Children’s rights
Sir,—lf, as reported (October 17), the Amnesty International organisation has focused this week on children’s rights, perhaps it can clarify a few points. Is it right for the Palestine Liberation Organisation to encourage and offer reward for attacks made by Palestinian children against Israel in the Intifada? Is it right that civil disobedience by Palestinian children should be taught in the journal of Palestinian Studies at Kuwait University under the heading “A Profile of the Stone Throwers”? Is it right for the P.L.O. to provide 1000 Palestinian children and give them a one-month course of military training recently in an Arab State? These children are not playing games, Islamic Jihad to them means holy war and for the P.L.O. it means world sympathy. It is easy to point the finger at Israel which, under tremendous provocation, is forced to take a stand against children. — Yours, etc.,
I. G. SHASKEY. October 21, 1989.
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