Angela Bertz

Everyday of the week these oversized and colorful creatures come out to play, beaming out their message to millions of little children around the world. Their message is a simple one; they love each other, hugging is great and hey if you want to play your parents up just a little bit at bedtime, well that’s ok.

Tarabisho is a talking chick. He's cute and yellow and wears a little black hat. He beams out his message to thousands of little Palestinian children. In glaring contrast to the Teletubbies, this rather putrid piece of poultry is used as a tool to poison the minds of little children. It spews out Palestinian propaganda designed to brainwash impressionable young minds.

For example, this talking chick was the center of a discussion on the importance of trees. The moderator (he looked about 12) asked Tarabisho what he would do if "a little boy" were to chop down his trees. Tarabisho plumped himself up to his full 20 centimeters and in a squeaky little voice said: "I'll fight him and make a big riot; I'll call the whole world and make a riot. I'll bring AK-47s [assault rifles] and the whole world; I'll commit a massacre in front of the house."

This delightful little show appeared on Palestinian TV on October 22, 2004.

Al-Kihta or Al-Kua is a Palestinian term used to describe locally manufactured hand bombs. As'ad, 14, still keeps his amputated finger that he lost while playing with one of these contraptions. He stares at his disfigured hand and says "I want to keep it. It is my finger".

As'ad is not the first casualty of this cottage industry—tens of children have lost their limbs or even their lives from these bombs. A commander of the terrorist Al-Aksa Martyr's Brigade has denied reports that the organization intends children to participate in military resistance activities. He went on to lament that the reason behind so many injuries to children is that some resistance fighters have been known to store explosives in certain areas frequented by children. Apparently it is purely coincidental that children then play with them.
Rami, another victim of these explosives, had three fingers amputated. He knows the materials are dangerous, but goes on to say: What can we do? This is the only thing remaining for youths to do.

Abdullah Quraan was 11 years old when he arrived at a checkpoint near Nablus. He attracted the attention of Israeli soldiers when the bag on his back seemed too heavy for him and there were wires dangling outside. The terrorists who had planted the bomb in the boy's bag were watching from a distance. When they realized their plot had been foiled they dialed a cell phone in the bag, which had it rung would have detonated the bomb, killing both the child and the soldiers. Fortunately there was a fault preventing the bomb from going off.

Abdullah was relieved of his bag and the 8 kilo bomb was safely detonated. It transpired that the terrorists had given this child approximately $3.35 to carry the bomb across the checkpoint. Had he succeeded it would have been handed over to be used for the mass murder of countless innocent people in Israel.

This is the cheap price of Palestinian terrorism where innocent children are literally "a dime a dozen".

On September 22, 2004 Alfatah, the Hamas magazine for children, showed a picture of a pretty Palestinian girl on the front page. The picture shows this young girl with her severed head lying on the ground under the caption: "Suicide bomber Zainab Abu Salem. Her head separated from her pure body, and her Ra'ala (Moslem head scarf) remains to decorate her face. Her place is in Paradise.”

This heroic young woman was on her way into Israel to commit mass murder. Only the alertness of two young Israeli soldiers, barely older than this brainwashed young woman and just out of basic training, prevented a far worse massacre. Both the young boys lost their lives while confronting her. She was turned into a cult hero.

This year Sky news had access to a Palestinian summer camp. No capers in the pool or frolics on the basketball court for these children, some of them as young as 10 years old. The camp was run by a group called the Popular Resistance Committee. Activities centered round drilling these youngsters to make war on Israel. Many of these children were dwarfed by their AK-47 assault rifles as they were taught to carry out ambushes. One of the camp highlights was an obstacle course where children were made to crawl under barbed wire and leap through hoops of fire, while live bullets were fired overhead by their instructors. At the end of the course the children received certificates.

On October 12, 2000 two Israeli reservists took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah. They sought refuge in a police station which was soon taken over by a bloodthirsty Palestinian lynch mob. These savages beat and stabbed the two men. They gouged out their eyes and literally disemboweled them. The highlight of this attack came when one of the ringleaders held up his bloodied hands to a cheering crowd.

Almost two years later a kindergarten in Gaza took the much-loved activity of hand painting to an all time low of depravity. Beaming parents cheered ecstatically as their children, dressed in clothing to represent this Ramallah lynch mob, held up little red painted hands at their graduation ceremony.

The Palestinians use the media and especially television to indoctrinate their children in hatred. Since the beginning of the intifada in 2000, television segments designed to promote a longing for death have been used on an almost daily basis. They are beamed out continuously to thousands of impressionable youngsters who come to believe that their greatest value in life is through their young deaths.

In Israel every mother longs for the day when she can say "My son the doctor". The height of every Palestinian mother's aspiration is to say "My son the shahid (martyr).

The Palestinan Authority has succeeded in removing every mother's natural instinct, which is to protect her child at all costs. In September 2004, Palestinian Authority TV again ran a formerly popular segment called the "Farewell letter clip". It teaches children to aspire to Shahada Martyrdom, calling it sweet. In this particular scene, civilians are shown attacking Israelis with a hand grenade. To maximize the impact the camera shifts to slow motion as one of the attackers falls dead. His body is brought to his mother who kisses him, then raises her hand above her mouth to give the traditional Arab call of joy. After this scene, she dramatically hands the rifle to her next son so he too can fight and die for this noble cause.

Many of these mothers have been interviewed on TV and far from expressing repulsion or sorrow, speak proudly of their sons and how they walk with their head held high in the streets. They say their children’s action brings honor to the family and people now say as she walks the streets: "There goes the mother of the Shahid."

Of course thousands of dollars, often donated by the Saudis, go a long way in cushioning the blow as such a mother looks longingly in the direction of her other seven sons.

Children as young as three have been so well taught that interviewed on TV, they will say they hate Jews. What sort of society produces children of this age expressing hatred toward others, children of an age where they would normally only be able to express a feeling of hatred towards a certain vegetable or a pair of socks.

Yasser Arafat once said his best weapon was the Palestinian mother's womb. Golda Meir said: "We can only have peace with the Palestinians when they love their children more than they hate Israel."

From May 8-10, 2002 a special Session of the General Assembly on Children convened at the United Nations. It was attended by a Palestinian Arab delegation. The focus of the delegation’s address to the assembly on May 9th was the state of Palestinian children. They said that these children continued to be denied the rights guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Declaration on the Rights of the Child. They went on to stress that this was the result of the continuing denial by Israel, the occupying Power, of even the most basic of these children’s rights.

One can only wonder from what planet these delegates were coming from. The UN, rather than pass the time slapping Israel with endless resolutions of condemnation, should have been treated to a heavy dose of PA TV programs for children. Then they could have profitably passed a number of needed resolutions against the Palestinian Authority for its blatant abuse of the children whom it is their duty to protect..

Maybe the Palestinian delegates—if they genuinely had the slightest concern for children— could start by insisting their own government reverse its campaign of 24/7 hate incitement, not just from TV, but from mosques, schools and homes. The Palestinian authorities have deliberately targeted these poor children to believe in nothing worthy, only this horrible death cult they have deliberately and systematically created for them.

For this, Israel is blameless.

That Palestinian delegation could make a start by taking Tarabisho, the evil talking chick, out to a field at the dead of night, strap him with explosives and detonate him so he can talk no more.

After that maybe the Palestinian Authority could take a leaf out of one of the trees that flourish in Teletubby land and allow Palestinian Arab children the basic right of every child – their innocence.

Angela Bertz lives in Israel and is a frequent contributor to IsraPundit