As the old saying goes, those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Last week, 67 MPs and Lords urged the Prime Minister to create an emergency visa route for Palestinians with family in the UK. Setting aside Britain’s ongoing illegal migrant crisis, it’s clear that few of these politicians appreciate just how thoroughly jihadist ideology is woven into Palestinian society from cradle to grave. If they did, they wouldn’t risk importing attitudes that already fuel the gravest challenges facing this country.
In Gaza, indoctrination begins in nurseries. In a preschool graduation ceremony, children marched in military uniforms and carried mock rifles. A five-year-old girl dipped her hands in red paint to mimic the bloodied hands Palestinians displayed after lynching two Israelis in Ramallah. Another child dressed as Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, surrounded by other children dressed as suicide bombers. Such spectacles aren’t isolated events, they’re the beginning of lifelong indoctrination.
Hatred is channelled directly into children’s programming. Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV aired a children’s show, Tomorrow’s Pioneers featuring a Mickey-Mouse-style character who staged AK-47 shoot-outs and mock grenade attacks. In one episode, the character was “interrogated” and beaten to death by an Israeli officer seeking the “key” to fictional Tel al-Rabi, the supposed Palestinian settlement which they claim was turned into Tel Aviv by the Jews.
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