Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject: Hamas to Tour Caribbean and South American States... |
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Would love to be a fly on the wall and hear what they say to each other...
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Leaders from the Palestinian movement Hamas are planning a tour of several South American nations, including Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia, Venezuela's vice president said Friday.
Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said Venezuela's Foreign Ministry had not received official notification of the forthcoming tour.
"The group Hamas, which is the organization that handily won the Palestinian elections ... has announced that it is going to do a tour of different Latin American countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, I believe, and also Venezuela," said Rangel.
In the first Palestinian election in 10 years, Hamas won 76 of the 132 seats in the parliament. The Fatah Party, which has dominated Palestinian politics for four decades, was dealt a blow from voters, winning only 43 seats.
Hamas has called for the destruction of Israel and has long been considered a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution saying that no aid should be provided to the Palestinian Authority "if a ruling majority party within the Palestinian Parliament maintains a position calling for the destruction of Israel."
In a letter sent to the embassies of Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia in Washington, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center urged the governments of each country not to receive Hamas leaders.
"We urge your government to bar such a visit of representatives of an avowed terrorist organization that dispatches suicide bombers against civilian targets and openly calls for the destruction of the state of Israel," Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Jewish rights group, said in the letter. |
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/03/hamas.southamerica.ap/index.html |
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