PALESTINIAN CHILDREN WEARING MARTYR NECKLACES

ICEJ.com ^ | 06/21/2002

[scratchgolfer]

PALESTINIAN CHILDREN WEARING ‘MARTYR NECKLACES’

ICEJ NEWS - 06/21/2002

Palestinian children have traded in their Pokemon cards for a new craze: necklaces with pictures of "martyrs" of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. "I used to have plenty of Pokémons — my school bag was half full of them," 14-year-old Saleh Attiti said. "I threw them all away. They're not important now. The pictures of martyrs are important. They're our idols." The trend started in November when a shopkeeper in Nablus, Assam Kanaza, made a plastic medallion for a family whose son was killed. Other families took notice and now Kanaza, 29, said he's produced more than 5,000.

The children use them the way they once Pokémon or sports cards. They spend their allowances to collect and trade them.

"These children are convinced that martyrdom is a holy thing, something worthy of the ultimate respect," said Munir Jabal, head of a Balata teachers association. "They worship these pictures. I think it will lead them in the future to go out and do the same thing."

At the Balata refugee camp boys’ school, two students have been killed and six have brothers who died. The teachers allow students to wear their necklaces in class after a run-in with a parent when a teacher insisted a student remove the necklace. The boy's father showed up the next day and "wanted to fight us," said the school's principal.

[isthisnickcool]

How about a line of "cards" that show the murders AFTER they have blown themselves up? Bet those would not be too popular. But I could be wrong, maybe they enjoy the gore.

[Crazymonarch]

Well the world has 2 choices,ethnic cleansing or the biggest mother of a box ever made

[seeker41]

That entire generation is going to be a pain in everyone's buttocks. They all aspire to be "terrorists" when they grow up.
What is the solution, I know, but can't utter the words.

[xJones]

I just read an excellent FR thread click that describes things very well. It's food for thought.

The Algerians killed off the moderates and Arafat has been doing that with the Palestinians. But he added the element of indoctrinating the school children into murder. Sacrifice the children...

[xrp]

The solution is simple. Destroy them all. These children that are taught to hate today are tomorrow's terrorists. It's the "what if" syndrome:

What if you could go back in time to kill Adolph Hitler? However, you had to kill him when he was age 3-7. Would you be able to do it?

We are today seeing on TV wearing "martyr's necklaces" tomorrow's Hitlers. These children are raised to hate the Jews in the same fashion that people hated Jews in Europe back in the 1930s. History is happening all over again because we refuse to learn from the past. It's a true pity.

[watchin]

The Biblical command to slaughter the inhabitants of the land - women and children included - finally makes sense. I wish I could go back to the time when it didn't.

[Sally II]

I know what you mean. Ever since 9-11, I keep thinking of that same story.... where God commands the Israelites to not leave a single person alive. It always sounded so heartless of God. But, you're right, if the people they were commanded to slaughter were anything like the Palestinians, then, sadly, it does make sense. The Palestinians are a very sick bunch of people. It still amazes me that so many of these radical left wing groups are joining their pitty party, like it doesn't even bother these "peacenicks" that the Pals are teaching their children how to be little Hitlers.

[sirchtruth]

...where God commands the Israelites to not leave a single person alive. It always sounded so heartless of God.

Yes, and this is where you hear unbeleivers say, "If God was so 'loving' why did he command the Israelites to kill....yada, yada, yada....

One reason: Satans tactics, The nephlim. Not only did God command of all the people, but anything alive...and the unholy occupied it all! Satan's objective was to wipe out the line of Jesus so he would not be born of royal blood, but God ALWAYS prevails.

Unfortunately, satan is still there, with a different plan mind you, but his time is about up.

[boris]

"What if you could go back in time to kill Adolph Hitler? However, you had to kill him when he was age 3-7. Would you be able to do it?"

I dunno--but I had no sympathy for lil' Anakin Skywalker...

--Boris

[Sally II]

One reason: Satans tactics, The nephlim. Not only did God command of all the people, but anything alive...and the unholy occupied it all! Satan's objective was to wipe out the line of Jesus so he would not be born of royal blood, but God ALWAYS prevails.

What is/are the nephlim? Also, I'm not familiar with any Biblical verses that prove Satan has an longterm "plan" or "objective" or that Satan has any ability to threaten God's plan. I'm probably forgetting something, but there are only a few stories I can think of where Satan's character is reveiled. I think we can assume that the serpent in the Garden was Satan. Satan comes before God and requests permission to test Job, and he takes away Jobs children and wealth. He tests Jesus as He walks in the desert for 40 days. And then we have the story about how his pride led to his fall. But even though he "fell" he is still able to go before God. And even though he tempts and tests, he would not be able to do so without God's permission. If Satan cannot do anything without the permission of God, how is it possible for him to do anything outside of God's plan?

[sirchtruth]

If Satan cannot do anything without the permission of God, how is it possible for him to do anything outside of God's plan?

Well, obviously God has permitted it. Do not forget Free Will, God allows things. What bothers me more is doesn't Satan know he has lost already? Selfish Pride is a terrible thing.

Faith, is such hard test is it not? Why, did God allow his only Son to die for me and you? I have faith his reason is good enough because he said so.

[sirchtruth]

What is/are the nephlim?

The Nephlim were those giants in the land. The children of the offspring between the angels and the earthly women.

I dare say that those angels were doing God's will.

[kcvl]

The shopkeeper Assam Kanaza said orders for medallions of other martyrs flooded in, and he has now produced more than 5000, as well as an additional 6000 plaques and key chains.

Others are now producing cheaper versions, and rushing medallions of the latest martyrs on to the streets as quickly as they can make them.

The medallions are distributed throughout the West Bank, but the trend is strongest in Nablus and Balata, a stronghold of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

The medallions sell for about $6, and the most popular in the Balata camp depict local martyrs Mahmoud Attiti and Yasser Badawi, local militia leaders who were killed by Israeli soldiers.

One collector, 14-year-old Saleh Attiti, is the nephew of Jihad Attiti, who killed himself, as well as an 18-month-old Israeli baby and her grandmother, in a suicide attack two weeks ago.

He said: "I used to have plenty of Pokemons – my school bag was half full of them. I threw them away. They're not important now. The pictures of martyrs are important. They're our idols."

Daily Telegraph

[kcvl]

COLLECTORS' ITEMS: Palestinian shopkeeper Assam Kanaza

On a plastic coffee table in his cinder-block home, Saleh proudly displays part of his growing collection of necklaces with pictures of "martyrs" of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.

The most recent hot item is a pendant of Jihad Attiti, the 18-year-old who became the camp's first suicide bomber two weeks ago by blowing himself up and killing two Israelis — an 18-month-old baby and her grandmother — in a Tel Aviv suburb.

"It works like this," says 12-year-old Assam Kandil, who boasts of having 30 necklaces. "If I have an extra one of Mahmoud Attiti, I will trade one for Yasser Badawi."

Added Saleh, a nephew of bomber Attiti: "We love them and we want to be like them."

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Kanaza, 29, said the work was noticed by other families who lost loved ones, and new orders came in until the medallions snowballed into a popular phenomenon. Kanaza said he's produced more than 5,000 of them, and another 6,000 plaques and key chains — all with the pictures of "martyrs."

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Kanaza's plastic medallions are the top end of the necklace craze and sell for 10 shekels a piece, about $3.30.

"Sometimes a child will say, `Don't you think that's too much,'" said Kanaza. "I say, `If you bring me half that much I will give it to you.' He comes back in a week with five shekels and he's very, very happy."

With Palestinian civilians or fighters killed on almost a daily basis, Kanaza's business is booming. Other merchants have jumped on the craze with a cheaper alternative to Kanaza's medallions. They mass-produce passport-size photos of the militants and slip them into transparent pendants. Those sell for just 65 cents.

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The principal, who asked not to be named, said teachers were forced into a similar compromise about posters commemorating fighters and suicide bombers, which used to fill classroom walls. The students agreed to take them down in exchange for posting them on classroom bulletin boards.

"We tried to convince the students that there's just not enough places to put up all the martyrs posters because it's a continuous phenomenon," he said. "The Israeli occupation thinks it can break this new generation by showing its power. They don't understand that the opposite is happening. They're breeding hatred."

Jabal said the children have lost all fear of Israeli soldiers and already go through dangerous lengths to imitate their militant models.

Recently, Jabal's 15 year-old son was shot in the leg by soldiers after setting fire to an unoccupied tank.

"I opened my son's closet and found it full of martyrs posters and necklaces. I said to him there's nothing wrong with being nationalistic and defending your rights, but you're just too young," Jabal said. "I said, `Ultimately, you'll be rewarded with your picture hanging from a necklace, and we will have lost a son.'"

[kcvl]

Azzam Abdel Hadi, a 30-year-old taxi driver, proudly displayed a recent
photograph of his 19-month-old daughter with Mr. Karmi, M-16 in hand.
"All of us loved him," he said. "He never brought fear to us. We were
proud."

Nessim al-Farr, who is 12, offered a couple of lines from a song about
Mr. Karmi recorded by a local artist: "Raed al-Karmi, the son of
revolutionaries, your determination should not end in a day or night."


Abdel Hamid, 15, picked up the verse: "You are the Promise. God in the
sky protects you."

Many of the boys and some of the men were wearing necklaces bearing
photographs of Mr. Karmi or others they call martyrs. They were the
work of a 40-year-old Tulkarm artist who gave his name as Badr. He also
sells key chains made from olive wood that he plasters with similar
pictures.

He used to sell such items expressing sentiments about romance, Badr
said in his basement workshop, "but since the intifada, people are
directed toward nationalism instead of love."

Even before today, Badr said, likenesses of Mr. Karmi outsold all his
other offerings, most of which go for a little more than a dollar. The
Palestinian Authority will not permit him to sell items showing Osama
bin Laden, he said, but that does not much matter. "People don't ask
for bin Laden," he said. "They ask for Raed Karmi."

[SC Swamp Fox]

but hell wat do i kno im just a 17 year old girl

From your post I can list several things you obviously don't know:
- History.
- Grammar.
- Punctuation.
- Spelling.

I suggest you read more.