Pelosi: Qatar tells me Hamas is a humanitarian organization

**Posted by Phineas

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Dear San Franciscans,

I love your city, really I do, but, as voters, you have so much to answer for:

Rep. Nancy Pelosi appeared on CNN Sunday and commented on the ongoing war in Gaza. While defending Israel’s right to defend itself and stating that the US must support Iron Dome, Pelosi also noted that many Palestinians live in her district, and β€œWe have to support the Palestinians and what they need.” She also made a strange comment on the nature of Hamas.

β€œWe have to confer with the Qataris,” Pelosi told CNN’s Candy Crowley, β€œwho have told me over and over again that Hamas is a humanitarian organization.” She added her hope that the Qataris could use their β€œinfluence” over Hamas to β€œcalm” the situation.

The Red Cross is a humanitarian organization. So are Doctors Without Borders, CARE, Habitat for Humanity, United Way, and so many others. And yet none of them —as far as I know— use donor money to buy weapons. None of them hide behind civilians, using them as human shields. None of them store weapons in schools. None of them dig tunnels as a means of plotting mass murder. None of them get 160 children killed digging said tunnels. None of them fire rockets at a nuclear reactor, heedless of the danger to everyone in the area.

And no humanitarian organization that I have heard of has ever called for war againstΒ an entire people because of their religion:

“…the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to realize the promise of Allah, no matter how long it takes. The Prophet, Allah’s prayer and peace be upon him, says: ‘The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,’ except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews.'”

This, however, is perhaps not surprising. Pelosi was, after all, famously a useful idiot forΒ Syria’s Bashar al Assad.

Hamas is a “humanitarian organization” in the same way that Capone donated to charities or Colombian drug lords paid people’s medical bills back home: whatever good works they might do are a cover for and overshadowed by the evil they commit.

And Qatar? Nancy, please. Even the Obama Treasury Department has described that nation as a sponsor of terrorism. To take seriously their protestations on behalf of Hamas is like believing Mussolini when he says Hitler has his good points.

I realize public diplomacy requires officials to often say anodyne things about despicable people, but could Minority Leader Pelosi please not insult our intelligence in the process?

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

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