Civic education for Canaan

The book American State of Canaan mentions nearly 200 single incidents of rogueries or classes thereof, committed by Israeli authorities, agents, allies, banditi, or individuals gone astray. Distortions of Hebrew history, from the so-called "Conquest of Canaan" down to "News of This Day", have twisted civic education and affected wrongly the attitudes of perhaps a third of the Israeli population and an equal proportion of American Jews. In response, Palestinian attitudes will have been correspondingly trained in wishful, if hopeless, counterpart roguery. The Canaan State government should then, even more than does the typical American State, put ever-increasing energy and resources into civic education of the whole people, indoctrinating the habits of equality, the rule of law, and humaneness.

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