No Jean Z, Anne is quite correct. You are referring to a *Christian* school in the Bethlehem area. There never was any problems with the Christian Arab population.

Anne was referring to Muslim schools which are, of course, the vast majority. That is very well-documented. Have you read any good Palestinian school textbooks lately? Obviously not.

me, Jerusalem, Israel

No Anne, it is only 'well known and well documented that Palestinian children are brainwashed into hatred of Israel and Jews' on settler websites and the like. I have a copy here of the history book used at the Talitha Kumi school in Bethlehem which gives both the Israeli and the Palestinian narrative. The children are taught to see both sides.

What visitors to the West Bank find most amazing is that the Palestinians can still talk about peace and living together after all that has been done to them.

Jean Z, London, UK

Anne K, I'm married to a Palestinian, have two kids and family living in Gaza and oddly enough none of our or their kids have been brainwashed into hatred of Israelis and Jews - I'm proudly half-Jewish and am thoroughly fed up of rebutting this idiotic, Memri-spawned rubbish (and yes, I detest Hamas, as do family members there, who never voted for them yet are still being punished collectively).

Yes, there are hateful people, on both sides - though I've heard of two Israeli death from Palestinian rockets in the past year ( yes, still two too many) with slight damage caused to houses, as opposed to hundreds of Palestinian deaths and thousands of homes destroyed in the same period by Israeli tank shells, helicopter gunships, bombs, bulldozers, etc. I still don't believe either side are blameless victims or evil monsters - only by acknowledging our shared humanity and stressing that life on both sides is precious can we move forward rather than round in the same old circles.

Ruth , Glasgow, Scotland

Why were they given toy guns to celebrate Eid? Why not games, or soft toys or sweets?

Jon, London,

And our friends, who live in Sderot, have a 20 month old child who plays "bomb shelter" with her siblings. She calls out "Colour Red" (which is the air raid siren) and makes everyone run into the shelter.

War is nasty for everyone. But our friends do not indoctrinate their children into hatred of Palestinians, whereas it is well known and well documented that Palestinian children are brainwashed into hatred of Israel and Jews by their TV programs and even their schools.

Anne K, PT,

Not playing..................training.

James, Shrivenham, UK