Gaza horrors sow seeds for future violence

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The children have seen terrible images of tragedy: their friends injured or killed and bloodied bodies in the streets.

They are images Hassanin says he will never forget. He'll keep them stored away until he's old enough to do something about it.

"When we will grow up, we will bomb them back," he says through a translator on Hamas TV.

It's a sentiment psychiatrists in Gaza say could be responsible a frightening future --­ that the violence children are witnessing will sow the seeds for future violence.

In Gaza, a little girl wails as she talks about her friend who was killed in an attack on a Hamas house.

"She could be my sister," the girl tearfully says. "She is my friend but maybe my sister could die some day I don't know -- I am afraid."

Gaza psychiatrist Eyad el Sarraj said similar trauma to children following past Palestinian intifadas has led to violent results.

"Today children are experiencing a serious kind of trauma, and I fear for the future," el Sarraj said. "The children of the first intifada were throwing stones at the Israeli troops because of the trauma they were subjected to. Ten years later, the same children became suicide bombers."

Nowhere is safe for the children, and many are without food.

Reae much more...http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/05/gaza.children/index.html

thank goodness, by the completely accidental geographic location of my birth I am not there.

sayeth the Witches in Macbeth.

"Violence does even justice unjustly." ~ Thomas Carlyle

Imagine, through some miracle, there was peace between the Palestinians and Israel, and Israel led the way in building services in Gaza, as well as embracing international investment there, and Gazans were free to travel and settle where they wanted. Would the children in this article be so damaged that they would still want to spend their lives avenging Israel, or would they find other things to do?

Not entirely a rhetorical question, since depending on the answer to this question, actions can be taken to try to bring about eventual peace or else just to have the best position for a never ending war.

It's unfortunate, they understand NOTHING but FORCE and they hate us more than they love their own children. Or something like that...