Little Boys

First of all, this is a link to a good article that Dave found about the Israel/Gaza strip conflict right now.

http://www.imemc.org/article/57443

I was walking down the street today to Project Hope, which took me past a boys' school letting out for the day. The little boys were throwing rocks at each other, seemingly in teams. I've realized that they don't just throw rocks at us, they throw them at each other. Then I saw two boys beating up another little boys against the wall. They had him down on the ground, and were kicking him, punching, smashing their backpacks down upon his head. I was horrified, so I went up to them and told them to stop, and they backed off and looked puzzled as they have before (this has happened before). The little boy was crying, it was awful. The worst part was, there were four adults that walked by and two more in the shop across the street and they did nothing. They didn't even look at what was happening.

A fellow volunteer was relating to us today the way the teachers beat the boys at the camp where he works. He said the boys are very wild, but the beatings are often unprovoked. Which came first, the beating or the insolence?