The Anti-Israel Poisoning Starts Young

[shira]

My father, Richard Lakin, a 76-year-old retired elementary-school principal from Connecticut, was on a bus in Jerusalem last October when two young Palestinian men boarded and began shooting and stabbing passengers indiscriminately. Two passengers were killed that awful day and 16 injured, including my father. Despite the efforts of first responders and the nurses and doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, my father died two weeks later. He had been shot in the head and stabbed multiple times in the head, face, chest and stomach.

Over the past seven months I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand what would cause two educated Palestinian men in their early 20s to board a public bus and butcher a group of innocent civilians, many of them senior citizens. I’m sorry to report that the Palestinian reaction to the attack has led me to believe that the “peace process” is more one-sided than ever.

My father grew up a fighter for civil rights in America. He took those values with him in 1984 when he emigrated to Jerusalem, where he taught English to Arabs and Jews. He was a kind, gentle-hearted man who dedicated his life to education and promoting peaceful coexistence. Yet Palestinian newspapers praised Baha Alyan, one of the terrorists who murdered my father, as a “martyr and intellectual.” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has met with the families of the attackers and praised them as “martyrs.” A Palestinian scout leader said Baha Alyan, who was shot and killed by a security guard before he could kill more innocent passengers, was “an example for every scout.” Muhammad Alyan, the father of Baha Alyan, has been invited to speak at Palestinian schools and universities about his son the “martyr.” He recently spoke to children at Jabel Mukaber Elementary School in East Jerusalem, about a half a mile from where my father lived. Tragically, many Palestinian children, perhaps most, are still taught to honor terrorists and fight for the destruction of Israel.

All of this would break my father’s heart. In 2007 he published a book called “Teaching as an Act of Love” summarizing his life’s work and educational philosophy. The message of his book is that every child is a miracle that should be nurtured with love. After Baha Alyan’s father visited Jabel Mukaber Elementary School, I asked school officials if I could come and share my father’s message of peace and coexistence. My offer was rejected.

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[Purveyor]

1. Yes it does...

This would leave a lasting impression on any youngster for life, I would imagine.

[shira]

4. Some say Godspeed to child abuse in the form of hate indoctrination....

You know what I mean, right?

Palestinian pre-school girl: “I want to stab a Jew”

A Jordanian Palestinian pre-school girl recently published a video clip on Facebook proclaiming: “I want to stab a Jew.” According to Palestinian Jordanian political dissident and writer Mudar Zahran, the Jordanian King stands behind incitement like this and the children aren’t to blame.

https://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/middle-east/israel-and-the-middle-east/palestinian-jordanian-pre-school-girl-i-want-to-stab-a-jew-16606

MEMRI has just documented that a Jordanian Palestinian pre-school girl posted a video clip on Facebook where she threatened to stab Jews. Holding up a knife, she proclaimed: “I want to stab a Jew.” An adult asks her why and she replied: “Because they stole our land.” The adult asks what weapon she will use and she answered: “With a knife.” The video concludes with the adult stressing: “Oh, you’re so strong, Allah willing, my dear.”

Do you support that?

[safeinOhio]

2. This has been going on for a long time

and the Settlers and right wing Israelis have been at it as long as anyone.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2013/02/israeli-and-palestinian-textbooks

[shira]

5. Nice deflection. No comment on the OP, just look over there...

Israel is nothing like what's described in the OP and if you think it is, you know zero about the I/P conflict.

[EdwardBernays]

3. It's a shame

when the citizens of a nation suffer because of the nation's policies...

[shira]

6. Yeah, like Gazans under Hamas rule. That is a shame. n/t

[EdwardBernays]

7. What they should do

is create a nation the way Israel did... what's the modern equivalent of the King David hotel?

[shira]

8. Yeah, all they need to do is agree to a peace deal, get rid of their dictators.

They're going nowhere with their leadership.

[EdwardBernays]

9. Sure

I'm all for that as soon as Israel demolishes all the illegal settlements, go back to the 1948 map, and allows themselves to be tried in the Hague for their endless war crimes.

Then by all means let's sort out the leadership of the Palestinians.


But look we both know that Israel will kill thousands more Palestinian civilians before that happens... Just think of those illegal settlements as long term rental units.

[shira]

10. You got it backwards as Israel has already offered the Palestinians a state...

....based on the '67 lines, no more occupation, no more settlements, and peace.

The Palestinian leadership prefers more war on the Jews.

Maybe you should tell them to go the peace route. It's better for their people.

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But back to the OP, what do you think of the PA/Hamas making heroes out of cowards who murder senior citizens on buses?

[6chars]

11. Please do not wish for civil war.

I am not sure if you are aware of what those are usually like, but examples like Syria indicate that it is really not something to root for.

Do you have a Che t-shirt or poster?

[leftynyc]

13. And just forget all the wars and

terrorism they've had to deal with since they became a state? Just reward the terrorists for all of that? Not a fucking chance and they'll never see a deal like the one they turned down in 1947. Nor should they.

[leftynyc]

12. The UN tried to give them a nation

in 1947 - they went to war over it because they didn't want a Jewish state next door. Or did you forget the UN was involved in the creation of Israel and were claiming they just took the land (that they've lived on for thousands of years)? Try again.