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Who is to blame for encouraging and inspiring young people to engage in murderous behavior?
Stephen M. Flatow..
JNS.org..
01 August '18..
Last Thursday, a Palestinian teenager stabbed a young Jewish father to death and wounded two others. On Sunday, a Palestinian teenager who assaulted Israeli soldiers was released from prison to international acclaim. Later on Sunday, two Palestinian teenagers with machine guns and bullet magazines were intercepted on their way to massacre Jews.
Palestinian children are not born hating Jews or loving violence. Who is to blame for encouraging and inspiring these young people to engage in such murderous behavior?
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...Basically, Palestinian children are being groomed to commit to jihad war and to sacrifice themselves to martyrdom.
Miriam Elman..
Legalinsurrection.com..
12 November '17..
For years we’ve been covering incitement on the part of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its failure to prepare Palestinian society for a resolution of the conflict via non-violent means.
The PA is viewed by the West as the ‘moderate’ Palestinian body and Israel’s supposed ‘partner for peace’, but as we’ve repeatedly highlighted, its officials routinely demonize Israel and glorify terrorists as national heroes. Young people are exposed to this radicalization, as schools and educational programs justify and condone the use of violence.
The sad reality is that a whole generation of Palestinian children is learning in schools and playing in sports fields and arenas named after mass murders.
Now a new study by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) documents how kids in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas are being further indoctrinated to hate through their schoolbooks.
Like earlier textbooks that were used to teach “over one million impressionable children”, the IMPACT-se report finds that the new textbooks—recently released as part of the PA’s first full reform of the educational curriculum since 2000—are still promoting the demonization of Israel.
But the IMPACT-se assessment also finds that the radicalization is pervasive across this new curriculum—to an even greater extent than before.
Miriam F. Elman is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Inaugural Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence at the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She is the editor of five books and the author of over 60 journal articles, book chapters, and government reports on topics related to international and national security, religion and politics, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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...In 1996, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton wrote a children's book titled “It Takes a Village.” She explained how a child is shaped in part by the various people who live in his or her village and the cultural influences to which the child is subjected. The “Palestinian village,” sadly, is a place where children are raised to be murderers. There’s no point pretending otherwise.
Stephen M. Flatow..
JNS.org..
06 February '17..
Like schoolchildren everywhere, Palestinian Arab children occasionally are assigned by their teachers to write poems. But the poetry they produce is not like that of children in the U.S. or elsewhere in the free world.
Palestinian Media Watch reports that twice in the past month, a children’s program on official Palestinian Authority Television (PA TV) featured children reciting their poems. Among the most common terms they used: “blood,” “slaughter” and “revolution.”
The PA TV program is called “The Best Home,” and the children who were selected to read their poems on air were obviously meant to exemplify what children in “the best Palestinian homes” should believe.
Stephen M. Flatow, a vice president of the Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney in New Jersey. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.
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...And so, the PA leadership in Ramallah is again caught with its pants down. It is true that women as witches is a novel defamation for Abbas and his crew. Yet PA defamation of others, including Israel, is far from new. This is stuff fed to Palestinian schoolchildren: lies about history, lies about geography, and now lies about Palestinian women.
Khaled Abu Toameh..
Gatestone Institute..
08 September '16..
Palestinian schoolchildren who returned to their schools last week are being taught that women are witches and Tel Aviv is an Arab city. They are also being exposed to maps that ignore Israel's existence.
Despite all Palestinian Authority (PA) claims to the contrary, then, the new textbooks hardly promote peace and coexistence between Palestinians and Israel.
A new school curriculum published by the PA last week has drawn sharp criticism from many Palestinians, who say the textbooks demonize women and contain "factual and historical" errors.
The controversial version of the curriculum for grades 1-4 was launched by PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah during a ceremony in Ramallah, on the eve of beginning of the new school year.
Within hours, Palestinians, particularly female activists, voiced resentment over the new curriculum and called on the PA leadership to remove it immediately. Some Palestinians denounced the curriculum, which was drafted by a team of Palestinian educational experts, as a "scandal" and a "distortion of facts." They said that a curriculum full of errors and "distortions of facts" was a guaranteed recipe for raising a new generation of illiterate and misinformed Palestinians.
PA officials, arguing that the new curriculum was an experimental one and is open for amendments and development, have promised to make corrections in the textbooks.
So what exactly is it that enraged the critics about the new textbooks, prompting such sarcasm concerning the education process in Palestinian schools?
Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist, is based in Jerusalem.
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...The promotion of a discredited study with distinct political overtones by a BBC journalist would clearly undermine the corporation’s reputation for impartiality at any time. When such promotion is done by a journalist who has already been shown to lack an impartial approach to the subject matter concerned, it is obviously all the more problematic.
Hadar Sela..
BBC Watch..
15 January '16..
The Tweet below was sent by the BBC’s US State Department correspondent Barbara Plett on January 14th 2016.
Why Ms Plett found it necessary at this time to use her BBC branded Twitter account to resurrect an article unrelated to her field of reporting nearly three years after its initial publication remains a mystery. What is clear however is that the article promoted by Plett is about a study that is by no means “new” and which was shown at the time to be highly controversial.
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Teach kids colours, numbers and their ABCs and they’ll embrace life and adulthood. Teach killing, nihilism and AK-47s and they’ll embrace death and the afterlife. Palestinian children are brainwashed right from the start. Rejectionism and the cult of death are at the core of their culture
Palestinian's at school. But what are they learning?
Richard Ferrer..
The Commentator..
22 October '15..
Today’s column is brought to you by the letter ‘J’ for jihad and number 72 for virgins in paradise.
Once upon a time there was a little mouse called Farfour [Mickey's copyright infringing twin], star of a children’s show called Tomorrow’s Pioneers on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV. Farfour loved to tell all the boys and girls about world Islamic supremacy and how an AK-47 assault rifle would one day ”liberate all of Palestine”.
And the children squealed: “Oh Jerusalem, it’s the time of death and we will fight a war!” Farfour squeaked his last in a touching season finale, which saw him “martyred” at the hands of Israeli soldiers while “defending his land”.
He was replaced by Assoud the rabble-rousing rabbit, who told the boys and girls he’d “finish off the Jews and eat them” before joining Farfour in paradise at the hands of Zionists -- but not before urging them on his deathbed to “fight and die to liberate Tel Aviv.”
We all fondly recall the positive impact our favourite children’s TV characters had on our formative years. For me it was the Green Cross Code Man and Windy Miller (watch out for those windmill sails, Windy!) Well, thanks to the sick society they’re born into, Palestinian children have ‘deformative’ years.
Last night my two-year-old watched Peppa Pig, who playfully jumps in muddy puddles. Last night Palestinian two-year-olds watched Nahoul the Hamas bumble bee, who violently “punches Jews and turns their faces into tomatoes”.
Teach kids colours, numbers and their ABCs and they’ll embrace life and adulthood. Teach killing, nihilism and AK-47s and they’ll embrace death and the afterlife. The BBC might consider selling the rights for Basil Brush to Al-Aqsa TV. They’d love his catchphrase.
This totalitarian propaganda, more anti-Semitic than anything Joseph Goebbels dreamed up, has warped susceptible minds for decades. It’s intoxicating stuff, provoking a conditioned Pavlov’s dog response in the subject.
So for the past three weeks the same toddlers who told Farfour, “We will fight a war!” have as adults been avenging his martyrdom with kitchen knives and meat cleavers -- hacking down Jews in the street in scenes reminiscent of the murder of Lee Rigby here in the U.K.
Last week, a diagram emerged showing children how to stab a Jew. For any Palestinians reading this, the most effective way to butcher me is to plunge the knife through my skull, right common carotid artery or left or right clavicles. That’ll teach me to be born.
This so-called ‘knife intifada’ has nothing to do with occupation or liberation and everything to do with a Palestinian’s favourite pastime: Jew hating.
And what do the world’s media and politicians do when confronted with the savage symptoms of this self-inflicted sickness? They continue to stick the proverbial knife in -- condemning the violence on BOTH sides; they blur the line between victims and cold-blooded killers; they frame the violence as cause and effect; they absolve Palestinian society of any duty to act morally, treating them as irresponsible toddlers who think stamping their feet is the solution to -- not the cause of -- their problems.
...So Chris Gunness, when you're ready to have a constructive discussion about healing the minds and souls of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arab children (that's not meant to sound funny), please touch base [thisongoingwar@gmail.com]. And no, to be frank and based on past experience, we're not waiting.
Arnold/Frimet Roth..
This Ongoing War..
06 August '15..
This post is about making a radical change to the education that Palestinian Arab children get in their schools. A change for the better, but then - as most people know - that's not saying much.
We have posted here about UNRWA dozens of times over the years (here's a link). Why? Because its existence is a fundamental pre-requisite for the hatred and passion for lethal violence that is daily injected into the blood and consciousness of generations of Palestinian Arab children.
This has been happening for nearly seventy years. As refugee support organizations, can there be one as spectacularly ineffective as UNRWA? As a terrorist training institution, can there be one as heart-breakingly effective as UNRWA?
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...And, yes, Dr. Ashrawi, animals do have more feelings for their children than the people who use their children as weapons do.
Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
08 October '14..
Finding yourself in a war waged against a regular society by terrorists is, more and more, something that people who never saw it coming find they have to learn to comprehend and live with.
If only the news-reporting media helped us all make sense of it - but the reality is the people who package and deliver the news are often not well-equipped themselves to analyze and interpret it for the rest of us.
More than six years ago, in the pages of FrontPageMagazine, Frimet Roth wrote a critical expose of where the Palestinian Arab people's political leaders stand on the subject of the murder of children - their own and ours. Along the way, she quotes a leading Palestinian Arab political insider, Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi, whose ability to make well-articulated statements totally at odds with reality has served her career well. It's arguable, we think, that Ashrawi gets credit for bringing certain Western audiences to a degree of ambivalence and even understanding of terrorist savagery via the rhetoric of peace-making. That's no small achievement.
The cynical manipulation of children's lives by Hamas, Fatah and the other terror practitioners in the Palestinian Arab constellation has, tragically, continued and expanded in the years since then. By now, that reality has become well-documented and its methodology and consequences (to those who want to see) clear.
Growing numbers of voices inside the Palestinian Arab death cult have ceased denying it. On the contrary, it's a source of pride for them:
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...Needless to say, educating schoolchildren to view Israelis solely through the sights of a rifle doesn’t contribute to peaceful coexistence. And as Samar Zakout of the Gaza-based human rights groups Al Mezan noted, it also willfully endangers the students: If Hamas is using schools as military training bases, they could become targets for Israeli airstrikes in a future conflict.
Evelyn Gordon..
Commentary/Contentions..
01 May '13..
Having complained frequently about the media’s failure to report anything that might detract from their preferred narrative of Israel-as-villain, I’m delighted to discover that one British paper is bucking this trend. The Telegraph ran two articles this week describing the miserable situation in Hamas-run Gaza. And as reporter Phoebe Greenwood makes clear, the culprit isn’t Israel, but the elected Hamas government.
The first describes how Hamas has introduced military training into the curriculum of Gaza high schools–after having previously excised sports from said curriculum on the grounds that there wasn’t time for it. The mandatory weekly classes include learning how to shoot a Kalashnikov rifle; students who so choose can learn more advanced skills, like throwing grenades, at optional two-week camps. The article also includes video footage of Hamas militants demonstrating their skills for the students on a school playground: They carry out a mock raid on an Israel Defense Forces outpost, killing one soldier and capturing another, then demolish the outpost with a rocket-propelled grenade.
Needless to say, educating schoolchildren to view Israelis solely through the sights of a rifle doesn’t contribute to peaceful coexistence. And as Samar Zakout of the Gaza-based human rights groups Al Mezan noted, it also willfully endangers the students: If Hamas is using schools as military training bases, they could become targets for Israeli airstrikes in a future conflict.
All states use education as a medium to encourage responsible behavior in their children, at least in part to develop a law-abiding, civic-minded citizenry. Authoritarian regimes have a history of distorting this trust, often turning schools into places of indoctrination for a state or religious ideology. The Palestinians have, for some time now, created an educational system exemplifying this indoctrinational approach: Their textbooks deny Jewish and Israeli legitimacy within historic Palestine, demonize Jews and Israelis, discourage compromise or negotiated peace, and glorify violent struggle to achieve what are often termed "Palestinian aspirations." Since coming to power through elections in early 2006 and following its military coup in Gaza in June 2007, Hamas has continued this path of indoctrination, utilizing its popular children's website, Al-Fateh.
Related: FreeMiddleEast — June 22, 2010 — Imagine if the Hamas Charter, instead of preaching the destruction of Israel, stood for dignity, respect and tolerance.
After a series of clashes, predating Hamas's parliamentary win in 2006 but intensifying thereafter, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in a swift but brutal campaign, which lasted little more than a week (June 7-15, 2007).[1] Hamas now controls the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) retains almost no standing, except perhaps in the field of education: All the schools in the strip—the very small number of private schools, the public schools, and those run by the United Nations Works and Refugee Agency (UNRWA)—follow the official PA school curriculum and use the corresponding textbooks.
This may be surprising in view of the cardinal importance Hamas attributes to the education of children and youth as a means of achieving its ideological and political goals. Article 15 of the Hamas charter states:
It is necessary that scientists, educators, and teachers, information and media people, as well as the educated masses, especially the youth and sheikhs of the Islamic movements, should take part in the operation of awakening. It is important that basic changes be made in school curriculum to cleanse it of the traces of ideological invasion that affected it as a result of the Orientalists and missionaries who infiltrated the region following the defeat of the Crusaders at the hands of Salah al Din (Saladin).[2]
Despite this, Hamas has yet to introduce its own school curriculum. Perhaps this is due in part to a concern for Palestinian unity; perhaps it is merely a desire to avoid the heavy expense such revisions would necessitate. Most likely this results from Hamas's recognition that continued implementation of the official PA curriculum is the only way currently that allows internationally recognized matriculation examinations to proceed and for diplomas to be awarded. In 2009 for example, practical steps were taken by Hamas to ensure that the examinations would take place at exactly the same time in both Gaza and the West Bank.[3]
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I visited Hevron in November 2000 after the outbreak of the Rosh Hashanah War to see what could be done to assist in the face of the growing daily attacks on the community. After returning to work for the community in the summer of 2001, a bond and a love was forged that grows to this day. My wife Melody and I merited to be married at Ma'arat HaMachpela and now host visitors from throughout the world every Shabbat as well as during the week. Our goal, "Time to come Home!"
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