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| Israel-Palestine |
| Paleo toys |
| 2004-03-12 |
| Het tip LGF. EFL. Ahmed Rami wanted to buy his six-year-old son alphabet blocks to help him read, but little Rami wanted a sleek black M-16 plastic rifle instead. "I wanna kill them Jews!" "I want to shoot at the (Israeli) army," Rami yelled at his father in the shop in the West Bank city of Jenin, a hotbed of militants who have been fighting Israel for more than three years. "They stole our oxygen for their use!" Toy stores are packed with plastic arsenals of rifles, miniature tanks, missiles and artillery pieces. Outside, boys with toy guns organize street battles reminiscent of those fought between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli troops. "All people are equal!" "Worthless Infidel! Budda-budda!" "I shot you, why didn’t you play dead," one boy shouted at his playmate. "Your bullet missed me. I am lucky," his friend replied. War games might be a perennial favorite of children across the world but many in the West Bank and Gaza Strip fear they could also be a symptom of a generation that sees no future but violence in the territories seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War and where Palestinians want a state. And a second Holocaust. |
| Posted by:Steve from Relto |