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Erasing Israel
By David Bedein
TheEveningBulletin.com | September 26, 2006


As this is being written, news wires around the world are running a 
story that Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, has 
launched a new peace initiative with Israel. 

However, the new school books that the same Mahmoud Abbas has now 
introduced in the Palestinian Authority school system - run 
independently of Hamas - represent a curriculum that prepares a new 
generation of Palestinians to destroy Israel. 

Following fervent support given to Hezbollah's total war on Israel by 
Abbas and the Palestinian Authority this summer, this raises the 
question as to whether the new school year in the Palestinian 

Authority, opening next week, will simply add fuel to the fire of the 
Palestinian Authority's war against Israel, instead of a new peace 
initiative with the Jewish State. 

Because these PA school books have also been incorporated in the Arab 
schools in Jerusalem, which raises cause for further concern, a movement 
is afoot in the Israeli Arab schools in the rest of Israel to adopt the 
PA curriculum in their schools. Indeed, the latest study of PA 
textbooks, commissioned by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information 
Center in Herzelia (www.intelligence.org.il, an agency that had been 
consistently supportive of the Oslo Peace Process), speaks for itself.  
Here are some pearls of wisdom that Palestinian children will learn from 
the new school books of the Palestinian Authority this year:

1. Israel does not appear on any maps of the world in the new PA 
textbooks, while maps of Israel replace the name Israel with Palestine 
in all of the new Palestinian Authority school books. 

2. The new Palestinian School Books "annex" sites in Israel to 
Palestine. "Haifa is a Palestinian seaport," (p. 7) (Lughatuna al-Jamila 
(Our Beautiful Language) Vol. 2, 5th grade textbook, p. 86). "Galilee, 
Nazareth and Beit She'an are regions in Palestine," (p. 7) (Al-Iqtisad 
al-Manzili (Home Economy), 10th grade textbook, pp. 36-37). 

3. The new Palestinian school books mention Israel only as an enemy, in 
reference to "occupation of lands" in 1948 and 1967: "There is no doubt 
that the Israeli occupation has a negative impact on [Palestinian] 
agriculture and its export," (p. 8) (Lughatuna al-Jamila (Our Beautiful 
Language) Vol. 1, 10th grade textbook, p. 102).

4. The new Palestinian school books present Zionism only as an enemy 
movement: "The Palestinian people are under an oppressive siege, 
limiting their movement and way of life," (p. 9) (Al-Tarbiyah al-
Islamiyyah (Islamic Education), Vol. 1, 5th grade textbook, p. 49).

Accusation against settlements [from 1948!] of damaging water sources 
"the influence of settlement on sources of water in Palestine," (p. 9) 
(Ulum al-Sihha wal-B'ia (Health and Environmental Sciences), 10th grade 
textbook, p. 122).

"The Palestinian family has problems...stemming from the occupation...it 
loses father, mother or son to death or imprisonment...endures the 
difficulties of life...," (p. 11) (Al-Tarbiyah al-Wataniyya (National 
Education), 5th grade textbook, p. 23).

5. The new Palestinian School Books make the false claim that an 
"extremist Zionist" set fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1969, (p. 12) 
(Tarikh al'Alam al-Hadith wal-Mu'asir (History of the new Modern World), 
10th grade textbook, p. 106) when it was really a mentally unstable 
fundamentalist Christian Australian.

More at:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24584

L'Chaim

Mimi

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