Israel Will Teach Israeli Arabs to Hate Israel?

Question

History textbooks for Israeli Arab students this year will for the first time present the Palestinian version of Israel’s creation as a “catastrophe,” the education ministry said on Sunday.

“For these types of events, both the Israeli and Palestinian versions have to be presented,” Education Minister Yuli Tamir said in a statement.

Alongside presenting the Israeli interpretation of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the books will also present the version “that is generally accepted among the Arabs, according to which Israel’s War of Independence is perceived as a catastrophe (Naqba) by the Palestinians,” Tamir said.

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Question - What are your thoughts on this ?

Answer 1

This just goes to show that some Israelis are so far to the left in their politics that they are inviting destruction.

Their agenda: to transform Israel into another Sweden—a country whose government has officially renounced its Swedish heritage. Why? Because Sweden’s increasing number of Muslim citizens refuse to become “Swedes.” And so Sweden, a social democracy, has officially committed cultural suicide.

Meanwhile, Palestinian Arabs refuse to become liberal democrats, and Israel’s ruling elites lack the stamina to face this inexorable fact. And so these elites, lacking the creative power of life, want us to believe “there is no military solution to Arab terrorism.”

This is of course nonsense. The Arabs realize that. The Israeli right realizes this. It is only the Israeli Far Left that continues to delude itself, and that does not bode well for the future of Israel.

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Answer 2

Reactions from the right were very sharp. MK Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) said that Prime Minister Olmert, as part of his gestures to PA chairman Abu Mazen, might as well propose that PA officials run Israel's Education Ministry. Porush said that Tamir's decision was shameful and should be retracted.

Former Education Minister Limor Livnat (Likud) declared that teaching Arab children the "Nakba" version of Israel's creation will encourage them to later work against the nation.

MK Zevulun Orlev (NRP), a former Director-General of the Education Ministry, called upon Prime Minister Olmert to fire Tamir for making an "anti-Zionist decision that erases Jewish history and denies the State of Israel as a Jewish state. The Education Minister gives Arabs the legitimacy not to recognize Israel as the State of the Jewish people. This decision marks the "Nakba" of Israel's education network."

Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman slammed Tamir as “expressing not only post-Zionism but also political masochism... The Israel left always complicates itself trying to justify the other side without understanding that there is nothing to justify.”

Moshe Feiglin, running for Likud Party Chairman on behalf of the party's Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction, said, "If it is OK to teach Israeli[-Arab] schoolchildren that the Jewish victory in the War for Independence and the establishment of the Jewish State are actually a catastrophe, this means that the State of Israel is an illegitimate and temporary body... Yuli Tamir hereby reveals that she does not identify with the Jewish claim over the Land more than with the Arab claim. If we do not hurry and give Israel a leadership that truly believes in the justness of our existence, Israel will be erased from the map."

Yuli Tamir is a left-wing professor and Peace Now founder who has campaigned against subsidies for Jewish religious education while backing Arab nationalist programs.

Last year, she ordered that maps of Israel show the 1949 Armistice Line, also known as the Green Line, which draws the borders of Israel as it existed before the Six-Day War in 1967.

She is essentially a suicidalist with regard to the State of Israel.
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Answer 3

Right smack dab in the middle of Arab counties a strip of land was given to the poor Jews after the Holocaust. Many Arabs became refugees due to the fighting. These refugees became know as the Palestinians. The blame for their condition was placed on the Jews and the new state of Israel. While Israel prospered the Palestinians sank lower into despair. Thus the hate

Answer 4

That's interesting and both versions should be taught. Therefore the individual can make their mind about which they believe to be true after being presented by facts.

I wish that we could do that in the U.S. and perhaps more Americans will realize that the true source of terrorism is coming from us.

Answer 5

Sadly, the Palestinians aren't following their example. On Palestinian TV there are programmes for three and four year olds which contain the most HORRENDOUS lies about Jews; they repeat the blood libel for example, and borrow many images and slurs from Nazi propoganda.

Answer 6

There are always 2 sides to a story. Holding back one story and only telling another is an act of propaganda and creates unawareness.

Answer 7

Teaching the truth is the right thing to do. Politicians need to mind their own business and leave teaching to the teachers.
Interesting that the Jewish children and Arab children seem to be segregated.

Answer 8

As long as groups like Hamas are around they are just going to teach kids to hate.
I would say more violence in that region is just going to be perpetuated.

Answer 9

Its always good to know both sides of the argument

Answer 10

Israel will do anything to live alive and powerfull.
By killing palestinian and stealing their land