Child Abuse, Gaza Style

There will ever be peace if only hatred is taught.

In every year’s kindergarten graduation ceremonies we focus on the children to represent the role of struggling and resistance in the way of Allah, in order to establish this path, and grow up to love the resistance, and for it to have a prominent role in their lives to serve the cause of Palestine and Holy Jihad, as well as to make them leaders and fighters to defend the holy soil of Palestine

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... n-gaza.php

It's a two-way street --- there's plenty of abuse, anger and hatred on either side of the border of the occupied territory.

The below video was released by an Israeli human rights organization.

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http://www.btselem.org/video/search/22

I'd add the photo of the Palestinian kids in camo has been around for awhile. A video of that incident was circulated around 5 years ago.

I'm sure it happened (Gaza is an angry place - and I can understand why). I'm grateful that these incidents are relatively isolated and rare.

If you look at the dates on the Israeli human rights link, above - you'll see that incidents are relatively rare on the Israeli side, as well.

Let me point one thing out ---- if you do an image search with Google - you'll find that these photos are attributed to several different schools (odd - they're the same photos). One article says it's Gaza. Another says "West Bank." Another says Jerusalem (in the West Bank). My goodness --- either these kids get around - or all Palestinians look alike.

In any event --- media hype has made this event (most likely an annual event from a single extremist school) seem much more widespread than it is.

Naturally - American audiences are inclined to believe the hype - and therefore don't give a rat's ass when Israel bombs Gaza to oblivion. After all - hey - the deserve it ---- right???

I don't think anyone deserves this crap. Nor do I think children in the photos deserve to get caught up in the blind, unabated hatred that they experience.

I'd agree --- it's a shame.

You're not going to solve the problem, though - by taking sides.

One more thought --- why didn't these videos show up in popular Israeli media? (they didn't ---- a few politicians and activists refer to them - but
no mainstream Israeli venue covered the story).

Stories like this conveniently appear each time Israel prepares to attack an apparent enemy.

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintA ... ?id=127915

bailey bud wrote: One more thought --- why didn't these videos show up in popular Israeli media? (they didn't ---- a few politicians and activists refer to them - but
no mainstream Israeli venue covered the story).

Stories like this conveniently appear each time Israel prepares to attack an apparent enemy.

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintA ... ?id=127915

So it's not true then?

What's wrong with kids playing soldier? Didn't you do that when you were their age?

Ryt_Rick wrote: So it's not true then?

Obviously, it's true. It's also repulsive.

However - this does not represent Palestine as a whole (were that the case, Haaretz and the J Post would have it in headlines).

We should not allow these repulsive images to bias our thinking about fairness and justice in the Middle East.

Simply reacting with horror and handing carte blanche to Israel won't solve the problem - and will likely worsen it.