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Brainwashed by Gaza: Arab Kids Cheer Hamas, Call for Martyrdom
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints Mohammad Mustafa as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), in Ramallah, in the West Bank March 14, 2024 in this handout image. Photo: Palestinian president office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has been promoting a video showing a boy from the Gaza Strip demonstrating how children in Gaza are brainwashed.
Specifically, the child claims that missing an entire school year is not so bad considering the “honor” that they were granted of “defending the homeland” and the “honor of the Muslim nation.”
Boy in the Gaza Strip: “We missed the school year in the Gaza Strip, the 2023-2024 year, [but] we benefited from the highest levels of resolve, force, defiance, and perseverance. We achieved the honor of defending the homeland and the honor of the Muslim nation.”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, May 28, 2024]
Earlier this year, a video of children in Jordan proved that Palestinian youths abroad are taught to support Hamas in the war against Israel, and to strive to murder Jews. One child chants and dozens of children repeat after him:
Children: “Prophet [Muhammad] commanded us to love the Al-Aqsa Mosque the whole way …
A generation will come and [another] generation after it, we will destroy you, Israel! …
O Muslim, call out Allahu Akbar, and crush the Zionist’s head! …
Thus [Hamas founder] Yassin taught us, we will raise a Quran book together with a knife …
Go on, go on O Hamas! You are the cannon and we are the bullets”
[“The Palestinian Center for Information” (Hamas), X (Twitter) account, March 3, 2024]
Posted text: “#Watch: ‘A generation will come and [another] generation after it, we will destroy you, Israel!’ — a procession of small children in Jordan as a sign of solidarity with the children of the Gaza Strip”
Another young boy’s statement showed that Palestinian children in Greece are also taught to strive for death as martyrs for Al-Aqsa.
At a rally against Israel during the Gaza war, a young boy in Athens chanted the following into a loudspeaker, with the crowd repeating after him:
Boy: “The gate of the Al-Aqsa Mosque is made of iron.”
Crowd: “The gate of the Al-Aqsa Mosque is made of iron”
Boy: “Only a Martyr will open it.”
[Official PA TV, Feb. 19, 2024]
For decades, Palestinian Media Watch has been documenting how Palestinian children are taught to embrace and strive for Martyrdom-death for “Palestine.” Read more in our report, Teaching Terror to Tots, which illustrates precisely how the youth magazine of Fatah, the PA’s ruling party, promulgates this message.
The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.
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Treasure Trove: How a Polish-Jewish artist told Canadians about the horrors of Nazi Germany and produced beautiful illustrations
Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a Polish-Jewish artist whose work reflected the historic times he lived: the two world wars, the rise of totalitarianism in Europe and the birth of the State of Israel. In 1940, with the support of the British government and the Polish government-in-exile, he visited Canada to popularize the struggle against Nazism. […]
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Biden hits Fundraising Trail in Show of Strength after Dismal Debate Performance
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., June 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
President Joe Biden embarks on a series of fundraising events across two states on Saturday as he works to stamp out a crisis of confidence in his re-election campaign following a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats.
Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit the upscale New York beach enclave known as the Hamptons for a campaign fundraiser hosted by hedge-fund billionaire Barry Rosentein. Later in the day, he will travel to New Jersey for a fundraiser hosted by wealthy New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat.
Fellow hedge-fund founder Eric Mindich and his Tony Award-winning producer wife Stacey, celebrity couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, and actor Michael J. Fox are all listed as members of the host committee at the New York event, according to an invitation seen by Reuters.
Biden told a rally in North Carolina on Friday he intended to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign he would heed calls from Democrats who want him to drop out of the race.
Biden‘s verbal stumbles and occasionally meandering responses during Thursday night’s debate heightened voter concerns that the 81-year-old might not be fit to serve another four-year term.
The Biden campaign on Saturday boasted it had raised more than $27 million between debate day through Friday evening, but questions remain about whether the debate performance will hurt fundraising, at least in the short term.
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Arab League Rescinds the Classification of Hezbollah as a Terrorist Group
Mourners carry a coffin during the funeral of Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces who according to Lebanese security sources was killed during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon, in Khirbet Selm, Lebanon, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Taher
i24 News – The Arab League no longer defines Hezbollah as a proscribed terrorist group, an official said on Saturday.
Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based Shiite militia and a proxy of the Islamic regime in Iran, boasts the world’s largest rocket arsenal of any non-state actor. It is animated by the antisemitic ideology of jihad and is committed to the destruction of Israel.
“In earlier Arab League decisions, Hezbollah was designated as a terrorist organization, and this designation was reflected in the resolutions,” Hossam Zaki, the assistant secretary-general of the Arab League, was quoted in Arab media as saying.
“The League’s member states concurred that the labeling of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization should no longer be employed,” Zaki said, adding that the regional body “does not maintain terrorist lists and does not actively seek to designate entities in such a manner.”
Hezbollah has unleashed numerous rockets, mortars and drones on northern Israel in the past eight months starting on October 8, a day after the Jewish state suffered the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust at the hands of the Palestinian jihadists of Hamas.
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