Guest (whoever you are), I looked at that link, and if it's true, it's fairly sad. I can understand a nation wanting to restore itself to glory, but I hope it won't be through killing. Of course we don't know what either Mickey Mouse or the girl are actually saying as I can't speak Arabic (is there anyone here on mudcat who can? maybe they can help). The subtitles could themselves be discrediting propaganda, I just don't know.

On the other hand Norman Finkelstein has written how money supposedly collected for victims of the holocaust is being used to bring young Jews (teenagers) who are considering emigration to Israel on all-expenses paid 'eductational trips' to places like Auschwitz where they are worked into an emotional frenzy until they're ready to do harm to anyone who dares question the zionist project. Unsurprisingly when they arrive in Israel they are more than willing to vent their anger on the Palestinians. Now this is what Finkelstein says, i don't personally know if it's true.

But in both cases, if such things are indeed true, it's deeply sad that people should be taught to hate each other from an early age. There isn't much hope of them living together later in life unless they have exceptionally strong charcters to see through all the b******t.