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To: lorne who wrote (12179)	3/2/2002 7:33:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

memri.org has a long study of the new textbooks that the PA published in Sept 2000, called Narrating Palestinian Nationalism The study says that Palestinian textbooks describe the Palestinian people as Muslim Arabs, with occassional lesser references to Christian Arabs as well. The textbooks refer to Palestine as taking up the whole territory west of the Jordan, including Acre, Joffa, Haifa, Safed -- cities now in Israel. It omits any reference to Jews having ever lived in the area historically. It does however include a large number of anti-Jewish passages from the Koran. Israel does not appear on the maps in the textbooks. The textbooks spend a lot of time trying to demonstrate that the Palestinians are a unique and different people from outside Arabs. (Historically speaking, they have their work cut out for them there, as the Ottoman Empire and Arab rulers before them never regarded Palestine as a separate political or ethnic entity; the British drew the borders of Palestine in 1922)

To: lorne who wrote (12179)	3/2/2002 7:55:46 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

I wonder if teaching of the quran is part of the curriculum and if so teaching arab kids to hate all who are not muslim would be well covered there. Since the Koran goes out of its way to mention Jews and Christians as "People of the Book", and that they are to be respected, I would guess not. By the way, what about the Israeli Ministry of Education sponsoring a congress organized by Orthodox scientists at Ben Gurion University in which the theory of evolution is dismissed as "secular dogma", "speculation", and "myth", while most of the scientists attending "reaffirmed their belief in divine creation." Heh-heh. Tom (Fateful Triangle p.152)