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Reem el-Reyashi lovingly holding an m-16 in one arm and her daughter in the other. (photo: www.majdah.com/vb)
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| By israelinsider staff and partners March 25, 2007 |
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Hopes of achieving peace between Arabs and Jews were dealt another, long-lasting blow this week.
It happened even as European and American diplomats began meeting with members of the re-constituted, but still Hamas-led, Palestinian Authority (PA), hoping to re-start the stalled land-for-promises-of-peace process.
Tens of thousands of Palestinian children were Wednesday treated to a special television film broadcast from Al-Aqsa TV, a station run by Hamas.
To moving music and heart-rending lyrics, powerful images impacted impressionable viewers throughout Gaza, Judea and Samaria, sowing young hearts with seeds that will one day see a bountiful harvest reaped among their people.
The singer is a little Arab girl, four, perhaps five years old. Her dark eyes fixed on her mother, suicide bomber Reem el-Reyashi, she follows her around the bedroom as she prepares to go out. Curiosity aroused, she wants to know what her mother is putting into the folds of her clothes, why she is donning her veil, where she is going.
Palestinian Media Watch translates the words for us.
"Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me," the girl, whose name is Duha, wants to know. "A toy, or a present for me?"
Without answering the mother tenderly puts Duha and her baby brother, Ubaydah, into their beds, then leaves the house. The children run to watch her from the window. "Come back quickly, Mommy," Duha calls, waving goodbye.
Later the uncomprehending children see images of their mother on the television news. Their father rushes into the room to comfort them. Mommy has blown herself up at the crossing from Gaza "into" Israel. She has killed at least four Jews for the sake of Allah and Mohammed. Seven more have been wounded.
Crying, Duha lies on her bed. Little Ubaydah strokes her, trying to comfort her. "Come back Mommy," Duha sings. We "are awake and waiting for you to come to put us to sleep. [We] still need you to wipe our tears."
The scene changes to show us what happened. Brave, beautiful Reem Riyashi walks towards the crossing. When Israeli soldiers stop her, she blows herself up.
"Instead of me, you carried a bomb in your hands," the orphaned Duha cries, wondering why.
Then, as the camera zooms in on the Dome of the Rock that straddles the Muslim-occupied Temple Mount, she finally understands.
"Only now, I know what was more precious than us. May your steps be blessed, and may you be flawless for Jerusalem," she wails.
"Me and Ubaydah wish we were there with you. Send greetings to our messenger [Mohammed], and tell him, 'Duha loves you.'"
Ominously, the little girl vows that she will not restrict her love for Mohammed to merely "words."
We watch as, in slow motion, she opens the drawer in her dead mother's bedside dresser, reaches in, and takes out explosives.
"I am following Mommy in her steps," she sings bravely, her song ending as she turns to gaze steadily into the camera. "Oh my mother. Oh my mother."
The video formed part of an ongoing program of indoctrination of young Palestinians carried out by the terrorist groups that govern them.
Twenty-two year-old Reem el-Reyashi blew herself up at the Erez crossing, killing three Israeli soldiers and a security guard on January 14, 2004. El-Reyashi was the first female suicide bomber to be sent by Hamas. In the video of the terrorist giving a final statement, el-Reyashi is shown smiling, holding an m-16 rifle in one arm and her daughter Duha in the other.
See the video here
Stan Goodenough of Jerusalem Newswire contributed to this article. |
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