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In reply to the discussion: REPORT ON PALESTINIAN CHILD TERRORISTS: CHILDREN WHO KILL AND THEIR ADULT ENABLERS [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)8. What do you think of the conditions that make desperate children so vulnerable to exploitation?
If they lived in peaceful communities with enough water, food and energy to improve their lives, had the means to get an education, had hopes of a job, and having their family safe, would they be so hopeless and easy to manipulate?
No one believes the propaganda that portrays the Palestinians as the being solely to blame while painting Israelis as perfect angels. If the best defense you can find is to post yet another pro-Israeli web source without context and lacking any citation whatsoever, it does not lend any credence to your strategy.
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REPORT ON PALESTINIAN CHILD TERRORISTS: CHILDREN WHO KILL AND THEIR ADULT ENABLERS [View all]
shira
Aug 2016
OP
What do you think of the conditions that make desperate children so vulnerable to exploitation?
procon
Aug 2016
#8
You cannot even allow yourself to be wrong, and that's at the very heart if the problem.
procon
Aug 2016
#17
Provided with evidence that you are mistaken, you hurl a few insults and run away.
Nitram
Aug 2016
#22
So let me get this straight. Adults exploiting children & making them child soldiers....
shira
Aug 2016
#5
What do you think about the video from this week that HRW & Amnesty are ignoring?
shira
Aug 2016
#21
I think the guy in the clip is an idiot, and I wouldn't vote for him if I ever got the chance, but
Little Tich
Aug 2016
#25
Apparently, the PLO has posted a clip where the father justifies his actions.
Little Tich
Aug 2016
#28
I think it's really difficult to link the clip to child militants and human shields.
Little Tich
Aug 2016
#32