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Those evil charities

Submitted by Keenan on Wed, 2009-10-07 23:12.

This part really made my jaw drop:

Then it flashes an image of the Holy Land Foundation building, which housed a Dallas charity that provided what they said was humanitarian aid to Palestine. The group was convicted of providing support for militant group Hamas after a lengthy trial, which ended the operations of America's largest Muslim charity. The Bush administration's first attempt to prosecute HLF resulted in a mistrial, as the government argued that by providing food, medical supplies and educational texts to Palestinian children, HLF had in effect freed Hamas from part of its financial burden, allowing the group to stage attacks on Israelis.

Wow. Ok, so the logic is that if you provide medical care or food, etc., to children within a population that is under occupation by the US or its allies, that means that you are funding terrorism, because hypothetically, theoretically, it might make it easier for somebody within that population to have more money or resources to then go out and commit a terrorist act (or resist the occupation)? How convenient for Israel and other allied colonialist powers to create another weapon to cut off any legitimate humanitarian aid for the victims of occupation and colonization. Makes my blood boil. So, now I have to worry about any Palestinian solidarity work I've ever been involved with. This is outrageous.

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