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October 24, 2011

LA Times: East Jerusalem school textbooks are a war of words

by Edmund Sanders
Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Jerusalem— When East Jerusalem teachers ask students to open their history books these days, pupils are wondering: Which one?

Two sets of textbooks are vying for the formative minds of thousands of Palestinian students in Arabic-language schools in East Jerusalem. One was written by the Palestinian Authority, and the other is a revised version reprinted by Israeli authorities.

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