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To: Thomas M. who wrote (11816)	2/23/2002 6:58:31 AM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

A new initiative by Education Minister Yossi Sarid to teach Israeli students about the 1956 Kafr Kassem massacre was hailed today by Israeli Arab leaders as a first step towards healing the wounds of the 43 year-old tragedy. Sarid said that his overture, timed to coincide with the October anniversary of the massacre, was intended as a patriotic measure. "Those of us who are proud of Israel's founding, and see army service as an obligation of supreme importance, must discuss the Kafr Kassem massacre so that our children will know how to distinguish a legal order from an illegal order," Sarid told Israel Radio. jpost.com

To: Thomas M. who wrote (11816)	2/23/2002 7:16:53 AM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

The final and perhaps the largest problem with the Center’s work lies not simply with the reports themselves but in how they have been read. The Center’s conclusions may be unsupported by the evidence it presents and undermined by the evidence it overlooks. But it does include some qualifications and elliptical wording that usually prevent its reports from outright falsehood. geocities.com If there is any issue that has attracted more international attention, it is the presence of maps in Palestinian textbooks that do not indicate the existence of Israel. But the 1994 National Education series worked to avoid maps altogether, instructing the students at one point to draw their own. The newer books break some of the silence of the 1994 series. But those books omit much more than Israel; they also omit the borders of the Palestinian state. The books include many maps; all present the ambiguity of the borders of Palestine without addressing the subject directly in the text. Absent any authoritative borders, the books dodge the issue: The area is largely surrounded by the 1967 border of Israel, but neither a border nor anything on the far side of the border is indicated—pre-1967 Israel is simply terra incognita. The books bear the marks of unresolved controversies both among Palestinians and with the neighbors of the emerging Palestinian state. In short, far from inciting schoolchildren, the books generally treat sensitive political questions as tangential. There are some exceptions to this rule, but not in any sustained way. Palestinian educators have decided not to supply either a coherent narrative or a set of conceptual tools for understanding such issues. History is presented with very different ends in mind.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (11816)	2/23/2002 3:27:23 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

<< ... an inhabitant of Kafr Kasem was sentenced to a year in prison "for pretending to be a Jew in order to marry a Jewish woman." >> Do you blame him? The Arabs are willing to blow themselves up in order to get 19 virgins up in their type of heaven. The Arabs figure that they should be able to get one decent Arab virgin out of 19 of them. The guy from Kafr Kasem obviously discovered the beauty and quality of an educated Jewish woman. Perhaps he got tired of his normal, hairy, uneducated Arab dates, who normally smell like camel dung. <g>