Hamas child soldiers

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Why are the rights groups and UN not condemning this abuse of chidren?

Hamas holds 2nd military training program for Gaza students
Jan 07,2014

GAZA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Hamas authorities, the Islamic militant movement that controls the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday launched a week-long military training program for about 13,000 students in Gaza.

It is the second year for Hamas to take this program during the mid-term holiday to nearly 50 secondary schools in the coastal enclave.

The program is "a national project meant to build a generation of Palestinian youths that can liberate and defend their homeland, " Osama Al-Muzini, education minister of the Hamas authority, said at the opening ceremony of the program.

The students will learn basic knowledge of first aid, fighting skills and how to use arms, "so they will be able to face the Zionist enemy if they invade Gaza," said Muzini.

Since last year, Hamas has introduced the military training to schools in Gaza.

 

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Why are the rights groups and UN not condemning this abuse of chidren?

Hamas holds 2nd military training program for Gaza students
Jan 07,2014

GAZA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Hamas authorities, the Islamic militant movement that controls the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday launched a week-long military training program for about 13,000 students in Gaza.

It is the second year for Hamas to take this program during the mid-term holiday to nearly 50 secondary schools in the coastal enclave.

The program is "a national project meant to build a generation of Palestinian youths that can liberate and defend their homeland, " Osama Al-Muzini, education minister of the Hamas authority, said at the opening ceremony of the program.

The students will learn basic knowledge of first aid, fighting skills and how to use arms, "so they will be able to face the Zionist enemy if they invade Gaza," said Muzini.

Since last year, Hamas has introduced the military training to schools in Gaza.

Why would Hamas want to make schools military targets. For publicity? For martyrdom?

 

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It is more than just Hamas or Gaza. Abbas is using rhetoric and incitement as well. Both sides are playing dirty with Israel in the middle.
Netanyahu has even gone so far as to offer to a long term lease of settlement land so the Israelis there don't have to be uproot right away. Abbas needs to shut down talks. Pull out the box of garbage and incite people from Canada to Israel to protest against Israel, while academics are fighting against boycotts against Israel.
It does not stop.....the madness


State Department Refuses to Comment on PA Incitement
State Department Spokeswoman refuses to "give an analysis of every action" when asked by reporter about PA incitement.
By Elad Benari
First Publish: 1/8/2014, 5:13 AM

The Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to incite against Israel, even as peace talks are continuing, but the spokeswoman of the State Department on Tuesday refused to condemn or even discuss this incitement.

Jen Psaki was asked by a reporter whether the United States agreed with comments made by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials about the PA’s continued incitement.

“We’ve spoken about our concerns about incitement consistently over the course of years...I don’t know that we have anything new to report or any analysis on the recent comments over the last couple of days,” she responded.

Asked whether she believes the incitement is increasing, Psaki said, “I don’t have any particular analysis of that. Obviously, our focus is on reducing incitement, calling for an end to incitement. We think it’s unproductive and unhelpful to the process, as you know.”

She was then asked whether comments by the chief PA negotiator, Saeb Erekat, that Israel poisoned former PA head Yasser Arafat were incitement, to which she replied that she would not “analyze every comment and what it means.”

The focus, said Psaki, “remains on both parties and having them at the table and moving the talks forward.”

Psaki also refused to comment on whether PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s celebrations for the terrorists Israel released as a “gesture” to the PA were incitement, saying, “I’m not going to give an analysis of every action and what is incitement and what is not incitement.”

“What I will say is that we know this is a tough time,” she added. “We’re working through the process on the ground. We know that there are political pressures from all sides, and we’re seeing that manifest itself in many ways. The leaders remain engaged and committed, and that’s what our focus is on.”

Psaki was then asked whether the U.S. agrees with Netanyahu’s comments that by treating the terrorists as heroes and by accusing Israel of killing Arafat, Abbas is not preparing his people for a potential peace agreement with Israel.

She responded, “I’m not going to speak to that. We – the Secretary feels that both sides are negotiating in good faith. We know that there are comments that are made from both sides that are received poorly or negatively from the other side. That’s a part of the process that we anticipated. We’re there as an arbiter between them, but we’re not going to speak to or analyze or give commentary on every comment made.”

On Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet was presented with a detailed report on the incitement and the culture of hatred in the PA.

The findings presented to the ministers show that incitement against Israel and the Jewish people is continuing on official media channels including – inter alia – by bodies that are very close to the PA Chairman and in educational and religious networks.

The findings also show that during the period of negotiations between Israel and the PA, not only did incitement not lessen, in certain areas it even increased, and that recently, the use of prominent Nazi elements – such as the image of Hitler – has also increased.