Re: "smoked salmon socialists"

Rubystars wrote:
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> > > Israel is bad, Palestinians
> > > who send their children strapped with bombs are fighting a "holy" war.
> >
> > Much of what Israel has done IS bad. Palestinians have done bad
> > things,too.  I don't think we can see the issues in black and white.
>
> It's true that Israel hasn't always done everything right, but you have to
> remember that the Palestinians and a lot of other Arab nations want Israel
> to be gone for good, destroyed. Israel is fighting tooth and nail for its
> right to exist.

With respect to the Palestinians:
        As captured on an Israeli video documentary produced in 1998, a
        "Sesame Street"-like children's program called the "Children's
        Club" -- complete with puppet shows, songs, Mickey Mouse and
        other characters -- focused on inculcating intense hatred of
        Jews and a passion for engaging in and celebrating violence
        against them in a perpetual "jihad" until the day the Israeli
        flags come down from above "Palestinian land" and the
        Palestinian flag is raised.

        In one song on the "Children's Club," very young children are
        shown singing songs about wanting to become "suicide warriors"
        and to take up "a machine gun" to direct "violence, anger,
        anger, anger" against Israelis.

        During the show, which features children aged 4-10, one young
        boy sings, "When I wander into Jerusalem, I will become a
        suicide bomber." Afterward, other children stand to call for
        "Jihad! Holy war to the end against the Zionist enemy."

        In another segment, a boy who appears to be no more than 8 or 9
        years old chants: "My patience has run out. All Arab existence
        cries for revenge" against the Jews in Israel.

        The documentary also juxtaposes the children's programming with
        television news reporting, in which the news anchor - reflecting
        the same message the children are receiving -describes
        Palestinians as "noble, courageous" fighters, while describing
        Israel as "mean, fascist, racist, genocidal" and "Nazis."

	Other "highlights" of the "Children's Club":

        * Groups of children are gathered together, shouting for "Jihad
        against Israel."

        * One girl, who appears to be in a Palestinian school classroom,
        sings of donning "battledress" to "attack the Zionists."

        * A small girl chants the now-familiar ditty, "When I wander
        into Jerusalem, I will become a suicide bomber."

        * An adult narrator reads material in a Palestinian school
        pamphlet: "I have raised my children for jihad and on the
        principle that they never give up on their land."

        * One segment depicts a small boy on the street chanting,
        "Revolution until victory."

        * Another boy is shown in class proclaiming, "We will settle our
        claims with stones and bullets."
        http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17707