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=== News Update ===
Revise terror list - de-classify Hamas and move forward
10 January 2009
Stuart Littlewood argues that it is time for Britain and Europe to break free from the straightjacket of the US definition of terrorism and recognize Hamas, which was democratically elected by the Palestinian people and is fighting a legitimate war of resistance against occupation by Israel – a country that fits the US definition of terrorism perfectly.
Inappropriate use of the term “terrorism” by people with despicable motives is probably THE most serious obstacle to peace.
Can somebody please explain – Mr Brown? Mr Miliband? – why Britain (or any other nation for that matter) blindly accepts America’s decree that Hamas must be regarded as a terrorist organization? It is, in the words of John Pilger’s illuminating piece yesterday (“Holocaust denied: The lying silence of those who know“), the Arab world’s only democratically elected government and draws its popularity from its resistance to the Palestinians’ oppressor and tormentor of 60 years.
As Pilger points out, when Hamas foiled a CIA coup in 2007 the event was reported in the Western media as “Hamas’s seizure of power”.
“Likewise, Hamas is never described as a government, let alone democratic,” he says. “Neither is its proposal of a 10-year truce as a historic recognition of the ‘reality’ of Israel and support for a two-state solution with just one condition: that the Israelis obey international law and end their illegal occupation beyond the 1967 borders.”
