Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in the Palestinians Cultural Center March 6 following last night's comments by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak that "conditions are not ripe for teaching Darwish" in the Israeli school system. The Israeli Education Minister, Yossi Sarid, from the left-wing Meretz party, has drawn up plans to include Darwish's writings in Israeli high school literature cirriculum, which might cause further rifts inside Barak's coalition government.

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