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Originally Posted by T@T 
The real tragedy in all this is the surviving kids, seeing relatives and friends killed on the streets will embed in their minds until they awake as an adult full of hate and the need to kill. It just goes on and on and on.
History shows if a government doesn't admit to a mistake and try to make amends hatred will run rampid for generations...the exception may be Germany after WWII.
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Classic example of how violence begets violence. Are certain regions prone to war because the people have a tendency towards violence, or do societies become violent due to a history of war and invasion.
Personally, I tend to think most of the time it is the latter.
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I agree.
Children are born innocent and they do not know how to hate. That is a learned trait and it can come from various factors.
It certainly can be learned from the family environment, in fact I would think that is most often the case. Children growing up in such an environment certainly will be influenced by what they see their family and neighbors talking about, doing etc It will take a concentrated effort by those children when they become adults, to stop the cycle and try and stop the hate and the violence.
Then, children can be influenced by events that actually happen to them or that they witness. I wish I had saved the link, but shortly after this war started in Gaza, I saw a picture posted, of a young girl, running beside the coffins of her 3 siblings, who had been killed by the Israelis bombing Gaza. And the mother had been interviewed, totally over wraught with grief, asking "what does she have left to live for?"
It will take a lot for that young girl who has lost 3 of her siblings or for that mother who has born the brunt of losing 3 of her children, to say enough is enough, let there be peace. I would think it will be an insurmountable task.
I think it will take some tragic event, maybe not even as tragic as some that have already occurred, before resolve is finally there to achieve some kind of lasting peace.
I think of Ireland and England and all the fighting that went on for years and years and years. And finally when around 16 more innocent children were the victims of some attack, both sides finally had enough. It was not that many innocent children and adults had not been victims before, but suddenly, the will to make peace became greater than the will to continue with terrorism or war.