The Child Soldiers of Hamas
CHILDREN DYING TO
KILL
by Eli E. Hertz
"...
We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for
forcing us to kill their children.... We will only have peace with the Arabs
when they love their children more than they hate us." — Golda Meir,
former Israeli Prime Minister, 1972.
What
kind of a society consciously and purposely sacrifices its own youth for
political gain and tactical advantage? Suicide bombers are an escalation of a
small-arms war introduced during the first Intifada and
championed by Palestinian leaders, even prior to Arafat's arrival from Tunis in
July 1994. Today the overwhelming majority of Palestinian Arabs nurture a blind
hatred of Israel. They created a cultural milieu of vengeance, violence and
death - preparing their children to be sacrifices in a death cult. Proud
parents dress up their toddlers not in clown costumes, but with suicide belts,
and countless others celebrate their children's deaths with traditional sweet
holiday cakes and candies.
During the First Intifada
Children in elementary and junior high school were encouraged to stone Israelis
using rocks and slingshots, knowing that Israeli soldiers could do little
beyond taking the youngsters into custody and fining their parents in the hopes
they would ground their children. Instead, Palestinian parents sent their
children back onto the streets. Palestinian society praised the transformation
of its children into combatants during the first Intifada, dubbing
them fondly "the children of the rocks.
The use of children to fight grownup battles, has run the full course -
not only teaching and training children to kill, but indoctrinating their own
offspring to take their own lives as it says on the walls of Hamas-run Kindergarten
schools:
"The
children of the kindergarten are the shahids (holy martyrs) of
tomorrow."
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