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Arafat continues to encourage children to attack Israeli soldiers
Yasser Arafat continues to tell Palestinian children to be fearless and attack Israeli soldiers, rather than telling them to stop attacking and stay in school.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday called on Palestinian children to follow the example of Fares Odeh, a 13-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip who has been immortalized posthumously by a photograph showing him throwing stones at an IDF tank. Odeh was alleged to have been killed on November 8, 2000 after being shot by IDF soldiers.
Arafat was speaking at a reception he held in his headquarters in Ramallah for hundreds of children from Jerusalem participating in summer camps. Many of the summer camps in the West Bank have included in their programs this year visits to Arafat's office.
Arafat has often cited Odeh's case in speeches praising the role of children in confronting IDF soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. When IDF tanks and armored vehicles surrounded his headquarters last year, Arafat declared: "I'm not better than martyr Fares Odeh, the brave Palestinian boy who confronted the tank. These tanks don't frighten me."
In another interview following a similar IDF operation, Arafat said in response to a question whether he wasn't afraid: "What is the danger? No one can scare the Palestinian people. You can ask Fares Odeh."
At the reception on Friday, Arafat also announced that Palestinians would from now on mark July 10 as the anniversary day of Fares Odeh. He also repeated his famous statement that the day will come when a Palestinian child would hoist the Palestinian flag over the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, its minarets and churches.
"A people that has the likes of Fares Odeh and other children martyrs will not die," he added.
Odeh, of the Zaituon neighborhood in Gaza City, has become a Palestinian icon after being photographed defying a tank with a slingshot in his hand, his valor celebrated in graffiti. His picture adorns calendars and his poster has been painted on the walls in the Gaza Strip and West Bank and in many PA offices.
Some of the summer camps in the Gaza Strip have been named after Odeh and other Palestinians killed in the violence since September 2000. In the Tulkarm refugee camp, a soccer tournament was named last year after Abdel Baset Odeh, the suicide bomber who carried out the attack in the Park Hotel in Netanya in March 2002.
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Arafat was speaking at a reception he held in his headquarters in Ramallah for hundreds of children from Jerusalem participating in summer camps. Many of the summer camps in the West Bank have included in their programs this year visits to Arafat's office.
Arafat has often cited Odeh's case in speeches praising the role of children in confronting IDF soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. When IDF tanks and armored vehicles surrounded his headquarters last year, Arafat declared: "I'm not better than martyr Fares Odeh, the brave Palestinian boy who confronted the tank. These tanks don't frighten me."
In another interview following a similar IDF operation, Arafat said in response to a question whether he wasn't afraid: "What is the danger? No one can scare the Palestinian people. You can ask Fares Odeh."
At the reception on Friday, Arafat also announced that Palestinians would from now on mark July 10 as the anniversary day of Fares Odeh. He also repeated his famous statement that the day will come when a Palestinian child would hoist the Palestinian flag over the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, its minarets and churches.
"A people that has the likes of Fares Odeh and other children martyrs will not die," he added.
Odeh, of the Zaituon neighborhood in Gaza City, has become a Palestinian icon after being photographed defying a tank with a slingshot in his hand, his valor celebrated in graffiti. His picture adorns calendars and his poster has been painted on the walls in the Gaza Strip and West Bank and in many PA offices.
Some of the summer camps in the Gaza Strip have been named after Odeh and other Palestinians killed in the violence since September 2000. In the Tulkarm refugee camp, a soccer tournament was named last year after Abdel Baset Odeh, the suicide bomber who carried out the attack in the Park Hotel in Netanya in March 2002.
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The same day the small Likudnik JP broadcast on IM the Sharon's arguments and take part in the Sharon's campaign:.
Big Brother ,please , choose others medias . Here we know your arguments
LS
Little Spartans - An article from "Haaretz" translated by Ami Kronfeld.
Up on the Jungle Gym, Charge! By Aviv Lavie [Ha'aretz, 28 June 02]
Ms. A., a resident of Tel-Aviv, arrived at the graduation of the city-run kindergarten which her two daughters attended. It was all was very nice until the ceremony started. To her astonishment, she watched the teacher parade the children dressed in what seemed like IDF uniform and march them to and fro as they call out ìleft, right left,î and ìattention!î or ìat ease!î The military parade was accompanied by children singing at the top of their lungs: ìSoldiers of Israel, march on and stay on guard, both day and night.î The kindergarten A.ís daughters attend is not the only one to have chosen to mark the end of the school year in this manner. At another kindergarten, in a small town near Tel-Aviv, the graduation ceremony included storming targets with (toy) swords. There too the children recited texts about their being fighters in the service of the state of Israel. A. says that she did not send her daughters to kindergarten so they will be turned into soldiers by the age of five. The spokesperson for the Tel-Aviv City Hall reports that it is not the superintendent of the city kindergartens who is the source of the militaristic spirit that dominates these graduation events, nor is any other official body. On the other hand, City Hall tends not to get involved in such cases: "This is not a phenomenon we are familiar with. The content of graduation ceremonies is jointly determined by the teachers and the parent association."
What are you talking about?
Arafat spent his entire life murdering innocent people and taking public credit for it, all while calling for Israel's destruction. He's one of the worst leaders in history, and for 35 years has done nothing but force israel to keep smacking his people around, because he refused to transform into a civilized, sane person.
You don't need "propaganda" to make Arafat look bad, buddy.