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Showing Original Post only (View all)Palestinian textbook case closed, but more trumped-up Israeli charges expected [View all]
http://972mag.com/palestinian-textbook-case-closed-but-more-trumped-up-israeli-charges-expected/65470/This weeks publication of a U.S.-funded study cleared the Palestinians of charges that their schoolbooks demonize Israel. This was not, however, the first hoop theyve been made to jump through, and it wont be the last.
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So it is with the Palestinian textbooks. All this supposed distress over what the Palestinians are teaching their children about Israel and the Jews, this insistence that they clean up their textbooks as a condition for peace - its another one of the old stop Oslo ploys of the Israeli and American Jewish right. A bunch of right-wing propagandists like Itamar Marcus and Palestinian Media Watch have been harping on all this demonization in Palestinian textbooks, and the intended effect, of course, has been to discredit Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, to blacken the Palestinians name and thus make it harder for them to get Israel off their neck. And thats whats happened right-wing Zionists everywhere who of course dont know a word of Arabic have been hammering away at the Palestinian textbooks for nearly two decades, saying there can be no peace until those books are scrubbed good and thorough. Do right-wing Zionists want peace? No, they want the Palestinians to keep scrubbing.
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Palestinian textbook case closed, but more trumped-up Israeli charges expected [View all]
R. Daneel Olivaw
Feb 2013
OP
Thank you shira for the showcasing how ready you are to Goldstone anybody and anything
R. Daneel Olivaw
Feb 2013
#10
He's an actual journalist who did research of primary sources. He's not some blogger....
shira
Feb 2013
#18
The world is full of opinions, Goldstoners and cherry pickers, Shira. ;)
R. Daneel Olivaw
Feb 2013
#31
I thought you were interested in truth and facts. Those passages show the study is BS.
shira
Feb 2013
#34
I see you are going up the cherry tree again to collect another bushel.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Feb 2013
#35