Indoctrination To Jihad And Resistance In Gaza Kindergartens June 12, 2012 MEMRI http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6448.htm An article on the website of the Al-Quds Brigades documents how children in Gaza kindergartens are indoctrinated to jihad and resistance. The Al-Quds Brigades were founded as the military wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a designated U.S. terrorist organization.[1] In their end-of-year ceremony, the children, dressed in uniforms, act out scenes of fighting jihad, of suffering humiliation and torture in Israeli prisons, etc. The photos that accompany the article also show the children performing military drills, holding a funeral for martyrs lying in coffins, and standing in front of a stage-set representing Al-Aqsa. The article explains that the children of Gaza are raised on the love of jihad, of resistance and of Palestine, and on the massacres and crimes of the Zionists. A kindergarten teacher says that her aim is to raise the kids to be jihad fighters and commanders who will defend the soil of Palestine and Jerusalem, and a little boy says that when he grows up, he wants to fire rockets at the Zionists and carry out a martyrdom operation on a bus. It should be noted that the Al-Quds Brigades website is http://saraya.ps/index.php?act=Show&id=21479, which is hosted by CLOUDFLARE in San Francisco, CA. MEMRI was able to pinpoint the server's location to San Francisco through a variety of techniques, including determining the site's IP address. The following are excerpts and photos from the article: The culture of resistance has been instilled in the minds and hearts of the children of the Gaza Strip, who do not enjoy freedom like the other children in the world, due to the crimes that are perpetrated by the Zionists against them and the rest of the Palestinians, from 1948 until today... They have been raised on the love of jihad, of resistance and of Palestine, and on the massacres and crimes of the Zionists – to the point that their lives, even in kindergarten, have become similar to those of the resistance fighters, in all domains, and it is hoped that they [too] will become jihad fighters. Some of Gaza's children have been martyred, injured or imprisoned, for the crimes of the Zionist enemy throughout Palestine have not passed them by, but have shattered their innocence before their rosy dreams could blossom. A magnificent and glorious scene recurs in Gaza annually at the end-of-year ceremonies in the kindergartens: children enact the role of resistance and jihad [fighters] for the sake of Allah, and the suffering of the Palestinian people and of the heroic prisoners behind the bars of the Zionist [jails]. Among the children are the sons and daughters of martyrs and prisoners, and of commanders who are still marching on the path of jihad. [The children] have undertaken to carry on the legacy of their fathers who have been honored with martyrdom [and are now] in the highest levels [of Paradise], or who are hidden in the darkness of [Israeli] prisons. The Al-Quds Brigades' military propaganda correspondent in Gaza visited one of the kindergartens in the city during the rehearsals for the end-of-year celebration, and watched the ceremony and the wonderful performance that demonstrated the role played by the children in resistance and jihad. After the ceremony, he met the kindergarten director, who said: 'In addition to taking them through the first steps of learning, we must also educate the children to love resistance, Jerusalem and Palestine. They must know what Palestine stands for, who its enemies are, what its importance and role are, and what their future role will be. In our annual end-of-year celebrations, we focus on having them enact the role of jihad and resistance fighters for the sake of Allah. Our aim is that they grow and mature on this noble path of love for the resistance, so they [can] play a prominent role in life and in promoting the Palestinian cause and its sacred enterprise of jihad, and become fighters and commanders of jihad who will defend the soil of Palestine and Jerusalem.' The boy Hamza, whose father is a martyr of the resistance [movement]... and who headed one of the military units in the children's play about the resistance, told our military propaganda correspondent: 'When I grow up, I will [join] the ranks of the Islamic Jihad, and resist the Zionist enemy and fire rockets at him until I die as a martyr and join my father in Paradise.' Dressed in an army uniform, with an Al-Quds Brigade ribbon on his forehead and a wood rifle [in his hand], Hamza added: 'I love the resistance, the martyrs and Palestine. When I grow up, I want to blow myself up among the Zionists on a bus and kill them in a martyrdom operation... I am not afraid of the Zionist planes and tanks, and I fall asleep at night to the sound of the heavy shelling. When I grow up I will fire rockets at them, just as they do to us.' Glory and honor to Palestine and its heroic children, who surpass all the children of the world. They are the men of the future. They will bear the banner of jihad and liberation, and continue on the hard trail that was blazed by the great and the free, so that the [legacy] of jihad will continue and pass from generation to generation. The flag of resistance continues to fly over the beloved homeland.