Israeli, Arab third-graders to be taught ‘Nakba’
Nakba is the Arab term for “catastrophe”, or more specifically: the establishment of the state of Israel. In fact, the most important day of the year for Palestinian Arabs is the anniversary of this “catastrophe”, called… wait for it… yup… Nakba Day.
Well, this so-called Nakba (Israel) happens to be the only plural society in all of the Middle-East, extending equal rights to all of its citizens, including Arab-Muslims. Israel is also the only nation in all of the Middle-East governed by a democratically elected government; has an independent judiciary that enforces secular laws; and freedom of the press.
Being a Jew in an Arab-Muslim country (assuming Jewish presence hasn’t been entirely prohibited) is often dangerous to one’s health. Being an Arab-Muslim in Israel means having the right to participate in anti-government dissent, without any fear of retribution. In fact, being an Arab-Muslim in Israel means you have the same opportunity as any other Israeli citizen, to participate in the government – Arab-Muslims hold seats in the Knesset. Where in the Arab-Muslim world can a non-Muslim, forget Jew, enjoy such equality?
The Palestinian Arabs have spent these last 60 years not building their own functioning society, but reveling in some sort of perpetual victimhood, while teaching martyrdom and Jew hatred to their children. Well, this diet of Jew/Israel hatred will no longer be limited to the children of the Palestinian territories; it’s coming to Israel:
Arab schoolchildren in Israel will be taught next year that the founding of the State of Israel was a tragedy (Nakba in Arabic) in accordance with a widespread Arab view of the event.
The Education Ministry, headed by Prof.Yuli Tamir (Labor), has approved adding the Arab version to the curriculum in response to calls by Arab nationalists who requested the “Nakba†version be taught in their schools.
The new directive approves a Grade 3 textbook “Living Together in Israel,” which was written by Arabs who left their homes during the 1948 War of Independence and claim that Israel took their land. The textbook evenhandedly points out that the Arab nations refused to accept the United Nations partition plan creating the Jewish State and a new Trans-Jordan country.
Definition of national suicide: allowing your enemies – who have repeatedly tried, and failed to annihilate you – to write your history books.
The Protocols of the Global Elders of anti-Zionism
Nelson Mandela and five other senior statesmen will today form themselves into a team of international troubleshooters called “The Elders“.
Filling out the lineup, we have:
- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
- Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan
- Former Irish president Mary Robinson
- Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond Tutu
- Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Palestinians are going to be big fans of this band of “international troubleshooters”. Meryl Yourish assembles the clues:
Mary Robinson, who led the UN Human Rights Commission during the infamous Durban conference: Anti-Israel. Anti-Israel. Anti-Israel.
Jimmy Carter, whose latest anti-Israel screed is a Anti-Israel. Anti-Israel. Anti-Israel.
Nelson Mandela, who never met a Palestinian terrorist he didn’t like: Anti-Israel. Anti-American.
Desmond Tutu, who thinks all the world’s problems can be traced to the U.S. and Israel: Anti-Israel. Anti-Israel. Anti-Semitic.
h/t: israellycool
Moshe Dann: The “Legal” War on Israel
For nearly four decades the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has carried on a relentless battle against the right of Jews to live in Yehuda, Shomron, and Aza (YeShA). Declaring all Jewish presence beyond the 1949 Armistice lines “illegal,” they condemn Israel for violating the Fourth Geneva Convention (GC IV). Acting as judge and jury in secret deliberations, they decided that Israel was guilty. And, despite objections from distinguished international legal experts, the ICRC refused to consider any appeal. There’s only one problem: they made up ‘the law’ to fit their politics.
Several years ago, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) joined this effort by declaring Israel’s ‘security barrier’ and all Israeli settlements “illegal” because they were built beyond the boundaries of 1949 on “occupied Palestinian territory.” That territory was never defined; it couldn?t be, since there is no such entity. And their conclusions ignored the facts.
Divided between two terrorist organizations, Fatah and Hamas, the Palestinian Authority is not a state, nor does it comply with the recognized attributes of statehood. Defining “Palestine” as a single unit between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, most Arabs agree that Israel has no right to exist. “The Nakba” (Catastrophe) was not in 1967, but 1948.
Jacob Laksin: Jimmy Carter’s War Against the Jews
Jacob Laksin, senior editor for FrontPage Magazine, has produced a very important booklet, detailing former President Jimmy Carter’s War Against the Jews.
“Criminal.”
That’s how Jimmy Carter recently described the Bush administration’s refusal to support Hamas and its terrorist campaign against the state of Israel. A curious lapse from a human-rights champion? Hardly.
As Jacob Laksin demonstrates in a new booklet, Jimmy Carter’s War Against the Jews, the ex-president’s reflexive sympathy for anti-Israel extremism is sadly typical of his career, both in and out of office. From the late PLO terrorist chieftain Yasir Arafat to the Saudi royals, Arab dictators and militants of every stripe could always count on Carter to spring to their defense against Israel and the West. By contrast, Israel, the Middle East’s sole democracy, is in Carter’s warped vision a racist “apartheid” state, as deserving of international censure as her terrorist enemies in Hamas are deserving of support.
It is Carter’s decades-long service in the propaganda war against the Jewish state that it is the subject of this booklet.
Download the full booklet (PDF format)
Palestinian culture of child-abuse
Two more vivid examples of the depravity that is Palestinian culture:
These are the children of a people that hope and dream of peace?
The words of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir are even truer today than when she spoke them:
“We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.â€
See also:
- LGF’s Palestinian Child Abuse slide-show
- Palestinian Media Watch Videos
Thomas Friedman: A Boycott Built On Bias
These were Israeli Arab doctoral students – many of them women and one of whom accepted her degree wearing a tight veil over her head. Funny – she could receive her degree wearing a veil from the Hebrew University, but could not do so in France, where the veil is banned in public schools. Arab families cheered unabashedly when their sons and daughters received their Hebrew U. Ph.D. diplomas, just like the Jewish parents.
How crazy is this, I thought. Israel’s premier university is giving Ph.D.’s to Arab students, two of whom were from East Jerusalem – i.e. the occupied territories – supervised by Jewish Israeli professors, all while some far-left British academics are calling for a boycott of Israeli universities.
