Worshipers Perform Traditional Child-Sacrifice At Pilgrimage To Arafat’s Tomb

Visitors recite passages blaming Israel for the death of the child and reporting it as such to human rights organizations.

Ramallah, June 3 – Visitors to this shrine of Palestinian history and culture continued the decades-old Palestinian practice this week of the ritual killing of a young person to please the gods and call down international outrage on the Zionist Enemy.

The burial site of Yasser Arafat, the previous chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization umbrella terrorist group and the once-undisputed leader of the Palestinian national cause, has served since 2004 as a place of pilgrimage for devotees of his legacy. The truly devout often bring along a small child to slaughter, and, in keeping with longstanding (in Palestinian terms, “longstanding” refers to “anything before 1993”) Palestinian tradition, recite passages blaming Israel for the death of the child and reporting it as such to human rights organizations and a pliant international media.

“Abu Amar lives on,” intoned Issa Mughrabi, using Arafat’s nom de guerre. “He is watching over us to protect us as we continue to martyr ourselves and our children for the sake of Palestine.”

Site administrators disclosed that this year has seen a precipitous drop in pilgrimages, owing to Israeli restrictions amid ongoing war in and around the Gaza Strip and agitators’ attempts in Judea and Samaria to stoke conflict there as well.

“We used to get at least a hundred visitors a day when times were good,” acknowledged curator and high priest Samr Abbas, a relative of Arafat’s successor, the incumbent President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas. “But traffic has consistently decreased in the last fifteen years. Some of it is Israeli restrictions, but most of it, I think, involves the tanking national support for Arafat’s Fatah faction in favor of Hamas, which actually makes a consistent and successful effort at mass-murder of Jews.”

Mr. Abbas cited figures that only about a fifth of visitors perform the entire child-sacrifice ritual. “It used to be more,” he recalled. “The Raïs ordered Palestinian women to have as many children as possible to serve as weapons against the Zionists. Most people understood that in the sense of soldiers, but the more insightful among us realized that the children themselves are a most potent propaganda weapon when wielded to their own death in the presence of cameras. The world is predisposed to accept narratives of Jewish evil and perfidy. Even if later debunked, the deaths generate and deepen hostility to Jewish safety and security.”

The priest-curator voiced uncertainty whether the sacrifice ritual will continue once Palestine is liberated and the need to demonize the Jew into extinction has faded. “We might just maintain it as a valuable piece of our cultural heritage,” he surmised. “We can call it ancient, like everything else we pretend existed before 1948.”

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