America's Bestest Little Buddy Doesn't Like Palestinian Children

"Nits make lice" - Colonel John M. Chivington, on Native American kids before the Sand Creek Massacre, where Colorado's First Regiment slaughtered hundreds of Indians, almost all women and children.

350 Palestinian children are suffering inside Israeli prisons

"The Palestinian Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Centre ADDAMEER, declared that the Israeli Zionist forces have arrested almost 6200 Palestinians since the last Intifada started in September of 2000. 350 of those languishing in prison are children who, against international conventions, are still imprisoned in Israeli jails and detention centers.
Those youngsters undergo severe punishment and mental stress, living an extremely horrifying health and mental situation. Being subjected to torture, interrogation, beatings, humiliation, insults, degradation, and regular terrorizing, "such conditions will affect their mental well being forever, and will accompany them through their adult life," the report said.
The report published by the Palestinian centre on Friday 9 May 2008 revealed that hundreds of children were arrested while they were quite young, and detained in prisons. Some of them are now over 18 and still are imprisoned."

And those are the lucky ones, you see. In a chillingly frank interview with a Ha'aretz journalist, an Israeli sniper admitted it was policy to shoot them in the head. [AH = correspondent, IS = sniper]:

"(AH) You haven't shot children.
(IS) "All the sharpshooters haven't shot children."
(AH) But nonetheless there are children who were hit, wounded or killed after they were hit in the head. Unless these were mistakes.
(IS) "If they were children, they were mistakes."
(AH) Do they talk about this?
(IS) "They talk to us about this a lot. They forbid us to shoot at children."
(AH) How do they say this?
(IS) "You don't shoot a child who is 12 or younger."
(AH) That is, a child of 12 or older is allowed?
(IS) "Twelve and up is allowed. He's not a child any more, he's already after his bar mitzvah. Something like that."
(AH) Thirteen is bar mitzvah age.
(IS) "Twelve and up, you're allowed to shoot. That's what they tell us."