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But no education of Arab children would be complete without the actual witnessing of bru-
tality and violence. Arab nations execute most of their victims in public squares. In Baghdad’s Lib-
eration Square, for example, when Jews were hanged, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis converged
on the square “to view the bodies dangling on the gallows; large parties of school children [were]
taken to view the scene” (Laffin, The Arab Mind, p. 109).

Several thousand Israelis have
been brutally murdered by Arab terror-
ists, many of those murdered were
women and children. The weak and in-
nocent have always been prime targets
for Arab terrorists. Typical attacks
took place in April 1994: A 23 year-old
mother was stabbed seven times as she
nursed her two-week old baby -- mi-
raculously both the mother and baby
survived. A bus taking on high school
pupils in Afula was the target for a car
bomb in which eight died and another
51 were injured, some critically -- sev-
ered limbs were strewn over a wide
area. The car was detonated right next Symbol of Arafat’s Fateh Organization. Shows two
to the bus. Investigation revealed that guns superimposed over map of Israel with a grenade
“the car, which had been stolen, con- underneath.
tained several gas canisters to increase
the force of the explosion, and a large quantity of nails to maximize the number of wounded. Many
of the victims were teenagers from two nearby junior high schools where classes had just let out.
‘Two boys were burning like torches. They came running toward me, and I took one and doused the
flames with a rag, and then I ripped off his clothes,’ said Albert Amos, 43, a driving teacher. ‘He
was burned all over. When I touched him, pieces of his skin came off in my hand. The other boy was
put into an ambulance. He was shouting: ‘What happened to me? What did I do?’”

The great majority of the victims of the 1974 massacres in Kiryat Shmonah and Ma’alot
were children, and those murders were “publicly applauded throughout the Arab world” (Laffin,
The Arab Mind, p. 167), just as the recent destruction of the World Trade Center in New York was.
The Kiryat Shmonah massacre left 18 dead, including five women and eight children. The attack on
the Ma’alot school left 20 dead and wounded another 70, nearly all children. “In Arab thought,”
says Laffin, “a victim is responsible for his own suffering. Against all this it is pointless to appeal to
conscience and ask, ‘How can you wage war on children?’ Given a lifetime’s indoctrination, a man
can wage war on anyone” (ibid., p. 168).

A word needs to be added here concerning the February 1994 massacre of 29 Moslems in a
Hebron mosque by Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish doctor from Kiryat Arba. The mosque was in the
Cave of the Patriarchs (cave of Machpelah, Genesis 25:8-10), where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah,
Rebekah and Leah are all buried. The area inside the Cave of the Patriarchs is partitioned, enabling
Jews to pray there also.

The Berean Voice November-December 2002