From that well known source of anti-Israel propaganda YNetNews:
As the world commemorated the Holocaust Tuesday, a small village in the West Bank held a surprising exhibit memorializing the most tragic event in modern Jewish history.
Naalin, a village that has become the symbol for the Palestinians' battle against Israel's construction of a separation fence in the West Bank, erected a display of photographs purchased from Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and invited the public to learn more about the persecution of the Jews.
Mohammad Amira, a member of the village's Land Defense Committee, said hundreds of people visited the exhibit by early afternoon. He said many had praised the initiative.
"People are surprised at what they see here; there are people who are seeing images of the suffering in the Holocaust for the first time. There are people who didn't know anything about Jewish history," Amira said.
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Regarding the decision to present the exhibit to residents of Naalin, many of who have been harmed by the construction of the separation fence, Amira said, "We thought the public should understand the pain and suffering the Nazis caused the Jews.
"Unfortunately, we are paying the price for the immense pain suffered by the Jews during the Holocaust. There is no comparison between our suffering and that of the Jewish people in the Holocaust, but everyone should understand that we are suffering too, as a result of what the Germans did to the Jews."
Ma’an News Agency:
Palestinians on Tuesday erected a memorial site near the West Bank city of Ramallah to commemorate Nazi Germany’s crimes against the Jewish people.
Hundreds of Palestinians were estimated to have attended the event in Ni’lin, which coincided with the United Nations-declared World Holocaust Remembrance Day with photographs purchased from an Israeli museum.
"The Holocaust was a horrible and methodical murder of six million innocents, which affects all of the citizens of Israel even today," said Khaled Mahmid, who heads the Nazareth-based Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education.
"The Koran orders us to acknowledge the Holocaust and understand it," Mahmid added.
"The Jews must remember that many of them were saved during the Holocaust thanks to their brothers in the Arab lands," he said. "We must overcome Hitler's effects together."
He also noted that some of Israel’s behavior can be explained by the Holocaust, something he says Palestinians should take into consideration.
"The Palestinians need to understand that the Jews have a defense mechanism deriving from the horrid murder in the Holocaust," he said.
"All violence Palestinians perform on the Israelis is not effective, causes suffering, and summons Holocaust anxiety among the Jews," Mahmid added.
It is for this reason, Mahmid says, that Palestinians should "understand the Holocaust, the power and strength that the Jews’ pain has."
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In mid-2008, the Hamas movement condemned the Jewish Holocaust, as well, insisting that it "was not only a crime against humanity but one of the most abhorrent crimes in modern history."
"We condemn it as we condemn every abuse of humanity and all forms of discrimination on the basis of religion, race, gender or nationality," a Hamas spokesperson said in a statement.
The American media has largely succeeded in demonizing all Palestinians as anti-Semites and fanatical Jew-haters from the moment of their birth. I'm posting this diary because we need to know the truth: Palestinians are human beings just like us and nothing can ever change that. Their grievances are very real. They have been forced to give up their land to compensate a horrific atrocity that they had nothing to do with.
These news articles show that even a Palestinian village that was most harshly effected by the occupation and separation of their land can show a great deal of decency and humanity.
Palestinians have always maintained that their fight was not against the Jewish people, but against the occupation of their lands. Remember the founding document of the Arab League:
The Committee also declares that it is second to none in regretting the woes which have been inflicted upon the Jews of Europe by European dictatorial states. But the question of these Jews should not be confused with Zionism, for there can be no greater injustice and aggression than solving the problem of the Jews of Europe by another injustice, i.e., by inflicting injustice on the Arabs of Palestine of various religions and denominations.
Also of note is the personal laments of Edward Said:
When Said writes about Palestine, he is often at pains to emphasise the persecution of the Jews. Thus, speaking of comparisons between apartheid and Zionism, he writes: "The conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians is admittedly more complex than the battle against apartheid ... [because] the Jews are a people with a tragic history of persecution and genocide." (Edward Said, 'The Only Alternative', Al Hayat, 2 March 2001). Speaking of the powerlessness of the Palestinians, he reminds readers that "Sixty years ago the Jews of Europe were at the lowest point of their collective existence. Herded like cattle into trains, they were transported from the rest of Europe by Nazi soldiers into death camps, where they were systematically exterminated in gas ovens." (Edward Said, 'Low Point of Powerlessness', Al Hayat, 30 September 2002).
Far from celebrating or denying the Holocaust, prominent Arab writers and Palestinian activists go out of their way to condemn the Holocaust even though their people had nothing to do with it. It is a horrible, inhuman myth that the Palestinian cause is a simply another front for anti-Semitism. The sooner we recognize this, the better.