RAFAEL MEDOFF -- Summer is drawing to a close, and many American children will be left with warm memories of summer camps where they enjoyed nature hikes, arts and crafts, and singing around the campfire.
Many Palestinian Arab children attend summer camps, too. But their experiences are rather different.
Fatah, the ruling faction of the Palestinian Authority, has just wrapped up its “Fatah Army Summer Camp.” On the Facebook page of the Fatah Nablus Branch, Secretary-General Muhammad Hamdan explained that the 200 boys and girls were trained “to continue the path of the Martyrs and prisoners [i.e. terrorists] towards freedom and independence.”
Photos on the page show the campers dressed in military fatigues, marching alongside members of the PA Security Forces (PASF) who are holding Kalashnikov assault rifles.