By Andrew L. Jaffee

How will there ever be a peaceful two-state solution — Israelis and Palestinians living side-by-side in sovereign states — while Palestinians continue to instill hatred of Jews in their own children? From AIPAC’s Near East Report:

Surveying the 29 new Palestinian textbooks that were published for the 2004-2005 school year, Israel’s Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center found a manifestation of what it called “a consistent, long-standing negative attitude of the Palestinian curriculum toward the state of Israel, the Zionist movement and the Jewish people.”

The textbooks, all of which are currently used in Palestinian schools, praise attacks against Israelis, referring to “the martyrdom of Palestinian warriors.” One of them promulgates longstanding anti-Semitic myths about a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, citing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

On top of such claims, the textbooks cast doubt on Israel’s legitimacy by omitting key facts about its history.

Israel is excluded from all maps of the Middle East, one of which is entitled “Political Map of the Arab Homeland.” Ignoring the Jewish people’s historic presence in the Land of Israel, the textbooks refer to all ancient inhabitants of the area as Arab. Population centers within Israel’s pre-1967 borders are called “settlements.” One of the textbooks excludes the Holocaust from a comprehensive discussion of World War II. No mention is given to the peace agreements concluded by Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).

The study argues that such omissions belie the PA’s claims that it is committed to ending incitement to violence against Israel and working toward achieving genuine peace.