Hamas kindergarten graduation video.

[funflower]

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1468wmv&ak=null

[WiseButAngrySara]

1. Do you know how much money the American taxpayers have given to Israel

since 1949? 3 to 4 MILION Dollars PER DAY. They have nuclear weapons because of the US. How much has the US given to the Palestinians? They have to use rocks. And they have to use their children also I suppose.

[WiseButAngrySara]

2. Edited to add I didn't even bother to watch this propaganda

video.

[funflower]

3. Are you suggesting it is fake? I have no idea. Perhaps it is.

It was posted by the webmaster on Richard Dawkins' website, and I tend to find that website rather credible. Dawkins is very opposed to religious indoctrination of children, so you can see what ax he is attempting to grind. I don't think he has any agenda as to Israel and Palestine.

[Matsubara]

4. Hamas teaches hate. Israel oppresses. America aids and abets.

There is no good guy in this story, only the underdog, which happens to be the Palestinians.


(Counts down until this is moved to the I/P forum or is deleted altogether... 3...2... 1...)

[funflower]

5. It's about the misuse of religion. Not about Israel and Palestine.

Somewhat analogous to the "Jesus Camp" clips. But even sadder.

[Matsubara]

6. Tell that to the mods.

I don't have a horse in that race.


All organized, groupthink-promoting religions are f***ed as far as I'm concerned.

[funflower]

7. Whatever. The point is lost if it's seen as about politics. n/t

[WiseButAngrySara]

8. No offense meant to you. I'm tired of the useless human

slaughter. I could not watch this clip and should have never commented on it. Couldn't get past the initial view of the children you labeled as 'Hamas' when they are clearly just kids. They are entrapped in this adult evil caused largely by the US and Israel as much as Hamas.

[funflower]

9. I believe the meaning (not mine) was that the school was operated

by Hamas, not that the children are Hamas. Dawkins is very, very opposed to ever labeling children in any way, so I doubt that anyone associated w/ him would call children "Hamas" any more than they would label them "Tory" or "Catholic."

They are certainly entrapped in adult psychopathology. I'm extremely troubled by the injection of irrational and violent ideas into the minds of children - whether it's in the middle east or the middle U.S..