A donkey was murdered this past March.
He didn’t do anything to deserve it. A loyal worker and never too stubborn, he didn’t have much choice in his last task. It wasn’t enough for them to wrap explosives, chemicals and rusty nails on men and women, but now they resorted to abusing animals.
One of the Palestinian Authority’s most recent tactics is to strap explosives to animals and send them toward Israelis. When the donkey is brought close enough to the victims, the explosives are detonated. The nails are added in to tear apart any flesh that somehow escaped the explosives.
How is Israel supposed to react to this? Run away whenever they see a donkey? Kill every suspicious donkey in sight? Killing random animals that didn’t do anything is wrong?
Arafat and his cronies have even managed to piss off the organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA was so alarmed by the use of animals in an effort to murder Israelis that they sent Arafat a letter demanding he stop this gross act. He never responded, probably too busy siphoning Palestinian-aid dollars to his private Swiss bank accounts.
The Palestinian Authority has repeatedly put Israel in impossible situations, whether by sending animals into the battlefront or using children as human shields. Children are encouraged to stand in the front lines throwing rocks at soldiers while armed terrorists behind them fire weapons and throw grenades.
These tactics are sick, almost as sick as the Palestinian tactic of using children to murder. Palestinian TV is state-run and directly controlled by Arafat’s regime. There is one non-cable channel, and hours upon hours a day of television shows are broadcasted and aimed explicitly at children, which glorify dying for one’s country and becoming a shahid, or martyr. Children are on TV shows and filmed speaking about how they have no fear of dying. Mothers speaking about how they wish all their children could die for their country are repeatedly televised.
This state-sponsored brainwashing of Palestinian children to encourage them to kill, murder and die is not only disgusting, but a crime against humanity. The state controlled school system’s textbooks educate kids to kill and blow up Jews.
Their history books contain no reference to the Holocaust ever happening, and no map will show the existence of Israel. I challenge anybody to find such messages of hate or murder on any of Israel’s television stations or in any textbook, especially directed at the most vulnerable group, the children.
Arafat and his tyranny have to come to an end, so that peace can begin. Just as the United States could have never had peace with a Mussalini in Italy, a Hitler in Germany or a Tojo in Japan after World War II, Israel can try as hard as possible for peace, but cannot achieve peace with an Arafat in the Palestinian Territories.
Throughout the entirety of the peace process, the Palestinian Authority has never once stopped promoting and glorifying terrorism on television. The PA must stop exploiting the innocent to kill the innocent.
Information from frontpagemag.com, pmw.org and peta.org was used in this column.
Gilad Skolnick is a Collegian columnist.
