Comments on: B’Tselem And Bad Arguments http://blog.z-word.com/2010/02/btselem-and-bad-arguments/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:25:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Lbnaz http://blog.z-word.com/2010/02/btselem-and-bad-arguments/#comment-9746 Lbnaz Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:47:38 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1525#comment-9746 It's a travesty that rather than dealing realistically with the sociological circumstance of a Gazan society whose median age is 19, many of whom are 2nd, 3rd and 4th sons, without meaningful prospects and particularly susceptible to looking in all the wrong places for acceptance, accolades and respect, not necessarily from within their own families where they sense they are treated as superfluous, but rather from older militant Islamist hucksters who prey upon youth for their own demented and extremist ideological delusions of power and grandeur, nearly all of the left and human rights NGO's would rather focus all of Gaza's social problems on an external enemy and resolutely ignore the internal dynamics of a society over-represented by young, restless and impressionable males desiring instant hero status to bolster their self-esteem and prove their worth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaJXFbH4McM&feature=player_embedded It’s a travesty that rather than dealing realistically with the sociological circumstance of a Gazan society whose median age is 19, many of whom are 2nd, 3rd and 4th sons, without meaningful prospects and particularly susceptible to looking in all the wrong places for acceptance, accolades and respect, not necessarily from within their own families where they sense they are treated as superfluous, but rather from older militant Islamist hucksters who prey upon youth for their own demented and extremist ideological delusions of power and grandeur, nearly all of the left and human rights NGO’s would rather focus all of Gaza’s social problems on an external enemy and resolutely ignore the internal dynamics of a society over-represented by young, restless and impressionable males desiring instant hero status to bolster their self-esteem and prove their worth.

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