Thursday, July 01, 2010

Day Camps in Gaza

From Patterico's Pontifications by DRJ:
Gaza's summer day camps for children are really, really competitive:
"Masked men trashed a U.N. summer camp Monday, tying up guards and slashing tents and an inflatable pool in the second such attack blamed on suspected extremists in just over a month – a sign of how, in Gaza, youth camp is not just about crafts and volleyball.
Rival day camps by the United Nations and Gaza's Islamic militant Hamas rulers compete for the hearts of the next generation, the roughly 700,000 children under 15 who make up nearly half of the Gaza Strip's population.
Hamas camps teach an anti-Israeli doctrine and military-style marching, along with horseback riding, swimming and Islam. U.N. camps try to instill hope in a better future, a message wrapped in fun and games."
The article has more details on what kids do in the Hamas camps and the UN camps. Once again, the "good works" of Hamas are distinguished from its terrorist actions, but it's a dangerous distinction that leads to children taught to celebrate their own mother's death:

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