Yesterday I read this article, which purports to describe how Palestinians are using the land (Gaza) ceded by the Israelis to the Palestinians as a training ground ... to teach 'recruits' to "Kill Jews".
It's a sad, pitiable story, not least because it features Palestinian children being trained to kill Israeli children.
Everywhere else in the world, the United Nations deplores the terrorist practice of inducting children into military training. In "Palestinian" areas, the terrorists get a Free Pass.
In this case, though, it may not be as bad as it is presented to be.
Look at the picture (embedded in the story) which seems to depict a very young Palestinian boy shooting a carbine sniper "rifle".
Never mind that the absurdly short, double-magazine laden, long-scoped
(Where did they get that AR-style carbine? I bet is was part of what WE donated "to arm the Palestinian Police".)
Look at the enthusiastic expression on the boy's face. (Well, shooting is fun, but not when your purpose is to "kill Jewish Children". More on that later.)
Look at the lense of the scope, almost touching his eyebrow.
Look at the position of the butt-stock, resting on top of his skinny boyish arm... not butted firmly against his shoulder.
What do you think would happen if this child actually fired that "rifle", holding it that way?
That's right. He might not break his shoulder (heck, the recoil will not be absorbed at all by the shoulder), but he will certainly put a big ol' Magnum Eyebrow on his sweet face. And for darn sure, he won't hit whatever he's aiming at.
From the article:
Also this weekend, the Popular Resistance Committees terrorist organization showcased its own training in the evacuated Gaza Jewish town of Kfar Darom, which previously housed tree-lined Jewish streets replete with synagogues and Jewish seminaries.
Notable about the Committees training was that it included dozens of boys between the ages of nine and twelve, according to Committees leaders.
The Ynetnews Israeli website featured an interview with one young Committees recruit, an 11-year-old boy named Muhammad pictured holding an assault rifle. [sic]
"I am learning how to fight the Jews and kill Jewish children," Muhammad told Ynetnews. "I would rather die fighting the occupation than die at home from a missile, which is what happened to hundreds of Palestinian children." [emphasis added]
Committees terror group spokesman Muhammad Abdel-Al, also known as Abu Abir, told WND yesterday his group was not brainwashing children.
"We are not educating them on hatred. This is our strategy -- to turn all the Palestinian people into weapons of resistance," Abdel-Al said when questioned about his group's use of boys.
[bullshit alert]
Heck, that child is no threat. The Israeli's could parade their children in front of a thousand Palestinian children this well trained. The Pally kids would shoot once and reel back, holding their painfully bleeding eyebrows as they ran away from their dropped rifles. Even the French train their troops better. The Egyptians are more 'professional'.
This picture, and the accompanying quoted rhetoric, are pure propaganda.
I'm not saying that the Palestinians aren't indoctrinating their children to hate Jews. Nor am I saying that these children won't grow up to hate Jews as they have been so well trained.
All I'm saying is, the Palestinians rely heavily on propaganda to intimidate their preferred foes. We need to be aware that much of what they say and do is as much intended to encourage their own members as to strike fear in the hearts of their chosen enemy.
That would be you and me. Because, you know, one of the things we like about the Israeli's is that they don't pull this kind of bullshit.
Still -- I deplore that the Palestinians are ruining the future of their children by rote-teaching them to hate other children.
Is this what you teach your kids?
I don't think so.
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