Jewish group urges Washington to keep N. Korean arms from Hamas

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group, urges the Obama administration to adopt whatever measures necessary to prevent North Korea from resupplying Hamas’s rocket arsenal.

“No one should be surprised that the Pyongyang regime, with the world’s worst record of human rights abuses, would be sought out by the murderous Hamas terrorists who use their own civilians as human shields,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, says in a statement. “But the last thing that the Middle East needs now is a new source for terror weapons to find its way into Hamas’ hands.”

“Such a development would only stiffen Hamas’ resolve to continue on its murderous path, one that has needlessly brought death devastation to the people of Gaza and the loss of many Israeli lives,” Cooper says.