3rd grade Gaza conflict discussion

Today, my first class of the day was three 3rd grade girls: Danielle, Amit and Gal. The first two came from NY and this is their first year here. Gal was in my class last year, which was her first time in an Israeli school after being in Hong Kong for a few years. They are all fluent in both Hebrew and English. Amit also talks incessantly, but usually about nothing. The class started normally: they wrote the agenda, we finished some work from the last class and then they started talking about how the school was collecting food and clothes for the Israeli soldiers. There were boxes lining the halls, already full. And then they told me why. The catalyst for this drive wasn't just the war. The father of one of the students in the school had been killed by a rocket fired into Ashdod or Ashkelon (I don't remember which they said.) by Hamas. Several students also have older brothers or sisters in the army, who were currently fighting.
I was about to tie up the conversation and move on with the day's lesson and then came Danielle's question. "Why are they (Hamas) doing this to us? It's not fair." I immediately knew this was not a conversation that any self-respecting educator should stop. (And anyway, they were at least speaking in English.) We proceeded to have a discussion for about 20 minutes about the war. Danielle and Gal were the ones doing most of the talking, I only inserted a few comments- when they really needed some kind of answer. Amit was surprisingly quiet for once.

One part of the discussion, though, will stick will me forever, and that is the reason I am writing. Forgive me if it is not verbatim, but it will be close.
Danielle: "We fought a war a long time ago to be a country. They got their place and we got ours. Why do we still have to suffer? Just because they lost, doesn't mean we should still suffer. They have their place to live."
Gal: "And a lot of it."
Danielle: "Yeah! We're just this tiny little country. What more do they want from us?"
me: "Well, they think this country is holy, too, just like the Jews do. And they don't want us living here."
Danielle: "But they already have so much. And we already had a war about it and they lost and we are living here now and they're still making us suffer. It's not fair."
Gal: "They just want more and more and more. Why can't they just leave us alone?"

I remind you that these are only 3rd graders. The discussion only ended because the bell rang.