Busy Little East Jerusalem Bee

This Arab youngster should be busy attending classes. Instead, he's busy burning tires:

A Palestinian youth holds a tyre set ablaze during clashes with Israeli border police in Shuafat refugee camp on the edge of Jerusalem March 3, 2008. REUTERS/Mahfouz Abu Turk (JERUSALEM) Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 03 3:40 AM

A Palestinian youth stands by burning tires during a protest against Israel's military assault on the Gaza Strip in the Shoafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. Israel vowed on Monday to keep hitting Gaza even as troops pulled out of the Hamas-run territory after clashes that killed at least 120 Palestinians and dealt a major blow to Middle East peace talks. (AFP/Menahem Kahana) AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 03 9:40 AM

A Palestinian youth with his face covered walks past burning tires after clashes between Palestinians and Israeli border police erupted in the West Bank refugee camp of Shuafat, on the edge of Jerusalem, Monday, March 3, 2008. Clashes broke out across the West Bank on Monday between Israeli troops and Palestinian youths protesting Israel's Gaza operations. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty) AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 03 8:07 AM

or collecting stones (the size that can crack a skull)

A Palestinian youth holds stones during clashes with Israeli border police in Shuafat refugee camp on the edge of Jerusalem, March 3, 2008. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 03 11:17 AM

then throwing stones ("shoot to kill")

A Palestinian youth throws stones at Israeli troops, after clashes between Palestinians and Israeli border police erupted in the West Bank refugee camp of Shuafat, on the edge of Jerusalem, Monday March 3, 2008. Clashes broke out across the West Bank on Monday between Israeli troops and Palestinian youths protesting Israel's Gaza operations. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty) AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 03 4:56 AM

In a few years he will be pursuing his studies at a university near you, most likely in the UK, but not unlikely in the US as well. But not before blaming discriminatory funding of Arab schools for their inability to read their own language. Silly me, thinking that the prerequisite to a solid education was good class attendance.