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  • A textbook debate riddled with tired cliches Par Daniella Peled :
    http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/a-textbook-debate-riddled-with-tired-cliches.premium-1.502609

    Sur la fureur israélienne de voir le rapport de Yale University mettre à mal le « cliché » israélien (entretenu par les dirigeants occidentaux) du Palestinien sanguinaire comme expliquant l’échec des efforts (toujours israéliens) de paix :

    That Palestinian school books teach their children to hate Israeli Jews is a cliché as legendarily interminable as the conflict itself. It’s part of a canon that includes the smug regurgitation of the paucity of Arab Nobel prize-winners and the bemoaning of the lack of a Palestinian Peace Now.

    But the charge that Palestinian textbooks are riddled with incitement has long become an integral part of Israel’s diplomatic strategy, echoed by Western leaders in front of Israel-supporting and Jewish audiences.

    “As long as the Palestinian Authority educates the younger generation to hate, how is it at all possible to talk about peace?” asked Benjamin Netanyahu, in response to the Palestinian UN bid last November.

    Israeli concessions are useless, this argument goes, in light of the Palestinian refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish state to exist, one that begins in early childhood.

    Perhaps this position lies behind Israel’s rather exaggerated response to last week’s publication of “victims of our own narratives?”,...

    Avec cette excellente remarque :

    That’s not to say that hateful provocation doesn’t exist – but at the risk of recourse to another cliché of the conflict, Palestinians don’t really need to rely on incitement in school textbooks to feed hostility and distrust toward Israel in the next generation. The reality of the occupation does that quite well by itself.