re: Children as shields
The Arabs send their children against our army positions, so that they can be killed, in order to provide pictures for the world media.
This is a horrendous accusation, betraying an obnoxious racism. It contains the belief that Arab parents do not care about their children dying.
In the struggle waged by our underground organizations before 1948 and during our War of Independence, boys and girls played an important part. The arms training of Palestinian boys is no different from the training of our own Gadna youth battalions. The boy who, in 1948, destroyed a Syrian tank at kibbutz Deganya has become a national hero. When a people fights for its very existence and freedom, its youth cannot but take part. (I joined the Irgun, defined by the British as a terrorist organization, at the age of 14 and a half. By the age of 15 I carried guns.)
It is an illusion to think that Palestinian parents can restrain their children from going out into the street and throwing stones, when they live under a cruel occupation and their brothers and sisters provide examples of heroism and self-sacrifice. It is natural for the Palestinian people to be proud of them.
Joan of Arc, by the way, was 16 years old when she led the French army into battle.
The settlers routinely exploit their children and babies, not hesitating to put them in harm’s way.
This reply again, is plagiarised from a leftist Jewish source, john
