Summer camps for Palestinian children

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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144850
Hamas Summer Camps Train Next Generation Terrorists
by Gavriel Queenann


Hamas is reporting record turnouts for its summer camps for children in 2011.

The 'summer camps,' combining Islamic indoctrination, paramilitary training, and social activities are set to begin again this year as United Nation’s summer camps, considered competition by Hamas, are being openly denigrated by jihadists.

Children and adolescents are an important target demographic for Hamas, from which its future army of terrorists will be recruited. Summer camps are an important means for indoctrinating Gaza's youth with Hamas' jihadist ideology.

In 2010 Hamas ran camps for an estimated 100,000 campers, a number similar to 2009. The Islamic Jihad terror group ran 51 camps with 10,000 participating boys and girls.

Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan reported the objectives of the camps were to raise a generation of children with 'genuine Islamic values.'

"Children working for the interests of their homeland and to educate them to the culture of the Islamic faith so they will remember their goals, including Jerusalem and the prisoners," Radwan said

In addition to indoctrination, Hamas terrorists give children paramilitary training. Banners are hung on the walls with slogans extolling jihad and 'death for the sake of Allah.'

Other prominent motifs for this year are solidarity with Turkey in connection with the Mavi Marmara flotilla, a call for the release of Hamas prisoners (campers carried posters with their pictures) and organized expressions of hatred for Israel and the Jewish people.

UNRWA Programs Attacked
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency summer camp system hosted 250,000 children and adolescents in 2010. This year, as with previous years, the UN camps were harassed by jihadist terrorists.

On May 23, 2010 a group of 30 armed, masked men broke into an UNRWA summer camp site and burned it to the ground. On the night of June 28, 2010 armed, masked men broke into another UNRWA camp site in the Al-Zuweida region in central Gaza and set it on fire. In both incidents the arsonists were not identified.

A UNRWA spokesman called on the security services of the de facto Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip to investigate and determine who was behind the attacks.

But the groups of armed men who attack the UNRWA summer camps every year receive are inspired by, and probably supported by, Hamas and other terror networks networks operating in Gaza who say the UNRWA camps are 'undermining Palestinian values.'

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Doesn't sound like the Palestinians are responding positively to the UN camps, does it? Not like they can if they want to, as long as they allow terrorists to run the show..

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What?? None of the anti-Israel people have anything to say about the baby terrorist training camps?? Why not? Uncomfortable to think about??

[NoMoreLunacy]

I refuse to pay for these camps. This is precisely why we need to stop all foreign aid. If the Palestinians can pay for their own camps, I am all for it. No skin off of my nose. But I hope that none of my tax dollars are going towards funding this nonsense.

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I will agree with you on this one..may be the only one ever, but it is something..

[NoMoreLunacy]

Cut all foreign aid. Have we not given enough money to the rogue states of Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, and the likes already?

[lakhota]

OMG, is this like Jesus Camp?

[NoMoreLunacy]

Jun 11, 2011 0:34:16 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

OMG, is this like Jesus Camp?

Cut aid for that too. Separation of Church and State.

[NoMoreLunacy]

Why are Churches exempt from taxes? Remove that and give me my tax money back.

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Not being there, all we have is the information provided to us by various media, biased in many cases, unbiased in a few. It's hard for us, at times, to tell the difference. There's a link below that cites the UNRWA camps as being the best funded and most heavily attended (article from 2010). They are also under attack by extremist organizations who have no compunction against burning these camps to the ground. The article reports over 250,000 children enrolled in the UNRWA camps, with 50,000 children enrolled in the Hamas camps. Hamas has since advocated increased attacks against the rival camps. Looks to me, however, as though Palistinians as a whole were quite responsive to the UNRWA camps. That's what made them a threat to the Hamas camps. It's not the Palistinians who are the problem. It is, as usual, the extremists who are the problem.

www.slate.com/id/2261596/

[ed1066]

Democrats want to know how much is the tuition and can they get government assistance with it?