Looking at Palestine from Egyptian eyes

Palestine? 19 days now, over 1000 dead, 3000 wounded, infrastructure in shambles, and continued world inaction and tacit support from the United States for Israel. How does Egypt explain it to it’s children? Well during the assembly, the last period of the day, for the last fifteen minutes the history teacher (who is half Palestinian) spoke about Gaza to pay homage to the situation. First she fielded answers of what they knew anything about the Gaza, from accepting answers to “over 800 dead are women and children,” “Israel is only killing innocent civilians,” with an obvious lack of connection that Israel is targeting Hamas. The only mention that Hamas received was that it is part of Palestine, with the reason as to why Israel is attacking as, “well that is the problem.” The she went on to explain the history of the Jewish race in biblical terms, talking about Jakob and the Jewish people how they were persecuted everywhere they went, and then Moses and his trip across the Red Sea to the Holy Land. The brief history fast forwarded to Theodore Hertzl and the prospect of Zionism finding roots in either Palestine or Argentina and the Balfour Declaration giving the Jewish people a right to land in Palestine. “And our story continues from there...”
As an Egyptian child, the constructions in my mind would be inclined to simplify it this way: Israel is a country where a lot of Jewish people live who have claimed it on biblical terms and is deliberately killing Muslim women and children for no reason other than that these Muslims want their land back. And in the Arab world, this is no extreme. Nor is it a secret that my children hate Israel. I have seen kids in the hall pushing one another saying “Ana Misri inte Israel” “I’m Egyptian you are Israel,” or ask me if they could bring in a poster with Israel on it and stomp on it in class. Fair enough, it is hard to be objective in a land that tells you that you won the war when you pushed Israel back over the Bar-Lev line in 1973, and to have had the entire Sinai peninsula occupied for the purpose of Israel asserting itself in the Middle East, or to be a Muslim and see your religion in an ideological battle with the Jews. So will the next generation of Egyptian kids be traveling to Israel for a friendly football match? Vacation in Tel Aviv? And vice versa? The one-sidedness of all this can be expected, but it is upsetting that it will never change.