Gaza horrors sow seeds for future violence

[Arrowhead2k1]

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Story Highlights:
-Boy on Hamas TV: "When we will grow up, we will bomb them back"
-Tearful girl: "Maybe my sister could die some day, I don't know. I am afraid"
-Psychiatrists say seeing destruction firsthand can create violence in the future
-One psychiatrist said earlier children witnessing violence grew into extremists

SDEROT, Israel -- Mohammed Abu Hassanin may be a young boy, but he's old enough to know he's scared of the attacks being launched by Israel in Gaza.

"When the Jews bomb us when we are asleep, says 'We get scared,' " a translator says.

Hassanin is one boy from Gaza speaking frankly to an anchor on Hamas TV about the attacks, which have gone on for 10 days.

Children like him have accounted for one-third of the casualties at Gaza's main hospital, foreign doctors say. And now Hamas and their media are making them the face of the attacks.

The children have seen terrible images of tragedy: their friends injured or killed and bloodied bodies in the streets.

They are images Hassanin says he will never forget. He'll keep them stored away until he's old enough to do something about it.

"When we will grow up, we will bomb them back," a CNN translator quoted the boy saying on Hamas TV.

It's a sentiment psychiatrists in Gaza say could be responsible a frightening future --* that the violence children are witnessing will sow the seeds for future violence
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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/05/gaza.children/?iref=mpstoryview

[aquart]

1. Never doubted that for a moment.

Neither the way of Gandhi nor the way of turn-the-other-cheek Christ is the way of the "Palestinians".

I guess it is wrong to hit someone you know damn well will hit you back. Especially since they've been hitting you all along.

But sometimes you just get so mad you can't stand it anymore.

Let me know why Hamas fired the missiles, knowing there would be retaliation and children could be hurt. But what great publicity for their cause.

[Arrowhead2k1]

2. Don't you get it?! The people of Hamas WERE those children. The cycle continues...

nt

[madeline_con]

4. "He'll keep them stored away until he's old enough to do something about it."

They've come of age.

[AnOhioan]

3. Lesson to Israel...

A country cannot bomb its way to peace. Every Palestinian, Hamas-affliated or not, will be seen as a martyr.

[ShortnFiery]

5. Real life VIOLENCE doesn't unfold like an episode of "24" or a "Chuck Norris" Action Flick.

Go figure. :eyes:


"They don't negotiate with terrorists . . .They blow them away!!" ... along with the rest of The World Community. :nuke: