us congressmen slam palestinian award to helen thomas
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Letter hints at threat to US assistance for PA

US congressmen slam Palestinian award to Helen Thomas

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Helen Thomas An award given to prominent pro-Palestinian journalist Helen Thomas by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sparked anger in Israel as well as the US Congress, Israeli daily Haaretz has reported.
Two senior congressmen have sent Abbas a letter denouncing the award given to Thomas, hinting that such a move may hurt US assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
In the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Haaretz, Republican Steve Chabot, Chairman of the Middle East and South Asia Subcommittee, and Democrat Eliot Engel, senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee expressed concern over the award given to Thomas, and said that it is "tantamount to accepting and agreeing with her call for Jews in Palestine to go back to Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else.'"
The lawmakers added that "Thomas' words and beliefs have been anything but supportive of a settlement where two peoples, Israelis and Palestinians, would live side-by-side, in peace and security."
Chabot and Engel also said to Abbas that Thomas' remarks were "part of a repeating pattern."
"Unfortunately, the recognition of stridently, and sometimes even violently anti­-Israeli individuals and themes has become all too common by the Palestinian Authority," they wrote. "While Helen Thomas has not specifically espoused such violence, we see her recognition as simply part of the campaign to celebrate those who espouse harsh anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish themes… we condemn the selection of Helen Thomas for an award by your representative in Washington, DC and urge the Palestinian Authority to recommit itself to the peace process through messages of peace and reconciliation."
The congressmen's letter is the latest in a series of condemnations by Washington-based Jewish groups of the Thomas affair. After being given the award, many senior Congressmen called Israel's US ambassador Michael Oren to protest.
Oren also raised the affair with senior White House officials, during which he asked the administration to issue a public condemnation or at lease use diplomatic channels to relay its reservations over the affair.
Oren told Haaretz that the decision to honour Thomas was a display of "bad judgment." "There is no other way to see it other than (a move) legitimising Hamas' anti-Semitic statements," he said. "There is a direct line running through Abbas' meeting with the terrorist Amna Muna and the Palestinian bid at the human rights council, and awarding a prize to a journalist who was shamefully expelled from the White House."
 

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