On Thursday, the National Assembly held an urgent meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs to discuss the draft declaration on the current situation in the Palestinian-Israeli area and the current conflict between Israel and Hamas.
During the meeting, the leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), Janez Janša, pointed out that in Gaza, where the terrorist organisation Hamas rules, children are being taught to become terrorists. “In Gaza, children are being taught from kindergarten onwards how terrorism is carried out. In the textbooks, they have formulas for making explosive devices,” Janša pointed out, noting that “this is financed with money that is also donated by Slovenian citizens.”
At the meeting, Janša also drew attention to the money laundering for the Iranian regime that took place in the Slovenian bank NLB, when it was still fully state-owned: “Since almost 2 billion dollars of money was laundered in the NLB bank, which was 100% state-owned at the time, during the term of the Social Democrats party (Socialni demokrati – SD) government, for the Iranian regime, which was under triple sanctions at the time, the left in Slovenia has great difficulty in referring to Iran in a negative context. I am afraid that this is also why Iran was left out of the resolution, unlike all the other European texts,” he said, commenting on the fact that Iran is not in the resolution, even though it is a country that is supposed to be close to Hamas.
SDS MP Franc Breznik also spoke about the fact that young children in Gaza are being taught about terrorism. He explained that he himself had seen primary school materials “glorifying terrorists”. “The money went for indoctrination. The part of the money that Hamas took,” he stressed, going on to say that another part of the money that goes to Hamas allows its leadership to live lavishly in Qatar, where “they are almost considered billionaires.”
The paradox of left-wing Hamas supporters
Breznik also spoke about the paradox of liberal-left and LGBT+ groups protesting on the streets of European cities today in the name of Palestine: “It is a paradox that the LGBT+ community is protesting with the rainbow flag and the Palestinian flag. I would not want someone from the LGBT+ community to go to Iran or Palestine, hold hands and march in the streets. Their survival would not be counted in days, but only in hours.”
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