It is very easy to judge others and take a stand without understanding what that nation is going through. One can only understand why others do what they do unless put in a simillar situation.
I come from a nation with a terrible history of being attacked by others. When a nation exhausted most of the means of defense and the resources, only then many are forced to use what is left, sometimes very desperate means. The whole nation contributes to protecting peace and defending what belongs to them. Children are included.
In one nation in our time now, children are included in the fight for freedom. Many criticize young lives lost in suicides. Lets take a look at a history of another nation.
Please, take a look at the pic below. It is a monument built to remember children who lost their lives fighting for their country armed with great courage and guns that were fit for adult men.
I am referring here to the Palestinians also.
There was a time in my country(not Palestine) when children had to fight, when people had to use the only means available to them to try to destroy the enemy. It was World War II. If we, as a Polish nation did that today, we would have also been called terrorists.
I urge anyone reading this to learn about those you criticize. Then, form your own opinion which NOT based on on hatred.
by Sarah Shields,
Prof. Middle East History
at University of North Carolina
