Who Will Think of the Children?
Mar. 12th, 2010 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaYou know, constantly I hear the Terrorists "teach hatred" to their children. How the Palestinians hate Israel for no reason (bear with me here, this is what Defenders say) and that Muslim (never mind that not all Palestinians are Muslim) society is backward and willing to sacrifice their children for The Land.
Consider the enlightened, democratic and liberal education Israeli-Jewish kids get (just before they become soldiers in the IDF):
Yeah.
News articles like IDF soldiers using a boy as a human shield in Gaza (during Cast Lead) and soldiers standing by while Settlers attack Palestinians in the West Bank should be shocking. Instead, they're just another day out there in That Place where it would appear no law applies.
Not to sound cliché, but those kids are out future - violence is learned early on, as is the racism in Israel we seem to be proud of - you know being anti-politically correct is the way we are, loud and obnoxious is the way to be.
It took me a long time to wise up and I always considered myself pretty left, my obliviousness could be, sorta, excused by my liberal upbringing, but those kids - the soldiers to be and the soldiers they are now - that's just a very bad education, in the broadest sense of the word.
Consider the enlightened, democratic and liberal education Israeli-Jewish kids get (just before they become soldiers in the IDF):
Poll: Half of Israeli high schoolers oppose equal rights for Arabs
Nearly half of Israel's high school students do not believe that Israeli-Arabs are entitled to the same rights as Jews in Israel, according to the results of a new survey released yesterday. The same poll revealed that more than half the students would deny Arabs the right to be elected to the Knesset.
The survey, which was administered to teenagers at various Israeli high schools, also found that close to half of all respondents - 48 percent - said that they would refuse orders to evacuate outposts and settlements in the Palestinian territories.
Nearly one-third - 31 percent - said they would refuse military service beyond the Green Line.
Yeah.
News articles like IDF soldiers using a boy as a human shield in Gaza (during Cast Lead) and soldiers standing by while Settlers attack Palestinians in the West Bank should be shocking. Instead, they're just another day out there in That Place where it would appear no law applies.
Not to sound cliché, but those kids are out future - violence is learned early on, as is the racism in Israel we seem to be proud of - you know being anti-politically correct is the way we are, loud and obnoxious is the way to be.
It took me a long time to wise up and I always considered myself pretty left, my obliviousness could be, sorta, excused by my liberal upbringing, but those kids - the soldiers to be and the soldiers they are now - that's just a very bad education, in the broadest sense of the word.
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Date: 2010-03-13 01:34 am (UTC)