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CULTURE OF HATE

In Yasser Arafat's West Bank, children are taught to hate and kill while they are in kindergarten. Cartoon shows on TV teach children to stone Jews to death. Kids are dressed up in uniforms in the first grade and given wooden rifles to parade in the school yard shouting slogans of death.

What has been built in the West Bank of what we call the Holy Land is a culture of death. Killing and being killed are acts that receive positive attention from everyone from school teachers to government officials. Over 50% of the school kids when asked say they want to one day be a suicide bomber and kill Jews and Americans.

Shrines are built to those who die not only in suicide bombings but in shootings as well. Just days before I arrived in Israel a gunman crawled into a Jewish settlement and killed women and children. He was killed in the act. When his body was returned to his family a huge funeral was given in his honor by Islamic leaders. Oddly the death of those women and children was never mentioned by the Western media. Why?