I would like to believe that this document is a hopeful sign, but I have three questions that I don

So baybrook mall stores after years of suicide bombings with their thousands of Israeli casualties, indiscriminate rocket fire and the cold-blooded murder of civilians at close range like what happened in the murder of the high-school student killed by an anti-tank rocket fired at a civilian bus and the murder baybrook mall stores of the two sisters and their husbands in the Negev attacks, the Palestinians are now gonna convince everyone that the PSG is the "official" form of resistance, which will be somewhat less violent than the previous editions of "resistance". PSG sees the suicide bombings and rocket attacks as "counterproductive". Now, assuming that these do become the "official" line (PSG is not the Palestinian Authority), all you have to do is get every to forget all the murderous attacks made up until now and the Palestinains will have it made. August 31, 2011 at 2:13 PM
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I would like to believe that this document is a hopeful sign, but I have three questions that I don't know the answers to but which should be telling: (1) Do Palestinian schools still teach Jew-hatred? (2) Do the PSG members believe two states are the solution or an interim ploy? (3) Ditto the bulk of the Palestinian people? September 2, 2011 at 7:20 AM
Douglas, check on bias, racism and discrimination in Israeli schools. From my last link: Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli academic, mother and political radical, summons up an image of rows of Jewish schoolchildren, bent over their books, learning about their neighbours, the Palestinians. But, she says, they are never referred to as Palestinians unless the context is terrorism. They are called Arabs. "The Arab with a camel, in an Ali Baba dress. They describe them as vile and deviant and criminal, people who don't pay taxes, people who live off the state, people who don't want to develop," she says. "The only representation baybrook mall stores is as refugees, primitive farmers and terrorists. You never see a Palestinian child or doctor or teacher or engineer baybrook mall stores or modern farmer." Peled-Elhanan, a professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has studied the content of Israeli school books for the past five years.... September 2, 2011 at 3:08 PM
Potter-You completely ignored Douglas' question about Palestinian racism and antisemitism which is endemic. Whatever racism is present in Israel and its school system is miniscule compared baybrook mall stores to what the Arab world teaches about Israel and Jews. And you know it, that's why you chose to ignore Douglas' question. You see, what you are trying to do, like many Left/Progressives is try to show Israel in a bad light to other Left/Progressives, saying baybrook mall stores "you should not support this racist, ethnocentric country". But if that is the case, you and they should also NOT support the Palestinians and other Arab states, which are far MORE racist than Israel, as I have stated. So we are seeing a double standard. Either ALL racism is bad (assuming that Israel is racist, and Nurit Elhanan-Peled is not a good source given her fringe, extremist views) or not. September 3, 2011 at 1:40 PM
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