How will Belgian historians rate World War III?
David Frankfurter
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I have frequently questioned how Western diplomats manage deceive themselves that they have been funding Palestinian "peace initiatives" and the basis of "good governance".   Even more wondrous the self-deception when the money goes specifically toward developing a hate curriculum in schools designed to "educate" young children to Jihad and "martyrdom", reinforcing that peace is neither desirable nor an option.  Wiping the Jews out of the Middle East in history, geography, in poetry, grammar, mathematics and, after graduation, by terror, murder and war.

My previous essays pointed to copiously documented reports by the Prism Group,  the Funding for Peace Coalition and others.  The latest new and revised 2006 year 12 textbooks  have been analysed by Palestinian Media Watch.  While previous negative publicity of the damage created by their funding led many European countries to withdraw from curriculum revision, the latest text books bear the inscription shown in the picture on the right.

The Ministry of Higher Education thanks from the bottom of its heart the international institutes and organisations and the friendly Arab states, and especially the Belgian government, for their monetary support in the curriculum project. Signed by "Ministry of Education and Higher Education and the Curriculum Development Center Sept. 2006"

So what have the Belgians been funding?

Read the report yourself, and see if (like me) you agree with the conclusion:

"One of the most meaningful gauges of the ideology and aspirations of a people is the education of its youth. For this reason, the new Palestinian Authority schoolbooks introduced in the end of 2006 by the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Higher  Education apparatus are a continuation of the tragic disappointment of the earlier books. Instead of seizing the opportunity to educate future generations to live in peace with Israel, the new PA schoolbooks teach their children to hate Israel and vilify Israel’s existence while they glorify terror. Instead of working to minimize the current hate, the new PA curriculum is ingraining it into the next generation’s consciousness, and packaging the war against Israel as existential, mandatory and religious."

A breathtaking coincidence is that just before sitting down to write, I read a headline from Sunday's Ha'aretz: How Belgium sacrificed its Jews to the Nazis. The story details a Belgian government appointed Committee of Historians report on the role of the Belgian authorities in the persecution and deportation of the Jews during World War II.