War Child ( on now and repeated at 12:45 ) on more4

[luke]

this is currently on more4, but is being repeated later at 12:45

True Stories: War Child

Bafta-winning film-maker Jezza Neumann's follow-up to Dispatches: Children of Gaza, providing a second portrait of children living with the aftermath of the Israeli attack on Gaza in 2008. Cameras follow the youngsters over the course of a year, witnessing how they grapple with the harsh realities of their new lives, and revealing how the violence suffered by some of the youths predisposes them toward extremist views in the hope of avenging the deaths of their loved ones

yasmin alibhai-brown wrote about it in the independent the other day;

Not many defenders of all things Israeli will turn on and watch War Child on More 4 this Tuesday. More's the pity. If they did, their skin would burn with shame and their hearts might crack and splinter. Some might find the hour unbearable. (Obviously not fanatics such as Melanie Phillips, whose rage button goes off like a fire alarm whenever Israel's violent acts are revealed.) I have just watched a preview DVD and cannot stop shaking. It transmits the anguish of Gaza like nothing I have ever seen or heard, except for another similar film, the Bafta-winning Children of Gaza, also by director Jezza Neumann and broadcast last year.

Neumann takes us back to December 2008, when the Israel Defence Force carried out its 22- day mission to punish the entrapped people of Gaza, ostensibly to stop Hamas rockets and mortars. He lets Gaza's doomed children tell the story. Over 1,300 Palestinians were killed and a blockade has prevented reconstruction and recovery. The invader never expresses doubt or sorrow and is so bone-headed that it can't see the enemies it is raising, a future of eternal conflict.

So here is nine-year-old Amal, who was buried in rubble for four days and still has shrapnel in her head causing nose bleeds, terrible headaches and weakened eyesight. Her father and brother were killed. So what becomes of this child? She cannot but detest those who did this to her and her family, and wish them terrible harm.

Her brother Mahmoud, only 11, is already learning from his uncle how to become a suicide bomber, a militant martyr: "Before, I was only thinking about reading my lessons, but [now] I started to think about becoming a defender of the nation – if I could only kill one, that would be enough." His mother weeps helplessly.

Ten-year-old Loay saw his best friend die, and was blinded in a savage bomb attack. He wets his bed now. Countless youngsters are mentally ill and are getting worse; others are filled with molten anger. Some make toy bombs and set them off playfully. They hate Israelis. You can see why. Do we expect them to say: "They only attacked us because of horrible Hamas. I really like the Israelis. They are nice people, my friends. I will like to kiss an Israeli soldier"?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-how-we-are-sowing-the-seeds-of-tomorrows-sectarian-hatred-2213888.html

[faceless]

cheers, I'll record it later and post it up

Regarding the articel, I don't see how kids could possibly not pick up on the fears of their parents - it doesn't need to be pushed onto them.