Israeli Textbook Gives Arab View of the State’s Birth
A top Israeli education official has authorized a textbook for exclusive use in Arab Israeli schools that tells a different side of the story of Israel's creation in 1948. For starters, the text acknowledges that Palestinians dubbed the historical event "al nakba" (the catastrophe).
A top Israeli education official has authorized a textbook for exclusive use in Arab Israeli schools that tells a different side of the story of Israel’s creation in 1948. For starters, the text acknowledges that Palestinians dubbed the historical event “al nakba” (the catastrophe).
WAIT, BEFORE YOU GO…BBC:
The new textbook notes that “some of the Palestinians were expelled following the War of Independence and that many Arab-owned lands were confiscated”, the education ministry said.
Palestinians refer to Israel’s creation in 1948 – in which hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled in the wake of the independence war – as “al nakba”, or the catastrophe.
They blame the Jewish state for usurping their land.
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