Fwd: Egyptian Parliament refuses to observe "holocaust."

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>   Egyptian Parliament refuses to observe "holocaust."
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>  The members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Egyptian 
>People's Assembly (parliament) in a meeting night before last 
>unanimously rejected a call to observe the Nazi holocaust on 27 
>January each year, in accordance with a resolution of the United 
>Nations General Assembly.  The decision came in response to a letter 
>in which the President of the Israeli Knesset called on Egypt to 
>observe the occasion.
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>  After reviewing the text of the letter from the President of the 
>Israeli Knesset, the committee members affirmed that the occasion 
>does not concern Egypt, and that "we should celebrate and salute the 
>annual anniversaries of the dozens of Israeli massacres committed 
>against the Arab peoples, such as the massacre of Deir Yasin and 
>Bahr al-Baqar and others."
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>  The deputies declared that the resolution issued by the United 
>Nations General Assembly was directed at governments, not 
>parliaments, and was not binding on the Arab peoples.  Dr. Mustafa 
>al-Fiqi, the Chairman of the Committee, said that the President of 
>the People's Assembly was currently preparing a reply to the letter 
>of the President of the Knesset.
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>  Al-Bayan Newspaper.  United Arab Emirates, 31 January 2006.
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>http://www.albayan.ae/servlet/Satellite?cid=1138359268231&pagename=Albayan%2FArticle%2FFullDetail&c=Article 
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