A Child's Wisdom: Stone Them To Death!

It's hard to know which represents the greater tragedy: that so many children's stories go untold in Palestine and other areas swamped with unrest; or that even in their innocence, the children learn to embrace violence as a response, even when denouncing it.

At the same time, this Reuters article is one of, unfortunately, a very few from the MSM giving voice to the people beneath the violence whose lives are devastated simply because of where they were born.

"We have no amusment parks to attend and no sport clubs to go to. At least let us live in peace," the boy said.

Dressed in jeans and a blue shirt, 12-year-old Saeed Salem and his friends said they were enraged by the killing of three young brothers on Monday and fed up with the constant security nightmares that have ruined their short lives.

"We are angry," said Salem, as he and his young colleagues set about burning tyres in a central Gaza street. "We need those who killed the kids to be found and stoned to death."

... As well as the children, mothers also expressed alarm at the killings and despair at Gaza's spiralling crisis. Radio stations have been jammed with callers denouncing the brothers' deaths.

"Life in Gaza has turned to hell," said Umm Mohammad, a veiled woman attending a mourning house to honour the boys.

"The government and the president are busy in their disputes, careless about the people's lives.

"Those who killed the kids had no mercy, had no religion," she said. "I thought of my kids, they could have been among the dead or the wounded."

Comments

[Phoenix]

>the people beneath the violence whose lives are devastated simply because of where they were born.<

If I were a believer, I'd say, "Praise the Lord".

Since I'm not, I'll just say screw you, Michael Graham, and anyone else who is a lumper.

[Ay Uaxe]

Everywhere palestinians go turns into hell. They carry it with them in those fancy little books they're so fond of but most can't even read. Don't want children getting killed regularly, reject the culture that thinks it's cute to strap 'em up with mock (maybe real) suicide bomb belts. I've often thought it would be a good idea to get a bunch of baby pictures of arabs and jews with no distinguishing clothing or features showing and see if any of the nuts on either side can really tell them apart.