Jerusalem mayor standing up to terrorists

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat discusses the blast in Jerusalem that left one dead and injured more than 50 people.  A full transcript of the interview is at CNN.com.

Highlight from the interview:

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WOLF BLITZER, HOST: The Palestinian Authority president — prime minister, I should say, he condemned this as an act of terror. Is there good cooperation between the Israeli security authorities and the Palestinian Authority — security authorities — right now in this investigation?

MAYOR NIR BARKAT, JERUSALEM: Well, to a certain degree, but the biggest challenge that we have is education. Go to the schools.

Schools in the Palestinian Authority are not promoting life to the way I believe we should if we want the people to live peacefully with each other. So the challenge is not only what the police forces are doing, one with the other, but it’s also how we teach other children.

Do we teach them to be martyrs or do we teach them to promote life? That is the biggest challenge we have in the Middle East, working in an environment that does not always teach and train and educate the next generation for real long-lasting peace. This is one of the biggest challenges we have.

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