The raven is accused of ignoring its children's pleas for help and profiting from bloodshed. In the beginning days of the conflict, the Palestinian authority offered rewards to the families of each child that might be martyred in the conflict. This type of demonization is tempting, but profoundly dangerous. For an answer, we must turn back to the story in Genesis. The question that remains unanswered is why the raven would be entrusted with such an important task given its evil inclinations.
Traditional commentators suggest many answers.
Perhaps the most simple one is that even God, who knows with absolute certainty whether someone will succeed or fail, goes through with tests and missions nonetheless. How much more so did Noach owe it to the raven to give it a chance to succeed at the mission. In much the same way, we owed it to the dignity of other human beings to work for peace despite our skepticism. It is precisely now that our hopes have been undermined and our fears realized that the story of the raven should give us the most hope. Elijah proclaims that there will be a drought upon the land as punishment for Israel's idolatry, and goes into hiding in a wadi as the water dries from upon the earth.