Presspectiva Letter in Ha’aretz on Teaching Peace
Uri Misgav didn’t question whether the idea of genuine peace existed on the Arab side
Yishai Goldflam, editor-in-chief of Presspectiva, CAMERA’s Hebrew site, has a letter-to-the-editor today in Ha’aretz in which he takes Uri Misgav to task “for ignoring a crucial factor” in his column lamenting that Israel has “officially taken peace off its agenda.” Goldflam writes:
. . . Misgav is nostalgic for the days when we sang “Noladeti Lashalom” (I was born for peace ) and drew pictures of doves and olive branches. . . .
The point is that Misgav, for all his self-flagellation and bitterness, ignores a crucial factor for completing the equation – the party with which we would like to live in peace. While here, generations of children grew up on poems and songs that express a yearning for peace, what did our neighbors’ children learn? How many peace songs have been written by Arab poets? How many Arab kindergarten teachers taught their pupils how to draw a dove?
During the early days of the Oslo Accords, the Israeli school system took steps to psychologically prepare Israeli children for the approaching peace. The Palestinian school system, on the other hand, continued to brainwash its children with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic propaganda, as it continues to do to this day. . .
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