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To: Dayuhan who wrote (43343)	9/11/2002 11:07:36 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

With this I agree, but neither side will tolerate either goodwill or honest education. Each is too convinced that their own light is the "proper" one. This evenhandedness is either ignorant or deeply unfair. The Israelis had a huge change in mindset when they embraced Oslo, and began acknowledging Palestinian claims as also being legitimate. They rewrote all the textbooks. The Israeli right complained bitterly that the left had expunged Zionism from the classroom. It was the Palestinian side, under Arafat, that educated for war, wrote textbooks that didn't show Israel on the map, claimed that the Palestinians were descended from the Philistines (in actual history, the Philistines disappeared as a separate people by about the 8th cen. BCE) and there never were Jews in Palestine before 1948. memri.org has the 3rd party reports (by European monitoring agencies) that describe the difference in the textbooks, if you care to look at the facts.