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| Offering Up to Moloch |
 Child sacrifice, a characteristic expression of primitive idolatry, has a long history in the Middle East. The Hebrew Bible condemns the Cult of Moloch, a Canaanite deity with the head of a bull, which required periodic infanticide. The usual expression for describing such sacrifice was "to pass through the fire." Such gruesome sacrifice was not found in the three great religions of the Near East. Abraham was commanded to stay his hand and refrain from killing Isaac (or as the Qur'an has it, Ibrahim spared Ishmael). Later God commanded the Israelites to drive out and destroy those who worshipped Moloch. Through the deliberate employment of children as suicide bombers, the Palestinians have reintroduced the practice. They deliberately offer their own children for sacrifice as a sacred ritual to drive out the infidel. Recalling former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's observation that, "We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us" does not offer much hope for a peaceful settlement anytime soon. Palestinian children aren't born hating Jews and Israelis - they must be carefully taught. They learn it from political and religious leaders, from teachers, the media and their parents..actively encourage Palestinian parents to teach their children to hate Jews and Israel. In order for there to be peace, Palestinian leaders, teachers, and parents must teach peace. Rock throwers and "Baby Boomers" Palestinian youth, reminiscent of Iranian children sent to the Iraqi front equipped with plastic keys to heaven, are sent to attack Israeli soldiers with rocks and Molotov cocktails, and are glorified as "children of the stones." Snipers take up positions behind the children, often a hundred yards behind them, knowing that the Israeli troops are under orders not to fire in the direction of the human shields. [1] Worse still, mothers appear with their sons in videos recorded before they go on suicide missions, praising their child's dedication to die in Allah's name. Afterwards, the mothers ululate in pride for their dead children, and asserting that they brought children into the world for just this purpose. Fathers proudly claim to have trained their sons for such missions, and pledge to send their remaining children. The Palestinian Authority's Jerusalem mufti, Ikram Sabri, once said in a newspaper interview that "the younger the shahid, the more he's admired... That's why mothers cry with joy upon hearing of his death... The shahid is envied, because the angels in heaven usher him to his wedding." ("Al-Ahram Al-Arabi" - Oct. 28, 2000) Yasser Arafat's deputy, Abu Mazen, related to a Kuwaiti newspaper that Palestinian children have been paid 5 shekels (about $1) for every pipe bomb they throw. At least 40 in Rafah have had arms blown off when the pipe bombs exploded pre-maturely. Posters of young "martyrs" adorn walls throughout the Palestinian territories. You can walk down a street named after a suicide bomber to drop your child in a school that celebrates suicide-bombing. Polls reveal that overwhelming majorities in Gaza and the West Bank support suicide bombing. Arab leaders see "martyrdom operations" as the super weapon that can bring Israel down.    "Martyr" Posters Often the child has no real understanding of what he is doing. In one celebrated case, that of Hussam Abdo, a 16-year-old, described by his family as "gullible" and having the mind of a much younger child, was fitted with a bomb belt containing 18 lbs of explosives and sent on a suicide mission. Fortunately for Hussam, he was intercepted at by Israelis soldiers. In a recent BBC interview Hussam said that he agreed to become a martyr so he would not have to attend school. Another sad story is that of 11-year-old Abdullah Quran, who carried bomb in his schoolbag. Ball-bearings and assorted bits of metal scrap were added, all the better to turn human flesh to ground meat. When they opened the bag, soldiers found, alongside the explosives, the boy's Spiderman doll. Abdullah wasn't merely a courier. A cellphone connected to the 10-kilo bomb would have allowed his handler to detonate the bomb by remote control. The boy told border police that he was promised "lots of money" if he took the backpack through an IDF checkpoint near Nablus. Had he succeeded, the explosives would have been set off in an Israeli bus or similar crowded civilian target. However, the plan called for detonating the charge on the boy, if he were stopped. Indeed, as sappers handled his bag's contents, someone dialled the cellphone trigger. A technical failure prevented the death of the child and many of those around.  A big fad among Palestinian children is to collect trading cards - not of football players, but of well-known terrorists. A company in Nablus produces a sticker album which is sold in Palestinian Authority administered territories for half a New Israeli Shekel (slightly less than 10 US cents). Children who purchase the albums fill them with sticker photographs of terrorists, (a pack of 4 sells for half a shekel). The well-crafted glossy "Intifada Album" comes in a box shaped like an Israeli tank and includes a dedication from the governor of Nablus. The album's cover, sporting a picture of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and "Intifada Album" written in flaming stones, appears below:  The foreword to the album explains that it is to serve as a record of the history of the Al-Aqsa Intifada. It has 229 numbered rectangles where the players stick the pictures. A slogan, a saying or a sentence appears under each one of the album's images, providing a colorful description of the violent event or photograph or its inherent violent message, such as:
 "Intifada Album" image number 168 In Bethlehem, Nablus, and Ramallah, Palestinian children are buying terrorist cards as fast as they can be printed - at least six million sold to date. The album's popularity is a reflection of the culture of death established by Yasser Arafat, Islamic Jihad and the other terrorist groups. Palestinian kids come to believe that thinks dying and martyrdom is the highest goal that one can aspire to. Prizes, a football, a bicycle, even a computer, are awarded to kids who fill their albums - normal, harmless rewards for a game helps perpetuate an abnormal culture of suffering, martyrdom and revenge.  A comic book suggesting conflict between Jews and the prophet Mohammed A twice-weekly one-hour program on Nablus TV entirely dedicated to the album is smashing local audience records. Addicted card collectors make trade offers for missing stickers while others test their knowledge by organizing quizzes. 14-year-old Saleh Attiti once bought Pokémon stickers, music cassettes, candy toys and bubble gum with wrappers that unfolded to reveal pictures of soccer stars such as Brazil's Ronaldo. These days, Saleh spends all his shekels on what are known locally as martyrs' necklaces. Saleh has six of the passport-sized medallions engraved with images of the local heroes - gunmen and suicide bombers killed in attacks on Israelis. Some boys have many more. If you're a teen boy without one hanging around your neck, you are distinctly behind the times. "I used to have half a bag full of Pokémon stickers but I threw them all away," said Saleh, sitting in the house of his cousin, Jihad, a recent suicide bomber whose picture is becoming hot property among teenage boys in Balata. "For me they're not important these days." In Nablus one store is producing deluxe medallions, using a computer scanner and a laser engraver to transfer images of the dead gunmen onto plastic that sell for eight shekels - about $1.80. Boys save up all their money to buy one. Essam Kanazeh, 29, and his partner Sameh Taktuk, 35, bought the engraver a year ago to make sports plaques. "We discovered that it would work for martyrs' necklaces and now most of the work, if not all, is the work on the necklaces," Kanazeh said. Their first order for 1,000 images of Raed Karmi, a leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades from Tulkarem. The most highly sought-after necklaces were those with pictures of Mahmoud Attiti, Raed Karmi, and Yasser Badawi, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorists killed by the IDF. Other popular toys among Palestinian children include plastic models of the burning World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.  There are many, many ways to deliver the propaganda of hate. Here are just a few examples: Teaching hate in the schools: “Complete the following blank spaces with the appropriate word: 'The Zionist enemy ________ civilians with its aircraft.'” “Know, my son, that Palestine is your country, that its pure soil is drenched with the blood of Martyrs. Why must we fight the Jews and drive them from our land?”  An inscription found on a wall at Ibn al-Haytham elementary school for boys in Nablus: “A holy war (jihad) for the sake of Allah is the privilege of the Islamic nation.” [signed:] The Islamic Jihad movement “The Jews have killed Muslim and Christian inhabitants of Palestine, whose inhabitants are still suffering oppression and persecution under racist Jewish administration.” 
A photograph of a map of Israel with the inscription “[the whole of] Palestine [belongs] to us” written inside, found in a classroom at Boys Primary School in Al-Am'ari refugee camp “[The book] will demonstrate the fraudulence of the Jewish claim, that Palestine is theirs by historical right, which is the greatest lie known to humanity. The Jews were foreigners who strayed to it, and their existence there was terminated 2,000 years ago. The Arabs, on the other hand, settled it in pre-historic times and subsequently ruled unceasingly for thousands of years.”  A painting at “Palestine” Elementary School for boys in Qalqilya. It describes a scene from the ongoing violent confrontation in which Israeli soldiers are shooting at Palestinian youth and at the Dome of the Rock, as well as setting a house on fire. [The Jewish goal is] to establish a global Jewish empire, whose territory will be not only from the Nile to the Euphrates and from Medina to Kuwait – the true goal of the Jews is to rob the majority of all the Arab homeland.  The results of the brainwashing: victory for terrorism. A Palestinian teenager gesturing victory, with the ruins of an Israeli bus in the background - suicide bombing attack on bus no. 14, in which 8 passengers were killed and 72 were wounded) The Jerusalem Post, February 24, 2004 Learning hate in the media: On television: “ To Jerusalem we will march – millions of martyrs. And, O God, Master of the Universe, please let me be one of the martyrs. Al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad…. “I will take my soul in my hand and toss it into the abyss of death. And then either life that will gladden friends or death that will anger the enemy. The honorable soul has two objectives: Achieving death and honor.” “All we ask is that the Arab countries stand by our side, give us weapons, and we, on our own, will prevail – we’ll kill them [Jews] on our own, murder them, slaughter them, all of them, we ask only for weapons, and we won’t spare a single Jew.” “… there can be no peace with the Jews because they suck and use the blood of Arabs on the holidays of Passover and Purim.” Hezbollah "game show": The terrorist group Hezbollah has it's own satellite channel, al-Manar (The Beacon). The Syrian/Iranian funded network's newest airs a popular program, a game show called, “The Mission.” Contestants earn points for answering questions about the American-Zionist conspiracy. Correct answers allow contestants to move ever closer to the goal of Jerusalem on a large map. Sixty points lands a contestant on the holy city while the Hezbollah anthem plays in the background. The refrain “Jerusalem is ours and we are coming to it” rings out as the contestant collects a $3,000 check. The US official says that al-Manar is anti-Semitic and The Mission encourages violence; one official nicknamed it "Name Your Favourite Terrorist." Throughout the show, the host praises the exploits of suicide bombers and pleads for viewers to keep the faith that one day Arabs will “recapture” the land stolen by the Jews. Al-Manar is so widely popular in the Arab suburbs of Paris it is now broadcast in French. Another show, “Sincere Men,” profiles suicide bombers. The theory that 4,000 Jewish World Trade Center employees were warned about the September 11 in advance and didn't show up to work that day originally came from al-Manar. The attacks themselves were perpetrated by, “Jews, Israel, and Mossad,” of course. Before the 2000 pullout of Israeli forces from Lebanon, the station aired live pictures of attacks against Israeli soldiers and broadcast threats against the Jewish state in Hebrew. It is not only the Jews Hezbollah has set out to combat with al-Manar. The station makes time in its programming now for pictures of gruesome scenes from Iraq. “The people of this region will receive you with their rifles, with blood, with martyrdom, and martyrdom operations,” a Hezbollah official warned Americans during one broadcast. “Today, as the region fills up with hundreds of thousands of American troops, our slogan was and will remain Death to America.“ Let's not forget radio: “We will die, we will die – all of us/ That the homeland shall live. “Our martyrs, convoys of them, threatening the cowards/ O ye martyrs, in my heart is written: Palestine.” “I will redeem thee with my spirit and with my blood, Jerusalem, Jerusalem.” “[I issue] a strong call to the Palestinian people to exercise its rights, its heroism, its sacrifices, its mighty Intifada, which will show Israel and the whole world its strong desires which will not be denied.” In newspapers: “It is evident that Jewish control over mass media has been harnessed to put a pleasant face on the vile image of Jews, while at the same time vilifying Arabs. This is meant to persuade world public opinion that Arabs are the historic enemies of Christian culture….Furthermore, Jews spread prostitution as a means of plunging the world into decadence, abomination, and corruption….” “The conflict between the Jews and Muslims resembles the conflict between man and Satan.” 
A newspaper cartoon - Bush and Sharon play a death song “The only way to impose our conditions is inevitably through our blood. Our national duty is to continue the confrontation, continue the intifada, continue to sacrifice our martyrs so that the blood of our martyrs and injured will not have been spilled in vain. "Suleyman opposed the peace agreements with the Zionists and said repeatedly that it was inconceivable for us to have peace with these plunderers. They only understand the language of force, and therefore [only] the language of the weapon is capable of achieving something for our people…. He emphasized that the road to Palestine passes through the Jihad and not through defeatist agreements." Preaching hatred in Mosques: From the river to the sea In a November, 2000 interview, The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheik Ikrima Sabri, told the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, "We haven't sacrificed enough yet to be worthy of liberating Al-Aqsa. To liberate Jerusalem, Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi (Saladin) made great sacrifices for a long time, and we have to sacrifice until Allah's victory is completed..." The Mufti repeated the Arab view that Mideast peace is possible only when all of Israel is "liberated" and the Jews expelled from the region, the Mufti said: "The land of Palestine is not only Jerusalem; this land stretches from the [Jordan] River to the (Mediterranean) Sea . Naturally, the problem relates to all of this land. We cannot establish a homeland by only liberating Jerusalem. It is true that Salah Al-Din did not rest until Jerusalem was liberated, but this does not suggest that the rest of this blessed land is to be neglected or given up...." He Stressed that "Every Palestinian is, in fact, in a state of Jihad..." "I feel the martyr is lucky because the angels usher him to his wedding in heaven." He added, "There is no doubt that a child [martyr] suggests that the new generation will carry on the mission with determination. The younger the martyr, the greater and the more I respect him. ... One wrote his name on a note before he died. He wrote: 'the martyr so and so.' In every martyr's pocket we find a note with his name on it. He sentences himself to martyrdom even before he becomes a martyr." When asked about his feelings toward Jews, Sabri answered, "I enter the mosque of Al-Aqsa with my head up and at the same time I am filled with rage toward the Jews. I have never greeted a Jew when I came near one. I never will. They cannot even dream that I will. The Jews do not dare to bother me, because they are the most cowardly creatures Allah has ever created...."  “[Jews] coveted, and they covet still. They killed, and they kill still. They betrayed, and betray still. They spill blood, and the spill blood still….They have a single common denominator enmity of Islam and Moslems, enmity of the bearers of truth….We must know the true situation and be on our guard, for our enemy does not distinguish between the mighty and dependent, between big and small nor between the aged and the nursing baby.” “Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them.” “All spears should be directed at the Jews, at the enemies of Allah….Allah has described them as apes and pigs….We blow them up in Hadera, we blow them up in Tel Aviv and in Netanya, and in this way, Allah establishes us as rulers over these gangs of vagabonds…. In several years, Allah willing, we will enter Jerusalem as conquerors, to Jaffa as conquerors…. Blessings for whoever assaulted a soldier... Blessings for whoever has raised his sons on the education of Jihad and Martyrdom; blessings for whoever has saved a bullet in order to stick it in a Jew's head….” “We must pave the path for the army of Allah, and then Israel will disappear and so will the exploiting nation called the United States, and also the exploiting nation called the United Kingdom, the one responsible for the Naqbah (the 1948 calamity) of the Palestinian people.” “The Muslim loves death and martyrdom, just as you [Jews] love life. There is a great difference between he who loves the Hereafter and he who loves this world. The Muslim loves death [and he seeks] Martyrdom. "Martyrs" are held in such high regard by Palestinians that at times parents accept the death of their children as a badge of pride. Parents of toddlers proudly recount their little children saying they want to become martyrs, and a father of a 13-year-old said, "I pray that God will choose him" to be a martyr. One mother told a journalist from the (London) Times, "I am happy that he [her 13-year-old son] has been martyred. I will sacrifice all my sons and daughters (12 in all) to Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem." A photograph in the Jerusalem Post on February 26, 2002, showed Palestinian fathers teaching a group of toddlers and young children to properly hold assault rifles while trampling on American and Israeli flags It is interesting to note that Yasser Arafat showers glory and honor on his youthful martyrs but he keeps his own kid in Paris, well away from the suicide-bomber belts. Journalist Huda al-Hussein, asked in the London-based Sharq al-Awsat already three years ago: "What kind of independence is built on the blood of children, while the leaders, including their own kids and grand kids, remain safe?" A society that glories in sacrificing its own children is one that undermines utterly its own right to exist. In the end what will they have but bitterness and desolation and ruins. For more information on this and related subjects visit the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.  Sources: [1]USA Today, “West Bank Street Clashes Now Organized Warfare, Palestinian Sniper Network, Police Join Firefights,” by Jack Kelley, October 23, 2000 http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/world/newsid_3516000/3516872.stm http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/palestinians/ http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief2-8.htm http://www.operationsick.com/reports/20001218_mediawatch.htm http://www.palestinereport.org/article.php?article=318 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1983 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3640551.stm http://www.epiic.com/archives/1996/sympos96/embodiedimperative.html |