Having just returned from three weeks in Israel, we were exposed to something so gross and utterly shocking it is amazing how little coverage it is granted by international media. The deeply disturbing phenomenon we are speaking of is the exploitation of Palestinian children in Yasser Arafat’s carefully crafted war of propaganda.
Since the signing of the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has effectively manufactured a grotesque unreality targeted directly at Palestinian youth. The Palestinian narrative, as expressed by the PA, omits undesirable pieces of history and even fabricates events of its own in order to incite children to kill. Palestinian youth have been manipulated to hate through a deliberate propaganda campaign that rejects Zionism and vilifies the Jews.
All you have to do is switch on your television set to the official Palestinian news channel or radio station to hear ludicrous stories of [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers raping women (this has not happened once), injecting children with the AIDS virus or polluting water sources with depleted uranium. Once pumped full of this fabricated propaganda, children are encouraged to drop their toys and pick up guns, Molotov cocktails and suicide belts to serve in the PA’s carefully orchestrated intifada, where children serve on the front lines.
Children are indoctrinated with hate at every level: political leaders call for death to the Jews, elementary schools indoctrinate it, religious leaders vindicate it and the mass media make it fashionable. Vulnerable and malleable minds are force fed doses of vitriolic hatred with a prevalence never before seen since the fall of Nazi Germany.
The exploitation of children as PR pawns does not only breach international codes of child abuse, but it violates universal morality. Teaching school children that killing Jews is the highest form of ‘Shehada’ (death for Allah) is just sick.
The PA would like to convince the world that this is all the natural by product of their desperate situation. Yet the murderous carnage of suicide bombing is completely unprecedented, human desperation is not. Under the virtuous leadership of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., desperate peoples championed their causes through civil disobedience, a much more peaceful and effective means to an end. Furthermore, Clinton offered a state that could have ended the ‘despair,’ yet Arafat walked the other way without offering a counterproposal he had other plans in mind. The PA’s totalitarian movement could not decide on what to build, only what to destroy.
While American children trade baseball cards, Palestinian children trade amulets of dead homicide bombers. The inculcation of hatred in an entire generation presents the greatest obstacle to real peace because one can’t negotiate with someone who has been brainwashed to kill you. Politics aside, we can all agree that deliberate education of hatred is unequivocally wrong. Nothing is more criminal than teaching a six-year-old child that the ultimate goal of life is death.
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