An Oakland-area children’s museum has canceled an art exhibit featuring work by Palestinian youth depicting Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip in 2008 and 2009. Last week, officials with Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art informed the organizers of the exhibit, the Middle East Children’s Alliance, that the project had become too controversial and distracted from the museum’s mission of bringing art education to children. The art, created by Palestinian children between the ages of nine and 11, included images of bombs dropping, tanks and people getting shot.