Gaza War Through Children’s Eyes

I always believe that children often see things more clearly than adults. Their minds do not have too much information about something which, most of the time, will cause perspective. If you try to tell them how the war in Gaza started, in their innocent mind, this will probably be the picture:

Once, someone really great had created Country A and Country B. Country A says he is square while Country B says he is round. Both of them accuse each other disloyal because,

i)Country A thinks Country B does not even recognize their savior which is square. How can they say he is round? Thus, Country B must be ungrateful person and all ungrateful people are bad.

ii)Country B thinks Country A does not even recognize their savior which is round. How can they say he is square? Thus, Country A must be ungrateful person and all ungrateful people are bad.

With this in mind, both of them think the other should be dead because they are ungrateful to their savior.

After hundreds years of war, Country A realize that people in Country B are fool and not worth the sacrifice. So, they finally made a decision to ignore these foolish people.

Unfortunately Country B still thinks that ungrateful people in of Country A shouldn’t even exist in the world. So, Country B fires a bomb to Country A when country A decided to ignore country B.

This made country A mad. Country A send his army to attack country B. Instead of attacking those involved in the bombing, Country A army attack all the innocence, like women and children.

(The end of story)

These children will probably ask these questions:

1.It’s only square or round. Why people in country A and Country B get so serious?

2.Will the winner get their favorite toy?

3.Square or round, aren’t he the same creator? Maybe both of them can’t really remember the face. This happen to me sometime.

Then the adult will tell the children who ask these questions:

1.It is not just square or round. It is something larger and more important. (Such as? Anything more important than the one that gives you life?)

2.You guys are just kid. You’ll understand when you grow up. (Understand what? Understand how different square and round actually is?)