I’ve just seen a video that chills the spine: (If the above link does not work, right-click it and then click “open in new The video, directed by Itamar Marcus, begins with a voiceover: “‘Ask for death’ “Shahada [dying for Allah in battle] is a very, very beautiful thing,” says Walla. “Everyone “Of course Shahada is a good thing,” says Yussra. “We don’t want this world, we want the The video clip of 6 minutes and 40 seconds is labeled as the product of What is peculiar, which made me suspicious of the video’s origin — though not of its Notice the difference in the names of the groups. My feeling was that Palestinian Regardless of who’s co-opting whom, “Ask for Death” has to be seen I’ve just seen a video that chills the spine: “Ask for Death.” Assuming the edited film clips are sponsored by the Palestinian Authority, as claimed, and that the translations from the Arabic are accurate, it shows what jihadist brain-washing looks like in children: calm belief that masks a terrifying, homicidal rationale for religious suicide attacks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfor Death.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> Assuming the edited film clips are sponsored by the
\nPalestinian Authority, as claimed, and that the translations from the Arabic are accurate, it shows
\nwhat jihadist brain-washing looks like in children: calm belief that masks a terrifying, homicidal
\nrationale for religious suicide attacks. <\/P>
\n
\nwindow.”)<\/P>
\n
\nis the message the Palestinian Authority has been conveying to its children since the start of
\nviolence in October 2000.” It continues with two earnest 11-year-old girls interviewed on
\nofficial Palestinian television.<\/P>
\n
\nyearns for Shahada.”<\/P>
\n
\nAfterlife. We benefit not from this life, but from the Afterlife. Oh Lord, I would like to become a
\nShahid.” <\/P>
\n
\nWatch<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>. It is
\ndocumentation<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (including fuller quotations from both
\ngirls).<\/P>
\n
\nbasic validity — is that the
\npro-Palestine, anti-Israel advocacy group associated with Noam Chomsky, while the video is
\nobviously pro-Israel and anti-Palestine. <\/P>
\n
\nMedia Watch<\/STRONG> had co-opted the name of its opposing site in the propaganda
\nwar. But, in fact, it’s the other way around. The pro-Israeli PMW associated with Marcus
\nwas established in 1996. The pro-Palestine PMW associated with Chomsky was begun in
\n2000.<\/P>
\n
\nto appreciate the depth of the horror that has infected the Middle East and
\nnow threatens the rest of the world.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"