Israeli Teens Enjoy Arresting Palestinians

Israeli teenagers trained to search for and arrest Palestinian workers in Israel said they enjoy arresting Palestinian, according to a report published Tuesday in the Israeli daily Haaretz. “I like catching Palestinian workers,” the paper quoted a high school senior from Modi’in, south of Tel Aviv. “Generally we look for them because they scare children,” he said. The teens are part of a Border Police program to train school students in catching Palestinians who work in Israel without a permit. “We went to a construction site and found a few of them there,” said another teen volunteer in reference to the Palestinian workers. “We saw them hiding and we caught them,” he said. The program upset some educators who said the teenagers were being taught militaristic principles.