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Gold Member
Some Israeli parents are outraged that their children were exposed to a police demonstration of “how to kill a terrorist.” The demonstration is part of annual Community Police Day events. Captured on video, police are shown firing at a “terrorist,” who appears to be laying on the ground and injured. The Israeli National Parents Association said “children are not supposed to be exposed to showcases of killing and terror.” However, Israel Police Spokeswoman Merav Lapidot stood behind the event and said the children’s clapping indicates “they were very happy.”This kind of display of state-controlled violence is nothing new in Israel. After all, the logic underpinning these events stems from a string of weighty occasions that coincide with a surge of nationalist sentiments, which begin with Holocaust Day through Remembrance Day and finally Independence Day, all of which expose deeply ingrained institutional violence.
As one mother put it: “this system serves the government and a militaristic outlook.” She doesn’t want her girls “to be exposed to nationalist worldviews – to the racism that exists in the school system, to the exclusivity of Judaism in the school system.”
This system is aimed at inculcating an acceptance of state-controlled violence on the part of future soldiers. Israel has a mandatory conscription service, which depends on preparing its citizens for combat and warfare at an early age. However, “this politicization is [in]appropriate for children in elementary school or preschool,”
Israel: Raising a Generation on Fear and Aggression – Palestine Square
They wont know Peace
As one mother put it: “this system serves the government and a militaristic outlook.” She doesn’t want her girls “to be exposed to nationalist worldviews – to the racism that exists in the school system, to the exclusivity of Judaism in the school system.”
This system is aimed at inculcating an acceptance of state-controlled violence on the part of future soldiers. Israel has a mandatory conscription service, which depends on preparing its citizens for combat and warfare at an early age. However, “this politicization is [in]appropriate for children in elementary school or preschool,”
Israel: Raising a Generation on Fear and Aggression – Palestine Square
They wont know Peace
