Arafat tells young children to be Shahids ["Martyrs"]

Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin ^ | Augustus 21 2002 | Itamar Marcus

[knighthawk]

PMW has repeatedly documented that the Palestinian Authority [PA] has been pushing their children to see Shahada - Death for Allah - as something expected of them. In a televised gathering on Sunday, Yasser Arafat himself clearly encouraged young children to seek death, as he glorified a famous child Shahid [“Martyr"].

In addition, he addressed the cheering and chanting auditorium full of children as “colleagues, friends, brothers and sisters of Faris Ouda” - a 14 year old child who died in the conflict, who has been turned into a heroic symbol by the PA. One of those children, he said, would raise the Palestinian flag over Jerusalem. The children responded to him by combining the Jerusalem and Shahid messages, by chanting: “Millions of Shahid’s marching to Jerusalem!”

The following is the main text of the exchange:

Arafat to children: “Oh, children of Palestine! The colleagues, friends, brothers and sisters of Faris Ouda [14 year old who died in the conflict]. The colleagues of this hero represent this immense and fundamental power that is within, and it shall be victorious, with Allah's will! One of you, a boy or a girl, shall raise the [Palestinian] flag over the walls of Jerusalem, its mosques and its churches... "Onward together to Jerusalem!"

Children respond, cheering and chanting: "Millions of Shahids marching to Jerusalem!" [PATV August 18, 2002]

This is not the first time Arafat has expressed support for child Shahids. He has previously made clear the importance he attaches to having dead Palestinian children to show the world, saying the "greatest message to the world" was child Shahids ["Martyrs"]. The following is from an interview on PA TV in January, 2002:

Hostess: "Mr. President, what message would you like to send to the Palestinian people in general and, particularly, to the Palestinian children?"

Arafat: "...The child who is grasping the stone, facing the tank; is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a Shahid [dies for Allah]? We are proud of them."

[knighthawk]

August 18, 2002

Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi’s name still used for USA funded school

By Itamar Marcus

The Palestinians continue to refer to the school receiving USAID money as the Dalal Mughrabi School, named after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who murdered 36 Israelis and the American photographer Gail Ruben in the 1978 bus hijacking. Last week the PA Ministry of Education promised that the school would be renamed in order to receive the US funds which had been frozen. (See PMW August 11 Bulletin: PA Forced by US to Remove Terrorist’s Name from School, at PMW website:

http://www.pmw.org.il/bulletins-110802.html

The following appeared a week after the school was “renamed”.

“The Al-Shuyukh Sisterhood Celebrated the Conclusion of its Summer Camp:

“The Al-Shuyukh Sisterhood … celebrated the completion of its first summer camp, ‘Tomorrow’s Generation’, in the Dalal Mughrabi School in Al-Shuyukh. The camp was in session for 3 weeks, attended by 300 children… The ceremony included speeches by Abbas Zaki, a member of the PA Legislative Council, and by Muhammad Amran Al-Qawasmi, Director of Education and Culture in the Hebron District…"

[PA Official Daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, August 16, 2002]

[gov_bean_ counter]

Typical "do as I say, and not as I do" leadership.

[TADSLOS]

Looks like Arafat received and understood Saddam's message via Abu Nidal.

[isthisnickcool]

Sage words from a murdering Egyptian who steals millions from the mouths of the children he is speaking to.

Maybe is he can get them all to kill themselves he can really stash a lot of cash. Not as many mouths to feed. As if he was feeding them anyway.

[knighthawk]

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[isthisnickcool]

Sage words from a murdering Egyptian who steals millions from the mouths of the children he is speaking to.

Maybe is he can get them all to kill themselves he can really stash a lot of cash. Not as many mouths to feed. As if he was feeding them anyway.

[DoctorMichael]

Arafat tells young children to be Shahids ["Martyrs"]....................in between phone calls to Inga, the interior decorator, who is making the final arrangements on the "Lake-House" outside of Geneva Switzerland that he's bought with US aid money.

[Enterprise]

Young Shahid to Fatterass, "Great idea oh great Sh..head, you go first."

[mhking]

Arafat tells young children to be Shahids ["Martyrs"]

Is that like Arab for "shields?"

Hair-a-fat is just biding his time; he'll be taking the celestial dirt-nap soon enough...

[Catspaw]

Arafat places no value on human life, whether it be Israeli or Palestinian. As long as his coffers are full & he's in power, he just doesn't give a rat's patoot.

[Selara]

Arafat places no value on human life, whether it be Israeli or Palestinian. As long as his coffers are full & he's in power, he just doesn't give a rat's patoot.

That sums the Arafat creature up very nicely.

[facedown]

The Palestinians continue to refer to the school receiving USAID money as the Dalal Mughrabi School, named after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who murdered 36 Israelis and the American photographer Gail Ruben in the 1978 bus hijacking.

So they probably changed the sign outside the school but still refer to it, amongst themselves, as the murderer's school. So typically Pali two-faced.