Hamas Opens “Jerusalem Intifada” Summer Camps for 50,000 Kids

[shira]

Hamas inciting Palestinian children to hate, glorify and praise the murder of innocents...turning little kids into hate filled zombies, child-militants and human shields for the cause (which is not 2 states). But all those who claim to care about Palestinian kids' lives - silence. ISIS does this too. Hamas is no different. But no outrage from the Israel bashers...there never is, just support, deflection...

Hamas has opened three-week-long training camps in Gaza for over 50,000 elementary, middle, and high school students, the Gaza-based terror organization said in a press release Sunday. Hamas official Ismail Radwan explained that the theme of the camps is the “Jerusalem Intifada,” and that the goal is “to raise a generation of Palestinians who love the resistance and the liberation of Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.” The camp also includes scouting and religious educational programming.

Hamas has long encouraged Palestinian children to see themselves as soldiers against Israel, often dressing them in military uniforms and teaching them how to shoot firearms. In May, Palestinian kindergarten students in the Gaza Strip wore military fatigues and brandished toy machine guns to simulate the capture of an Israeli soldier as part of a school play.

In June 2014, al-Monitor reported that around one thousand students from ages 12 to 17 would line up each week in the Saraya neighborhood of Gaza City to receive training in “the basics of military action and security in the camps.” Mohammad Abdo, then aged 13, told al-Monitor that he wants to join Hamas and fight Israel when he’s old enough. “I want to learn everything about arms and martial arts so that I can be prepared to join al-Qassam Brigades and fight for Palestine when I grow up,” he said. More than 10,000 Palestinian teenagers graduated from such camps in 2015, after undergoing intensive military training using live ammunition, as well as hearing sermons from Hamas leaders praising armed attacks.

In the last few days, Hamas has publicly celebrated the string of attacks that killed eight Israelis last week, and commemorated rocket assaults that shook Ben-Gurion airport and the city of Dimona two summers ago.

http://www.thetower.org/3619-hamas-opens-jerusalem-intifada-summer-camps-for-50000-kids/

[COLGATE4]

1. Charming. Reminescent of the Hitler Jugend.

[Igel]

3. It's motivated blindness.

For years there were military-style training camps in and east of Donets'k, Ukraine. Drills, combat training, even use of live-fire weapons all under a flag that's very close to the separatists "Donetsk People's Republic" flag. They were for teens a decade ago.

When the flag surfaced and a lot of "locals" were trained and prepared, it was billed as a spontaneous uprising because of Ukrainian oppression. Even with all the documentation that this was on a lot of people's minds even when pro-Russian presidents were in place a lot of folk believe it was an impromptu, surprise response to a Western coup. No question as to where the funding came from, or the trainers. The paranoia and militarism runs deep in many cultures, as deep as motivated thinking and blindness in others.

[uhnope]

6. and those kinds of camps are cropping up around Central/Eastern Europe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141515221

[leftynyc]

2. Lovely

Hate poured into their young minds 24/7 - who then can be surprised when they grow up to be terrorists when they're taught at the knee of the terrorist hamas?

[6chars]

4. is this u.n. funded?

whatever happened to making wallets and bead necklaces?

[leftynyc]

5. Is it?

I certainly wouldn't be surprised at all.

[6chars]

7. Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh.

Here I am at Camp Intifada.