Re: Palestinian textbooks still promote hate, lies & martyrdom
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Posted by Joan O'C on 21:27:36 2005/10/31
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Palestinian textbooks still promote hate, lies & martyrdom posted by Al Gordon
A few weeks ago, Eyal Naveh from Tel Aviv University spoke at U of T about the joint Israel-Palestinian textbook project. How nice that sounds and what a horrendous challenge it is.
They discovered very quickly that there was no common ground for a "joint" textbook.
so they decided to focus on certain key events and on one side of the page, write the Israeli narrative, and on the other the Palestinian. The respective narratives were to be marked by each people's flag. Except - the Palestinian teachers are not allowed to bring the Israeli flag into their classrooms, so the flags had to go.
Next, when they were editing the submissions, they discovered that the Palestinians referred to every Israeli place - Tel Aviv, Kiryat Shmona, etc., - EVERY place in Israel as a settlement. This of course is intended to delegitimize the existence of anything Israeli.
Then at the end, the Palestinians listed "massacres" (sic) of Palestinians. So the Israelis came back and listed all the massacres of Jews and Israelis at the hands of the Palestinians. Palestinian teachers didn't like that. You see, they are the VICTIMS!!!!! That, according to Professor Naveh, is the crux of the problem. The Palestinians will not relinquish their victimhood; they love it, they wallow in it. The Israelis don't understand this. Their attitude is "you started a war, you lost, we won, get over it". But the Palestinians can't do that; they lovingly nurture their hatred and their dreams of vengeance, murder and destruction, and wour hard-earned tax dollars are used for this. My disgust with this government grows daily.
So when you tell me that these so-called textbooks continue to promote Jew-hatred, I am not surprised. The only surprise is that Paul Martin & company actually took Abbas at his word. How naive was that?
Our government has all the integrity of a cockroach.
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