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We do not yet know how the Isreali-Palestinian conflict is taught in Isreali schools and to what extent Isreali children are taught about the paritioning of Palestine and the acceptability of a peaceful resolution. My general assessment is that the Isrealis fully accept partition and would like a peaceful resolution of the conflict. But I do not have sactual school materials yet. Another important question is to what extent there is discussion about the issues involved and to what extent dissident opinions are tolerated.
HBC has not yet had time to research the Isreali school system. A reader who is hostile toward Israel sent this information from an American anti-Israel website. "Edwin Wright was born in Iran of missionary parents and knew the area well. He also studied Hebrew, and when assigned to the Near East issues at the U.S. State Department during the Truman years, he went to Palestine to find out for himself what was really going on. He said, 'I also found that there was a school in Tel Aviv, known as the Gymnasia Herzliya. It was the training school in which most of the modern leaders of Israel had gone; Moshe Dyan and others. I talked with a number of the teachers and professors there. I felt that this was a school dedicated to inculcating and indoctrinating [Theodor] Herzl's ideas into the minds of the young Jews in Palestine.'" [Menuhin] I am not sure at this time how to evaluate this.
Menuhin, Moshe. The Decadence of Judaism in our Times (Exposition Banner Book, 1965). Menuhin was a graduate of Gymnasia Herzliya.
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