Teen's family furious at Fatah

[drdon326]

The family of a 15-year-old from a refugee camp near Nablus, sent by a Fatah cell to blow up soldiers, is outraged that the boy was recruited. Muhammad Mustafa al-Nadi's relatives told reporters they were fed up with Fatah.

Four Palestinian teens, 15 and 16, recruited by Fatah Tanzim in Nablus to carry out suicide bombings, were among eight cell members arrested by security forces in recent weeks, according to details released by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Wednesday.

The Shin Bet noted an alarming increase in the recruitment of minors, considered more likely to evade security checks.

"We had quiet," there was no reason to revert to violence which will "ruin everything," school friends of Nadi told reporters. Nadi was arrested at the Hawara checkpoint when he was found to be carrying two pipebombs that he planned to detonate near soldiers. He was recruited by Mahmed Hashash, 17, who was also later arrested.

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When your own people begin to turn on you, figure youre in trouble.

[Village Idiot]

1. People seem to forget:

In industrialized nations, there is apparently going to be a decline in polulation of 20% over the next 50 years. Over the same period, the population of developing nations will more than DOUBLE.

There are many, many, many more teenagers in third world countries than ever before, clearly dissatisfied with their lot, seeing FIRSTHAND what American Hegemony is all about.

If families are upset at recruiting practices NOW, wait 10 years and see how much worse it can get...

Frightening.

[Colorado Blue]

2. You're correct, I think, about the rising populations in the

developing worlds.

But, I think despair is premature:)

Youth in many regions is reaching out to the opportunities presented by the modern, hi-tech world. It's incumbent upon us, I think, to reach back, in a way that embraces diversity and eschews racism and cultural snobbery.

Hopelessness and grinding poverty have ALWAYS been enemies and must remain a priority, I think.

It's too late to go backwards. I don't think we can turn our back on technology, but must use it to help us maintain our planet and benefit both the environment and our growing populations.

I really fear what will happen if the people of the world get stuck and waste all their time and energy hating each other, or longing for the past instead of creating for the future.

We're really in desperate shape environmentally. Fundamentalist religious movements are very dangerous - they prevent science, rational thought, and creativity; and at worst, foment violence. Huge multinational businesses bring economy of scale, but supress individual entrepreneurship and crush creativity. We need to find a balance - here at home as well as on a global scale.

And, for the modern world to be ignoring regions like Africa is more than a crime - it's sinful, deeply wrong.

Yet, we persist in withholding funds for women's issues, for example, because certain countries allow abortion. People are suffering and dying, for want of simple operations, birth control and advice about the simplest reproductive issues. That makes me crazy.

If we DON'T go forwards, we're going to be facing terrible shortages of basics - food, water, air, fuel - and that will result in global war.

I think we can prevent this but it's going to be hard work. And a priority in the West will be to stay together, not allow our own cultures to be re-fragmented by hatred along old nationalistic and religious or racial lines.

We need to think globally, internationally, without falling into xenophobic patterns. That's going to be very difficult because it means breaking human habits that have been with us since the caves.

What do you think?