How heartless does one have to be to do something as atrocious as this?

Question

"Ali Murad Abu Shaweesh was 12 when Israeli soldiers shot him in the back. Ali was killed on the same day in June, 2001 that Sharon refused to let the Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres, meet with Yasir Arafat, yet his death also went unnoticed by American television news. But not entirely unnoticed, since the Israeli soldiers, who taunted the Palestinian boys over loudspeakers outside the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, goading them to come out and throw rocks, did so under the gaze of Chris Hedges, a reporter for the New York Times.

"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered--death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights...in Sarajevo--but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport," Hedges wrote.

His account, coolly factual yet full of passionate intensity, was written not for his own paper but for Harper's Magazine, which sent Hedges to Gaza on his vacation." The Nation, March 11, 2002

http://proutnewsnetwork.org/NWO/files/children.html

Answer 1

Totally, totally disgusting and without morals! So much of the news in the world, however, you question the same way, "How could anyone do this?!" WHAT does go through a "person's" mind to actually commit something this horrible. I cried when I heard on the news last night and didn't get the whole report, but enough to hear teens shot in New Jersey; 3 boys walked right up and shot one in the face and made other 3 kneel against a wall and shot them in the back of the head! Oh, dear God, why would they?! The one caught is 15 years old! Where and how does it stop?!

Answer 2

Oh, by all means let's not talk about what the Palestinians have done to the Israelis. Israel is the rightful owner of the land. Arafat? Evil one.
Israelis don't teach their children and women to be suicide bombers.

Answer 3

And for every story such as this there is another about a bomb strapping muslim that blows up an entire crowd of people.

Muslims are also the ones that teach their children to use guns and Israeli's have to live in fear of mere children.

Answer 4

The Israelis do not taunt Arab children. You are constantly coming on here with lies and inaccuracies. Why don't you do something worthwhile with your life instead of trying to lead people into lies and hatred? What's wrong with your brain? Seriously, what's wrong with it?

Answer 5

what's your question? or are you just trying to make a point? yes, shooting children is pure wrong, but it seems you are just blowing on a Jewish vs Islamic flame? for every sin the Israeli army has committed i can count a hundred by rogue Palestinians under the banner of Islam.

Answer 6

You forgot the Russians in Afganistan, they threw booby-traped toys out for children and shot at the parents when they tried to get their injured children to saftey.

It's a sick f--king world.

Answer 7

do you also believe this, from the same site as your source?

http://proutnewsnetwork.org/NWO/files/rept.html

perhaps this is the article referred to. requires subscription:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2001/10/0075814

of course it is terrible if it is actually true. the article you cite seems designed to be difficult to verify.

Answer 8

Muslims have done far worse, and have done so far more frequently. Get real. I've seen muslims put chidlren in front of them as human shields. Cowards!

Answer 9

Remember the man who had a family to take care of and he told Muhammad and Muhammad laughed at him as he beheaded him. Why should you be surprised that others could be atrocious.

Answer 10

how far man has falling god do not kill today tomorrow and yesterday