Spain's Foreign ministry: "We must maintain contact with Hamas"

Spain Herald ^ | April 11, 2006

[Tailgunner Joe]

The European Union's 25 foreign ministers decided on Monday to freeze aid to the Hamas Palestinian government and to suspend political contact with its members. However, the Spanish administration did not agree. A Spanish diplomatic representative said, "Humanitarian aid is not political, it involves people," and added, contrary to the EU agreement, "It is necessary to maintain contact with Hamas."

Alberto Navarro, secretary of state for relations with the EU, said that Spain had defended the need for the EU to maintain its humanitarian and development aid, despite the freeze on direct EU financing for the Hamas government. He said that Monday's debate "had not been easy," as "a hungry child is a hungry child, and a child knows nothing about politics or Hamas, Hutus or Tutsis."

Navarro also spoke of the need to give a certain "period of trust" to the new Palestinian authorities. "The Spanish position is to respond with practical and concrete measures to each one of the practical and concrete measures that the new Palestinian government takes," he said.

According to Navarro, "Without renouncing our principles, it is obvious that at the technical level, consular offices and experts who are on the ground managing cooperation, it is necessary to have contacts with Hamas." Hamas is on both the EU's and the US's lists of terrorist groups.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

big shocker after socialist islam appeasing commies were put in charge in Spain.

[Nateman]

Giving aid and comfort to evil is not humanitarian. As for "the children need help!" these savages hate Israeli much more than they love their own children. The real humanitarian thing to do would be to take away their children and raise them as Jews, rather than let Hamas pass on the evil to another generation.

[CheyennePress]

The Shoe has spoken!

[American in Israel]

So if they must give humanitarian aid to children, how about children in hospitals, the victims of HAMAS?

One thing for sure, the more money HAMAS has, the worse off the Arab children are going to be, with a side benefit of more dead Jews.

Even appeasement is "all about the children" to leftists.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

"the children need help"?

Hamas willing promotes their children strapping bombs to themsevles and killing other people. Not only do they promote it, they have fostered an entire culture through out the middle east that sending your children to kill is a religious duty and to be romanticized.

the only children I see in need of help, is palestinian children in need of being protected FROM Hamas.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Yes, Spain.

Continue your chatter with international terrorist organizations.

That will indeed make the world a safer place.