syria

The youth in the Middle East are in the majority and, like young people in America, just want to be free. They don't hate Americans. They don't even hate Jews. They save their distaste for the American and Israeli governments. At first glance one would say that Jared Cohen's "Children of Jihad" is a fascinating examination of the youth culture in the Middle East, but it is so much more than that. It is possible that somewhere in the book lies the answer to the question: Will there ever be peace in the Middle East? Young people are the future, and, according to Cohen, they are much more like us than we realize.