ISIS training child soldiers to kill infidels

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82. WTF?

Okay, this is as insulting to Muslims, Arabs, and others as it is to Israelis. You are lumping everyone and everything together in a very crude and uninformed way. ISIS's goal of establishing a caliphate that would bring all Muslims (including all non-Sunnis) under its political control and extreme Sharia law—by any violent means possible—has nothing to do with Hamas or Israel, and has been so reviled for its brutality and violence against citizens that even Al Qaeda has condemned it. It originated in Iraq and moved into Sunni-controlled regions in Syria. And somehow you want to bring in the IDF as the "reason" that this group trains 9 year olds? (For your information, military training in Israel, which is compulsory for all citizens, male and female, begins at age 18.)

This is just an embarrassment. Get a map, get a book, start studying history. I can't claim to be an expert or even minorly knowledgeable about most of it, but at least I'm honest enough to (a) know that it is a very complex region with many divisions and conflicts; and (b) that not all Muslims are the same, and not all of them over the age of 18 have been killed by the IDF. I know it's easy to create a bogey man in your mind to explain all the bad things in that region, but making shit up is not a legitimate tactic.