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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/travesty-of-palestinian-education/
Israel Hatred Strengthened in New PA Textbooks
(Israel Hayom) Yaakov Ahimeir - Dr. Arnon Gross, a former senior news anchor for Israel Radio in Arabic, researched the latest Palestinian textbooks published by the PA Education Ministry in Ramallah and found a "depressing" change for the worse. When PA President Mahmoud Abbas leaves his post, he will have bequeathed a dark legacy of incitement embedded in the minds of Palestinians. Gross discovered that in each instance in an earlier textbook of even the slightest hint of deviation from the lexicon of hatred toward Israel and Jews, the authors later corrected the "mistake." For comparison, Gross analyzed textbooks in the Israeli education system. In these books, he says, the authors write about peace as the only solution to the conflict, and the Israeli political-diplomatic discourse included endless discussions of the Oslo Accords. In the Palestinian textbooks, on the other hand, the Oslo Accords are mentioned only in passing and not as the beginning of a peace process. A new generation of Palestinians is being raised on these texts, which are extinguishing even the smallest thought of co-existence with Israel. The writer is a senior Israeli journalist, and a television and radio personality.