Middle East References
May 5, 2004
TCS: Tech Central Station - Naming the Enemy
TCS: Tech Central Station - Naming the Enemy: "In July 2001 Lord Weidenfeld raised a disturbing alarm about Syria, another Baath Party state, in the British House of Lords.
'It is the issue of certain Middle Eastern states promoting and prescribing school books which incite racial hatred, religious intolerance and, worse, outright genocide. I refer especially to the education system of Syria where, from the head of state down to the most junior teacher of fourth to eleventh grade children and young adults, the notion of peace and reconciliation with the Jewish enemy is regarded as treason and crime, where children are exhorted to fight and kill and to seek voluntary death with the promise of both material reward for their families and eternal happiness in paradise. But these school texts for different age groups now go further. They advocate ultimate extermination of the whole Jewish people--in other words, genocide.' "
