Israel is fighting a phenomenon among Arab youth that dates back to their preschool years: the brainwashing implanted via Palestinian Authority children’s television programming approved and even praised by PA leader Mahmoud Abbas.
“I heard my friends had attacked Jews at the Damascus Gate over the weekend and I decided I too would carry out an attack and avenge them,” a 14-year-old Arab teenager confessed.p
The young wannabe terrorist was arrested Monday in the Jewish section of Jerusalem’s Old City after he was noticed by alert police officers acting suspiciously; when they questioned and then searched him, they found the knife with which he had planned to carry out his terror attack.
A resident of the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat — a hotbed of incitement against Israel and home to headquarters for several terrorist organizations — the teen is only 14 and a half years old.
But he told investigators during questioning he had decided to carry out an attack after seeing the glorification of his friends’ “martyrdom” at the Damascus Gate entrance to the Old city on Palestinian Authority television.
The young suspect reached the Old City and then began to look around to get his bearings before seeking a target. At that point alert police deployed in the area noticed him in a place where he didn’t seem to belong, acting suspiciously, and began to investigate.
The decision by police from the David Division Police Unit to question and search the teen revealed his weapon — and saved countless lives.