Middle East children share dreams for 2013

Middle East children share dreams for 2013

By aljazeeraenglish

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwid17_middle-east-children-share-dreams-for-2013_news

This is a film clip from Aljazeera where children from around the Middle East are asked what they  most wish for in the New Year.
Two young girls in Iraq wish for better education and greater saftey. They want their country to be like Europe or Asia where car bombs don't regularly go off.
A young man living in the West Bank wishes for reconciliation and national unity.
Other children there also wish for their football teams to win the World Cup; to be able to go on picnics; and for a free society.
In a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey, the children, who live in tents, are afraid of never getting back to their countries and of having to stay in the camps.

What these children want most of all, it seems, is to be "normal"--to trade their often violent and tumultuous lives for the safety that so many other modern countries realize to a great degree. In a global society, they are a generation unlike the majority of of adults around them. They have access to the internet and the world beyond; ranting extremists will be hard-put to sway them. When they get older, perhaps they will overthrow the extremist factions of power by simply not listening.