For more than seventy five years, the Middle East has been marked by conflict, war, terrorism, and missed opportunities for peace. Yet despite the challenges, Israel has repeatedly shown that peace is possible. The real question is not whether peace can exist in the Middle East. The question is why some nations and groups have chosen peace while others continue to reject it.

Israel has demonstrated time and again that it is willing to make painful compromises for peace. The country signed peace treaties with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994. More recently, the Abraham Accords brought normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. These agreements proved that former enemies can become partners when they choose cooperation over hatred.

The success of these agreements raises an important question. If peace is possible with several Arab countries, why not with others?

Part of the answer lies in education and leadership. Peace requires people to teach their children to build a future rather than continue old conflicts. Unfortunately, in many places, hatred of Israel has been allowed to flourish for generations.

One of the most controversial examples involves schools operated by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Numerous reports over the years have documented cases in which educational materials used in some UNRWA schools contained antisemitic content, glorified violence, or erased Israel from maps. Researchers and watchdog........

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