A Palestinian child graduating from Kindergarten said, "I love the resistance and the martyrs and Palestine, and I want to blow myself up on Zionists and kill them on a bus in a suicide bombing." It is hard to comprehend anyone saying such a thing, but hearing from a 5- or 6-year-old child is heartbreaking. Yet everyday in Gaza, children are taught that killing Jewish people is noble and honorable.
The graduation ceremony came complete with the little boys dressed in the Islamic Jihad's al-Quds Brigades uniforms, they had toy rifles (those also went home with the boys as a grad gift) and chanted anti-Israel slogans. One boys dressed as an Israeli soldier pretended to torture a 'Palestinian' prisoner by dunking his head in a bucket of water. Good to know these boys are learning that jihadists would never torture a prisoner. What hope is there for any type of resolution when adults are teaching these things to children? Teaching little boys killing and suicide bombing? Can't they teach what they believe about the land and religion without teaching them they have to kill and/or die to be honorable, at least until maybe...Jr. High? It is incredible what human beings teach in the name of religion!
What's even more incredible is that this is an annual event. One of the teachers said, "At every kindergarten graduation ceremony we focus on the children to represent the role of struggling and resistance in the way of Allah so they will grow up to love the resistance and serve the cause of Palestine and Holy Jihad, as well as to make them leaders and fighters to defend the holy soil of Palestine." The children can't get away from it, even at a puppet show that promoted non-smoking.
The show, in East Jerusalem, told the kids to replace cigarettes with machine guns! One puppet says, "I, and many other youth like me, think that cigarettes will help us to grow, to turn into men. Jerusalem doesn't need men who hold cigarettes. It needs men who hold machine guns, not cigarettes." Yeah, cause being a terrorist extends your lifespan! It is hard to imagine any parent being comfortable with this. Naturally, the group that held the puppet show, Burj Luq-Luq Social Center Society, had to throw in some Jew hating to send the message home. They've had support from some groups you may recognize.
Anti-Israel hatred has ramped up over the past few years. Groups on the U.S. left don't try to hide it anymore, they don't need to. Many of these groups are the same ones touting 'tolerance' and other heartwarming sentiments. They abhor Christianity, yet support and defend religious groups that: murder, or 'punish', homosexuals and adulterers, openly hate 'the West' and want to wipe it all off the map and teach children that they'll be extra special if they kill some Jews. It doesn't make sense. When murdering or suicide bombing is part of what you believe makes you 'honorable' in the eyes of your Maker, it is time to reevaluate.
A little boy named Hamza said, "When I grow up I'll join Islamic Jihad and the al-Quds Brigades. I'll fight the Zionist enemy and fire missiles at it until I die as a shahid [martyr] and join my father in heaven.
© Margie Wilson-Mars 2012
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Comments: 19
I would expect that whatever they are taught, it does not present the palestinians as real people.
Unfortunately, there are people right here, in America, who teach similar things about other cultures.
From Wiki, "Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip have occurred since 2001. Between 2001 and January 2009, over 8,600 rockets had been launched, leading to 28 deaths and several hundred injuries, as well as widespread psychological trauma and disruption of daily life."
read it again Margie. I tried to justify nothing. I specifically rejected Palestinian efforts to demonize Israelis. But you did not attempt to answer my question: what are Israeli "Settler" children taught in their hilltop enclaves on the West Bank? I'm waiting.
And I also support the Palestinians right to exist, in their historical claim of land, as well.
The reports, above, are from Blaze.com.
I doubt seriously that The Weekly Standard, The National Review, The Wall Street Journal, or Fox News--much less what the Right Wing regard as Mainstream Media--ever recognize or acknowledge Blaze.com.
And, even if they do recognize Blaze.com's credibility, have we heard any of these reports, in any of the news sites, mentioned above--who enjoy much broader notoriety?
I responded, below, at 4:06 PM.
I'm Jewish and I support Israel--and I also support the Palestinians, as well.
But I am tired of Gather's Right Wing, typically using fringe information web sites, for their primary post information.
It lowers the quality of discussion on Gather.
Gather's Left Wing does it less often.
Why?
Because there is MORE DISINFORMATION and MISINFORMATION, coming from the Right.
We would all be better off, if we consider information from the Wall Street Journal, from the Weekly Standard, from the National Review, and from Fox--in addition to MSM.
However local newspapers from that part of the world cover what is going on
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/freed-female-palestinian-terrorist-to-gaza-children-i-hope-you-will-become-martyrs-1.391014
But the real key to understanding all of this is where the concept got it's start. Godwin's Rule states that: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” There are, of course, times when mentioning the Nazis is perfectly appropriate. Specifically when you are talking about Swastika wearing, Sieg Heiling, Adolph Hitler loving members of the National Socialist Party. Like, for example, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini. Al-Husseini was a fervent admirer of Hitler and assembled an SS division consisting only of Muslims to operate in the Middle East. These were the only Non-German's allowed to serve in such units because of Hitlers admiration for Al-Husseini's hatred of the Jews. Heinrich Himmler personally thanked Al-Husseini for his efforts in helping Nazis to eradicate the Jews. In his memoirs after the war, Al-Husseini noted that "Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a manner befitting our national and racial aspirations and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews." The answer I got from the Fuehrer was: 'The Jews are yours.'" The marching song of the SS Muslims contained the words: "We are not afraid of death, we desire it. Let us die to redeem Islam" Sounds awfully familiar doesn't it?
That's because it's that same exact death cult that we are faced with today. When Germany was "De-Nazified" after the war, the Islamic SS members, including Al-Husseini simply returned to the middle east where they continued their ideologies under the auspices of some groups you may heard about recently in the news: The Muslim Brotherhood and it's spin-off groups Hamas, Hezzbollah, and a little group calling itself Al-qaeda. Al-Husseini used Mein Kampf, The Protocols of Zion and Sharia Law to establish the charter of the Muslim Brotherhood. The children you see today offering themselves as bombers for Hamas and calling for the eradication of the Jews are in an unbroken, direct ideological line back to the infamous images of the zealous drumming child member of the Hitler Youth in the film of the Nuremberg Rally in 1936.
The issue, for me, is not to be informed by fringe web sites.
In a time when international issues are so polarizing, propaganda is ubiquitous.
Reading stories from fringe web sites cheapens Gather.com--regardless of how infrequently, or frequently, we are hearing the Truth.
Major news outlets report stories, similar to the Baby Jew Killer story, all the time.
Even though I have not seen this story on any major news venue, it doesn't mean it hasn't been reported nor does it mean it isn't true.
To put it simply again, I would rather be informed by more credible sources.
That way, it won't be as difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Haaretz is a more credible news source than Blaze.com, but it is, to some degree, `Ethnic', as is, for example, `Al Jazeera'.
[Ethnic in the sense that it is produced and published by individuals and organizations that are, generally, are favorable to a creed, region, country or ethnic cause]
In 2007, two years before he killed thirteen people and wounded twenty-nine at Fort Hood, Texas, Nidal Malik Hasan prepared a slide show for his fellow Army doctors on the subject of Islam. One of his last points read: "We love death more than you love life!" Hassan Nasrallah employed the phrase in a 2004 interview to explain why Hizballah, the organization he heads, is destined to prevail over Israel: "The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win, because they love life and we love death."
This is the reality, whether you like it or not.