newsweek

08.06.07

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Interesting... Educators in some conflict-ridden societies are using a textbook from Israel that forces students to synthesize two conflicting interpretations of history, reports Newsweek. The Peace Research Institute in the Middle East has published three booklets that divide pages into one column for the Israeli version of history, the second for the Palestinian version, and the third left blank for the student to fill in. One book describes Zionism as “the continual connection of the people of Israel to the land of Israel” while an adjacent column calls it the “imperialist political movement that bestowed a nationalist characteristic to the ...

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