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How Ten Dem (Dumb) Members of Congress Encourage the Use of Child Terrorists
Gatestone Institute ^ | 11/23/17 | Alan M Derschowitz

Posted on 11/23/2017 4:49:23 AM PST by markomalley


Palestinian terrorist leaders often use teenagers to commit acts of terror because they know that the Israeli legal system treats child terrorists more leniently than adult terrorists. Now ten members of the "progressive caucus" of the Democratic Party are trying to give these terrorist leaders another reason for using even younger terrorists to kill even more innocent civilians.

On November 14, Representative Betty McCollum introduced legislation c co-sponsored by nine other "progressive" members of Congress — calling on the State Department to "prevent United States tax dollars from supporting the Israeli military's ongoing detention and mistreatment of Palestinian children." In a statement about the proposed legislation McCollum said:

"This legislation highlights Israel's system of military detention of Palestinian children and ensures that no American assistance to Israel supports human rights violations...Peace can only be achieved by respecting human rights, especially the rights of children. Congress must not turn a blind eye the unjust and ongoing mistreatment of Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation."

It is well established that recruiting and using young Palestinians to wage terror on Israeli civilians is part of the modus operandi of Palestinian terrorist leaders. For decades, members of the radical Palestinian political and religious leadership have been stirring up young people to wage war against the Jews and their nation state. This was seen in the gruesome Intifada that began in 2000, in which Palestinian teenagers committed dozens of attacks against Jewish Israelis on buses, in cafes and at nightclubs. More recently—in what has become known as the 'lone-wolf' intifada — children as young as 13 have stabbed Israelis with scissors, screwdrivers and knives with the aim of inflicting maximum harm.

Legislation proposed by members of the "progressive caucus" — entitled "Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act" — does not explicitly state what constitutes a child within the context of its proposed cut in U.S. to Israel. While noting that children between the ages of 12-17 are held and prosecuted by Israeli military courts, the bill fails to acknowledge that some of the most barbaric terrorist attacks against Jewish Israelis have been committed by Palestinian teens who have been recruited by terrorist leaders. Consider the terrorists attack that took place over this past summer in Halamish (an hour outside Jerusalem) where a Palestinian in his late teens — from a nearby PA-controlled village — chose a Jewish house at random;, and fatally stabbed three members of a family as they ate Shabbat dinner. The Palestinian "child" murderer also wounded several other family members, while one mother hid her young children in an upstairs room until the terrorist left. This scene of carnage is reminiscent of a similar attack that occurred only six years earlier when two Palestinian teens armed with knives broke into the Fogel family home in Itamar as they slept on Friday night; the teens butchered the mother, father and three of their children — including a three-month-old baby as she slept in her crib.

As a result of such terrorist attacks by Palestinian teenagers, Israel has had to introduce legislation to deal with minors who commit grave attacks. In August 2016, the Israeli parliament (Knesset) passed a bill allowing imprisonment of terrorists as young as 12. The bill also allows for leniency. The courts can not only postpone the convicted minor's transfer date from a closed holding facility to prison, but can also shorten or cancel the prison sentence altogether, if warranted by the circumstances.

When introducing the law in the Knesset, MK Anat Berko said:

"This law was born of necessity. We have been experiencing a wave of terror for quite some time. A society is allowed to protect itself. To those who are murdered with a knife in the heart it does not matter if the child is 12 or 15. We've witnessed numerous cases where 11-year-old children were suicide bombers. Perhaps this law will also do something to protect these children from being used to slaughter people."

In a desperate effort to justify her proposed legislation Congresswoman McCollum argued that, "peace can only be achieved by respecting human rights, especially the rights of children." McCollum's hypocrisy in this context is palpable. She claims to be an advocate for "the rights of children." Yet the Congresswoman refuses to acknowledge or condemn the Palestinian leadership for perpetrating acts of child abuse by recruiting children to commit terror attacks on Jewish women and children. She expressed no outrage when members of the Palestinian leadership have been caught posting material on social media inciting and encouraging young Palestinians to go out onto the streets and stab Israelis. McCollum failed to protest when Hamas set up training camps — under the mantra "Vanguards of Liberation" — aimed at training children as young as 15 to use weapons against Israel, or when children in Gaza were crushed to death when the terror tunnels they were recruited to build by the Hamas leadership, collapsed on their bodies.

So I ask: what do these members of Congress think Israel should do? If children as young as 13 or 14 were roaming the streets of New York, Los Angeles or Boston stabbing elderly women as they shopped at the supermarket or waited at a bus stop, would they protest the apprehension and prosecution of the perpetrators? Of course not. No country in the world would tolerate terror in its cities, regardless of the age of the terrorists. Israel has a right — according to international law — to protect its citizens from constant terror attacks, even those committed by young Palestinians. Indeed, it has an obligation to do so.

If Israel were to be punished for trying to protect its citizens from teenage terrorists, it would further incentivize terrorist leaders to keep using children in pursuit of their key objective: wiping the Israel off the map. Meanwhile, rather than condemning the abhorrent and unlawful use of children as pawns in this deadly process, this group chose to single out only the nation-state of the Jewish people for punishment, as it tries to protect its own citizens from indiscriminate terror attacks. People of good faith on both sides of the aisle should call out this double standard for what it really is: an attack on Jewish victims of teenage terrorism and their state. For shame on this group of biased anti-Israel "progressive" Democrats, which include the following members of Congress: Mark Pocan (WI), Earl Blumenauer (OR), André Carson (IN), John Conyers, Jr. (MI), Danny K. Davis (IL), Peter A. DeFazio (OR), Raul Grijalva, Luis V. Gutiérrez (AZ), and Chellie Pingree (ME). They give a bad name to the Democratic Party, to the Progressive Caucus and to Congress.



TOPICS: Government; Israel; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Illinois; US: Indiana; US: Maine; US: Michigan; US: Oregon; US: Wisconsin; War on Terror
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1 posted on 11/23/2017 4:49:23 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley
"prevent United States tax dollars from supporting the Israeli military's ongoing detention and mistreatment of Palestinian children."


Oh, those sweet little children! /s
2 posted on 11/23/2017 7:50:27 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: markomalley

Those 10 Dumbocrats are anti Israel, and they don’t care about Americans either...


3 posted on 11/23/2017 9:37:53 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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Why limit their concerns to children. After all they're mostly killing Jews, which isn't a concern. Rasmea Odea was only 21 when she killed 21-year-old Leon Kanner of Netanya and 22-year-old Eddie Joffe of Tel Aviv. And she immigrated to the US where she became a liberal hero, organizing the A Day Without Women protest just this year. A prominent US feminist.

And the rude Trump administration deported her.

And Bashar Masalha, only 21 when he stabbed West Point grad Taylor Force, an Afghan and Iraq vet. A mile from where Joe Biden was having dinner. BDS might be right, American tourists shouldn't visit Israel. And the rude police in Israel, who leftists claim train American police to kill blacks, shot him. He stabbed 11 others, including two Arabs and a pregnant women. He could have stabbed more, were it not for the rude Israeli police.

Liberals have compassion, don't you know, for murderers.

4 posted on 11/23/2017 11:18:03 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7TT4jnnWys


5 posted on 11/23/2017 2:25:59 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican
Luis Guit and Danny Davis on the list. #chicagoproud


6 posted on 11/23/2017 10:13:07 PM PST by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Impy

Oh, yeah. Danny and Louie. National treasures, both.


7 posted on 11/23/2017 10:16:13 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Ron Gunzberger of Politics1.com is reporting that tomorrow Luis Gutiérrez will announce his retirement. https://mobile.twitter.com/Politics1com/status/935334025253842944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politics1.com%2F

Throw in a fat man with a beard, and you could call it Merry Christmas.


8 posted on 11/27/2017 6:54:36 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; LS; BillyBoy; Impy; Dr. Sivana

FR’s Larry Schweikart mentioned this on his Twitter feed a couple hours ago. That’s the good news. The bad news is that his replacement will be just as moonbat (13% Trump district, though given the epic voter fraud, we’ll never know the real figure), but probably lesser-known. At least Luis is a well known lightning-rod to rally the straights against.


9 posted on 11/27/2017 7:36:39 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; campaignPete R-CT; LS

Wow! I won’t have Luis to kick around anymore.

Probably gonna be Puerto Rico vs. Mexico in a battle royale in the primary. I’d rather keep Luis than see my State Rep. Cynthia Soto get the gig.

I wish we had a “blanket primary” like they used to have in CA before the courts got rid of it.


10 posted on 11/27/2017 7:56:01 PM PST by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; campaignPete R-CT; LS; PhilCollins

Oh bleeping shoot me.

Chuy Garcia is gonna run.

This is the guy that ran against Rahm for Mayor. The one that’s so bad that I HAD TO VOTE FOR RAHM EVEN THOUGH I’D SOONER DRINK PAINT THINNER THAN VOTE FOR THAT SOB!


11 posted on 11/27/2017 8:26:40 PM PST by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Impy; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; campaignPete R-CT; LS

At least one Republican, Richard Gonzalez, is running, in that race. Fred White (the most conservative candidate for Chicago mayor in 2011) lives in that district. I emailed him and asked him to run.


12 posted on 11/28/2017 8:40:29 AM PST by PhilCollins
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To: PhilCollins; Impy; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; campaignPete R-CT; LS

I just found that Gonzalez is running as a Democrat. No Republican is in that race, yet. I thought that he was probably a Republican because he and I have 69 mutual facebook friends, including Bill Brady, Steve Kim, David Harris, Chris Nybo, and Randy Ramey.


13 posted on 11/28/2017 10:47:30 AM PST by PhilCollins
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Given how the district is one of the most heavily Democrat CDs in the state (heck, in the country), probably the best you could hope for there is that this Richard Gonzalez somehow wins the RAT primary, which is tantamount to winning the general. If he’s a conservative (or at least a moderate) running as a Democrat because it would be futile to run as anything else in that district, it would behoove Republicans in the district to register as Democrats and vote for Gonzalez. Then again, if they did so they wouldn’t be able to vote on the GOP gubernatorial primary, so there woukd be a trade-off.


14 posted on 11/28/2017 5:35:10 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; Impy; BillyBoy; campaignPete R-CT; LS

Richard’s facebook profile states, “Political views: Center.” In Illinois, no one chooses a party, when they register to vote. Maybe, some Republicans should request democrat ballots, during the primary. Then, they could vote for the democrat governor candidate who would be weakest in Nov.


15 posted on 11/28/2017 10:58:38 PM PST by PhilCollins
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To: PhilCollins; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; campaignPete R-CT

Another candidate running Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, who was kicked off the farthest left gubernatorial candidates’ ticket for being anti-Semitic.

So him vs. Chuy, oy, oy, oy, oy.

Do you have a link to your guy Gonzalez facebook page? It’s not the law professor, is it?

Another rat primary, Bob Fioretti is running against Prickwankle for County Board President. Apparently on an anti-tax platform. My mom’s friend (a conservative priest) went to a fundraiser for him, they were all calling Prickwankle a man.

I’m tempted, but vote in the rat primary.......I don’t think I can do it. Even if there weren’t any primaries on the R side, I don’t know. All you have to do is ask for the rat ballot but I feel dirty even thinking about it.


16 posted on 11/29/2017 12:16:35 AM PST by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Impy

Unless you can get a Republican into an office or even anything resembling a Conservative on the Dem side, go with the biggest, craziest, bat$hit Commie, because they’ll benefit the GOP. Sounds like Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is the “won.” ;-D


17 posted on 11/29/2017 12:22:25 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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It’s almost amazing Lipinski the lesser is still there in the 3rd, never even been seriously primaryed.


18 posted on 11/29/2017 12:44:14 AM PST by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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Here’s a link to Richard Gonzalez’s facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/gonzalezforalderman. I don’t know what his current job is.


19 posted on 11/29/2017 7:38:35 AM PST by PhilCollins
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4 Republicans filed for district 4

2006 nominee Ann Melichar (got 14%)

Attorney & Triton College Trustee Jay Reyes

Corporate Financial Advisor Mark Lorch

And, “Flight Attendant, National Guard Serviceman & GOP Activist” Ruben Sanchez Jr., who has a twitter https://twitter.com/rdsanchezjr

There has never been a GOP primary for the seat before, if at least 2 don’t get kicked off the ballot, there will be. That would be neat.

7 or 8 rats running.

Besides Chuy Garcia and Alderman Adolph Ramirez-Rosa there are 2 more Alderman Running, Joe Moreno and Raymond Lopez. That’s 3 sitting Alderman. Free for all.


20 posted on 12/04/2017 7:14:33 PM PST by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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