HAMAS TAKES CONTROL OF PALESTINIAN SCHOOLS

A Struggle for Young Palestinian Minds - Karin Laub and Dalia Nammari (AP/Washington Post)
During a year in power, the Islamic Hamas movement has begun taking control of Palestinian schools and is making changes. Palestinian children spend more of their school day studying Islam. Critical jobs in public education are filled by Islamic stalwarts. A once-banned social studies reader, crammed with hard-line rhetoric, is now in classrooms.

"You are seeing the gradual transformation of a largely secular national...education system and curriculum into a more ideological, closed system," said Hanan Ashrawi, a former minister of higher education.

IT'S TOO BAD, BECAUSE WHEN FATAH CONTROLLED THE EDUCATION SYSTEM, STUDENTS WERE TAUGHT TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL AND LOVE JEWS.