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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/president-trump-you-can-start-making-peace-heres-how/
Creating a Culture of Peace
(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - PA President Mahmoud Abbas stood next to President Trump at the White House and claimed: "I affirm to you that we are raising our youth, our children, our grandchildren on a culture of peace." Really? A "culture of peace" means a Palestinian education system that acknowledges that the Jewish people have sovereign history here, that of course there were Jewish Temples in Jerusalem, and that, however inconvenient, two peoples are fated to share this narrow strip of land. It means that far from discouraging "normalization" with Israel and Israelis as is currently the case, a Palestinian leadership that wants statehood needs to promote constructive interaction with the people who live next door. It emphatically means an end to all those Fatah social media posts encouraging violence, an end to the glorification of terrorists and terrorism. Most Israelis would respond with enthusiasm to genuine evidence of change on the Palestinian side.