Child Abuse on the West Bank
Dr. Dawg has his gotchies all in a twist over this Guardian article alleging mistreatment of Palestinian teenagers by Israeli prison authorities. Oh my bad, The Guardian makes a point of calling all teenagers in the article ‘children’.
Now I will say this, if Israeli authorities are routinely abusing Palestinians who have been incarcerated in Israeli prisons…it is wrong, and those responsible should face the full penalty for breaking the law – Israeli law. The Guardian ends with this dire warning:
Following detention many children exhibit symptoms of trauma: nightmares, mistrust of others, fear of the future, feelings of helplessness and worthlessness, obsessive compulsive behaviour, bedwetting, aggression, withdrawal and lack of motivation.
The Israeli authorities should consider the long-term effects, said Abu Amsha. “They don’t give attention to how this might continue the vicious cycle of violence, of how this might increase hatred. These children come out of this process with a lot of anger. Some of them feel the need for revenge. “You see children who are totally broken. It’s painful to see the pain of these children, to see how much they are squeezed by the Israeli system.”
On the other hand, it is truly hard for me to feel a great deal of empathy for those Palestinian ‘children’ who deliberately choose to throw Molotov cocktails…
and/or stones at people’s children just because they are Jewish. 
In the universe of Dawg’s Guardian, these little moral monsters are the result of the ‘alleged abuse’ which they have suffered at the hands of Israelis authorities – long after they have been arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at Jews.
As a mother of many, I have actively discouraged any of my children from throwing anything at anybody – without exception.
So my question becomes, at what point does the Palestinian family unit/culture take responsibility for the fact that throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at Jews is a true coming of age ritual for Palestinian teenagers?
Dawg ends his two bits by asking how many violent settlers are jailed and tortured by the Israeli Defense Forces. Now I could quibble with Dawg because he refuses to note the difference between Israeli prison authorities, the Shin Bet and the IDF – three separate organizations, but I am not going to.
Instead, I will just point out that he needs a long talk with Noam Federman, and refresh his memory over who arrested the Jewish Bomb Plot terrorists…or we could just start the discussion at ‘Amona’. Of course, that might not be filled with as much bloggie goodness for Dawg as writing the ‘bad, bad Jew’ narratives which we all know the good Dawg loves to do.
Dawg is becoming way more litigious these days. I’m surprised he hasn’t demanded that you retract this post.
he probably hasn’t seen it yet or it maybe because he has no problems hosting the following comment at this blog -
They should have just renamed themselves Israel House and watched the money flow in.
And he knows I will find it, take a screen capture of it…in a kind of quid pro quid