Hatet och orealistiska förväntningar förs vidare till nästa generation
Palestinian Authority 2019 Summer Camps: Children Tear Up, Burn U.S. Flags, Pictures Of Trump (MEMRI)
On July 1, 2019, the PLO's Higher Council for Youth and Sports (HCYS) announced the opening of 625 summer camps, 425 of them in the West Bank and 200 in Gaza, attended by 40,000 campers, and added that this summer's camps are held under the slogan "This Is Our Home and Jerusalem Is Ours."[1] This summer, too, alongside usual summer-camp activities the camps also offered political activities, intended to inculcate various political messages, including the importance of the Palestinian struggle and of the right of return, the centrality of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, and glorification of martyrdom.[2] The camps have names such as "'Omar Abu Laila" (after the perpetrator of a recent terrorist attack in the West Bank) and "[Palestine] from the River to the Sea," and some groups of campers are named after cities in the 1948 territories, like Haifa, Acre and Jaffa.
Special focus is placed this year on the right of return and on opposition to the U.S.-led Middle East peace plan known as the Deal of the Century, which is expected to be announced soon and which, according to certain leaks and assessments, will not include the right of return.[3] At a summer camp in the Tulkarm governorate campers even tore up and burned American flags and pictures of U.S. President Donald Trump.
HCYS chairman and Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub explained that the summer camps were "a basic component in shaping the campers' awareness of two main issues: that Palestine is our home and nothing can replace it, and the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa mosque." He also stressed that the HCYS "has shouldered and always will shoulder the task of raising an educated and aware generation, according to our national principles."[4]
This report reviews some of the activities at the camps operated by the PLO's HCYS during the first days after their launching: ...
Inga kommentarer:
Skicka en kommentar