By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
Nov 01, 2004
Three Israeli Jews were murdered Monday when a Arab teenager convinced by “Palestinian” terrorists to become a killer blew himself up among shoppers in a Tel Aviv vegetable market.
More than 30 other people were wounded in the attack. Six of the victims were still listed in serious-to-critical condition Monday evening.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed credit for the attack.
The bomber was identified by his terrorist handlers as 16-year-old Amar al-Far.
Plan ‘B’
Al-Far reportedly made his way from the biblical Samarian town of Shechem to Jerusalem overnight, where he decided security was too tight to successfully carry out an attack.
He then traveled to Tel Aviv, where police believe illegal “Palestinian” workers assisted him in infiltrating the Carmel Market with his explosive device.
‘Distraught’ mother
His mother, Samira Abdullah, expressed frustration that the terror groups would recruit someone who was too young to fully appreciate his actions.
"They should have sent an adult who understands the meaning of his deeds,” Abdullah was quoted as saying.
Culture of death
The use of teenage Arab boys by “Palestinian” terrorists in their war against Israel’s Jews has become common occurrence during the Oslo War.
On numerous occasions, Palestinian Arab teens have been caught attempting to smuggle bombs through IDF checkpoints and infiltrate Jewish communities.
The phenomenon repeated itself on Monday, when IDF soldiers manning a checkpoint outside Shechem caught a 13-year-old Arab boy carrying a bag containing a large bomb.
Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch points to the systematic indoctrination of “Palestinian” youth to idolize murder and death as the culprit.
PMW regularly documents the use of PA-controlled children’s television programs to incite Arab youth to violence.
Last month, Marcus reported on a particularly disturbing PA TV clip dubbed “Farewell Letter,” which “attempts to make ‘martyrdom’ appear desirable to children.”
Shot from a child’s perspective, the “clip shows a child expressing his desire to die in which he explicitly tells his mother in his letter to be joyous” over the spilling of his blood as he murders Israeli Jews.
A complimentary clip shot from a mother’s perspective “features five civilian (non-uniformed) gunmen, armed with automatic rifles, who set out to murder Israelis. One of the gunmen is seen running towards Israeli fire until he attacks the Israelis with a hand grenade, after which, in slow motion, he is shot and falls dead to the ground.”
”When his body is brought to his mother, she kisses him and raises her hand above her mouth and calls out the traditional Arab call of joy. Afterwards, she stoically hands the rifle to the next in line, presumably also her next son, to continue fighting and dying.”
The inclusion of anti-Israel slurs in official school textbooks and the naming of children’s sports teams after known “suicide” bombers are further violations of the PA’s commitment to train a new generation of “Palestinians” for peaceful coexistence with Israel’s Jews.