Monthly Archives: November 2001
The Continuing EU Role in PA Education
Herb Keinon's Jerusalem Post news report of November 2, 2001, indicating that "E.U. money has been used for Palestinian textbooks", was refuted by Ambassador Giancarlo Chevallard (Head of the Delegation of the European Commission)...
New School Books Omit Israel: New Report on PA l School Textbooks
JERUSALEM - A new range of textbooks used in Canadian-funded Palestinian schools has failed to fulfill promises to the international community to modify Palestinian hostility to the Jewish presence in Israel and promote peace...
Executive Summary: The Report of the New Palestinian Authority School Books
Following is a summary of the findings of a survey conducted by the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, of the new Palestinian Authority Textbooks.
The findings were presented at a press conference held...
Why the PA Textbooks Remain a Secret to the Israeli Public
The school system of the nascent Palestinian Authority, established in the wake of the Oslo peace process, has fostered the first curriculum since Nazi Germany to train children in the art of war against...
In the Shadow of 1914: The Current Situation
With each passing day, the political landscape across the globe looks increasingly like August 1914. Then, it took only the assassination of an Austrian archduke by a Bosnian-Serb nationalist to ignite the First World...
How Is Israel to Respond When They Attack Our Airports?
On Monday, US Secretary of State Colin Powell will deliver a speech at the University of Louisville in which it is expected he will set forth an American plan for peace between Israel and...
The Rabbi Who Favors a Binational State
Viewers of CNN news probably are familiar with Rabbi Arik Ascherman, the tall, thin bearded man who places himself before Israeli bulldozers on their way to demolish Palestinian homes or olive groves. There he...
A Profile: When A Social Worker Who helps Terror Victims Becomes a Terror Victim
Scenes of terrorism in newspapers and television have the same effect on me: they inspire shock and anger. There are the pictures of the ambulance crews, the Chevra Kadisha (Jewish burial Society) workers literally...
When Christians and Jews Prayed Under Fire in Bethlehem
As fighting continued in Bethlehem, the Israel and Palestinian communist parties distributed a memo to the media on the morning of Monday, October 22, in which they informed the press that leading Christian clerics...