Imagine a teenager: juggling schoolwork, hockey practice, music lessons or preparing for a big exam. For most young people, life is about learning, growing and exploring the world.

My eight teenage grandchildren spend their afternoons focused on studies, charitable work and sports, dreaming of college, careers and marriage when the time is right. They are guided by curiosity and ambition, not by the expectation of dying in the name of a political cause.

Now imagine a very different world.

According to Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian Authority Ramallah district governor Laila Ghannam praised families on July 27 whose children sacrificed their high-school diplomas for the “greater shahada ” of martyrdom—comparing funerals to joyous weddings held in Paradise. This is a society in wh

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