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land] and established the defense of it as
an obligatory commandment for every
Muslim if even a centimeter of his land
is stolen. I, a Palestinian Muslim, love
my country Palestine ..."
The complete message Palestinian
children are taught is that Jews, accord-
ing to Allah, are like donkeys; Israel is a
colonial occupier who stole their land;
the cities, lakes and deserts of Israel are
"occupied Palestine;" and the Palestinian
children are learning that they have an
obligation to liberate it "even if a cen-
t i meter is stolen."
Palestinian Justice
The result of this delegitimization is a
belief, frequently expressed by
Palestinian children, that justice can be
achieved only through Israel's destruc-
don.
Speaking on P.A. TV, a 14-year-old
boy explained: "The Israelis [came] from
Holland, America, Iran. They [the Jews]
came to take Palestine, that is Tel Aviv,
Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Ramle. All these cities
belong to Palestine.
"We must expel all Israelis from
Palestine. Because Israel — there is
nothing called Israel in the world." (PA.
TV, Dec. 25, 2003)
Having never seen Israel on a map in
school or on television, this intelligent
14-year-old has concluded, "There is
nothing called Israel in the world."
Finally, it should be stressed that all
the new Palestinian schoolbooks cited
here were written during the most opti-
mistic periods of the peace process,
before the violence began in September
2000. They are not a response to the
war, but an expression of dangerous ide-
ology that has to be replaced if there will
ever be peace.
The ongoing attempts to defend these
P.A. schoolbooks are tragic, as the P.A. is
using these arguments to justify its edu-
cation, and to refuse to improve their
books.
The P.A. is planting the seeds of the
next war in its youth. The defenders of
P.A. hate-education are protecting and
nurturing those seeds of war. El
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Our policy is a policy of peace and
of increasing trade connections with
all countries.
A result of this policy is an
improvement in our relations with a
number of countries and the con-
clusion of a number of agreements
for trade, technical assistance, and
so forth. We shall continue to pur-
sue this policy of peace with all our
might and with all the means at our
disposal. We do not want a single
foot of foreign territory."
These were not empty words;
Stalin did largely keep to this pro-
gram until 1939, when he felt
strong enough to go on the offen-
sive, at which point he initiated an
unparalleled half century's campaign
of aggression, which ended only
with the Soviet state's collapse.
For Abbas, it is 1930; he under-
stands the need to cool things
down. As someone who can realisti-
cally appraise circumstances and
quietly respond to them, he is
potentially a far more formidable
enemy to Israel than the one-note,
blindly violent and flamboyantly
evil Arafat. 0
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'rum ISSUE
With new presidential and congres-
sional terms under way this month,
members of Detroit's Jewish commu-
nity should take the opportunity to
re-acquaint themselves with and
communicate with their elected offi-
cials. Regarding the Arab-Israeli con-
flict, constituents should ask them to
"test" the new Palestinian leader and
his government.
BEIMEND THE ISSUE
Jeff Colman of AIPAC, the pro-Israel
lobby, said recently in Detroit that to
help safeguard Israeli citizens from
renewed Palestinian terrorism, pro-
Israel advocates should ask our gov-
ernment to press the Palestinians to
fight terror and make democratic
governmental reforms. Also, the
United States should slowly, but
deliberately pursue a diplomatic ini-
tiative to bring Palestinians and
Israelis back to the negotiating table.
— Allan Gale, Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit
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