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| Gaza's Teens Train For Battle With Israel |
| 2014-01-18 |
| [Ynet] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, trains its youth for next fight against Israel with teen boot camp teaching how to shoot rifles, crawl under barbed wire, jump through burning tires. 'Will know how to overcome Israeli army' says 15-year-old student ... who's never actually been under fire... The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... followed a graduation ceremony at Hamas' training camp in Gazoo, where the next generation of fighters is being trained ahead of a possible future battle with Israel. Some 13,000 high school students in the Gazoo Strip joined a six-day program, Futuwwa, run by the movement controlling Gazoo since 2007, in order to undergo intensive training carried out by members of Hamas' military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. During the training, the young fighters were taught how to fire AK-47 rifles, crawl under barbed wire and jump over burning tires, all while their course commanders closely monitor every student and looked for any mistake. On top of former settlement "We target the students to create future soldiers and leaders who can defend their cause and appreciate the value of resistance," said course commander Abu Mahmoud, who supervised 200 students at the training base that was constructed over the ruins of former Israeli settlement of Atzmona, which was evacuated as part of the disengagement from Gazoo in 2005. The high school students do not conceal their excitement at the thought of possibly fighting those they dub "the Zionist enemy". Muhamad Ghanem, only 15-years-old, is already geared up to take weapons into his hands. "By the time I finish training, I will know how to overcome the Israeli army. Even if they don't invade Gazoo again, I will be ready to reach the border and fight them," he said. Osama Shehada, also 15, said that he is interested in learning how to construct bombs to use against Israeli targets. According to him, he joined the training program to professionalize and to understand how Israel uses Paleostinian collaborators. "The Israeli occupation doesn't stop recruiting spies. For us, the spies are more dangerous than the (IAF) warplane," said Shehada. The course, which ended Tuesday, was entirely funded by Hamas' Education Ministry. The graduation ceremony was attended by the movement's Prime Minister in Gazoo Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , who spoke at the event and encouraged to continue the resistance. "Your generation will achieve the liberation and independence (of Paleostine)," said Haniyeh, who suggested that girls could also take part in the program in the future. In November, the New York Times reported that Hamas has stopped using the Paleostinian Authority's curriculum and penetrated its own ideology into its education system. Among other details, the Oslo Accords are not mentioned in their books, Paleostine spans from Jordan to the Mediterranean, and there's a special chapter regarding Operation Pillar of Defense , which reads: "An attempted attack against the Israeli Knesset brought the Zionists to plead for a ceasefire." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 ...it gets better: French 15-year-olds thought to be youngest Western jihadis after travelling to Syria |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-01-18 23:10 |
| #3 Podiatric Surgery - the coming job market in Gaza |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-01-18 20:32 |
| #2 Teens = |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-01-18 20:24 |
| #1 Teens = Seed Corn = Shortage of brave adult "Lions of Islam" |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2014-01-18 19:22 |