(Jerusalem Post) Andrea Levin - Current reports by monitoring agencies of a diminution of PA media incitement are mixed with counter-reports of new and virulent invective. None of the monitoring groups report change in religious and educational indoctrination. Mosques continue to incite, most recently stoking fears that Jewish radicals would attack Islamic holy sites on the Temple Mount. The incendiary sermons were in turn aired on PA television. Likewise, Palestinian schoolbooks remain a vehicle for teaching that Israel is illegitimate and will rightly be replaced by Palestine. No map in any book identifies the State of Israel within any boundary. Only Palestine appears, encompassing all of Israel. When the hatred is amplified continually by television, radio, religious teaching, political leaders, summer camps, public rallies, and neighborhood posters, what other outcome could be expected than the rejection of peaceful accommodation with Israel? The writer is executive director of CAMERA, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.
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