Israel's Children Learn to Put on Gas Masks

While top military analysts at the 2012 Herzliya Conference describe the types of weapons aimed at Israel, IDF emergency instructors calmly teach youngsters how to put on their gas masks.

Although much has changed, some things have remained constant – like the need to teach the next generation how to find the nearest safe space, and how to correctly put on a gas mask.

IDF emergency instructors routinely visit schools throughout Israel in order to teach young children how to perform these tasks -- even as young as second graders.

The training is carried out in a calm manner, one designed to “normalize” for youngsters as much as possible things that most Western societies would never dream of having to teach their children.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Memo to the Israeli government: if you really struck a lasting peace with the Palestinians, declared your borders, and started treating your neighbors in the region with a little more respect, none of this would be necessary at all.

Teaching children to be afraid is how you control them when they grow up, to inculcate the belief that everyone else in the world around them is out to destroy them, save their own countrymen and women.

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