New Palestinian high-school textbooks reject existence of Israel, peace

Haaretz ^ | 00:14 20/03/2007 | Or Kashti,

[mmanager]

New textbooks for 12th-grade Palestinian students reject the existence of Israel and make no attempt to educate students about peace or coexistence, according to Palestinian Media Watch, an organization that monitors Palestinian Arabic-language media and schoolbooks. The primary findings of the report will be presented to the Knesset Education and Culture Committee today. "The teachings repeatedly reject Israel's right to exist, present the conflict as a religious battle for Islam, teach Israel's founding as imperialism, and actively portray a picture of the Middle East, both verbally and visually, in which Israel does not exist at all," the group wrote in a February report entitled "From nationalist battle to religious conflict: New 12th Grade Palestinian schoolbooks present a world without Israel." According to the report, the book describes the establishment of the State of Israel by saying: "Palestine's war [in 1948] ended with a catastrophe unprecedented in history, when the Zionist gangs stole Palestine and expelled its people from their cities, their villages, their lands and their houses, and established the State of Israel." The textbooks were written by the Center for Developing the Palestinian Curricula and introduced by the Palestinian Authority at the end of 2006, according to the report. "Defining Israel's founding as a 'catastrophe unprecedented in history,'

[mmanager]

Think about the progressives taking control in this country and their mantra. Fast foward 50 years from now and understand what our children and grandchildren our faced with.

I have been hard on Bush/Cheney and I voted twice for them and have defended their platform on the WOT. I still believe they got it right.

Our President, will at some point in history go down as a visionary. The only thing I believe he does get is killing this evil in the world so we do not have to bare arms here in the States of America.

The only reason for our society here in America is by the blessings of our Lord and his devine providence.

I'm afraid we are going to leave it worse than we were giv'n.

What a crucial time in our history and the future of our children.

A RINO does not meet the standards for the future of our country. Take business for example; a manager needs to be looking 3-5 years out, a V.P. needs to be looking 5-10 years out, and the CEO needs to looking at 20 years. What about the POTUS?

And what about a Democrat?

[Enduring Freedom]

same authors and publishers of the new gay agenda, and the global warming faux scandal

amazing how education has advanced under the self-proclaimed 'progressives', aka 'regressives'

these morons are responsible for more dysfunction in the world than islamofascism

[freeangel]

I wonder what the palis would say to an American textbook that says that the existence of a palestinian people is a myth?

[M. Espinola]

The Islamic death cult trains their children very young.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

They want a world without Israel.

Hopefully our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be taught in a world without Islamists.

[Rakkasan1]

I hate it when Jews complain Muslim Arabs hate Jews. It is so one-sided. Instead of Jews just harping on Muslims hating Jews, why do the ignore the diverse opinions existing in the Arab world? Most Arabs hate Jews, yes. But many hate Jews and Christians, while others hate Jews and Hindus and Buddhists and black Africans, while yet other Arabs hate Arabs who don't hate enough.

There is a whole rainbow of hate among Arabs and to just focus on one particular strain of hate is to portray a false a bigoted view of the wonderful world of Muslim hate.