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It starts early: Netanyahu warns first graders Hamas is trying to kill them

Some behaviors are so bizarre that they require no commentary except by qualified psychiatrists. I shall therefore not comment on a speech Benjamin Netanyahu gave on September 1st, the first day of the Israeli school year, to a classroom of first-graders in Ashkelon. I shall simply translate and emphasize that he is speaking to six-year-old boys and girls. (Comments in brackets are mine. Translation ends at the 2:05 mark)

“… I want you to be not only excellent, but also Zionists [it rhymes in Hebrew]. We have only one land and it is this land. We must defend it. The first lesson in first grade was “Shalom [peace] first grade”, with emphasis on the “peace”. We educate our children for peace. A few kilometers from here, Hamas is teaching its children the opposite of peace and occasionally it tries to shoot at us, at you, and my policy is clear: zero restraint, zero containment, zero tolerance for terrorism. We respond to every launch into our territory, whether by overt or by covert operations, and we also foil terrorism, as we did yesterday in Jenin, and I wish a full recovery to the IDF soldier who was wounded. We want peace, but first we shall protect our land, we shall protect our children, we shall protect you. This is our first obligation—the security of you children. I want you to know it; it’s important.”

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Is there not a way to get rid of this idiot ?

well, this really explains the mentality of so many Israelis. If they are brainwashed to this extent starting so early, one almost can’t blame them. What Netanyahu is doing is really criminal — teaching these children that Palestinian children are essentially evil because they are being taught by Hamas. This is how the dehumanizing of Palestinians starts, and we see the effects that it has. It’s shocking to me the world puts up with this horrible human being. And shocking that he is so stupid he can’t see that what he’s doing is basically the same as what the Nazis did.

If this clown really wanted to teach “peace” he would have mentioned diplomacy, giving innocent civilians their rights, ending the occupation, lifting the blockades, and giving Hamas no reason to want to attack them. Despite the accusations that Hamas is teaching their children the opposite of Peace, by action Bibi is doing the same thing – poisoning young minds and teaching them to hate the boogeyman. I wonder why he does not differentiate between Hamas and the majority of unarmed civilians who suffer under Israel’s occupation, and how about telling these young minds that they have the right to defend themselves from their mighty weapons too?
Bibi must want to keep the narrative that the world is out to get them in their “own lands” very desperately – he is relating the doomsday scenarios too early in their lives.
Now where is that cartoon bomb? No props need this time Beebs?

This is why they have their segregated school system, because of the different messages they need to send to the young ‘uns. The Jews get the one articulated above while the Palestinians and other non-Jews are instructed to be obedient and grateful and not make trouble.

I take heart that there is at least one or two non-comformists in that classroom right now.

As the Jesuits say, “Give me the boy at seven, and I will give you the man.” (Glad I never was taught by Jesuits.)