Sunday, April 20, 2008

Jimmy Carter's speech at the American University in Cairo

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter gave a speech at the AUC this past week, and you can read all about it and his visit to the Middle East in the Daily Star, on the AUC website, or on the AFP website.

Born in a country that has provided Palestine and PLO with money and weapons for as long as anyone can remember, I have nothing but biased opinions about the Palestine-Israeli conflict. My husband who grew up in the U.S. has the very opposite biased opinions. There are two sides to everything?

The inspiration for our homeschooling curriculum, Susan Wise Bauer, suggests studying the Ancients in 1st grade, and since this coincided with us coming to Egypt, we've spent this past academic year concentrating on the beginning of civilizations around Ur, Assyria, Babylon, Tyre, Persia, Egypt, Carthage, Greece, and Rome. Along with the story of the beginnings of this region come the conflicts in what was then called Canaan, and I was sad to realize that as I described the first conflicts in the region dating thousands of years BC, I could conclude to the boys "and they're STILL fighting!" Thousands of years, and the fighting has simply continued. I hope Jimmy Carter can help.
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