Posted on 03/04/2011 9:13:07 AM PST by Impala64ssa
GAZA CITY (Maan) -- Gaza government officials on Tuesday urged school children to leave classrooms if human rights lessons included information about the Holocaust.
The Hamas-led government said it would do everything it could to prevent children being taught about the Holocaust in UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip. It accused the UN agency of overstepping its humanitarian and relief role.
UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness explained that human rights education has been part of the agency's curriculum in schools across the region since 2002. In Gaza, the agency runs 228 schools, educating over 200,000 children.
"Because of the situation in Gaza, we have been enriching further our human rights education" in the coastal enclave, Gunness said, explaining that the program was anchored in the principles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Gaza Education Minister Mahammad Ashquol said his ministry "will never allow teaching Holocaust to Gazan refugee camp children."
"Messing up Gaza's education system is a red line which cant be ignored," he added.
The Hamas-run Ministry of Culture also issued a statement slamming the inclusion of information about the Holocaust in the UN curriculum, which it described as a "challenge" to Palestinians.
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What’s the Problem Hamas?Are you afraid that your children will learn that You’ve been lieing to them for the last thirty years,And the Jews are NOT the cause of their problems,You and your beliefs are.
“Hamas govt urges children not to study Holocaust”
And I urge all members of Hamas to strap explosives to their chests and blow themselves up. Go ahead and cash in our chips and collect your 72 virgins or whatever. Why wait? Go ahead.
It is the 72 Virginians they will meet.
Maybe because the kids might find out that the Arab world was largely allied with the Nazi regime of Germany in WW II and are therefore complicit in the Holocaust? Do they care?
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Beavens to Hetsy! “Challenge” the little fellahs?! That’s not what education is for. It’s to teach them WHAT to think, not HOW! Challenges are for athletic sports, such as kitten strangling and rock throwing.
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