Introduction
Education and Activities 1.
From a report on the PA's Children’s Committee on Education
- Girl: 3. “The camp theater group is planning to put on a play called “The Land – My Land”, a national play which talks about the Palestinian’s devotion to his land even if it costs him his life.” [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 14, 1998] 4.
Member of Parliament, Jamilla Zidam said: Songs 1.
Han Yunes Summer Camp. Boy sings:
" I came to you with my sword in hand…we will oust them [Israel] out to the sea. Your day is coming, conqueror, then we will settle accounts. Our accounts are unending in stones and bullets." [Palestinian Authority TV, July 2, 1998] (The same song was sung by a girl on PA TV, July 7, 1998) 2. In a Han Yunes summer camp a boy calls out and his class shouts after him: Boy: "Youth win! Class: Youth win!" Boy: "Trained with weapons Class: Trained with weapons" Boy: "Revolution Class: Revolution" Boy: "Revolution until victory Class: Revolution until Victory" [Palestinian Authority TV, July 2, ’97] 3. In the program on the summer camps, on the parade grounds, one of the military trainers calls out and the children repeat after him: “We have an obligation towards our country We will protect her, both young and old I am in a group of 500 My children are my redemption My children, my children, oh, my country are in the suicide squad… As
long as the mine explodes 4.
In the program about the summer camps, one trainee recites: 5.
In the program about the summer camps, one boy sings: Onward,
to Jihad 6.
In the summer camp a boy recites:
7. In the summer camp, and boy sings:
Introduction Summer Camp Goal – Military Training for Children 1.
“Lieutenant Muhammad Matir of the Presidential Security Forces,
who is responsible for the military training in the camp, believed
that military training is obligatory for all participants in the struggle
of our people, until we arrive at the point where all our people are
well versed in military subjects. He added: “we also teach the
girls the same military commands that the soldier learns.” 2.
“The camp commander…explained that the program has a number
of aspects and among them is the focus on the military side, this
is in order to create a generation which will be able to handle all
possibilities. According to him: “Our people know the one truth
and that is that the past is over, the present is here, and the future
is open to all possibilities…” 3.
The camp commander said: 4.
The camp commander says:
5. In the program on the summer camps, dedicated
to the issue of food supplies to the camp, the narrator says: 6.
In the program about the summer camps, the person in charge of supplies
: Training, Symbols and Texts: 1.
“Lieutenant Manzar Zwayd held a lecture on the technical and
tactical characteristics of the rifle…” [Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, July 9, 1998] Additional military activities for youth "The second training course in memory of the fallen soldier Halil Elwazir began yesterday. This course is military and voluntary, closed [held] in coordination with the Prevention Arm of the Security Staff at Tel Alhu Headquarters. Also, the first volunteer training course, ‘Jerusalem’, for ages 12-16 started yesterday and will continue for one month, in coordination with the Naval Police and with the participation of 80 young men. It has also been decided that a third training course in memory of Halil Elwazir will begin today, with the participation of 100 young men and in coordination with the Military Intelligence Apparatus…and it will continue for a full month." [Palestinian Authority TV, July 19, 1998]
Part 3: Introduction Activities
2. (From occupied Jerusalem) “Under the title
’50 years of Occupation’ and under the slogan: ‘we
will not forget and we will not forgive’, the Palestinian Training
Center opened…the summer camp…that will concentrate its
activities this year on the subject of 50 years of occupation. The
activities will include visits to the destroyed villages in the Jerusalem
region: Dir Yassin, Ein Karem, Malha, Amuas, Lifta and the Old City
of Jerusalem…[all in Israeli]” 3. "A “Kite Happening” was held in Gaza under the name ‘Kites with No Borders. The kites bore the names of the Arab villages [in Israeli] that were destroyed in 1948. One of the organizers: “This happening is called ‘Kites with No Borders” so that the names of the villages that were destroyed will reach over the borders to the Palestinian youth.” [Palestinian Authority TV, June 27, 1998] 4.
“A delegation from the program: ‘Children with No Borders’
…from the Alfuar Refugee Camp concluded its visit in the city
of the fallen soldiers – Sachnin [in Israel]– at the request
of the new party, in Lod [Israeli city]…the delegation visited
the mayor, the monument for the martyrs of Land Day and the villages
from which they were banished … the delegation also accepted
an invitation to participate in the summer camps in Acre and Nazareth
[Israeli cities]..." 5.
"The directors of the program ‘Children with No Borders,
which belongs to the Palestinian Child Cultural Center in the Alfuar
Refugee Camp, received an invitation from the Arab Academicians Institute
in Acre [in Israel]…to participate in a meeting…in order
to coordinate the participation of the [children of] the program ‘Children
with No Borders’ - within the camp program ‘Connection
with No borders’, which will take place at Acre Beach [in Israel]…" 1.
Group names: 2.
“Abed El Aziz Abu Hatmah, the
Political Coordinator gave a lecture to the “Safed” brigade,
and the Political Guide Fuzy Braha gave a lecture to the Dir Yassin
and Tiberias brigades on the subject of the geography of Palestine”. 3. “The commander [of the camp] said…they were divided into four brigades, which carry the names of the Palestinian cities that were destroyed by the occupation in 1948.”[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 21, 1998] 4. The commander of the ‘Scientists” summer camp: “the names of the children’s groups are the names of the villages and cities of before such as Dir Yassin, Dir Snin, Almajdal, etc.” [Palestinian Authority TV, July 17, 1998] 5. “[The camp commander said]…The directorship for political and national guidance has taken upon itself to inform the camp participants that Palestine and all its cities and villages are our property and we are hers… He added that there is a committee that deals with the preparation of maps which display our Palestinian villages and cities that the occupation destroyed in the process of conquering our land.” [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 12, 1998] The map of Palestine – includes all of the State of Israel 1.
On a report from the summer camps displays a giant map of “Palestine”,
which erases all of the State of Israel. The reporter, standing next
to the map, describes the self-sacrifice needed for Palestine. 2.
In a report on the Children’s Conference on Education, the participants
wore shirts with the map of “Palestine” erasing all of
the State of Israel. Songs and Training 1.
Four girls sing and dance: 2.
In a report on the summer camps: 3. "Vice General Abu Salam [The General Supervisor of the summer camps] said that we will not forget the names of our cities and the villages that were destroyed by the occupation, and we say to Netanyahu and his party that we will always work for the liberation..." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 12, 1998] 4. A children’s television clip which was aired tens of times in the last months, depicts all of the country as Palestine and the Israelis as those who “took everything in 1948.” The following is the some of the main text: “My Country Her Name is Palestine” (children play and sing:) “My
box in my room, the room of my house, the house of my neighborhood,
the neighborhood of my country and my country is very beautiful, there
are houses and oranges and neighbors and trees…” At
the end of the clip, the children introduce themselves by first name
and city, identifying their homes as places in Israel: a boy from
Kfar Kassem, Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa and others.
[Palestinian
Authority TV, June 4, 1998 - 2000]
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