tweakabelle
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ORIGINAL: ClassIsInSession I wonder how the average American citizen would respond if a group of Sioux Nation native americans came to their home one morning and said, this was our land 1000 years ago, get out, it's our's now. That to me is the root of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. And the irony of why the U.S. takes sides at all in the matter. Were it not for European colonization, the Israelis would not even be there. The oddity of it from an American standpoint is that we can have a mosque, church, synagogue, shrine...all on the same street. No one dies, no one fights, everyone worships and lives in relative peace. I think it's awful when any child, regardless of nationality is victimized in the name of politics. Yes. Adults inflicting their problems on children is indefensible no matter who does it. We should recognise that the brutalisation of children affects both sides. Israeli children growing up in an atmosphere of constant conflict are just as likely to be brutalised as Palestinian children, even if they are spared most of excesses of the Occupation. I don't really understand how any parent could choose to bring up their children in a war zone, but that's an option every settler/colonist parent chooses.
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