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July 31, 2008
How Arab Children Spend Their Summer Vacations: Learning to Kill Jews
Arab girls in Gaza summer practice killing Jews with a
model of a Quds missile.
I'm sitting here working on a script. There's a Reluctant Hero overcoming all sorts of impossible obstacles in order to achieve his goal. There's The Love Interest, a wise-cracking babe who's like totally messing with Reluctant Hero's head. She's Gloria Grahame—but even scarier, which is to say your basic irresistible femme fatale. There are my antagonists, really bad guys, from a really sick culture, out to destroy my really Reluctant Hero and subvert his really important mission.
Gloria Grahame, femme fatale, A Woman's Secret (1949)
At one point, I get kind of stuck. I dunno, sometimes my brain just goes thataway.
Quick, dial up my agent using my new Bluetooth device—oh man, I feel just like Buck Rogers—my agent is reassuringly down to earth, a great sounding board and I go:
“I'm stuck here because blah, blah, blah.”
My agent goes: “Set up a battle, and have your hero kill a whole bunch of bad guys, and we think it's all over, but then, somehow, it turns around and your hero is in even deeper do. Then in Act III you get to pull him out and he completely annihilates the bad guys and their entire set-up. A real blood bath. Good triumphs over evil. Any other questions?”
I'm like, okey dokey.
My agent's also an arch Hollywood liberal—big shockeroo—and we have a great time kibitzing each other.
I tell him he's voting for Obama because B'O looks like that tedious and saintly black Pres. from "24."
He tells me I'm a trigger happy war monger.
Innocent delivery: “What's wrong with that?”
Anyhoo.
After getting this great script advice I cleverly ask my agent about the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas, whose authority extends maybe to the bathroom in the Muqata.
“Israel has to make difficult choices, make some difficult concession,” my agent recites. I'm pretty sure he memorizes the Op-Ed pieces by Nicholas Kristof of the NY Times.
I e-mail him the story below with this note:
Hey, don't you think that a culture that marinates its young in hate, violence, death and Jew-hatred deserves to be treated like the bad guys in my script, y'know, total annihilation?
My agent writes back:
Robert, there is a difference between movies and reality.
I shoot back:
That's a vicious rumor!
My agent responds:
Robert, I'm really worried about your mental health.
Okay, maybe I'm not too normal, but I am sane enough to be worried about a political mind-set that is determined to appease a culture of Islamo Nazis. Olmert might be stepping down—someday—but his approach to the Islamic terrorist culture lives on.
Palestinian children on annual vacation can choose between Hamas or Islamic Jihad summer camps, both of which boast militia-style training, Koran classes, lessons on political prisoners.
In the Gaza Strip, as in Israel, children are currently in the midst of summer vacation, and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s “summer camps” are in full gear. In the past few weeks, the Palestinian groups have been holding camps throughout the strip, some of them proudly displaying rockets and other weaponry.
Hamas alone is currently conducting no less than 300 summer camps for tens of thousands of children, and the focus is on familiarizing kids with the Palestinian towns and cities destroyed in 1948, as well as instilling religious fervor in them. The camps also feature sports and military-type trainings such as crawling under barbed-wire.
Islamic Jihad has also launched its own summer camps, offering some 10,000 children activities similar to those of Hamas. The kids study passages from the Koran and participate in quizzes on religious matters, with emphasis on the required commitment to political prisoners and Palestinian land. They also learn how to hold a Qassam rocket-launcher.
For the complete story, please click here.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at July 31, 2008 10:06 AM
Comments
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But Robert, whose paying for the camps? Haven't we been told (repeatedly) that the Gazans are broke? Methinks some of that nice "aid" money the Palis get from everyone is being used to fund these hatefests.
Far cry from the S'mores and softball games of my summer camp experience. I feel cheated I didn't get to shoot off something like a Quds. A lot more fun than the firecrackers we'd shoot off.
Very sad and sick, especially that ANYONE entertains a notion of making peace with these hate-filled death-worshipping 'people'.
Posted by: Maurice at July 31, 2008 11:09 AM
Another reason to support Sen. Obama - he looks like that take-no-prisoners soldier, Jonas Blane in The Unit. Jonas is even badder than Pres. Palmer.
:-)
Thanks for link!
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at July 31, 2008 11:42 AM
They also learn how to hold a Qassam rocket-launcher.
I'd be glad to teach the little tikes how to hold a rocket launcher. "See, you look into the hole at the end of this barrel here, and with your big toe, you push this little trigger there ..." Works with almost any firearm.
Posted by: kishke at July 31, 2008 12:26 PM
Why is there Hebrew writing on the Quds missile? Does it come from Israel?
Posted by: Raizy at July 31, 2008 01:45 PM
It's made out of an Israeli toilet paper tube; hence, the Hebrew writing.
Posted by: kishke at July 31, 2008 02:19 PM
KISHKE:
what's a toilet paper tube?
RAIZY:
that's funny. regarding how palestinians use israeli products to create weapons i was going to direct you to this post:
http://agmk.blogspot.com/2008/02/arming-our-enemies.html#links
but i see you commented there already. :)
ROBERT:
"Mahmoud Abbas, whose authority extends maybe to the bathroom in the Muqata."
hey, isn't that the only throne that really counts?
shabbat shalom
Posted by: Lion of Zion at August 1, 2008 12:06 AM
Y'know, the cardboard tube inside a roll. Though, come to think of it, Israeli toilet paper doesn't usually come on a roll. Hmmm. Have to think more on this one.
Posted by: kishke at August 1, 2008 05:56 AM
We have 'normal' toilet paper here too!!!
My g-d when was the last time you visited Israel Kiske??
Posted by: Gregg at August 1, 2008 06:24 AM
Kishke how wrong you are--- Israel doesn't even have toilet paper!! WE use leaves.
Posted by: Gregg at August 1, 2008 06:55 AM
Maurice:
Israeli and American tax-payers are paying for these terrorist summer camps. Basically, Jews and Christians are financing a genocidal Muslim state.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at August 1, 2008 09:05 AM
Soccer Dad:
The actor we're speaking of has stated that he modeled his presidential performance in "24" on our "greatest American President—Jimmy Carter."
Welcome to Hollywood.
You're very welcome.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at August 1, 2008 09:08 AM
Kishke:
Your educational model sounds great, maybe the next Muslim Montessori School.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at August 1, 2008 09:11 AM
Raizy:
I'm stumped by the Hebrew writing. Waiting for clarification from someone. Way too big for bathroom tissue tubes.
Hey, I know, It's a Zionist plot!
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at August 1, 2008 09:16 AM
Lion:
Very good, Abbas gets the throne he deserves.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at August 1, 2008 09:18 AM
A while ago. The paper in use then could have been sold as industrial-grade sandpaper.
Posted by: kishke at August 1, 2008 02:41 PM