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Palestinians: Israel claims about Palestinian schools false
Israeli school children walk past security in Jerusalem's Old City, Oct
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Israeli school children walk past security in Jerusalem's Old City, Oct. 8. (AP/Mahmoud Illean) (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli school children walk past security in Jerusalem's Old City, Oct. 8. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
The Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. is calling his Israeli counterpart a liar for claiming that Palestinian school children are taught how to stab Jews and says he would welcome an international review of Palestinian school curriculums to disprove the allegation.
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour was responding Wednesday to comments made last week by Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon.
At a news conference, Danon held up a diagram of a human torso with knives pointed at various body parts beneath the caption "How to stab a Jew." He claimed the image was used to teach in Palestinian schools.
Mansour protested those comments as "completely and utterly false" in a letter sent Wednesday to the U.N. Security Council president and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. At a news conference, Mansour said the Palestinians would welcome allowing "UNESCO or the EU to evaluate our curriculum" and disprove Danon's claims. (k)
