3,000 Gaza teens graduate Hamas terror school
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 3,000 Palestinian teenagers on Thursday graduated from the ruling Hamas terror group’s first high school military training program in the Gaza Strip, displaying mock weapons, crawling commando-style on the ground and taking up fighting positions for
thousands of cheering supporters.
Hamas officials said the Futuwwa, or “Youth,” program is aimed at fostering a new generation of leaders in the struggle against Israel.
“We teach the youth to honor the national flag and anthem, to strengthen their affinity with the homeland and Jerusalem, the spirit of resistance and the principles of steadfastness,” said Abu Hozifa, a 29-year-old national security officer who teaches in the program. “We also
prepare them in terms of faith and physical fitness to serve as resistance fighters if they want to be in the future.”
The program is a weekly elective that is offered in all Gaza high schools.
Officials said 3,600 participated in the first session, which began in September.
During the one-hour session each week, students were taught to climb down buildings on ropes, jump through obstacle courses and crawl under barbed wire. The oldest students are trained to use light weapons, while younger ones train with wooden rifles. Each participant is assigned to a security officer who oversees their training.
The first graduates, called the “Liberation Vanguards,” were dressed in black T-shirts and hats, and some painted their faces black.
“My officer taught me the values of courage,
sacrifice and love of jihad, as well as some battle tactics,” said Radwan Wasfi, 15, whose black-painted face dripped with sweat after going through a drill. “I feel that I can free my energy in a good way.
I can do for real what I do in video games.”
Hamas’s prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, who attended the ceremony held at a soccer stadium, said he had ordered his education minister to establish a full-time military college to open next September.
“This is the generation that will bring victory to its people and will liberate their land,” he told the audience.
Hamas, an Islamic terrorist group sworn to Israel’s destruction, seized control of Gaza from the rival Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007.
The group has survived repeated bouts of fighting against Israel, most recently an eight-day flareup of heavy violence in November in which Hamas fired more than 1,500 rockets into Israel and Israel conducted hundreds of airstrikes. The fighting ended in an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire.
Repeated attempts by the rival Palestinian factions to reconcile have sputtered.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
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The PLO's Department for Culture and Information said that the Hamas campaign was aimed at creating a Taliban-style entity. Foreign activists who continue to voice solidarity with Hamas need to know the are complicit in the effort to establish a repressive and brutal entity that has no respect for freedoms.
Those who thought that Hamas would ever establish a modern and liberal regime in the Gaza Strip received another reminder this week of how the radical Islamist movement is pursuing its effort to create a Taliban-style entity in the territory that has been under its control since 2007.
The reminder came in the form of a decision taken by the Al-Aqsa University administration in the Gaza Strip to force female students to dress in accordance with Islamic teachings.
This means that all female students would be required to wear the hijab or niqab which cover their heads and faces.
This latest measure is part of a Hamas campaign aimed at "inculcating [Islamic] values and virtues" in the Gaza Strip, Hamas officials explained.
As part of this campaign, Hamas last week imposed a ban on low-waist trousers, Western-style haircuts and tight gowns.
The decision to ban low-waist trousers and Western-style haircuts is directed against young Palestinian men in the Gaza Strip, who have apparently been exposed to Western fashions thanks to television and the Internet.
Adel al-Hour, a senior Hamas official, said that his movement was concerned over the spread of low-waist trousers among both men and women in the Gaza Strip. "This phenomenon is alien to the values and traditions of Palestinian society," he explained.
The Hamas official said that the campaign to enforce Islamic values and virtues was especially designed to "highlight the negative impact of the growing phenomenon of women who dress immodestly in order to highlight their charms."
Hamas, he added, is also strongly opposed to puff hairstyles that have become popular among young men and women in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas's latest campaign follows a series of restrictions imposed by the Islamist movement on women in the Gaza Strip over the past few years. These restrictions include a ban on smoking the nargila [waterpipe] in public places, forcing female lawyers to wear the hijab during their appearances in court and prohibiting boutiques from using female model mannequins.
But while these decisions have not been challenged by most Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the PLO's Department for Culture and Information said that the Hamas campaign was aimed at creating a Taliban-style entity.
Pointing out that the measures would have "grave political and social implications on the components of Palestinian society," the PLO said that Hamas's efforts to enforce Sharia laws "violated Islam's social and legal values and the principle of non-coercion.
Hamas, of course, is not going to listen to the PLO and stop its efforts to turn the Gaza Strip into a radical Islamist state.
Hamas feels confident enough because it is well aware of the fact that its campaign enjoys the support and sympathy of most Palestinians, not only in the Gaza Strip, but also in PLO-controlled parts of the West Bank.
Just last week, arsonists torched three restaurants in the West Bank town of Bir Zeit, a traditional stronghold of secular Palestinians, after accusing the owners of selling alcohol and allowing young men and women to sit together.
Under the current circumstances, there is nothing that could be done to stop the Talibanization of the Gaza Strip. What is happening in the Gaza Strip is one of the by-products of the so-called Arab Spring, which has seen the rise of Islamists to power in a number of Arab countries.
It is nice to see the PLO denouncing Hamas for its effort to enforce Sharia laws in the Gaza Strip. But then the PLO should be asking itself why its leaders are continuing to seek unity with a fundamentalist movement that has endorsed Taliban's tactics and lifestyle?
Instead of seeking unity with Hamas, the PLO leadership should be making a bigger effort to prevent radical Islam from extending its control to the West Bank. The PLO can achieve this goal only if it continues with its current policy of conducting security coordination with Israel.
Meanwhile, foreign activists who continue to arrive in the Gaza Strip to voice solidarity with Hamas need to know that they are complicit in the effort to establish a repressive and brutal entity that has no respect for freedoms and despises Western culture and values.
Hamas's Talibanization of the Gaza Strip :: Gatestone Institute
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WTH.........
Teaching Love for Jihad.
What will happen in few years. Universities.
Master in IED manufacturing.
PhD in Suicide Bombing with thesis defense by practical. Posthumously degree awarded.
Bachelors in Bomb Planting.
Basic courses.
Introduction to Jihad
Operational Management for Bomb Planting.
Terrorism: The Psychological Aspect
Just thought to post same
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