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Middle East
Palestinian children collect pictures of terrorists militants like baseball cards
2003-12-24
EFL & Buttloads of Fun
NABLUS, West Bank: Palestinian children are collecting cards showing unskilled gunmen and suckers soldiers the way American kids trade baseball cards, and some educators are concerned that the uprising hobby is helping to breed a new generation of militants.
Are these the same ‘educators’ that teach from textbooks that do not acknowledge Israel?
The cards are an enormous hit, according to Majdi Taher, who makes them. He said that 6 million cards have been sold over two years and 32,000 albums this month alone in the two main population centers of the northern West Bank - huge numbers in a territory about 1 million Palestinians live, and he plans to expand his business.
He later added that many most of the residents of the West Bank are actually featured in the cards.
The card craze reflects a delusional sense of reality in the West Bank, where three years of Palestinian-Israeli violence has become the dominant reality for children. Israeli soldiers enforce curfews to prevent terror atacks, confining terrorists residents to their homes, and often carry out security raids in towns and villages, looking for terrorists militants.

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Posted by:Dragon Fly

#5  Do they have the cool shoot from the hip in the middle of the street shots?
Posted by: Shipman   2003-12-24 5:24:54 PM  

#4  The Axis of Offal
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-12-24 2:10:14 PM  

#3  When the IDF goes in and conducts their raids, maybe they should collect up whatever cards they can get their hands on and attach them to the wheels of their vehicles with clothespins..
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-12-24 11:32:31 AM  

#2  Do any of the cards have a before/after hologram?
Posted by: Charles   2003-12-24 10:51:47 AM  

#1  Interesting stats they keep:

Mullah Allah Akbar El-Fatwa Jihadi:

Mullah Allah was once considered one of the up and coming baby killers on the West Bank (received the 2001 Saddam Hussein Scholarship to Ein Hellhole State). But then came the "work accident"... and we were left to wonder "what might have been".
Interesting Fact: Home is considered the 17285th most Holy Place in Islam.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-12-24 9:22:10 AM  

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