[American in Israel]

Why do Palestinians attack armed Israeli troops (say, by stone-throwing) when there are children around?

The Palestinians close school and bus the kids to the sites that they have chosen to have riots. After the kids get to full roar, the shooting starts from behind the kids. Nothing like children as human shields to keep terrorists alive. Standard pattern, they do it all the time.

Then we get some traitor like blustar to shill about the "poor widdle chillins" and you get two uses for each dead child. Once as a shield and if that fails you can beat the guys that got attacked with him.

[Idlewise]

Unfortunately, I believe this to be true and not because it concerns Palestinian children. Other groups/radicals have used innocents to advance their cause, view them as expendable pawns or useful tools.
Americans are innocent too in that we project our values onto others and assume all cultures have a similiar baseline of right and wrong.
It isn't so and our media is misleading us into viewing all conflicts as being led by moral people who are passionate in their cause. Some people with causes actually just want to kill you/me and our families. The goal is not necessarily to advance a moral cause, just their own cause and for their own gain however they define it.
Please provide additional insight from your perspective and current location.