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Palestinians seem poised to use kids as human shields [Kites not virgins in child Martyr-Heaven]
Palestinian Media Watch ^ | 7-5-6

Posted on 07/05/2006 5:35:48 AM PDT by SJackson

Palestinian Authority seems poised to use kids as human shields:
Child martyrdom promotion clip returns to PA TV after three years’ absence

By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook-July 4, 2006

"How sweet is the fragrance of the earth, its thirst quenched by the gush of blood, flowing from the youthful body.”
[PATV music video June 28 -29, 2006]

Click here to view Al Dura in Paradise clip


[Al Dura plays with kite in child Martyr-Heaven]


[Al Dura and Ferris wheel in child Martyr-Heaven]

-- Video presents famous child martyr Muhammad Al Dura calling to other children to follow him to Child-Martyr Heaven.

-- In Child-Martyr Heaven, Al Dura is playing with kites and Ferris wheels.

-- Video was removed from Palestinian Authority (PA) TV after it was exposed by PMW at a US Senate hearing in October 2003.

-- Video brought outraged reaction from US senators: Sen. Hillary Clinton called them "horrific child abuse."

-- Sen. Arlen Specter denounced them as "civilization abuse."

-- After an absence of nearly three years, video has been rebroadcast twice in the last week.

-- At a US Senate Hearing in October 2003, Palestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus presented evidence of the Palestinian Authority’s indoctrination of children to aspire to “heroic” death as Shahids - Martyrs for Allah. Immediately thereafter, after widespread political and media condemnation both in print and on television, most PA TV clips that directly taught children to seek heroic Shahada -Martyrdom for Allah- were removed.

Now, after nearly three years, the PA has suddenly started rebroadcasting the Al Dura in Paradise video. The clip features a child actor playing Muhammad Al Dura, whose death in a crossfire in 2000 was broadcast to the entire world, calling on children to join him in Paradise. In Child-Martyr Paradise, Al Dura is playing with kites and Ferris wheels, presenting an ideal children's world that is designed to attract young naive children. And it opens with the words from Al Dura to the living children: "I am waving not to part but to say: 'Follow me'."

There are numerous reasons for the sudden encouragement now of children to seek heroic death. The PA, has its image blackened by the kidnapping of soldier Gilad Shalit, the killings of soldiers and the continuous missile barrage on southern Israel. Certainly the PA wants to reposition itself as the victim, something that they successfully achieved in the past by sending children to combat zones, and achieving their goal through dead and injured Palestinian children to report to the media.

As Israel re-enters the Gaza Strip to search for terrorists and the kidnapped Israeli soldier, the sudden encouragement of children to seek death indicates the PA is in all likelihood returning to this previously successful tactic of using children as human shields for terrorists. It makes it more difficult for Israeli soldiers to fight terrorist, and it creates ideal photo opportunities of children armed only with stones, “bravely” confronting heavily-armed soldiers.

Children are taught that the short cut to both glory and fun is to follow Al Dura to heaven. Some of these children inevitably will be caught in the crossfire, PA leaders will rush to the media to publicly mourn the children they have so deceitfully sent to their deaths, and Israel will once again be condemned.

Click here to view Al Dura in Paradise clip

The following is the text of the Al Dura in Paradise clip

"How sweet is the fragrance of the martyrs,
how sweet is the fragrance of the earth,
its thirst quenched by the gush of blood
flowing from the youthful body.”
Caption: “And so he went...”
Choir: “Goodbye to the boy Muhammad” (2x)
Aida (popular woman soloist):
“Goodbye, goodbye.”...
Aida: How sweet is the fragrance of the earth,
Its thirst quenched by the gush of blood
flowing from the youthful body.
Choir: Goodbye, goodbye.
Aida: Goodbye, goodbye...
Choir: O father, 'til we meet (2x)
Aida (woman soloist):
'til we meet, my father, 'til we meet!
I shall go with no fear, no tears,
How sweet is the fragrance of the martyrs!
I shall go to my place in heaven,
How sweet is the fragrance of the martyrs!
Choir: How sweet is the fragrance of the martyrs!
Aida: O my father, 'til we meet (2x)
Choir: O my father, 'til we meet ...
Goodbye to the child, Muhammad
Aida: O the children of the world say
Choir: Goodbye to the child, Muhammad!
Aida: 'til we meet, O Muhammad
Choir: 'til we meet, O Muhammad

The message of this song to Palestinian children is clear: glory and fun can be achieved quickly and painlessly by death for Allah – just like Muhammad Al Dura.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: israel

1 posted on 07/05/2006 5:35:51 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson
In Child-Martyr Heaven, Al Dura is playing with kites and Ferris wheels.

Kinda like Neverland Ranch...

2 posted on 07/05/2006 5:37:22 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: SJackson

If Israel wipes these kids out, that is fewer future terrorists to worry about.


3 posted on 07/05/2006 5:38:04 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: SJackson

What a bunch of low life. There isn't enough swear words on earth to describe them. So much for the Golden Rule.


4 posted on 07/05/2006 5:39:05 AM PDT by oyez (Appeasement is insanity)
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To: SJackson
"How sweet is the fragrance of the martyrs..."

I love the smell of martyrs in the morning. It smells like victory.

5 posted on 07/05/2006 5:42:57 AM PDT by RichInOC (...oops, did I say that out loud? Bad Rich. BAD Rich.)
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To: SJackson
"How sweet is the fragrance of the earth, its thirst quenched by the gush of blood, flowing from the youthful body.”

There is no reasoning with evil that sacrifices children for political gain. While I admit that there are peaceful muslims, it is hard for me to separate the above quote from Islam and politics. I was glad to see that the Catholic church is finally coming around. The rest of the world needs to wake up and see things as they are before it's too late.

6 posted on 07/05/2006 5:54:22 AM PDT by GBA
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To: SJackson

So what do they do, make existence as miserable as possible for their children so they can convince them that death is GREAT!?


7 posted on 07/05/2006 5:57:42 AM PDT by sandbar
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To: GBA

Special circle in Christian Hell for these bastards.


8 posted on 07/05/2006 5:58:08 AM PDT by 50sDad (ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
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To: SJackson

Chillingly like the 9 and 10 year old Hitler Youth sent to defend the Reich.


9 posted on 07/05/2006 6:15:17 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: SJackson
Outraged reaction from liberal child welfare groups
10 posted on 07/05/2006 6:34:11 AM PDT by pabianice
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11 posted on 07/05/2006 6:50:24 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: SJackson
Young Children Convinced of Death as a Shahid as Ideal Two 11-year-old girls articulate their personal goal to become shahids [people who die for Allah], explaining that "all Palestinian children" see Shahada [death for Allah] - because of its promised grand Afterlife - as more worthwhile than living.

Save the middle-man: Drown them all at birth.

Oh, I forgot; in that case, the parents would suffer eternal damnation, for not having passed their children through the fire, to Moloch.

12 posted on 07/05/2006 9:52:33 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Deportacion por los todos ilegales ahora: Si, se puede!)
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To: SJackson
USMC snipers

Martyr manufacturing on demand - may we make you one today?

Any joking aside, this is just plain sick. And they wonder why the West recoils in revulsion of their 'culture'.

13 posted on 07/05/2006 10:04:06 AM PDT by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: SJackson

How sweet is the fragrance of the martyrs, BBQ'ing in the purest Kosher Jewish napalm!


14 posted on 07/05/2006 11:15:34 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Afghan protest - "Death to Dog Washers!")
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