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It would appear that 40% of the Arabs residing in either the Gaza Strip or the West Bank believe that the Holocaust never happened: http://www.kkcj.org/videos/video/palestinians-deny-holocaust/
I would like to know what the reason for this is?
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Despite the usual riff raft such as Michael claiming this is "Israeli propoganda", the fact is that the elected Goverment in Gaza, namely Hamas, have Holocaust denial as part of their official policy. This is not Israeli bias, or misreporting. It is contained within the Hamas charter which is available to the public that the Holocaust did not happen.
Hamas has officially made statements denying the Holocaust.
Hamas has been explicit in its Holocaust Denial. In reaction to the Stockholm conference on the Jewish Holocaust, held in late January 2000, Hamas issued a press release which it published on its official website, containing the following statements from a senior leader:
"This conference bears a clear Zionist goal, aimed at forging history by hiding the truth about the so-called Holocaust, which is an alleged and invented story with no basis. (...) The invention of these grand illusions of an alleged crime that never occurred, ignoring the millions of dead European victims of Nazism during the war, clearly reveals the racist Zionist face, which believes in the superiority of the Jewish race over the rest of the nations. (...) By these methods, the Jews in the world flout scientific methods of research whenever that research contradicts their racist interests."
In an open letter to Gaza Strip UNRWA chief John Ging published August 20, 2009, the movement's Popular Committees for Refugees called the Holocaust "a lie invented by the Zionists," adding that the group refused to let Gazan children study about it. Hamas leader Younis al-Astal continued by saying that having the Holocaust included in the UNRWA curriculum for Gaza students amounted to "marketing a lie and spreading it." Al-Astal continued "I do not exaggerate when I say this issue is a war crime, because of how it serves the Zionist colonizers and deals with their hypocrisy and lies.
This was reported in many newspapers, not just Israeli. Here is where it was printed in Reuters which is an international news agency
http://reuters.com/article/idUSTRE57T1JW20090830?irpc=932
The guardian which is a UK paper reported this too
http://guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/28/hamas-un-holocaust-lessons-gaza?cat=world&type=article
So it is not just Israeli newspapers that reported about Hamas not wanting the Holocaust to be taught.
Of course Michael with his multiple accounts will thumb me down for this. But I am writing the truth with references. To people like him though the truth is not important, the only thig that is imortantance for him is slandering Israel. Even if there is a question on the lords of eggs in Israel he will use it as an excuse to slander Israel.
Despite the usual riff raft such as Michael claiming this is "Israeli propoganda", the fact is that the elected Goverment in Gaza, namely Hamas, have Holocaust denial as part of their official policy. This is not Israeli bias, or misreporting. It is contained within the Hamas charter which is available to the public that the Holocaust did not happen.
Hamas has officially made statements denying the Holocaust.
Hamas has been explicit in its Holocaust Denial. In reaction to the Stockholm conference on the Jewish Holocaust, held in late January 2000, Hamas issued a press release which it published on its official website, containing the following statements from a senior leader:
"This conference bears a clear Zionist goal, aimed at forging history by hiding the truth about the so-called Holocaust, which is an alleged and invented story with no basis. (...) The invention of these grand illusions of an alleged crime that never occurred, ignoring the millions of dead European victims of Nazism during the war, clearly reveals the racist Zionist face, which believes in the superiority of the Jewish race over the rest of the nations. (...) By these methods, the Jews in the world flout scientific methods of research whenever that research contradicts their racist interests."
In an open letter to Gaza Strip UNRWA chief John Ging published August 20, 2009, the movement's Popular Committees for Refugees called the Holocaust "a lie invented by the Zionists," adding that the group refused to let Gazan children study about it. Hamas leader Younis al-Astal continued by saying that having the Holocaust included in the UNRWA curriculum for Gaza students amounted to "marketing a lie and spreading it." Al-Astal continued "I do not exaggerate when I say this issue is a war crime, because of how it serves the Zionist colonizers and deals with their hypocrisy and lies.
This was reported in many newspapers, not just Israeli. Here is where it was printed in Reuters which is an international news agency
http://reuters.com/article/idUSTRE57T1JW20090830?irpc=932
The guardian which is a UK paper reported this too
http://guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/28/hamas-un-holocaust-lessons-gaza?cat=world&type=article
So it is not just Israeli newspapers that reported about Hamas not wanting the Holocaust to be taught.
Of course Michael with his multiple accounts will thumb me down for this. But I am writing the truth with references. To people like him though the truth is not important, the only thig that is imortantance for him is slandering Israel. Even if there is a question on the lords of eggs in Israel he will use it as an excuse to slander Israel.
Why do China bus drivers work in Singapore even they were like lesser people?
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By Jeanette Tan | Yahoo! Newsroom,
In a recent hour-long phone interview with Yahoo! Singapore, former SMRT bus driver He Jun Ling opens up to Yahoo Newsroom to share why and how more than 170 bus drivers ended up going on a two-day strike against their employer on the morning of 26 November 2012. You can read Part One here. In this second part of the series, he shares his views on xenophobia and integration of foreign workers in Singapore.
The 33-year-old had more emotional words for his wife, though, remembering that while he was gone, she had to be breadwinner, mother and father to their daughter all at the same time. âI told her it must have been tough on her â she suffered quite a lot,â he said.
Why work in Singapore?
Back in 2011, as He mulled the decision to spend 2 years working abroad, away from his wife, daughter, parents, other relatives and friends, he said he had only heard good things about Singapore.
âWe had two modes of thinking about why we were inclined to go to Singapore to work: in terms of remuneration, we knew that we would earn more in Singapore,â he explained.
âThe other is the language barrier (in Singapore) wouldnât be as great as it would be elsewhere â after all, 70 per cent of the local population is Chinese, and our English is very poor, so we thought we would be able to integrate here faster. We all thought Singapore was a very good country; a really, really good one.â
On the first point, He saw it was true enough. He was able to send the bulk of his salary â amounting to more thanS $1,000 a month â back to his family, living off a remainder of about $400 for food, phone bills and his share of the broadband bill in the dormitory he shared with other drivers.
On days when he worked the morning shift, He was able to chat with his wife and daughter on QQ, a popular messaging platform used in China, and on other days, they spoke over the phone. These conversations, said He, were what kept him going despite his daily experiences and encounters with Singaporeans at work.
âItâs like we were lesser peopleâ
On the second point, He found he was considerably off the mark.
âFrom what Iâve seen, experienced and heard personally, Singaporeans donât view people from the mainland in a very positive light,â he said. âSome of them look down on us⦠there is a breakdown in communication between Singaporeans and Chinese people.â
He related incidents where he and several of his ex-colleagues faced harsh criticism on their driving from elderly passengers, some of whom told them to return to China if they couldn't drive properly.
âThese incidents gave us the impression that some Singaporeans really didnât welcome us,â said He.
He feels that Singaporeans have little idea of the struggles faced by foreign workers, noting that many Bangladeshi workers go without food because they earn too little.
âAfter my time there I ended up feeling that the way Singaporeans looked at and treated us made us feel quite uncomfortable,â he said. âItâs like we were lesser people than them⦠as if we were second-class citizens.
âWhether youâre from China, Bangladesh or India, Singaporeans treat foreign workers very passively,â he continued. âThey feel that problems experienced by foreign workers should be handled by their employers only and are less helpful when it comes to problems we face⦠this is something I feel isnât too good.â
âA lot of online comments accuse Chinese nationals of stealing Singaporean rice bowls, and that our coming here aggravates the stress some locals face in searching for jobs here, so from that perspective I do understand where the angst comes from,â he said.
âBut the government knows it needs to rely on foreign workers â there are a lot of jobs Singaporeans wonât do, and we are here with the backing of the government to do these jobs. And when you bring in so many foreign workers, of course there will be problems or issues, so you need to think of contingencies to accommodate them and to ensure that (social integrity is maintained),â he noted.
He was also forgiving of the negative comments made online against him and the other 170 bus drivers who went on strike last November.
âI also can understand where theyâre coming from,â he said. âAfter all, Singapore is their country, and they would definitely be unhappy when foreign workers create unrest. But they might not have understood the background and the issues leading up to our action⦠so I really can understand their reaction, where it was negative.â
When asked, two of He's three companions, who served six weeks in jail with him and travelled home a week earlier, shared similar sentiments on the issue.
"Singaporeans are like frogs in a well," wrote Liu Xiang Ying in an email interview with Yahoo! Singapore.
"They didn't treat me with a friendly attitude, and I was often looked down upon. (In responding to the strike) Those who were more fluent
in Chinese were slightly better, while those who spoke English tended only to look at the end-result (the strike) and not the process."
Liu, who worked in Singapore for more than 4 years, said he would not have come to the Republic had he known about the "severe lack of freedom" and workers' rights. "However, I don't regret coming to Singapore to work, because I observed and learned a lot there," he continued. "I can only say (in reference to his participation in the strike) that when they discover the truth, they will understand why I had to do this... it's a matter of fighting for our rights and dignity."
Added Wang Xianjie, "Any foreign worker with courage and a sense of uprightness would confront such unfair and unreasonable treatment."
However, He said it was not all bad and there were many Singaporeans who came forward to help him and his three compatriots. Assistance ranged from bailing them out to finding them tempora
temporary housing in Kallang for the three months their case wore on in court. âI do think the environment there is very good. Even after everything that happened and my return home, I still think (Singaporeâs) infrastructure and transport is very good. The roads are orderly, living standards for locals are high, landscaping is beautiful and the streets are generally safe. I still think it is so.â
@ Dog Lover, What you referred to as Chink must be your Mainland friends recently come over from China who speak no English and no proper manners and behaviors of a free world, the people I associate never call people Chink though. May be there's a problem with your commie gang. The Chinese ethnicity I come across there are either professionals, eg doctors, lawyers, professors or successful businessmen.
@ Thanks to WNL's interesting answer and links.
In short, living in a corrupted place as China, one has no social protection/security nor peace of mind but full of unexpected dangers and risks. Which liar(s) still claiming 1-party dictatorship is good??
@ coolwid forgets to tell also her mother is doing business in China through CCP's connection, silly rant. She's wasting US' taxpayers money to promote an inhuman and mass murderer regime. If she could give facts to substantiate China is not practicing inhuman and mass murdering towards Chinese People, she would not be named silly idiotic kid.
Answer
They prefer to work at driving busses in Singapore, where being treated as a lower-class citizen is completely understandable (since they are NOT citizens of Singapore; they are VISITORS, and taking jobs from the local people), because it's safer operating a Singaporean bus in Singapore's streets than operating one in the nuthouse known as The People's Republic of China.
See references:
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/51480162/#51480162
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/01/world/asia/china-bus-fire
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-01/13/content_16110493.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qbxkY8z-vM
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20100721-228236.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-05-17/china-bus-explodes-after-crash-14-dead/2439812
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Chengdu_bus_fire
http://www.euronews.com/2012/12/25/eleven-children-killed-in-china-school-bus-crash/
They prefer to work at driving busses in Singapore, where being treated as a lower-class citizen is completely understandable (since they are NOT citizens of Singapore; they are VISITORS, and taking jobs from the local people), because it's safer operating a Singaporean bus in Singapore's streets than operating one in the nuthouse known as The People's Republic of China.
See references:
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/51480162/#51480162
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/01/world/asia/china-bus-fire
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-01/13/content_16110493.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qbxkY8z-vM
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20100721-228236.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-05-17/china-bus-explodes-after-crash-14-dead/2439812
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Chengdu_bus_fire
http://www.euronews.com/2012/12/25/eleven-children-killed-in-china-school-bus-crash/
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