[Marxism] Israel Is Foolishly Breeding the Next Generation of Islamic Militants in Gaza

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By _Chris Hedges_ (http://www.alternet.org/authors/5769/) , _Truthdig_ 
(http://www.truthdig.com/) .  Posted _December  31, 2008_ 
(http://www.alternet.org/ts/archives/?date[F]=12&date[Y]=2008&date[d]=31&act=Go/)
 . 

Those who orchestrate such sieges do not grasp the terrible rage born of  
long humiliation, indiscriminate violence and abuse. A father or a mother whose 
 
child dies because of a lack of vaccines or proper medical care does not 
forget.  A boy whose ill grandmother dies while detained at an Israel 
checkpoint 
does not  forget. A family that loses a child in an airstrike does not forget. 
All who  endure humiliation, abuse and the murder of family members do not 
forget. This  rage becomes a virus within those who, eventually, stumble out 
into 
the  daylight. Is it any wonder that 71 percent of children interviewed at a 
school  in Gaza recently said they wanted to be a "martyr"?  
The Israelis in Gaza, like the American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, are  
foolishly breeding the next generation of militants and Islamic radicals.  
Jihadists, enraged by the injustices done by Israel and the United States, seek 
 
to carry out reciprocal acts of savagery, even at the cost of their own lives. 
 The violence unleashed on Palestinian children will, one day, be the 
violence  unleashed on Israeli children. This is the tragedy of Gaza. This is 
the 
tragedy  of Israel. 

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