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Gazans Name Babies After Iranian Missiles

YNet says the latest craze in Gaza is to name babies Fajr and Ahmad Jabari. It doesn’t say much for the chances of peace when you name your kids after missiles and terror commanders. We’ll…

Pesach Benson
November 26, 2012
12:00 am

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YNet says the latest craze in Gaza is to name babies Fajr and Ahmad Jabari.

It doesn’t say much for the chances of peace when you name your kids after missiles and terror commanders.

We’ll know we’ve turned a corner when the Palestinians start giving their children names like Human Shield, Cannon Fodder, and Brainwashed.

(Image via Flickr/thejbird)

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Tags: Gaza, human shields, Operation Pillar of Defense, Palestinian children

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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