Jerusalem Cloakroom #92

1. Anti-US Moslem Somali terrorists fired at US soldiers, sacrificing the underaged and older innocent pedestrians as human shield (Mogadishu, 1993). President Clinton justly blamed the terrorists for the killing of children and other civilians during the crossfire. He insisted that the US soldiers had to shoot back - under horrific constraints imposed by the terrorists - in order to protect their lives. That which afflicted US soldiers in 1993 has plagued Israelis since 1948!
    
2. Arafat exploited Palestinian children as a human shield during his 1970 attempt to topple King Hussein of Jordan, during the 1975-76 and the 1978 PLO wars against Lebanese Christian and Moslem militias, during the 1982 Israel-PLO war in Lebanon and during the 1987-1992 Intifada. Arafat's ally, Iran, dispatched its own children to the battlefield against Iraq during the 1980-1986 war, sacrificing over 100,000 children. Arafat's personal friend and strategic ally (during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait!), Saddam Hussein, employed Iraqi and Western children and adults as a human shield during the 1991 Gulf War. Some of the PLO founding fathers participated in the early 1960s in Aden's war against Britain, which featured the exploitation of children for the sake of political and military gains.
    
3. Palestinian children have been indoctrinated, by Arafat-controlled school textbooks, clergy and media, to become suicidal bombers and to kill Jews "for the cause." For example, Reader and Literary Texts for Arafat's 8th graders teaches (pp.120-122 ) that "Jihad and sacrifice are a duty...draw your sword, let us gather for war with red blood and blazing fire....Death shall call and the sword shall be crazed for such slaughter....Oh Palestine, the youth shall redeem your land."
    
4. Rather than urging Palestinian parents to keep their children away from the line of fire, Arafat has promised parents that children who are "martyrs for the cause" reach paradise. A special grant ($300 and $2,000 per injured and killed child respectively), in addition to a monthly allowance, are shared with such parents.
    
5. Children have been bused, by the PLO, to confront Israeli soldiers with guns, molotov cocktails and rocks. 10-17-year-old Palestinians have been trained to operate firearms and to kidnap Israelis. Persons who throw molotov cocktails, rocks and other lethal elements (and the hand of a 17-year-old is much stronger and more accurate than the hand of a 40-year-old) are not civilians; they are terrorists or combatants. Persons who abuse the underage as a human shield are terrorists!
    
6. Isn't it intriguing that the children sacrificed by Arafat as poker chips, on the altar of the propaganda war, have NOT been the children of Arafat's cronies? They have been the children of poor Palestinian families!
    
7. Will US Congress precondition further aid to the PLO upon the PLO desisting from hate-education and hate-media and upon dismantling its own and Hamas terrorism?!