Ramping up pressure on Hamas, Hamas leaders, and the Palestinian Authority, eleven Palestinian human rights organization are demanding that they endorse the U.N. Goldstone Report recommendation to investigate Palestinian violations of international law allegedly committed during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead offensive in Gaza from late December 2008 through January 2009.

According to the report in Ha’aretz, the Palestinian organizations urging the probe include:

• Adallah
• the Arab Association for Human Rights
• the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
• Al-Haq
• the Adameer prisoner’s rights group, and
• the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counselling.

The Goldstone Report criticized, in part, terror attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups on Israeli civilians, violent attacks and internal repression, like summary executions in the Gaza Strip, as well as arrests and torture in the West Bank

Will President-elect Barack Obama see Hamas for what it really is: radical Islamists who use terrorism as a tool for their religious and political objectives?


It remains to be seen.

But Obama’s choice of Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (Dem. - IL) as his White House Chief of Staff may send a message to Hamas.

In 2007, Emmanuel reportedly said that “Fatah and Hamas are tearing the Palestinian area of the Gaza strip apart in what they call a political rivalry, and the Palestinian people are paying a price for Palestinian violence.”

In July 2007, Hamas seized rival Fatah security officials in the Gaza strip after a bomb attack killed 5 Hamas terrorist and one girl.

Imagine the U.S. Congress — a democratically elected legislature — trying to ‘resolve’ their differences by kidnapping or killing Representatives, Senators, staffers, and constituents, That is exactly how the Hamas terrorist organization operates.

Obama’s administration must look at Hamas for what it truly is: a ruthless terrorist group with a history of deadly attacks — a number of which have killed U.S. citizens.

Palestinian Authority (PA) police uncovered a Hamas terrorist cell with at least eleven (11) members in Hebron who made and stored “large quantities of explosives in a deserted house.”


Hebron Police Chief Ramadan Awad told Ma’an, that the bomb factory was located “in a deserted house in the middle of a residential neighborhood.”