In some countries children use guns for fun-shootings. If a few classmates die, one can even get famous. In other countries children wielding guns are so common that when Times Online reports that, hardly anyone cares to mention any names. If you are born in the wrong side of the globe then even if you shoot your whole city down, no one will bat an eyelid.
So cliches justify the violent games that kids are playing in the Gaza strip. Only these children do not need the television to learn guerrilla warfare. Everything is happening right in front of their eyes. And unlike the sociopaths in the West, who kill for pleasure, these kids may have to kill someday for necessity. They may have to defend their communities in the future against US and Zionist aggression.
They are playing ‘raid-the-houses’, ‘torture-the-prisoner’ and ‘curfew’ games. The innocent world of the child has been stained by the dark stain of human blood. Palestinian kids are being forced to grow up before their time. Each child who is born brings us the message that God has not yet tired of humans. Children are the only hope for our blighted planet. But when these kids are being sucked into violence so soon in their lives, we are reminded of something Christ said. The Lord had said that if anyone misleads these tiny ones then it is better for that person to hang a grindstone around his neck and drown.
If the US’s President Bush is a Christian, then we know what he has to do. Christ is clear. The mess in the Middle East is a creation of the US. By now Israel and Palestine would have found peace if there was no meddling US there. The US is there in the guise of a peace-monger but all it wants is the oil.
And how so much we write, for Bush and his cronies only US kids matter, Palestinian children do not even deserve individual naming. Now, do we name insects, vermin? The Eastern and Asian people are so much vermin burdening the white world. That is what developed nations think of us.
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Via: Times Online
Comments
This is a ridiculously illogical approach to gain sympathy.
The story had potential to be persuasive and moving, but instead turned to a biblical literalism of a parable. In addition, the author gives too much credit to, essentially, a figurehead of government and policy: President Bush.
It is laughable the conspiracy theory that perpetuates over the obtainment of oil: where will this story take us next? We go from Gaza children to Middle Eastern oil?
The historical contexts of these two elements have, really, nothing to do with one another.
This author is quite misinformed and apparently writes out of emotional instability.
simply these children may never have seen a real gun but only in Hollywood brand films and maybe in the hand of occupier solders.
even I would play such games with my two other brothers (and I was the little one) when living in UK, during my fathers Phd on Neuroanatomy. and today I am a student of physics at Mazandaran University.
when I first saw the photo I recalled my own childhood. the games we played were just very enjoyable ones.
simply this may be, for, in Europe very rarely happens families to consist of three brothers and simply then they wont be playing such games.
one can easily understand that those three children (to me it seems they be brothers) are very happy.
Very happy and living in Gaza?
In my opinion not even possible. Fact is, that these kids grow up in an extremely violent surrounding. It’s a place where kids learn not value their lives to high, since there’s always a very serious threath of being bombed or killed in other ways. Blowing things out of proportion is something we all tend to do when emotionally attached. I get the sceptisism, but if you look at the smallest boys face, he doesn’t look ”very happy”. It’s not so strange to presume that he actually feels in in serious danger. Also these boys might just feel completely numb if something actually happened to him, as death and cruelty are part of their daily life.
Oh well, we weren’t there when the photo was taken, so none of us will ever know exactly what’s going on. Maybe we should realize that before everything.