That's one fucked up culture.....
Palestinian children on annual vacation can choose between Hamas or Islamic Jihad summer camps, both of which boast militia-style training, Koran classes, lessons on political prisoners.
In the Gaza Strip, as in Israel, children are currently in the midst of summer vacation, and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s “summer camps” are in full gear. In the past few weeks, the Palestinian groups have been holding camps throughout the strip, some of them proudly displaying rockets and other weaponry.
Hamas alone is currently conducting no less than 300 summer camps for tens of thousands of children, and the focus is on familiarizing kids with the Palestinian towns and cities destroyed in 1948, as well as instilling religious fervor in them. The camps also feature sports and military-type trainings such as crawling under barbed-wire.
Islamic Jihad has also launched its own summer camps, offering some 10,000 children activities similar to those of Hamas. The kids study passages from the Koran and participate in quizzes on religious matters, with emphasis on the required commitment to political prisoners and Palestinian land.They also learn how to hold a Qassam rocket-launcher.
An Islamic Jihad operative told Ynet that the students were not exposed to real rockets but to ones made of plastic. “In the camps we emphasize the need to unite and put an end to the internal struggles. We called them ‘unity and principle maintaining camps.’”
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Next explosion story will be a "camp" accident.
Posted by: tater | July 31, 2008 at 11:53 AM
I can see how peace is possible......
Posted by: Elric66 | July 31, 2008 at 11:53 AM
Gaza needs to be carpet bombed from end to end. Those palestinians are useless and hopeless and the world would be better off if they just disappeared.
Posted by: Poopyhead | July 31, 2008 at 12:12 PM
People who do that to their children are the filth of humanity.
Posted by: PK | July 31, 2008 at 01:40 PM
Lets be very clear here. These dumb fucks are the ones that are the reason these kids will be killed.
When there is none amoungst them to be saved, let the nukes fly.
Posted by: DArk Helmet | July 31, 2008 at 11:14 PM