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| Gazans young and old graduate from Hamas ‘summer camp’ | |
| 2015-08-09 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades gives 25,000 residents military training; Islamist group is militarizing Paleostinian society, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists say Paleostinian youths -- many of them minors -- and older residents of Gazoo graduated late last week from what Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, termed a "summer camp" in the Paleostinian enclave. In the camp, the youths learned skills ranging from traipsing down buildings to launching shoulder-fired missiles. According to AFP, during the camp some 25,000 Paleostinians took part in combat training. The youngest were as young as 15; the oldest trainees are 60-years-old. "The goal of these military training camps is to train the vanguard for liberation -- spiritually, intellectually and physically -- to be ready and able to play its role in liberation," said a statement by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing in late July, when the camp opened.
Hamas has long run summer camps devoted to sport and study of the Koran in Gazoo but over the winter the al-Qassam brigades launched a new kind of camp, giving military training to 15 to 20-year-olds. Human rights activists condemned it as a forced militarization of Gazook society and a violation of children's rights. Brushing off the criticism, the brigades are repeating the exercise with the summer camp, while raising the upper age limit to 60. A photo essay published by The Telegraph contains additional images. Among the more bizarre photos one can find youths jumping through hoops of fire -- a staple of Paleostinian combat training despite the practice's uselessness on the modern battlefield. The participants also launched a cardboard cutout of the Aqsa Mosque tied to a bunch of helium filled balloons. Israel withdrew its military and civilian presence from Gazoo in 2005. Hamas seized control of Gazoo in 2007, ousting the Fatah forces of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... in a violent takeover. Avowedly committed to the destruction of Israel, Hamas has fought three rounds of conflict against Israel since it took charge, most recently a 50-day war last summer. It has bragged since that it is again digging tunnels to the Israeli border and developing and manufacturing new rockets for use against Israel. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Final Performance Exercise?: [LINK] |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-08-09 13:24 |
| #5 heh We all know what it's about. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-08-09 13:09 |
| #4 If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blame it on the Joo, If you can jump through flaming hoops -- "Ouch! Ouch! Whew!" -- But draw the line at eating flaming poo, Okay, you'll do. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-08-09 10:55 |
| #3 Jumping through hoops and blowing each other up. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2015-08-09 09:00 |
| #2 lol it is like a circus trick,keep jumping those hoops... |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-08-09 08:22 |
| #1 Among the more bizarre photos one can find youths jumping through hoops of fire -- a staple of Paleostinian combat training despite the practice's uselessness on the modern battlefield Heh, somebody reads Rantburg |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-08-09 06:36 |
