Palestinian Child Soldiers: The Horrifying Silence

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65. VIDEO: Palestinian Children's Play Featuring Murder

It is one of the great tragedies of the Middle East conflict that young Palestinian children are still raised to see Israeli Jews as bloodthirsty monsters that must be killed at all costs.

In fact, one of the more important stipulations of the so-called “Oslo Accords” (though Western power brokers all but ignore it) was that both sides educate their populations for peaceful coexistence, to ensure that future generations do NOT carry on in conflict.

Such demonstrations of violence as seen below are nowhere to be found in the Israeli schools attended by my children. In fact, the younger children have only a very fleeting realization that there is a conflict at all.

They are not taught to hate Arabs. In fact, some of their teachers are Arabs. They are certainly not taught to engage in violence. And even when these schools participate in campaigns to support the Israeli security forces, no mention, negative or otherwise, is made of the enemy against whom those soldiers and police are protecting us.

By-and-large, the Israeli education system is making a real effort (and a successful one in most cases) to prepare the next generations for peaceful coexistence with their Arab neighbors. Or, at the very least, to NOT prepare them for a future of hatred and violence.

As demonstrated by the following video, the same sadly cannot be said of most schools in the Palestinian education system.

Indoctrinating young impressionable minds in such a way is nothing short of child abuse.

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Video at link.