leveled in
the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that Israeli troops systematically
harvested organs from dead Palestinian teens. Aftonbladet has since
admitted there is no evidence to support the ghoulish allegations, but
the Palestinians have pledged to get to the bottom of them.
We wonder which emotions the Palestinians are afraid will be "messed
with" if their children learn about the Holocaust. Children in Gaza
are raised on a diet of unreasoning, bitter hatred against Jews, the
better to inspire them to grow up to be radicals, terrorists and
suicide bombers. Learning about the Holocaust might introduce more
beneficial emotions, like empathy, understanding and compassion. Start
down that road, and who knows where it could lead. Peace, perhaps.

 THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Curioso, perche' il WT e' della Unifiction Church del reverendo Moon,
che sulla shoa non la pensa in modo molto diverso da Hamas.
PP