Bishop John Gladwin, a former chairman of Christian Aid, used a debate on the Gaza situation in the House of Lords to call for a political process involving all parties.
He told peers: “Those of us who have been to the Holy Land will know the experience of passing through checkpoints on the West Bank that are staffed by young Israeli men and women who are barely out of school and controlling people old enough to be their grandparents.
“It makes you wonder what we are doing to the next generation of people and what people are thinking who have been involved in firing from tanks into Gaza, which has left young children and women dead or injured for life. There is a brutalising effect in all this.
“Then I think of the 1.5 million people on the Gaza Strip, half of whom are under the age of 21, I guess. What has happened to them now that thousands of their children have been traumatised by violence and brutality?”
“Those of us who have been to the Holy Land will know the experience of passing through checkpoints on the West Bank that are staffed by young Israeli men and women who are barely out of school and controlling people old enough to be their grandparents.”
Yeah, old age sucks. What we need is OLDER soldiers – Grandad’s Army!
“It makes you wonder what we are doing to the next generation of people and what people are thinking who have been involved in firing from tanks into Gaza, which has left young children and women dead or injured for life. There is a brutalising effect in all this.”
‘We’? Well, stop doing it if it bugs you so much. Oh, you didn’t mean ‘we’, you meant …. them?
“Then I think of the 1.5 million people on the Gaza Strip, half of whom are under the age of 21, I guess. What has happened to them now that thousands of their children have been traumatised by violence and brutality?â€
Well, these Gazans do have babies, don’t they? Not a lot else to do there, I suppose, and the West will pay the welfare. But since there’s no work for these kids, why don’t they do what unemployed do all around the world, um, relocate?
#2, sounds like you got it straight!! Nuff said!!!
How about the brutalizing effect of children’s shows like this one with [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrieBhaGgHM]Farfour the Mouse[/url] getting beaten to death by the “filth of the criminal, plundering Jews?” Or maybe Farfour’s non-copyright/trademark-violating substitute [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuF1it68tg]Nahoul the Bee[/url] who yearns to “take revenge on the enemies of Allah, the killers of the prophets…until [they] liberate al-Aqsa from their impurity?” Maybe just a little?
dhimmi.