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Israeli school textbooks as well as children’s storybooks, according to recent academic studies and surveys, portray Palestinians and Arabs as “murderers,” “rioters,” “suspicious,” and generally backward and unproductive. Direct delegitimization and negative stereotyping of Palestinians and Arabs are the rule rather than the exception in Israeli schoolbooks.
Professor Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University studied 124 elementary, middle- and high school textbooks on grammar and Hebrew literature, history, geography and citizenship. Bar-Tal concluded that Israeli textbooks present the view that Jews are involved in a justified, even humanitarian, war against an Arab enemy that refuses to accept and acknowledge the existence and rights of Jews in Israel.
SCORES OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS PUBLISHED IN ISRAEL encourage hatred and contempt for the Arabs. The principle is identical in all these endless serials: the Israeli hereos defeat the stupid Arabs. There is no control over these books, which are swallowed indiscriminately. Who are the authors of these books and what motivates them?
One of the most shocking phenomena in the field of children's literature in this country are the books published every now and then, and which are eagerly grabbed by children, whose themes are always how the mighty child or children defeat the funny and thickheaded Arabs who seek to kill us for their personal pleasure.
Once we were alarmed when we discovered anti-Israeli propaganda, accompanied by racist caricatures, which was included in textbooks used by refugee children in Gaza. And now it is clear, although only few parents know about it, that we, the Israelis, are employing much worse material of racist hatred which is accompanied by caricatures no less racist. Parents buy those books for their children, often without knowing their content; or the children get them in school or municipal libraries. And what a wonder: those are almost the only books which are never left on the shelf. At the moment they are returned to the library, a queue of children is waiting for every book.
Recently, some parents have started to discover the content of these books. A mother of an eight year old girl says: "I was astounded to find out what children read, and the worst of it is that I have no way of preventing it. They get those books at the library, and if I forbid them to read them, they will read them secretly. I see what they read, but I am helpless. Why is the distribution of these books not prohibited?"
A father says: "It is really astounding to see to what extent these books hold the children spellbound. In these books there are sadistic horror descriptions, detailed descriptions of cruel treatment and offensive caricatures of the Arabs who are described as wretched cowards. But I can not succeed in preventing the children from reading them. They are totally hypnotized. Why is there a standard for clothes, for articles, for food and for everything else—and no control over children's books? Why can anyone earn money by producing this poison, and even municipal libraries buy it?"
but their are too many Palestinians that have vested too much hatred and anger into destroying Israel. If Palestinian's ever did get their own country it would become a corrupt dictatorship run by goons that would start wars with Israel all over again. So, really, not much would change.
Originally posted by wcitizen
The argument that the Jewish people are entitled to live in Israel because their ancestors allegedly lived there approx 2000 years ago is frankly ridiculous and, imo, not even worth discussing.
Originally posted by Sly1one
and how is what you posted NOT propaganda? you could easily rename this thread "Israel Propaganda, and the Truth of how IsraeLIES belong in IS RA EL
Originally posted by mayabong
If Israel had nothing to hide during that flotilla thing, why did they take all the camera's and memory cards? hmmmm?
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by Sly1one
and how is what you posted NOT propaganda? you could easily rename this thread "Israel Propaganda, and the Truth of how IsraeLIES belong in IS RA EL
The Israelis do not train their children to become suicide bombers, do not use children as human shields, and please present PROOF, as in EVIDENCE that anything i posted is propaganda and not the truth.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
There are many members who claim that the Jewish people do not belong to this area, when obviously those who claim this are only ignorant and rely on the propaganda from the Palestinian terrorists but they are never able to provide evidence for their claims, except edited videos of course.
Originally posted by JudasIscariot
Yeah, the Israelis don't use their children for the cause.
Originally posted by sonnny1
I can say this is biased,as you present the Palestinian terrorists side only. If you would put up the atrocitys of Israel,alongside the 4 videos,and newspaper clipping you posted,you might not have EVERYONE saying its Israeli propaganda. IGNORANCE is not putting up both sides of the argument,and telling ONLY one side of the story.Personally,I can care less whos land it is,as long as the bloodshed stops. Thats coming from an outsider,and someone WHO values human life.
I decided to post this here because in the other thread it will just be lost and more anti-jewish propaganda would continue to pop-up and only rarely some truth is posted about the situation in the Middle East.
First of all, BOTH SIDES have committed atrocities, but this post is to show the truth about the Palestinian authority (government) and the Palestinian terrorists.
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Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
There are many members who claim that the Jewish people do not belong to this area, when obviously those who claim this are only ignorant and rely on the propaganda from the Palestinian terrorists but they are never able to provide evidence for their claims, except edited videos of course.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
... the Palestinian authorities and terrorist groups don't give a crap even about their own children.
Second of all, it is true that first of all Israel was a desolate land when the lands were originally BOUGHT from Palestinians. It was the Jewish people who made that land prosper. That is a fact.
It is also true that the Palestinian authority, which is the Palestinian government, have turned down every attempt at a resolution allowing the existance of both a Palestinian and Israeli state. They do not want Jewish people owning ANY land in that area.