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Only for 18-24 months.They got little say in the matter. Most have to join the IDF
I’m not sure how you think the process of radicalisation works - and it’s not Gazan children parachuting into Israel or firing rockets but it is them being killed in the 1000s, being maimed or buried under rubble so what international rules of law are you suggesting they abide by?As I have explained before they don't have to be terrorists. Why aren't the Israeli children of the parents killed in front of those Israeli children expected to be terrorists? If the Gaza children actually abide by the international rules of war and realize peace is a better process I think then a two state solution can be worked out. But to expect the opposite reaction of what is expected of the Israeli children is not a proper way to think. They are all children dying and watching their parents dying
Of course nobody has to be a ‘terrorist‘ but Palestinian kids growing up under occupation and having none of the freedoms you or I have nor even their very basic needs met much of the time, do not see themselves as ‘terrorists’ but when throwing stones or Molotov cocktail bottles they are fighting what they see as the ‘monster’ - a brutal occupying force - the collective punishments (often deadly) meted out on Palestinians living in the OPT in response to any kids who show resistance by throwing stones would only confirm that they have no alternative but to fight back even more. These kids in the OPT are living under conditions where they are at risk daily of being further radicalised because of the random killings, human rights abuses and settler violence that they are subject to on a daily basis growing up. Yes, Israeli kids lose family members to the conflict but compared to Palestinian deaths since 2008, the number is very small and they are not children
Since 2008 ( excluding the current war) 306 Israel’s have died and 6,543 Palestinians
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - occupied Palestinian territory | Data on casualties
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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - occupied Palestinian territory | Data on casualties
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Jewish kids are largely inoculated from the politics of what goes on in the OPT and the majority face none of the triggers in their daily lives that might otherwise radicalise them but that doesn’t stop their thinking being largely the product of the Israeli propaganda machine from cradle to grave (see for example the video @borat posted above)
The majority of young Israelis have never even meet Palestinians growing up and most are certainly are not engaged with the issues of Occupation in the same way Palestinian children are. Where Israel youth/kids are engaged more directly in the conflict, for example growing up in illegal settlements, they are just as likely to form radicalised views as Palestinian kids and are just as likely as them to be the perpetrators of violence.
It requires both the young Palestinians and Israelis to bring in change and recent trends suggest that on both sides there is hope for peace building but their leaders do not listen.
How Do Israeli and Palestinian Youth View the Prospects for Peace?
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