Friday, December 24, 2004
Via Norm, this fisking of a "remarkable" (that's legalese for "Are you freakin' kidding?") IHT op-ed claiming there's nothing wrong with Palestinian textbooks.
New Appeal to Reason: Rubbish from the IHT on Palestinian Textbooks
For my money, here's a good, one-paragraph executive summary:
Gershon Baskin, co-director of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, said in an interview on CNN
I know that educators in Palestinian and people in the education department writing the textbooks wanted to write Israel, wanted to write different text under the maps, but they were told by the highest level politicians in Palestinian[sic] that that was not acceptable.
They could change if they wanted to. They don't want to. They should be treated accordingly. Decide for yourself who "they" is.
You can read it all.
