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Quilting For Peace On several occasions The Jewish Press has reported on and editorially challenged the virulently anti-Israel and anti-Jewish content of Palestinian textbooks. Plainly, not only does such material poison the minds of young Palestinians, but it also reveals that regardless of the agreements Yassir Arafat signs with Israel and his pretensions as a peace maker, the Palestinians are simply not prepared; nor do they have any desire, to peacefully reconcile their differences with Israel. Unfortunately, while the issue of Palestinian school curricula is of continuing critical importance, it does not seem to remain on the public's radar screen too long after it is periodically raised.So we were pleased to learn that M.A.T.C.K.H., Mothers Against Teaching Children to Kill and Hate, which launched the "Kids For Peace" project over three years ago and has been mobilizing Jewish students across the country to write letters to their Palestinian counterparts, is now sponsoring a novel rally in the nation's capital that promises to draw attention to the issue. Each school has incorporated these student letters into a giant "Quilt for Peace," and with the help of several congressman including Representatives Steve Israel and Eliot Engel, M.A.T.C.K.H. will hold a mass rally on October 4th, Chol Hamoed Sukkot, involving busloads of students who will be bringing their quilts to Washington, D.C. and demonstrate against the destructive Palestinian curriculum.Hopefully, this will serve to dramatize the Palestinian "education of violence" and firmly plant in everyone's mind - including governmental officials who often seem to need reminders - of what the Palestinians are really up to. We urge all members of Congress and people of conscience to support this important gathering.
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