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One of the unique aspects of Israeli education is that the country's school children are not only targets, but priority targets in the ingoing conflictg with the Arabs. In the history of War, this is the almost unique. We do not know of another country in wgich their school children became not only a target, but a primmary target, The only other example we can think of in history is the NAZI Holocaust in which children and the elderly were priority target. The Arabs target the school children because schools are a soft target and because killing children has a greater public relations impact than any other potential terror target.
The greatest school 'success' for Arab terrorists was the Ma'alot massacre (May 1974). Arab terrorists seized control of the Ma'alot School in Israel and took 115 children and teachers. Over 25 hostages were murdered. Terror wrriors of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) managed to covertly enter Israel from Lebanon. They attacked a van, killing two Israeli Arab women injuring a third . They then entered an apartment in Ma'alot, a small town in northern Israel. There they killed a couple and their 4-year-old son. Then they struck at the Netiv Meir Elementary School and took more than 115 people hotage, including 105 children (May 15, 1974). The hostages were mostly teenagers from a high school in Safad on a Gadna field trip and were spending the night in Ma'alot. Apparently the terrorists were hoping to seize a larger number of younger children. The DFLP terrorists issued demands for the release of 23 Palestinian militants held in Israeli prisons, threatening to kill the students. The students were forced to sit on the floor at gunpoint, with explosive charges between them. After a tense standoff, a unit of the Golani Brigade stormed the school (May 16). The terrorists killed children with grenades and automatic weapons. They managed to kill 25 hostages (including 22 children) injured 68 others. These attacks have become less common as Israel ha hardened its borders, especially the Ssecurity Wall, separating Israel from the volitile West Bank. The Arabs have become more propangnda savy in recent years and have sought to capitalize on unintended civilans killed or wounded when Israel strikes back after Arab assaults such as firing rockets into Israel. Israeli security measures have been so sucesful that the current generation of Arab and other Muslim terorists havec begun attacking Jewish school children in Europe and America. And increasingly the gol is simply to kill as many people as possible, including school childen. Many in Amrica and Europe have criticized Israel's use of force, but now that the Arans and other Muslims have begun to increasingly target civilans outside of Israel.
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