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November 28, 2004

The Suicide Bombers And The Martyr Culture At Al-Najah University In Nablus

The AP has a story today on Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Hamas group, holding a big map of what is now Israel and the Palestinian Territories, including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip , as they participate in the campaign for students' council elections in Al-Najah university in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Sunday Nov. 28, 2004. The map reads in Arabic: 'Muslim Palestine.'

The suicide bomber and martyr culture at Al-Najah University in Nablus began with and continues beyond Arafat in a legacy of death and hatred of Israel. At the beginning of the 2004-2005 school year the youth movements affiliated with the various Palestinian terrorist organizations distributed "propaganda and indoctrination kits" to new students. This respectable, prestigeous academic institution continues to serve as a hothouse for terrorists and suicide bombers, as was illustrated in recent months.  Source...

  The names of 19 shaheeds(suicide bombers), all students at Al-Najah University, appear on the back cover of the "information kit" (image on left, click on image to enlarge-'CSS') distributed by Fatah's Shabiba student movement. All of the student movements on the Al-Najah campus, whether affiliated with Hamas, Fatah, or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, conduct intensive propaganda and indoctrination campaigns, and recruit students for terrorist activities - including suicide bombing attacks against Israel. Source...

According to the Intelligence and Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (CSS) in a Oct 2004 Special Information Bulletin, the terrorist organizations (supported by sympathetic faculty members) work through the student organizations. The most prominent among them are Hamas' Islamic Block, Fatah's Shabiba, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyyah. Of the 13 members of the university student council (including one in Israeli army custody), eight (among them 'Alaa Hamidan, the council chairperson) belong to the Islamic Block, allowing Hamas to enjoy an obvious advantage; three belong to Shabiba and two to other Fronts. The practical outcome of the propaganda and unrest spread by the terrorist organizations at the university is the increasing number of students involved in terrorist attacks, including suicide bombing attacks, within Israeli territory, and the dozens of students who died in such attacks during the current violent confrontation. The organizations promote the students who became "martyrs" as role models to be identified with, and the organizations' members studying at Al-Najah today are called upon to follow in their footsteps.

The suicide bomber and shaheed culture has now spread to other institutions linked to Al-Najah University. For example, at the Hashem al-Hajawi Technical College, which belongs to the University, a great deal of propaganda material, published by all the Palestinian terrorist organizations, was found during an Israeli army operation in August 2004. Among the items confiscated were posters of shaheeds, flags, magazines and pamphlets. In addition, the main campus bulletin board was covered with announcements of the various terrorist organizations, especially Hamas. Read More...

In other words, the symbolic obliteration of Israel in the map displayed by the Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Hamas group at Al-Najah university reported in the AP story today should come as no surprise to anyone remotely familiar with Arafat and his legacy.

Hindrocket at Powerline says in his post today on the AP story that "today a new generation of Palestinian "leaders" are following in the terrorist footsteps of Arafat and his henchmen, preferring the fantasy of genocide to the hard work of dealing with the Palestinians' dysfunctional society, corrupt government, and primitive economy." (Powerline also has the image of the above-mentioned map)

In his Nov 15 Washington Post article entitled "Arafat's Legacy," Charles Krauthammer wrote that while Arafat's death does open a first chance for peace since he took over the Palestinian movement four decades ago, that chance remains remote. Why? Because the revolution continues and Arafat has made sure that it would survive him. Krauthammer also wrote that Arafat created Palestinian nationalism and shaped it in a revolutionary mold that will take years, perhaps decades, to undo. It appears that both Krauthammer and Hindrocket have said the same thing. They indeed are both right. Don't expect anything but the continuance of terrorism in the Palestinian territory for generations to come.

Posted by Hyscience at November 28, 2004 6:19 PM

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