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Posted by VanFleet on Feb-29-2004 14:25:

How Arafat cares about Palestinian teenagers

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satell...d=1078027572006

Israel nabs Palestinian boys planning suicide attacks
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH

Samaria district police report the arrest Thursday of 3 youngsters age 13 to 16 from the West Bank village of Tubas.

The three had in their possession makeshift firearms, and admitted their intent to perpetrate a shooting attack in Afula.

They were apprehended at the Jalameh roadblock by military police, and told investigators that they had been recruited by a local Islamic Jihad official, who also dispatched them to Afula.

The two also fabricated makeshift handguns and confessed to throwing rocks at passing cars

The three planned to carry out a suicide attack out of anger over Israel's West Bank barrier, relatives told Associated Press Sunday.

They are among the youngest ever arrested for planning suicide attacks. Parents of one of the boys expressed outraged that militant groups had taken to drafting young boys to carry out suicide attacks.

Tarek's parents were outraged and criticized Islamic Jihad for conscripting such young boys to their ranks.

"My son doesn't know how to write such a letter and never belonged to any groups. Someone older wrote this letter for him," said his mother, Amira Abu Mahsen.

Mohammed Abu Mahsen said two men in their mid-20s looked for his young son last week and he didn't know why.

"Now I know why they were looking for my young son," Abu Mahsen said. "I will complain to the Palestinian intelligence to find whoever wanted to send my son ... I have to find out who these people are who wanted to send my son, my young son."

Most suicide bombers have been in their 20s. The youngest was 16 years old.

The army did not immediately comment.

Mohammed Abu Mahsen said his 14-year-old son, Tarek, along with his friends, Jaffer Hussein, 13, and Ibrahim Suafta, 16, left a letter saying they planned to carry out a shooting attack at an Israeli military checkpoint or army base, he said.

"I want to carry out an attack against (Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon's fence. This fence, we will blow it up also, the Islamic Jihad youth movement," Tarek wrote in the letter.

"We want you to give out candies and don't cry for us and hold a big demonstration," he added, referring to traditional salutes given to "martyrs" who die for the Palestinian cause.

The 13-year-olds claimed to be members of Islamic Jihad, while Suafta said he belonged to the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a militant group linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, family members said.


Posted by icyhandofcrap on Feb-29-2004 23:48:

stupid jihadists.. why cant you stick with nonviolent protests and not let the israelis have a reason to retaliate.

and israel, why can't you stop land grabbing.


Posted by DaveSZ on Feb-29-2004 23:58:

quote:
Originally posted by icyhandofcrap


and israel, why can't you stop land grabbing.



No they should keep land grabbing.

Just annex the West Bank and Gaza and then let's all practice some democracy.


Posted by WhoaNellie1487 on Mar-01-2004 00:21:

quote:
and israel, why can't you stop land grabbing.

Isreal? Land grabbing? No way, Dude. Isreal had over half their land stolen from them.


Posted by dj_ilan_yosef on Mar-01-2004 00:24:

quote:
Originally posted by icyhandofcrap
and israel, why can't you stop land grabbing.


Absolutely clueless aren't you!


Posted by icyhandofcrap on Mar-01-2004 00:44:

im sorry for being stupid


Posted by tathi on Mar-01-2004 04:45:

Jester

quote:

Absolutely clueless aren't you!

lollers! i only know of one person who uses "!" like you!


WhoaNellie you're an adherent scholar of fox news arn't you


Posted by arctic on Mar-01-2004 05:24:

quote:
Originally posted by tathi
lollers! i only know of one person who uses "!" like you!


WhoaNellie you're an adherent scholar of fox news arn't you


Oh no, Fox is run by a bunch of left wing communists!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ is far better, it's only got socialist leanings!


Posted by Palestinian on Mar-01-2004 05:43:

WorldNetDaily is a right wing, conservative, Christian Zionist, blatently racist, homophobic, islamophobic website.


Posted by dj_ilan_yosef on Mar-01-2004 22:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Palestinian
WorldNetDaily is a right wing, conservative, Christian Zionist, blatently racist, homophobic, islamophobic website.

Rightly so!

Perhaps we should start reading Intifada Times for better accounts of world events! Where every month they announce the winner of a new bomb-belt***


***For ages 5+, courtesy of Yassir Arafat


Posted by Palestinian on Mar-01-2004 23:00:

Smoking ..umm..something the red pill

Perhaps you should read publications committed to comprehensive public education on the question of Palestine, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the economic, political, legal, and human dimensions of Israel's 37-year occupation of Palestinian territories, which are a needed supplement to mainstream commercial media representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although these websites address the prevailing pro-Israeli slant in US media coverage by offering information from a Palestinian perspective, their views on the conflict are based firmly on universal principles of international law and human rights conventions, and their reporting is built on a solid foundation of documented evidence and careful fact-checking. These websites are a pioneering online resource for media analysis, criticism, and activism, they have progressively expanded their scope into new arenas: reference materials, live reporting, editorials, arts coverage, and satire, with the aim of presenting an accessible, credible, and responsible Palestinian narrative of developments on the ground to the American public and international community.

So, are you ready to take the red pill?

www.electronicintifada.net
www.palestinechronicle.com
www.palestinemonitor.org
www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org
www.btselem.org
www.gush-shalom.org
www.palestineremembered.com


Posted by VanFleet on Mar-01-2004 23:17:

Palestinian, I advise you to check out these sites to learn the truth. I doubt those sites you gave, will talk about the sadism Arafat teaches Palestinian children.

This is how Arafat cares about Palestinian children
http://www.pmw.org.il/new/ASK%20FOR%20DEATH.htm

I also doubt they'll tell you how Arafat is worth billions while he keeps his people poor.

More sites that tell the truth.

http://www.camera.org
http://www.honestreporting.com/
http://www.aish.com/
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html
http://www.geocities.com/arabracism...ArabMuslimsHate
http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/arafatbombs2.html
http://www.geocities.com/truthmustbesaid/victims.html
http://www.jr.co.il/terror/israel/index.html


Posted by VanFleet on Mar-01-2004 23:19:

http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/mi...From_Sadism.asp

A thirst for violence is being drilled into Palestinian children. How should Jewish parents respond?

On a recent Shabbos morning, Palestinian terrorists burst into the bedroom of Shiri Shefi, took aim, and sprayed her and her three children with bullets using M-16 assault rifles. Mrs. Shefi, her 4-year-old son Uriel, and her 2-year-old son Eliad were wounded. Five-year-old Danielle, who was shot in the head, was killed.

Last year, a Palestinian sniper trained his high-powered rifle on 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass and killed the little girl in her father's arms. Six months earlier, Vadim Novesche and Yosef Avrahami, two Israeli reserve officers abducted by Palestinian police, were beaten until their heads were unrecognizable pulp and were then disemboweled by a waiting crowd outside the Palestinian Authority's Ramallah headquarters -- who then danced, entrails in hand, through the city's streets.

Beneath the strata of Islamic unity is a delight in cruelty that boggles the Western mind.

Cases like these stand out amidst the hundreds of murders of Israelis and foreign visitors here in recent months, not because of their evil -- for the value of every human life is infinite -- but because of their inhumanity. They reveal a terrifying layer in the story of this intifada. Beneath the strata of Islamic unity, Pan-Arabism, and Palestinian national aspiration -- at the root of this great campaign engineered by Arab leaders -- is pure, unbridled sadism, a delight in cruelty that boggles the Western mind.

And even if this lust for savagery is slightly less evident in the "ordinary" shootings and suicide bombings (ordinary?!) that people suffer in Israel on a daily basis, there is a growing suspicion that much of this violence flows from a visceral, Palestinian truculence -- a craving for Jewish pain. For blood.

Those of conscience ask not only what practical steps we can take to escape this nightmare, but also how it could ever have been conceived. What great power have Palestinian leaders tapped into? How do they draw forth so much human energy and direct it for evil?

Perhaps we can learn from them how to harness the same energy and use it for good.

TEXTBOOK INCITEMENT

"The sword and the book descended intertwined." (Midrash Rabbah)

Palestinian leadership takes education very seriously. When visiting the Palestinian National Authority website (www.pna.org), you notice that the first three listings are "Ministry of Higher Education," "Ministry of Information," and "Ministry of Education" -- before the Ministries of Labor, Health, or Water.

Since September 2000, despite their economic crisis and the instabilities of war, the PA managed to compose and introduce into their elementary and high schools 58 new textbooks, replacing the anti-Zionist but relatively benign Egyptian and Jordanian texts used previously. We are not surprised that the new, homegrown books obliterate the State of Israel from history and maps, showing instead a greater Palestine that stretches from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea -- with Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian State.

Textbooks describe the waves of aliyah as "infiltration," characterize Jews as being full of trickery and barbarity.

We should not be surprised that these texts present the liberation of Palestine as a struggle against Jewish occupation, describe the waves of aliyah as "infiltration," characterize Jews as being full of trickery, greed, and barbarity, and glorify Jihad and martyrdom. (See examples at www.edume.org.)

Beyond its local educational products, the Palestinian Authority also imports a wealth of educational materials from her neighbors: A 30-part series -- produced by Arab Radio and Television, featuring a cast of 400, and aired during the second half of Ramadan this year -- "dramatized" the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Arab viewers were also recently treated to a popular political satire showing Ariel Sharon drinking the blood of Palestinian children. The myth that Jews sprinkle the blood of Arab children into their matzah is graphically described in "The Matzah of Zion," published in 1983 by the current Syrian Defense Minister, Mustafa Tlas.

The Egyptian mass circulation daily al-Ahram also recently reported "many cases of the bodies of [Palestinian] children who had disappeared being found, torn to pieces, without a single drop of blood. The most reasonable explanation is that the blood was taken to be kneaded into the dough of extremist Jews." And of course this Purim we were treated to an article in the Saudi government daily, Al-Riyadh, describing in great detail the Jewish method of draining the blood of Muslim children to be used in baking Hamantashen.

We might (or might not) be able to imagine the effect academic and media presentations like these have on the Palestinian soul.

HARDWIRING FOR SADISM

However frightening this propaganda and its effects might be, we must confront the possibility that an even more hideous engine drives the terrorists' cruelty. Relative to the West, life in Arab countries has always been harsh. Corporal punishment of children is thoroughly imbedded in the culture. No mainstream Islamic authority has yet spoken out against slapping children's faces, dragging them by their hair, or any of the other disciplinary approaches that shock Western onlookers.

The American Academy of Pediatrics estimates that approximately 100 million girls from Africa and the Middle East between the ages of 4 and 10 have had their clitoris (and usually surrounding tissue) removed, typically without any anesthesia and while held down forcibly on a table or bench. AAP said the procedure, typically performed with "instruments such as knives, razor blades, broken glass, or scissors," is performed 4-5 million times annually.

An estimated 100 million Arab girls have had female circumcision, typically using crude instruments and without any anesthesia.

Survival in such a culture necessitates some numbing. But this psychological component might be insignificant relative to the neurobiological effects of being beaten and tortured in childhood. It was Harvard researchers who first revealed that stress hormones released when children experience physical and sexual abuse actually impede development of that part of the brain responsible for empathy and conscience.

Brain scans of those who suffered through events common in the childhood of Palestinian children reveal an underdeveloped hippocampus and vermis. Among the behaviors associated with this sort of brain damage: impulsivity, sadism, and suicide.

It is almost too frightening to consider that Israel today faces a population, many of whom are hardwired for the sort of violence we have been witnessing.

More terrifying is the long-term prognosis for Palestinian society. Martin Teicher, a lead researcher in the Harvard study, reports in Scientific American (March 2002) that sadistic parents neurobiologically infect their children with the same trait:

Society reaps what it sows in the way it nurtures its children... Whether it comes in the form of physical, emotional, or sexual trauma, or through exposure to warfare, famine, or pestilence, stress can set off a ripple of hormonal changes that permanently wire a child's brain to cope with a malevolent world. Through this chain of events, violence and abuse pass from generation to generation as well as from one society to the next.

EXTRACTING LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS

In the near term, it is unlikely that Israel will do much to stem the flow of anti-Semitic propaganda, or reduce the violence that Palestinians do to their own children. We must accept that Israel is locked in a battle with a population many of whom are programmed for inconceivable callousness and hatred.

Ironically, we can learn from our neighbor's example:

Just as Palestinians take education very seriously and produce sadism, so can we dedicate the lion's share of our resources to Jewish education in order to produce sensitivity, altruism, and righteousness. The percentage of Jewish charitable funds directed to teaching Torah to Jewish youth is miniscule, obscenely small. Just as Palestinian political and lay leaders obsess over immersing their children in the details of Palestinian history and culture, so can our political and lay leaders.

The percentage of Jewish charities directed to teaching Torah to Jewish youth is obscenely small.

Israeli leaders and heads of major Jewish organizations in the Diaspora all too often play down (or outright deny) the value of an immersion in Judaism. Just as Palestinian parents speak to their children about the need to "sacrifice for our national dream," so too we can speak to our children about giving of themselves to achieve real Tikkun Olam.

Perhaps our children hear too much about how to get what they want, and not enough about how to let go of what they want for the sake of something or Someone bigger than them.

And just as the harshness of Palestinian childhood might be wiring children for hatred and violence, so too perhaps attentive, loving parenting might wire our children for goodness. (I have summarized the considerable evidence for this possibility in my book, "To Kindle a Soul.")

Perhaps the moment has arrived to rethink the amount of time we spend (or don't spend) with our children; the way we discipline them; the media we expose them to. Perhaps we can be inspired by the intifada to commit ourselves, 24/7, to raising a different sort of child. Perhaps those of us who survive the current crisis can emerge different, better, for the horrors we have seen.


Posted by nic01445 on Mar-01-2004 23:21:

Re: the red pill

quote:
Originally posted by Palestinian
www.electronicintifada.net
www.palestinechronicle.com
www.palestinemonitor.org
www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org
www.btselem.org
www.gush-shalom.org
www.palestineremembered.com

v.s.
quote:
Originally posted by VanFleet
http://www.camera.org
http://www.honestreporting.com/
http://www.aish.com/
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html
http://www.geocities.com/arabracism...ArabMuslimsHate
http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/arafatbombs2.html
http://www.geocities.com/truthmustbesaid/victims.html
http://www.jr.co.il/terror/israel/index.html


WHO WILL WIN!? DUN DUN DUNDUN!


Posted by tathi on Mar-01-2004 23:22:

don't rise to the bait Palestinian


Posted by Palestinian on Mar-01-2004 23:29:

Israeli textbooks also teach a lot of racist shit about arabs. People don't learn to kill from textbooks. I've read a lot of zionist articles and found that they completely miss the point. Many of those sites you posted are also against Arabs and Muslims as a race and group. It's nasty shit you got there.


Posted by nic01445 on Mar-01-2004 23:35:

quote:
Originally posted by Palestinian
Israeli textbooks also teach a lot of racist shit about arabs. People don't learn to kill from textbooks.


Yeah, but people learn what to wear from Seventeen and how to impress men from Vogue. Let's face it: people, as a whole, are easily manipulated.

People may not base the killing off of what they read, but it certainly helps...


Posted by Yoepus on Mar-01-2004 23:36:

I think VanFleet's tactic is to destroy threads with massive article posts so no one reads the thread anymore

What were we arguing about anyways?

Oh ya, Israel PWNS U F00s!


oh and Israel doesn't teach racist shit in their government schools


Posted by DaveSZ on Mar-02-2004 01:34:

quote:
Originally posted by arctic
Oh no, Fox is run by a bunch of left wing communists!

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ is far better, it's only got socialist leanings!



Hahaha. Worldnutdaily is my homepage.

I couldn't go a day without being enlightened and enriched by Reverand Falwell's great erudition!



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