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<H1>Israel: Principal faces hearing over textbook
By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer Matti Friedman, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 1, 7:35 am ET
JERUSALEM – An Israeli high school principal has been summoned for a hearing by the country's Education Ministry for using a textbook that presents the Palestinian narrative about events surrounding Israel's creation in 1948, officials said Friday.
The controversy at the school in southern Israel reflects how charged the events surrounding the Jewish state's birth remain more than six decades later. Israeli Jews celebrate 1948 as the year of their independence, while Palestinians and Israel's Arab citizens mourn what they call "al-naqba" — the catastrophe — the year of their defeat and mass exodus.
The principal of the Shaar Hanegev high school has been told to report next week to clarify with Education Ministry officials his school's use of an unapproved textbook, ministry spokesman Hagit Cohen told The Associated Press.
The textbook in question gives the Israeli narrative of the country's founding next to that of the Palestinians, with blank space in the middle for students to insert their own thoughts, according to a report this week in the daily Haaretz.
An unnamed teacher at the school told Haaretz that the ministry instructed the school to pull the book two days after the academic year began this month.
Cohen, the ministry spokeswoman, said the book was rejected by the Education Ministry five years ago, not during the term of the current Israeli government. The ministry's policy has always been to summon principals for clarification whenever unauthorized materials are used, she said.
"This is not about the content of this particular textbook," Cohen said.
She would not say what steps the Education Ministry might take.
Michal Shaban-Ketzer, a spokeswoman for the local government with jurisdiction over the school, confirmed that the principal had been summoned. School officials would not comment further until after the hearing, she said, and officials at the school could not be reached directly for comment.
Last year, Israel's education minister ordered references to the Palestinian "catastrophe" removed from a textbook for Arab third-graders.
[Related: Texas to get rid of pro-Islam textbooks]
Teachers were free to discuss the personal and national tragedies that befell Palestinians, Education Minister Gideon Saar, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, told Parliament at the time. However, he said that "no other country in the world, in its official curriculum, would treat the fact of its founding as a catastrophe."
The third-grade textbook had been approved by a dovish education minister two years earlier.
The war around Israel's creation effectively began in 1947, with the United Nations decision to partition the British-controlled territory of Palestine into Jewish and Arab countries. It intensified in 1948, when Arab armies invaded the nascent Jewish state, and ended with a victory for the Jewish forces. The Israelis seized territories beyond what the U.N. had allotted to their new state, while Egypt and Jordan occupied what was left of the territories the U.N. intended for a Palestinian state.
More than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from areas that came under Israeli control.
Official Israeli histories of the country's establishment, especially those written for schoolchildren, have typically focused on the heroism of Israeli forces and glossed over the Palestinian flight, attributing the mass exile to voluntary escape if mentioning it at all.
The Israeli historian Benny Morris has written that while the Israeli leadership never issued a general order to expel Arabs from areas under Jewish control, in many cases Israeli forces did force Palestinians out. In other cases Palestinians left of their own volition. In almost all cases, those who left were not allowed to return.
Those who remained became an Arab minority inside Israel. Today, those Arabs make up about a fifth of the country's population of 7.5 million.
But the issue of return remains explosive, as Palestinians demand the right to repatriate the surviving refugees and more than 4 million descendants to their original homes in Israel. Israel rejects the demand, saying that would mean the end of Israel as a Jewish state. Israel says the refugees should receive compensation and be resettled where they now live or in a Palestinian state.
Does not sound like Israel wants to exterminate anyone.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101001/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_textbook/print
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By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer Matti Friedman, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 1, 7:35 am ET
JERUSALEM – An Israeli high school principal has been summoned for a hearing by the country's Education Ministry for using a textbook that presents the Palestinian narrative about events surrounding Israel's creation in 1948, officials said Friday.
The controversy at the school in southern Israel reflects how charged the events surrounding the Jewish state's birth remain more than six decades later. Israeli Jews celebrate 1948 as the year of their independence, while Palestinians and Israel's Arab citizens mourn what they call "al-naqba" — the catastrophe — the year of their defeat and mass exodus.
The principal of the Shaar Hanegev high school has been told to report next week to clarify with Education Ministry officials his school's use of an unapproved textbook, ministry spokesman Hagit Cohen told The Associated Press.
The textbook in question gives the Israeli narrative of the country's founding next to that of the Palestinians, with blank space in the middle for students to insert their own thoughts, according to a report this week in the daily Haaretz.
An unnamed teacher at the school told Haaretz that the ministry instructed the school to pull the book two days after the academic year began this month.
Cohen, the ministry spokeswoman, said the book was rejected by the Education Ministry five years ago, not during the term of the current Israeli government. The ministry's policy has always been to summon principals for clarification whenever unauthorized materials are used, she said.
"This is not about the content of this particular textbook," Cohen said.
She would not say what steps the Education Ministry might take.
Michal Shaban-Ketzer, a spokeswoman for the local government with jurisdiction over the school, confirmed that the principal had been summoned. School officials would not comment further until after the hearing, she said, and officials at the school could not be reached directly for comment.
Last year, Israel's education minister ordered references to the Palestinian "catastrophe" removed from a textbook for Arab third-graders.
[Related: Texas to get rid of pro-Islam textbooks]
Teachers were free to discuss the personal and national tragedies that befell Palestinians, Education Minister Gideon Saar, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, told Parliament at the time. However, he said that "no other country in the world, in its official curriculum, would treat the fact of its founding as a catastrophe."
The third-grade textbook had been approved by a dovish education minister two years earlier.
The war around Israel's creation effectively began in 1947, with the United Nations decision to partition the British-controlled territory of Palestine into Jewish and Arab countries. It intensified in 1948, when Arab armies invaded the nascent Jewish state, and ended with a victory for the Jewish forces. The Israelis seized territories beyond what the U.N. had allotted to their new state, while Egypt and Jordan occupied what was left of the territories the U.N. intended for a Palestinian state.
More than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from areas that came under Israeli control.
Official Israeli histories of the country's establishment, especially those written for schoolchildren, have typically focused on the heroism of Israeli forces and glossed over the Palestinian flight, attributing the mass exile to voluntary escape if mentioning it at all.
The Israeli historian Benny Morris has written that while the Israeli leadership never issued a general order to expel Arabs from areas under Jewish control, in many cases Israeli forces did force Palestinians out. In other cases Palestinians left of their own volition. In almost all cases, those who left were not allowed to return.
Those who remained became an Arab minority inside Israel. Today, those Arabs make up about a fifth of the country's population of 7.5 million.
But the issue of return remains explosive, as Palestinians demand the right to repatriate the surviving refugees and more than 4 million descendants to their original homes in Israel. Israel rejects the demand, saying that would mean the end of Israel as a Jewish state. Israel says the refugees should receive compensation and be resettled where they now live or in a Palestinian state.
Does not sound like Israel wants to exterminate anyone.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101001/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_textbook/print
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This is just going to fall into another antiIsraeli, antiZionist, antiAmerican-Israeli lobby rant thread. Come on pick a new whipping boy how about the Taliban, Pakaistan's FATA areas or maybe the Kurds.
That's lovely!
Nuts on both sides...Lieberman is not exactly sane either.......
I am no fan of the government of Bejamin Netanyahu......nor of the person.
At the same time, Hamas urges the destruction of Israel as its policy, Iran urges Israel disappear off the map, and the leader of Hezbollah urges all Jews to go to Israel, so he can kill them all in one place.
At least the views of this idiot rabbi are not the official policy, unlike the views I pointed out above........
the piece is somewhat one-sided.......
I see the anti Jewish lobby is at work on Saturday. There are without
a doubt those in Israel who want Palestinians wiped out, there are
those in every society that want their enemies wiped out, but that does
not mean the majority of citizens feel that way. The difference is, in
Israel or here such things can be said by either side. Even those who
dislike the Jews, or Catholics, or Muslims or whoever, as long as they
stay within the confines of good taste can say pretty much anything.
Suppose you went to Iran and said you didn't like the Muslims, or that
Islam was a violent religion, or that the leadership were criminals or
they were corrupt? I am afraid to say if you even whispered such things
you would be arrested. There are elements in the Islamic world that
are hell bent on wiping out the Jews. It is the worlds intention to have
cooler heads prevail and create a better world. Fueling old hatred
is not the way to go. I am not Jewish, nor Muslim, but I resent either
side wanting to kill each other for the hell of it.
What I can't understand is bother groups have Abraham as the father
of their people. Christ was a Jew, yet the Arab world embraces Christ
as a great prophet.
I think as time goes on and more people look rationally at this, those
engaged in the politics of religion, will have a lot of explaining to do.
For anyone to simply make the statement that a specific group wants
to wipe out the other without including all the facts, and their own
agenda, is a licence to demean ones self.
a doubt those in Israel who want Palestinians wiped out, there are
those in every society that want their enemies wiped out, but that does
not mean the majority of citizens feel that way. The difference is, in
Israel or here such things can be said by either side. Even those who
dislike the Jews, or Catholics, or Muslims or whoever, as long as they
stay within the confines of good taste can say pretty much anything.
Suppose you went to Iran and said you didn't like the Muslims, or that
Islam was a violent religion, or that the leadership were criminals or
they were corrupt? I am afraid to say if you even whispered such things
you would be arrested. There are elements in the Islamic world that
are hell bent on wiping out the Jews. It is the worlds intention to have
cooler heads prevail and create a better world. Fueling old hatred
is not the way to go. I am not Jewish, nor Muslim, but I resent either
side wanting to kill each other for the hell of it.
What I can't understand is bother groups have Abraham as the father
of their people. Christ was a Jew, yet the Arab world embraces Christ
as a great prophet.
I think as time goes on and more people look rationally at this, those
engaged in the politics of religion, will have a lot of explaining to do.
For anyone to simply make the statement that a specific group wants
to wipe out the other without including all the facts, and their own
agenda, is a licence to demean ones self.
"Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege." ~ Noam Chomsky
"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion,
clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten
with time. The first of these is that there is no
Zionism,colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the
Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot
Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet.
We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects.
In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals,
cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our
destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will
be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our
feet and serve us as our slaves." - Israeli prime Minister Menachem
Begin in a speech to the Knesset [Israeli Parliament] quoted by Amnon
Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts," New Statesman, June 25, 1982
"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion,
clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten
with time. The first of these is that there is no
Zionism,colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the
Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot
Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet.
We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects.
In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals,
cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our
destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will
be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our
feet and serve us as our slaves." - Israeli prime Minister Menachem
Begin in a speech to the Knesset [Israeli Parliament] quoted by Amnon
Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts," New Statesman, June 25, 1982
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