Pro-Israel propaganda sites often revel in images of Palestinian children posing with weapons, as if such images prove that Palestinian children are indeed uniquely vicious, or deserve no sympathy or justice when killed. A common rejoiner to this is the cry “if only they stopped teaching there children hatred” as if that is a precondition to being human.

Second, I find it very interesting that the target for which these children aim there imaginary missles at are “Arabs”. Not Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, all Arabs as a racial class.

This is never a reflection on the children, but on the adults who subject them to such ugliness.