Something that pisses me off...

Today at the dentist office I had the displeasure of reading a disturbing article while in the waiting room. In the latest edition of US News and World Report they had a silly and racist editorial in the back of the magazine about Palestinian kids written Harold Evans. This article (which I found online) tries to make the point that Palestinians are teaching their kids hatred for Israel in schools and that this will lead to no peace.

First of all Evans, no one in Palestine, especially in Gaza, need to be taught hatred for Israel, kids or not kids, they see it around them all the time. An Israeli soldier abducting a kid's father will do more to shape his opinion of Israel then any textbook or teacher ever can or will.

Second, Evans refuses in this article to talk about the painful memory of Al-Nakba (the catastrophe) of 1948 and the countless Palestinians still unable to return to their homeland and the continued Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. After all of that, does he not expect Palestinians to get ready to fight back? What does Evans expect? Just for an entire population of people to roll over and play dead? That's not going to happen.

Third, Evans claims that Israel is better, he refuses to note that it is a well known fact that Arab-Israelis and even African Jews in Israel are treated like crap. And Israeli children as well are brought up to be hateful and racist towards Palestinians, here is some prof of that from an Israeli newspaper (third paragraph). If this article was written from the other point of view...it would have caused a ruckus in the American media, if its racist towards Arabs...no one cares.

Clearly, Evans is completely out of touch with reality, needs to check his facts, and is clearly not very intelligent if this is what he truly believes. For crying out loud, he blamed Mahmoud Abbas for all of that, Abbas has been an American puppet ever since he has been involved in the government, it made me laugh when Evans claimed that Israel wants a leader in Palestine who cares about his/her people, anyone who knows anything about the middle east knows this is bull****. Mr. Evans, you are a moron, and you need to actually learn about what your writing about, plain and simple.