#89055 by Greg Bacon on 7/24 at 12:51 am

Thanks for the update Greg, on the ethnic purge that continues, that nobody talks about…at least not here.

Haven’t heard a single one of our political candidates for the next election mention it either.

“When Israel was first established, no Palestinians were dispossessed.”

What a load of BS.  Close to 750,000 indigenous Palestinians were kicked out of their homes and off their land by Israeli Terrorist groups like IRGUN.

The IRGUN went in and slaughtered whole Palestinian villages to scare the hell out of the rest of the Palestinians, some of whom got the messsage and fled the next round of butchery.

The illegal Israeli Occupation and land theft continues to this day.  The Israeli’s forgot the old saying, “Choose your enemies well.”

For the Israeli’s have become the 21st Century’s version of the NAZI’s.

Israel to annex thousand of Dunams from Arab villages

Friday July 20, 2007 00:53   IMEMC Staff
Several Arab institutions and parties in Israel started preparations to counter a new Israeli plan that aims at annexing thousands of Dunams from Arab villages in the Galilee in order to expand the regional district of Maali Yousef regional council in the Western Galilee.

The plan includes grabbing lands that belong to several Arab villages, such as Kisra, Al Bqei’a, Kufur Samee’, and Yanouh, which are all known for their green landscape and fertile agricultural lands.

The project was approved by the Israeli Interior Ministry in order to expand the regional district of Maali Yousef regional council settlement.

Several Israeli media outlets revealed important information regarding the project which will annex 2500 Dunams from Kisra village, and 300 Dunams from Yanouh, and more blocs of lands which belongs to residents of Al Bqei’a, these lands estimated by thousands of Dunams.

http://www.imemc.org/article/49554

We heard about slavery in grade school—couldn’t very well teach the Civil War otherwise.  Didn’t hear the Marxist take on the Civil War (as a clash between modes of production) until college.

#89015 by Lefty on 7/23 at 8:40 pm

Show me, in which Israeli Arab schools is the Israeli version taught?  What?  There is no such thing as an Israeli Arab?  Well, in which Arab Arab school is the Israeli version taught?  None!  That’s right!  Seems to me that the Israeli version should be in all Arab schools.

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Indeed..lefty/lilmamzer/ITW/n.a./and future handles to come:

YOU would think this. We’ve all been “briefed” on you…long ago.

Comment#89024 by P. T. on 7/23 at 9:14 pm

....“We could try the approach the Zionists use, in our own schools:  teach U.S. kids that there were no Indians.”...

Actually, we HAVE used that approach here in our schools, though specifically in regard to kidnapped slaves that came over this original founders, and basically did all of the original building, and a couple hundred years worth of the upkeep as well.

BUT…I never heard a word about them in my own “formal” education, until I got to college.

They said very little about the Indians either, though they did at least acknowledge them, in their own mythology.

So, this is unfortunately nothing new here. I thought it was better for a while, but now, there’s no doubt we’re going backwards in certain sections of our own country.

those stupid “kikes” wandered around in the desert for thousands of years and never were able to eke out their own little portion of the desert. not very successful for “god’s” chosen people. i will never comprehend why they were given someone else’s property as a consolation prize. more to the point they would be overrun by all the other sand niggers, if we didn’t give them billions of our tax dollars every year. they only have nukes because we gave them nukes. we should give everyone nukes,that would literally level the playing field. thermonuclear holocaust, it would be glorious.

We could try the approach the Zionists use, in our own schools:  teach U.S. kids that there were no Indians.

“The reality,” writes Cypel in his newly published book,
“Walled,” “is that the expulsion was desired, coordinated, and accomplished by systematic atrocities against, and killing of, civilians, with town properties razed on order (at first on a very unequal fashion from one area to another), and that nearly half of this expulsion was carried out even before the Arab states attacked Israel.”

P.T.:
I have been paying attention, and, like I said, if the Arabs had never attacked Israel, they would be in the majority today. They keep diggin the hole they’re in deeper.

In fact, before the Arabs attacked, Jews were not allowed by the Muslim authorities to visit the Wailing Wall or the Temple Mount. At least the Israelis have opened up the religious sites for all.

But the Jews of today are not the refugees of 1948. Having been attacked and threatened repeatedly, they have learned to demand civilized behavior.

The new textbook is still a Zionist whitewash.  Barry Lando’s article on this very website is a more accurate depiction of history.

Martin,

You haven’t been paying attention.  Click http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070721_israels_primal_myth_barrier_to_peace/

When Israel was first established, no Palestinians were dispossessed. If they hadn’t attacked Israel, the Palestinians would be the majority of Israel’s citizens now. The British, after all, gave 80% of Palestine to the Palestinians and called it Jordan, and 20% of Palestine to the Israelis and called it Israel.
    But every time Israel’s neighbors fight with Israel they lose more land and afterwards beg for it’s return. 
  When the Palestinians established Fatah, they attacked Jordanian embassies, killed Jordanian ministers and tried and failed to kill the King of Jordan, who then threw them out of the country. That’s why they are now stateless.
    Unfortunately, today’s Israelis are not the compassionate Jews who survived the Holocaust—they are dominated by extreme orthodox who arrogate to themselves the authority to decide who is and who isn’t Jewish. These orthodox obey sixteenth century dictates and are so far divorced from reality they wear fur hats in the desert. Today’s orthodox actually stone women who wear no head covering.
    Like the Taliban, Fatah, Black September and some Evangelicals, these people place their rules above human life. The only way these radical orthodox Jews are going to listen to the Palestinians is if the Palestinians cease their violence and act civilized. The same goes for the jihadists—when the democrats take over the US government, they won’t be a bunch of rich-boy elite trying to get richer, but folks from the wrong side of the tracks who know how to put an end to uncivilized behavior.

When the British “partitioned” Palestine, they gave 90% to the Palestinians and called it Jordan, and 10% to the Jews and called it Israel. When the Palestinians killed Jordanian Ministers and diplomats, bombed Jordanian embassies and failed at killing the King of Jordan, he kicked them and their political leaders out of Jordan. That’s why they have worn out their welcome everywhere.

    Only a tiny minority of Palestinians were dispossessed of their land in Israel, and that only after they attacked the new state of Israel and failed to overcome the Israelis. Each time Israel’s neighbors fight with Israel, they lose more strategic ground and each time they lose they cry to get their land back. The Palestinians would be much better off, perhaps even a majority today in Israel, if they had never attacked Israel in the first place.

    The first generation of Israelis were much more sympathetic to the Palestinians. Today’s Jewish leadership is much influenced by hard line orthodox sects who claim religious primacy and arrogate to themselves authority to determine who is and who is not, a Jew. These people are governed by rules set down in 16th century ghettos, and today they stone women who do not wear head coverings. Their traditions are so divorced from reality that they wear fur hats in the desert. They are extremists and no better than Taliban or bloodthirsty evangelicals who kill for Christ. These radical religionists value their rules more than they value human life. The Palestinians will have a much harder time negotiating with the orthodox of today than they ever did with the Israelis of the first generation, who valued human rights, compassion and justice in the tradition of Jesus and Isaiah.

#88782 by Mike Mid-City on 7/22 at 11:40 pm

...“History belongs to the people who pay for the books.”...

Mike, you’ve got a point. And, without any money, it can be difficult to go in search of OTHER books, that might be more in line with the real history.

I agree that it’s a start. But, it’s also for use in ARAB Israeli schools. Should the Jewish Israelis not learn the same thing in school?

Of course they should. Otherwise, nothing changes. They just keep handing down the same myths, or hiding the truth. How can the younger generations ever plan on maintaining or creating any sort of peace?

I’m inclined to think that the Arab Israelis already know their history, but maybe not. Still seems like this should be in ALL Israeli schools.

At least it is a start.  It is better than what has been taught over the last 60 years.

But what is the point?!
And how can Palestinians take this to the “bank of justice” to cash in this “check” for real freedom and justice they have been denied for sixty years?!