Palestinian Protesters Need to Grow Up

Earlier this week, I noted a video showing Palestinians sending screaming kids to taunt Israeli soldiers -- in front of…

By Pesach Benson November 08, 2012

Earlier this week, I noted a video showing Palestinians sending screaming kids to taunt Israeli soldiers — in front of the cameras.

The IDF responded in kind with its own video behind the scenes at the Nabi Saleh protests.

The Palestinians have done this before; what’s new is that the squirts were paid.

The kids are childish enough, but the adults sending them need to grow up.

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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