The non-moderation of the PA, cont’d

The Arabs will never love their children more than they hate the Jews. They’re still teaching their children to hate, and that Israel is Muslim land—and once again, the world will turn a blind eye to the facts that this is a religious war, and always has been a religious war, and will not stop being a religious war unless a sea change happens in Muslim opinions worldwide.

“You can’t have agreements while this kind of hatred is inculcated in the children,” Knesset Education Committee Chairman Michael Melchior (Labor-Meimad) said on Tuesday after seeing new 12th-grade textbooks published by the Palestinian Authority late last year.

“I intend to demand from Prime Minister [Ehud Olmert] that he present the findings [of a new report on the textbooks] to Abu Mazen [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] at their next meeting,” Melchior said.

Melchior’s statements at the Knesset followed a Palestinian Media Watch presentation showing Palestinian 12th grade textbooks teaching children in the PA that pursuing Israel’s destruction was a religious duty.

PMW director Itamar Marcus told the Education Committee that the new schoolbooks were – for the first time – uniquely focused on portraying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a religious war.

“According to these books,” Marcus told the MKs, “the war over this land is a war for Muslim land, and will end only with the resurrection of the dead.” The books teach that “recognition of Israel is forbidden by religion,” he said.

So, who wrote the textbooks? Hamas?

No.

According to the report, the schoolbooks, the products of the official education arm of the PA, written by Fatah-appointed officials at the Center for Developing the Palestinian Curricula and published by the PA Ministry of Higher Education, are also used by schools in east Jerusalem that are under the jurisdiction of – and receive funding from – Israel’s Education Ministry.

So much for peace partners.