Some seem to think that it is the Palestinian children – and they are using American words to do so –

What is it about Jewish and Arab children that privileges the first and spurns the second in the speeches of President Barack Obama, let alone in the Western media more generally? Are Jewish children smarter, prettier, whiter? Are they deserving of sympathy and solidarity, denied to Arab children, because they are innocent and unsullied by the guilt of their parents, themselves often referred to as “the children of Israel”? Or, is it that Arab children are dangerous, threatening, guilty, even dark and ugly, a situation that can only lead to Arabopaedophobia – the Western fear of Arab children?

Are Palestinian children less worthy? – Opinion – Al Jazeera English.

I’m not saying that either you or I have to agree with everything in the editorial, but it is an important read.

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