Posted on 05/09/2003 6:38:43 PM PDT by tuckrdout
The editorial in the current edition of “Al-Fateh” (The Conqueror), the Hamas monthly children’s magazine, again uses malicious messages against “the Americans, the Jews and the English.”
The average age of this magazine’s reader base -- judging from the pictures, illustrations and short stories it contains – is estimated at about 10 years. It continuously publishes editorials which although not long, are embellished with hateful words against “the enemies of the Arab and Muslim nation.” Although the war in Iraq provided harsh pictures, including harm against civilians and residences, the editorial writer goes one step further, stating that “the enemies were careful not to overlook even one school or neighborhood and threw the sick out of their beds after stealing their bed linen.”
The following are excerpts from the May edition’s editorial:
“These days the pain of the Arab and Muslim nation is great. Blood and body parts in the fighting Palestine; destruction, betrayal, theft, looting, killing,and rape in Iraq: whose blood has been forsaken by the British, the Americans and the Jews.”
“The blood of Iraq was forsaken as in the past and the same is occurring in the blessed and beloved Palestine. They have murdered elderly, women and children and have sent Ba’sra, Mou’sul and Baghdad up in flames. They have sent the mobs into the hospitals, the schools and the universities and looted everything they contain. They have even stolen the very beds used by the bedridden and wounded, together with the bed linen. They then threw the sick on the ground and took all the medicine, they even kidnapped the nannies. The same happened even with the small chairs of our little beloved children. They stole equipment from universities and set public and private institutions ablaze. They did things which even the barbarian Saljuks did not do to Ba’sra and its residents in the sad era of our nation’s past.”
“The people of this land have witnessed the events on the land of Iraq, whose blood was forsaken. They saw the aircraft setting everything ablaze, destroying homes with their residents, tearing down enormous buildings. They didn’t overlook one school, university, hospital, neighborhood, market or mosque. They rendered everything into dust and ashes.”
“…[W]e are sad for the Iraqi children who were victims of a rapid death. Those of them who survived the previous two wars (the Iran-Iraq war and the Iraq-Kuwait war) died during the terrible siege…
… [W]e are cherishing our tears so that with them we can write of the tragedy of our children, and of our people, from the hands of the tyrants from within and the invaders from without – may the curse of Allah be upon them all.”
The Hamas movement was established at the end of 1987, when the first Intifada (armed uprising) broke out. Today, Hamas is an opposition movement to the Palestinian Authority and it operates among wide segments of the Palestinian people, actively recruiting supporters. It offers welfare and assistance to the weaker sectors from which most of its supporters and activists originate. The movement recently expressed its strong opposition to the “Road Map for Peace” and it has been carrying out a continuous campaign of terror against Israel from the day it was established. At the beginning of this year, Hamas held talks with Fatah, the central movement of the Palestinian Authority (answering directly to Yassir Arafat), which sought to bring the terror attacks against Israel to a temporary standstill. The talks failed to accomplish that purpose and Hamas continued its strict and uncompromising stand against any kind of negotiations with Israel, whose existence it does not recognize.
By Yaniv Berman (with Rachelle Kliger) on Sunday, May 04, 2003
The previous posters were right. It is a crime the way they are indoctrinating these young children and something like a "radio-free-Palestine" would be a start (except that anyone caught listening to it would be drawn and quartered in the streets).
Your sentence seems to me to contain contradictory explanations for the presence of evil.
I see no evil implanted by nature. Evil arises from decisions made by the individual through his power to choose. Those choices can certainly become habitual and dwell below the individuals consciousness.
Original sin is a crock.
Can't take their crap anymore.
God will deal with these vicious people in his own way.
It's just breathless that adults can corrupt the minds of their children, and not feel any remorse.
The hatred in their hearts must be all consuming.
My God...
The concept......yes?
I strongly disagree with your implication that Israel's attempts to defend its citizens is morally equivalent to homicide bombers who strive to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible. The Israeli's, however, only target those who actively instigate the mass murders of Israeli citizens.
The "occupied" territories where Israel has been establishing settlements was land that was won by Israel when the surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel in an attempt to annihilate them. While these lands are critical to Israel's defense, they have been willing to give them up if the Palestinians will cease their violence against Israeli's.
It is unforturnate that the Palestinians have become willing pawns (with the aid of Arafat) to the manipulations of the Arab countries whose goal is to drive Israel into the sea.
This strife will only end when we let Israel off its leash and let them put an end to Hamas and the other terrorist organizations whose goal is to destroy Israel.
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