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JENIN, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian authorities disbanded a youth orchestra from a West Bank refugee camp after it played for a group of Holocaust survivors in Israel, a local official said on Sunday.

Adnan Hindi of the Jenin camp called the Holocaust a ''political issue'' and accused conductor Wafa Younis of unknowingly dragging the children into a political dispute.

He added that Younis has been barred from the camp and the apartment where she taught the 13-member Strings of Freedom orchestra has been boarded up.

''She exploited the children,'' said Hindi, the head of the camp's ''popular committee,'' which takes on municipal duties. ''She will be forbidden from doing any activities ... We have to protect our children and our community.''

COMMENT:  Simply unbelievable.  Now, let's see how many of the "multiculturalists" and advocates of "academic and cultural freedom" will speak out against this obscenity.  The Palestinian children's concert for Holocaust survivors was publicized all over the world.  For the Palestinians, it was a show of humanity and decency.  You'd think their moronic leaders would realize that.  Now they destroy it, demonstrating once again the truth of the comment made by Israel's late foreign minister, Abba Eban, that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

March 29, 2009