Border Police train Israeli teens to detain illegal Palestinian workers

[Jefferson23]

“I consider it a form of pleasure. It simply provides me with values, and I love the action.”

This is how Reut, a high school senior from the Modi’in area, describes her experience as part of the “No’ar Magav” Border Police Youth.

The initiative is financed by the Public Security Minister of Israel and the Modi’in Regional Council, without any knowledge on the part of Ministry of Education.

Approximately 36 teenagers between the ages of 16-18 take part in the project. In their spare time, they help catch “illegal residents”, or stand at checkpoints and help guard the neighboring settlements. According to the regional council, the teenagers have been able to catch dozens of illegal aliens, mostly Palestinian workers who lack Israeli work permits, in the past couple weeks.

in full: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/border-police-train-israeli-teens-to-detain-illegal-palestinian-workers-1.405091

[oberliner]

1. Read all the way to the last sentence

Here it is:

According to the Ministry of Education, the project is “not recognized”, and will be investigated.

By the way, I don't think there should be a comma there.

[shira]

2. Aww, but it's such a juicy headline. Oh well, Israel is still evil nonetheless. n/t

[azurnoir]

3. yes I guess the Public Security Minister of Israel doesn't pull near as much weight

as the Ministry of Education huh?

[Jefferson23]

4. What juicy headline? The Border Police have not trained Israeli teens

to detain illegal Palestinian workers?

Sentence within third paragraph states: The initiative is financed by the Public Security Minister of Israel and the Modi’in Regional Council, without any knowledge on the part of Ministry of Education. (end)

The lack of knowledge the Ministry of Education states it does not have changes what for you?

[holdencaufield]

5. When I was a kid...

... I was a Los Angeles County Police Explorer - they used to let us assist in the booking of suspects.

[Jefferson23]

6. Reut seeks meaning in her life

Instead of encouraging our young to volunteer and help society, we send them to the Border Police; it be better were they to stay at home.
By Gideon Levy

Reut is in the 12th grade at a school near Modi'in. I don't know her, but I may assume she's a good student and a devoted daughter. She certainly has a smartphone and a Facebook account. She may wear name brands and go clubbing, like most of her friends. But Reut is looking for more meaning in her life, and she has found it in the Border Police Youth. "It gives me values," she told Haaretz education correspondent Talila Nesher last week. "I like to catch illegal residents."

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We shouldn't complain about Reut, who may be a charming and well-meaning girl, or about dozens of her brainwashed friends in the new youth movement. That's how it is when officers are brought into the schools. That's how it is when society becomes polluted. A Border Police officer comes to the school, talks about the force, proudly describes its "sacred work" and lures the students to volunteer for service "with values."

Her parents are certainly proud of Reut and her comrades in arms - they're already walking around with M16s - and the teachers too are certainly pleased with this lesson on the homeland, as are local government officials. While most of the kids' friends are goofing off at parties, the members of this pioneer youth movement are going out on night missions. Hooray for them.

The person who sent them to the Border Police Youth is contemptible. The person who lured them into it, brainwashed them and sent them on these despicable night missions may have corrupted them irreparably. If I were their father, I'd tell them - go stare at the television, chat yourselves to death on Facebook or dance yourselves silly at clubs - anything but the Border Police Youth. This morally degenerate movement must be disbanded, right now.

in full: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/reut-seeks-meaning-in-her-life-1.406052