[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't know much about it, but according to Fr. Fahim Abdelmaseh, OFM, it looks like the Israel Ministry of Education is trying to take educational facilities away from parishes, monasteries, etc. and turn them into public schools.

Real school choice is an important mark of a free society. I want to keep an eye on this.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Sounds like what is happening with parochial schools in America.

All schools teach a belief system. It’s just a question of whether the powers that be agree with that particular belief system.

[Chickensoup]

Real school choice is an important mark of a free society. I want to keep an eye on this.
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Well we don’t live in a free society here that is for sure.

[ml/nj]

The protestors in the demonstration will be demanding that the Ministry of Education fully fund the Christian schools, just like other educational networks

This sort of implies that all other educational networks are fully funded by the government. I don't believe that such is the case. Reform and Conservative rabbis here in the US regularly whine that their associated schools in Israel do not get government funding. Only Orthodox Jewish institutions are funded by the government. (I don't know about Muslim schools.)

ML/NJ

[rmlew]

They are doing the same to Jewish schools. This isn’t mentioned because it interferes with their persecution complex and desire for leftist help.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"Most of these schools began operating years before the State of Israel was established."

This statement is fishy. It suggests that Jews have a secondary claim, even though "years before" means the period when Zionist Jews moved into the territory laid waste by Muslim rule and caused it to flourish.

Many of the "Christians" over there are Arabs first and Dhimmi Christians second.

[Chaguito]

Ack! This is exactly what has happened in Chile under the banner of punishing “money-hungry” school owners. It will destroy what gains in educational quality have been achieved in the last 27 years.

[jjotto]

Once socialism is accepted and it’s understood that it’s OK to demand other people’s money, it always comes down to a demand for the government to steal more money on behalf of recipients. It is inevitable.

[Cicero]

Like most Christians, I am a firm supporter of Israel against the Palestinians. But it must be said that the Jewish government has not always been kind to Christians living in Israel. Not because they are Jewish, but because so many of them are big-government leftists.

It’s unfortunate. But from the sound of it, they have every right, indeed duty, to object to a government takeover of religious schools.

[Alas Babylon!]

The Christian schools in the country consist of more than 30,000 students, almost equally divided between Christians and Muslims.

Um, shouldn't Christian schools have like, NO Muslims?

[UnwashedPeasant]

The website the article comes from is clearly pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic. Not a good source for posting on FR, in my opinion.

In this article, for example, the website equates the imprisonment of Hamas terrorists with the imprisonment of Jewish and Christian figures in the Bible. It is disgusting.