There is a Female Pro-Israeli Arab Activist (who name I forget) who stated in an interview that she was taught to hate Jews as a kid, but when she was submitted to the hospital and saw how the Jews treated her with same concern as they did for other Jews she totally changed her opinion of Jews and now works to fight the anti-Semitic amongst her people. (Note: she also stated that she knew that if it was the other way around (I.E. a Jewish kid in an Arab hospital) things would have ended much differently.)

That said, being that it is natural to mourn the loss of your own more than those of other, I think it would have been correct for the reporter to have mentioned in the title that the teens were Arabs. It least then people could feel sorry for the parents without feeling the deep pain that we feel for our own brothers.

and any other “Chachomim.” Hashem said that statement to the melachim who wanted to sing Shira, but Klal Yisroel has every right to sing Shira when their enemies drown and in fact as the Torah reports, Moshe and Klal Yisroel sang Az Yashir.

Im certainly not happy Arab kids drowned and I dont understand how anyone can be happy. They are still people and until we know otherwise, we can assume they were not evil and therefore should feel bad that they drowned and that a family lost their children. No I wont shed any tears, but I most certainly wont rejoice either although I am glad it wasnt a Yiddish Neshama that drowned.