there was a piece about the child prisoners (as young as 12 years old) held in Israel ...apparently they are given military trials for (throwing stones etc) attacks on soldiers...
just want to know what people think...
2007-04-24 10:56:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Ish ...Anyone who tries to commit murder should be put on trial... i'm sure that this should apply to cluster bombing nations more than it should apply to 12 year olds throwing stones at tanks... which I doubt would be considered attempted murder ...in any normal country
2007-04-25 12:08:11 · update #1
First Dragon ..by rehabilitation ..do you mean locked inside an adult Israeli prison..?
2007-04-25 12:09:49 · update #2
Israel says a lot to me about a people who cry about ww2 and yet torture others very wrong and very sad
2007-04-24 11:01:47 · answer #1 · answered by Moon Chav 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋
If a person attacks a military force of any nation, they cannot complain when it is the same military force that deals with it. They must think themselves lucky that they were not shot when they attacked the Israeli military. Several children in Northern Ireland were killed by the British army in the past when the British army returned fire with rubber bullets after being stoned.
If you think they are only children and too young, consider that there is currently a Canadian citizen held by the Americans at Guantanamo after killing an American medic in Afghanistan who has been held since he was 15 and is now 20 and only just been charged and will face a military court. So don’t think that the Israelis are any different from other countries of the world.
Also if you don’t think that throwing stones is not that bad, remember a long time ago it was a means of execution, and it is also how Jon Venables and Robert Thompson (both 10 years old at the time) murdered James Bulger in 1993.
2007-04-24 14:41:47 · answer #2 · answered by serialcoyote 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately, the training and use of child soldiers is on the rise. Throwing rocks can be quite lethal, if low tech. I have seen 10-year-old boys throwing baseballs; they could be really dangerous with rocks.
These children need to be rehabilitated, not returned to the environment where they learned to do this.
2007-04-24 12:13:30 · answer #3 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
ITV isn't shown in this country. Don't believe everything you see on the news. What do you suggest be done with people who try to commit murder?
2007-04-24 11:00:13 · answer #4 · answered by ishmilchamah 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I missed that. How awful. Stones are hardly a match for rifles and bullets, mortar shells and helicopter gunships.
2007-04-24 10:59:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The rebellion will be stopped.
2007-04-25 07:06:48 · answer #6 · answered by Darth Cheney 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
israel's go over the top at times
2007-04-24 20:39:18 · answer #7 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
that old..and only stones..........should go to Glasgow..!
2007-04-25 08:18:51 · answer #8 · answered by marky mark 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋