Palestinians Try to Keep Children Away From Clashes. Latest development in this reprehensible Children’s Crusade. Israel is surely guilty of using excessive force against the uprising especially in light of the fact that many demonstrators, and many casualties, are youths. Palestinians claim that schoolchildren’s participation is spontaneous (here’s a spokesperson’s view: “the children take part because they feel the loss of

relatives along with a sense of grievance that their rights have been violated by Israeli

occupation” ) but it’s difficult for me to believe they’re not being used as cannon fodder either by toleration or active encouragement of that “sense of grievance.” We’ll see if the reported Palestinian effort to spare their children bears fruit.

On the other hand, here‘s a wonderfully written, heartfelt and earnest journal from a Palestinian woman under Israeli occupation.