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'Shocking Omission by AP
Communique: 1 March 2004
Dear HonestReporting Subscriber,
On Feb. 26, the IDF arrested three Palestinian boys aged 12, 13, and 15, armed with homemade weapons and attempting to infiltrate Israel from the West Bank. The boys told police that they were trying to reach the Israeli town of Afula, where they were planning to open fire on civilians, then die as "martyrs."
No observer of Palestinian society could be surprised by this event. Besides being regularly used as guinea pigs by terrorist groups, Palestinian children are raised in a culture that glamorizes violence at every turn, encouraging active participation in suicide terror from the youngest age.
Yet in covering the arrest of these three young boys, Associated Press includes no reference whatsoever to Palestinian cultural encouragement of child terrorism ¯ and actually goes a step further, describing the boys' act as "sparking horror" and "shock" among Palestinians that such a thing could occur:
In an article headlined "Use of Young Recruits Upsets Palestinians," AP reports that
[13-year old] Tarek's parents were outraged and criticized Islamic Jihad for recruiting youngsters for an attack that would likely lead to their deaths... the ages of the Tubas youths was especially shocking for many... [they] found it hard to reconcile their image of their children with that of militants.
Then AP quotes the official PA position:
"That's absolutely unacceptable," said Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat. "Our children should have hope and a future and should not be suicide bombers. We want them to be doctors and engineers."
Does AP seriously believe that an intelligent reader is convinced that Palestinian parents and officials are "shocked" by child violence?
While American kids collect baseball cards, Palestinian kids eagerly collect "terrorist cards."
MEMRI documents regular PA sermons urging children to blow themselves up while "plunging into the midst of the Jews." And Itamar Marcus recently testified to the US Senate on the systematic indoctrination of young Palestinian children ¯ through official PA schoolbooks, public events, television, and even music videos ¯ to become suicide terrorists "for the sake of Allah."
What conclusion can be drawn? Perhaps AP is woefully ignorant of the constant brainwashing of Palestinian children to seek religious "martyrdom" through suicide terror. Alternatively, AP's complete omission of key context ¯ while presenting the child violence as a shocking surprise for Palestinian parents and officials ¯ is a blatant violation of media objectivity, effectively covering up for Palestinian society's appalling mistreatment of children.
Interesting, isn't it, that on the wall of the home of the 12-year old arrested in this incident were posters glorifying armed Palestinian thugs.
Palestinian Qadar Dababaat, 38, mother of Jaffar, 12, who was arrested by Israeli security forces, looks at pictures of her late brothers Kasem, right, and Ayman, left, both militants killed during the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at the family house in the northern West Bank village of Tubas, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004.
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Women are responsible for more than half of all child abuse cases in Queensland and are much more likely to neglect their children than men, a new report has found.
The report shows there were 13,184 substantiated child abuse cases across Queensland in 2005-06. Women were responsible for 7,319 - or 55.5 per cent - of cases, and males for 5,846, or 44.3 per cent.
In 2005-06, females were responsible for 80.2 per cent of all cases of neglect - 3,283 cases compared 799 cases for men.
Child Safety Minister Desley Boyle said the findings shattered society's image of the caring and devoted mother and the belief that men were more likely to abuse children. "We have an idealised image of mothers - that they feed their kids before themselves - but I'm sorry to say, it's not always true," Ms Boyle said.
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R.P.BenDedek is from Brisbane Australia and is the author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' at http://www.kingscalendar.com His academic articles set forth Apologetics for and results of his discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Bible, Josephus, the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah.
He writes photographic 'Stories from China' and social editorial commentaries, both at KingsCalendar, and as a contributing newspaper columnist. He currently teaches Conversational English in China and in addition to his English Lessons at KingsCalendar, he has created specific sites for Students of English.
