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Rantisi urges Palestinian children not to attack settlements
IslamOnline Abd al-Aziz al-Rantisi, a prominent figure of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, on Tuesday, January 14, appealed to Palestinian children to refrain from attacking Jewish settlements. In exclusive statements to IslamOnline, Rantisi said this would help prevent Israel from exploiting such attacks to tarnish the image of the Palestinian resistance on the grounds of sending children to be killed. It's the Jews' fault the Paleos try to kill them, see? "Psychiatrists believe that children seek to model themselves after Palestinians who carried out martyr operations," Rantisi said. "But children, you must wait until you're older to kill Jews!" The Hamas official warned that Israeli agents are encouraging Palestinian children to infiltrate into Jewish settlements so that they will be an easy catch for the Israeli occupation troops. Sure. Those Jews, they're an insidious bunch, you betcha. Rantisi underscored that Israel wanted to tarnish the image of Hamas even in the eyes of Palestinians, asserting that Palestinians "must do everything in their power to figure out whether those standing behind such a phenomenon have been recruited by the enemy or not." Do you get the impression they're not happy the little buggers went and screwed things up? Of course, if a 13-year-old and an 8-year-old had actually been successful at killing someone, then it would be different... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-15 |
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