Monthly Archives: December 2007

Hamas TV’s Jihad Bee Grooms the Next Generation of Suicide Bombers

The Teletubbies might have been freaky but nobody can warp children’s minds like Hamas’ Jihad Bee. The conversation on this children’s show kicks off with talk of slaughtering sheep then moves on to less cheerful topics as the Bee recounts his miserable life to a young girl. This bee has serious problems, with his bee family having been ravaged by hepatitis-C and diabetes, but the girl in the video has some helpful advice. No, she doesn’t hand him clean needles and a diet book. She has the ultimate solution:

Don’t be sad, Nahoul. We can all be sacrificed for the sake of the homeland.

Heartwarming advice for sad children everywhere.

The Christmas Truce of 1914

Simon Rees on the truce:

The meeting of enemies as friends in no-man’s land was experienced by hundreds, if not thousands, of men on the Western Front during Christmas 1914. Today, 90 years after it occurred, the event is seen as a shining episode of sanity from among the bloody chapters of World War One – a spontaneous effort by the lower ranks to create a peace that could have blossomed were it not for the interference of generals and politicians.

The reality of the Christmas Truce, however, is a slightly less romantic and a more down to earth story. It was an organic affair that in some spots hardly registered a mention and in others left a profound impact upon those who took part.

Many accounts were rushed, confused or contradictory. Others, written long after the event, are weighed down by hindsight. These difficulties aside, the true story is still striking precisely because of its rag-tagged nature: it is more ‘human’ and therefore all the more potent.

Read on at FirstWorldWar.com.