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| Israeli textbook for Arabs denounces creation of Israel | |
| 2007-07-23 | |
The Israeli government has approved a school textbook that for the first time presents the Palestinian denunciation of the creation of Israel in 1948. The book, to be used only in Israeli Arab schools, notes that Palestinians describe the event as a "catastrophe". "Both the Israeli and Palestinian versions have to be presented," education minister Yuli Tamir said.
The new textbook notes that "some of the Palestinians were expelled following the War of Independence and that many Arab-owned lands were confiscated", the education ministry said. Palestinians refer to Israel's creation in 1948 - in which hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled in the wake of the independence war - as "al nakba", or the catastrophe. They blame the Jewish state for usurping their land. The new textbook also says Arab leaders rejected a UN partition plan for Palestine to be split into Israeli and Palestinian states, and that Jewish leaders accepted it. Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman denounced the book on army radio, blaming "the masochism and defeatism of the Israeli left, which constantly seeks to apologise, while we did what we had to". Former Education Minister Limor Livnat of the right-wing Likud party said it would encourage Arabs to take up arms against Israel. | |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #8 Thanks. An old favorite of mine and a speech that rolls off the tongue on stage. Had he not been murdered young, probably because of his undercover work for the Crown, Marlowe might well have outshone Shakespeare I think. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-07-23 13:18 |
| #7 :-) lotp |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-23 12:38 |
| #6 LOTP: great stuff! |
| Posted by: borgboy2001 2007-07-23 12:25 |
| #5 Alternate headline: Israel to use American public school textbooks. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2007-07-23 08:13 |
| #4 Albeit the world think Machiavel is dead, Yet was his soul but flown beyond the Alps; And, now the Guise is dead, is come from France, To view this land, and frolic with his friends. To some perhaps my name is odious; But such as love me, guard me from their tongues, And let them know that I am Machiavel, And weigh not men, and therefore not men's words. Admir'd I am of those that hate me most: Though some speak openly against my books, Yet will they read me, and thereby attain To Peter's chair; and, when they cast me off, Are poison'd by my climbing followers. I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past! I am asham'd to hear such fooleries. Many will talk of title to a crown: What right had Caesar to the empery? Might first made kings, and laws were then most sure When, like the Draco's, they were writ in blood. - Christopher Marlowe |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-07-23 07:50 |
| #3 If you crack down on Arabs, you just encourage taquia. Better fallow St. Nicollo "Never do your enemy a small injury". |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-23 07:24 |
| #2 Nope, newc, leftism is a mental illness akin to hysteria. After years of pondering every angle, for me the conclusion is inescapable. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-07-23 05:22 |
| #1 Corruption. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-07-23 04:13 |