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Posted by VAR on May-13-2007 23:54:

Micky Mouse for Islam

check this out;

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignB...T20070507b.html


Posted by Marc Summers on May-13-2007 23:59:

Other than talk about Ak-47's, I just see a Palestinian show about resistance. Nothing wrong about it.


Posted by VAR on May-14-2007 00:41:


Posted by Sunsnail on May-14-2007 01:26:

I thought the voice was pretty funny.


Posted by VAR on May-14-2007 01:44:

well then,
we should do the same here in the US, right?

flip sesame street,
flip the muppets,

LET US PLANT THE SEED OF PROPAGANDA
that will forever cloud their judgement
and play into our political plans,
at the expense of them,
of course . . .,

keep the blood spillin',
with no end in sight.

viva la resistance!!!


Posted by NeoPhono on May-14-2007 05:19:

quote:
Originally posted by Marc Summers
Other than talk about Ak-47's, I just see a Palestinian show about resistance. Nothing wrong about it.


So a little girl and a Mickey Mouse character telling kids that "now is the time of death" and "we are soldiers of Allah" seem ok?


Posted by LazFX on May-14-2007 06:16:

This just goes to show you what level these "people" live at. Sad really... and there is no end in site.... Oh wait... the total destruction of Israel would fix it... right??


quote:
The only practical way to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians is for the Israelis to transfer the Palestinians and take their land. There's a simple reason why the Israelis and Palestinians have never been able to reach a peace agreement: it's because the Palestinians are part of a sick, twisted, death cult. Their "nation" is run by terrorists who openly admit that their goal is to destroy Israel and the average person on the street is a monster who wants to kill Israelis more than he or she loves his own children. Speaking of the children in that country, before they can even stand on their own two feet, they're being taught that the grandest thing that they can ever do in life is blow themselves up and take some Israelis with them. No wonder the Israelis can't get along with these people. No one could. Imagine the family from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre times a few million and you have the sort of neighbors Israel has to deal with.

When our ancestors started dealing with Indians who massacred and tortured settlers, they either bought their land, took their land at the point of a gun, or just killed them all and took their land. Although genocide is no longer a morally acceptable choice, the Israelis would be perfectly justified in driving the Palestinians into the surrounding countries at gunpoint and taking their land. That would not be something the Israelis would relish doing and it would probably lead to another war between them and their neighbors, but the only other options are to allow the maniacs next door to continue to murder Israelis ad infinitum or for the Israelis to simply give up on having a state. Of the three options, transferring the Palestinians, bloody and troublesome though it may be, would seem to be the best choice.


Posted by LazFX on May-14-2007 06:41:

quote:
Originally posted by NeoPhono
So a little girl and a Mickey Mouse character telling kids that "now is the time of death" and "we are soldiers of Allah" seem ok?


But its the Jews Fault!! and oh yeah, The US as well.

The plight of the palestinians is being over shadowed by the Islamic Wack Jobs. Allah, the other god.

quote:
before they can even stand on their own two feet, they're being taught that the grandest thing that they can ever do in life is blow themselves up and take some Israelis with them


Posted by M.Johan on May-14-2007 08:39:

Thumbs down

quote:
Originally posted by Sunsnail
I thought the voice was pretty funny.


-1







read also about extermetism by Israel
and raising its escalation of the crisis
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.ph...tails&ID=13368#


Posted by LazFX on May-14-2007 08:51:

quote:
Originally posted by M.Johan
read also about extermetism by Israel
and raising its escalation of the crisis
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.ph...tails&ID=13368#


Oh for the love of all pure, that is all you "people" do isn't it?? "Well look at the Jews!" I have yet to see a cartoon or show aimed at CHILKDREN from the jews telling them to kill themselves for ZION. You islamic apologists need to stop already. No wonder your religion is starting to become a BIG JOKE in the west. this kind of shit is STUPID and if you muslims continue this kind of BRAINWAISHING, then don't come cryin when the rest of the world gets sick of it and starts to really look at you people as a major source of ALL PROBLEMS in the world.

give me a fucking break already.


Posted by M.Johan on May-14-2007 09:27:

quote:
Originally posted by LazFX
Oh for the love of all pure, that is all you "people" do isn't it?? "Well look at the Jews!" I have yet to see a cartoon or show aimed at CHILKDREN from the jews telling them to kill themselves for ZION. You islamic apologists need to stop already. No wonder your religion is starting to become a BIG JOKE in the west. this kind of shit is STUPID and if you muslims continue this kind of BRAINWAISHING, then don't come cryin when the rest of the world gets sick of it and starts to really look at you people as a major source of ALL PROBLEMS in the world.

give me a fucking break already.



Have u already finished watching ....................
The American experts and normal people are talking


and wat's about an old woman's opinion(A Holocaust survivour)




Not talking about jews BUT ABOUT "ZIONISM"
HAVE U EVER HEARD ABOUT RADICALS OF ISLAM IN THE PAST 50 YEARS!!!!!!!!
THat conflict is started by the Zions.


Posted by LazFX on May-14-2007 10:19:

quote:
Originally posted by M.Johan
Not talking about jews BUT ABOUT "ZIONISM"
HAVE U EVER HEARD ABOUT RADICALS OF ISLAM IN THE PAST 50 YEARS!!!!!!!!
THat conflict is started by the Zions.


Oh so violence solves it all.
Teaching little children that suicide is an honor, teaching children hate and murder is what will continue to bring this to a head. You say 50years?? Inside of just a fraction of that time, look what MLK did; look what ghandi did. Apparently the suicede bombs and kidnappings are doing wonders and now you have a few generation ready to die for what?? MORE PEOPLE TO FOCKING DIE!!

When the hell are you people going to realize that the Radical Muslim's point of view is just plain stupid! How many more of your brothers and sisters are going to die! Acting like this will not solve a damn thing. If you could stop the radicals yourself...weed them all out and kill them, cause they are a cancer on your religion/culture...and show the world that Palastine can be a productive member of the world. then do you think for one second the Zionist will be so outspoken. They will be seen as rouges and racists, much like all of history's back ward ass racists, KKK, Nazi, Nation of Islam(US), Iran's Current Admin and the occasional radio talk show host... and do you really think that Israel will do unjust things to the palestinians when your side stops acting like savages.

The Middle East Culture was seen as exotic just a few hundred years back. When I met Middle Eastern people I loved to hear them talk; hear about thier land and most of the world saw them as good, honest people.

Then Radical Islam came into the picture and just took that charm, that grace and shit all over it in the name of a god. And as long as you people continue to not LOOK INSIDE YOUR OWN SELF, then this shit will never end.


Posted by Jake Benson on May-14-2007 15:45:

quote:
Originally posted by M.Johan
Not talking about jews BUT ABOUT "ZIONISM"
HAVE U EVER HEARD ABOUT RADICALS OF ISLAM IN THE PAST 50 YEARS!!!!!!!!
THat conflict is started by the Zions.


Not talking about the Jews? Why don't you scroll back up and watch the Micky's Islamabadjew Vid again and tell me that you did not hear the little Islam girl address to the children of Palestine this:

"Yes, they are children [of Palestine] occupied by the Jews, but with the will of Allah, we will resist and protect against the Zionist occupation.

Seems like the radicals don't care to differentiate between a Jew and a Zionist according to the video. Maybe it started with Zionism, but they're now teaching their children to generalize.


Posted by Fir3start3r on May-14-2007 23:22:


Posted by Fir3start3r on May-14-2007 23:39:

Wow...just wow...

Where are the Palestinian-apologists now?

quote:

Hamas Mouse: Blame the Jews

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - May 13, 2007

The Mickey Mouse clone named Farfur who�s been preaching hatred and Islamic domination to Palestinian kids was back on the air and blaming the Jews for his woes on Friday, despite public statements by Palestinian Authority Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti that the show would be taken off the Hamas TV network until it could be reviewed.

Farfur, star of the Al Aqsa TV children�s show Tomorrow�s Pioneers, was joined on the broadcast by his regular co-host, a little girl named Saraa. The program also featured an adult, Hazim, who delivered most of the show�s messages about Islamic supremacy.

PMW reported last week that the Hamas Mickey Mouse character was teaching world Islamic domination, violence and hatred. The ensuing worldwide outrage over the use of this character, dubbed �Terror Mouse� by the New York Daily News and described by Walt Disney�s daughter as �pure evil,� prompted the PA to announce that it was suspending the program until further review.

But the show is still on the air, with no change in content except for a somewhat smaller role for the squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse knockoff. The more inflammatory comments are delivered by the soft-spoken adult character.

It appears from the latest broadcast that the Hamas or PA officials who oversaw the show were concerned only with neutralizing Farfur�s dialogue, and not with moderating the show�s content. It is as if they decided that the show�s messages, which also promote hatred of Israel and the US, are completely acceptable -- as long as the more controversial comments are not coming from a corrupted version of Disney�s beloved mouse.

Even though Farfur's role in Friday�s program was minimized, however, it was definitely not benign. When chastised for cheating by copying another student�s work, he blamed "the Jews" for destroying his home, which prevented him from finding his own notebook.

Meanwhile, the adult Hazim told the child viewers that Islam will spread all over the world, including Spain, and that the spread of Islam is for the world�s benefit. He said the �massacres� in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine will be replaced by �love and justice� under Islamic rule.

In a debate with PMW director Itamar Marcus on FOX TV today, Barghouti again acknowledged that children shouldn't be exposed to this type of television. He said that the program would be taken off, or have its content changed, by next week.


THIS is a religion of peace???

This stuff is broadcast to their kids people, KIDS!


Posted by LazFX on May-15-2007 00:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Wow...just wow...

Where are the Palestinian-apologists now?



THIS is a religion of peace???

This stuff is broadcast to their kids people, KIDS!


They are hiding their heads in the sand.....this is the type of news people should hear. to see. and to know what the Israelis are dealing with. How can these "people" expect pity from the rest of the world when they allow this SHIT and DOGMA into their houses. For Shame on these blasphemers of my word.

damn man,,,,, oh wait some apologists will come in here in a min and say "WELL SINCE NEITHER OF YOU SPEAK THE LANGUAGE....blah blah blah"


Posted by LazFX on May-15-2007 00:09:

quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r


better watch it, some of the apologists here might break into a riot..... ha ha ha ha ha


Posted by Q5echo on May-15-2007 00:54:

Golda Meir, 1974 �We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us�.


DEATH CULT


Posted by LazFX on May-15-2007 00:58:

quote:
Originally posted by Q5echo
Golda Meir, 1974 �We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us�.


DEATH CULT

Remember this cut from back during the cold war's end??

quote:
In Europe and America, there's a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mr. Krushchev said we will bury you
I don't subscribe to this point of view
It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy
There is no monopoly in common sense
On either side of the political fence
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too

There is no historical precedent
To put the words in the mouth of the President
There's no such thing as a winnable war
It's a lie that we don't believe anymore
Mr. Reagan says we will protect you
I don't subscribe to this point of view
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too

We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
What might save us, me, and you
Is that the Russians love their children too


Sting was the shit.....


but yeah, that is so true Q..... if they would just love their kids: instead they teach their babies shit like that....

FOR SHAME !!!!! FOR SHAME INDEED


Posted by MrSquirrel on May-15-2007 01:37:

It is kind of ironic that a likeness of a mouse drawn by a card carrying member of the American Nazi Party is now espousing similar rhetoric as the nazis in a different part of the world, 3/4 of a century later.




On a different note, one really should not equate the political propaganda of organisations like Hamas with the goals of Islam, as the title of this thread insinuates. People don't take the crap spouted by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as being representative of the values and goals of all of Christianity. Both groups of hate mongers are using propaganda like this to hijack the beliefs of people and use it for their own political goals, which without fail are about personal power to those at the top of the hierarchy.

Is this type of children's television disgusting? Yes.

Is it indicative of the feelings of all parents and mullahs in the Islamic world? No.


MrS


Posted by Q5echo on May-15-2007 01:59:

quote:
Originally posted by MrSquirrel
People don't take the crap spouted by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as being representative of the values and goals of all of Christianity. Both groups of hate mongers are using propaganda like this to hijack the beliefs of people and use it for their own political goals, which without fail are about personal power to those at the top of the hierarchy.

Is this type of children's television disgusting? Yes.

Is it indicative of the feelings of all parents and mullahs in the Islamic world? No.


MrS


oh yes, the easiest argument in the world, equivalency.

it's the easiest yet, at the same time, the most dangerous in it's ambivalence.

when we dicuss child abuse brought on by religion here in America rarely do we ever address the issue with Ak-47s and outright genocide on Saturday morning television.

we are not the ones with the problem. they are. you enable it so whether you realize it or not.


Posted by Jake Benson on May-15-2007 04:45:

quote:
Originally posted by Q5echo
when we dicuss child abuse brought on by religion here in America rarely do we ever address the issue with Ak-47s and outright genocide on Saturday morning television.


Really? What show? Because from what I've seen:

1. Religious shows targetting American children do not involve Ak-47s

2. Ak-47s on American children's shows are in the context of a non-religious cartoon and are not geared toward a specific enemy (i.e. "The Jews")


Posted by M.Johan on May-15-2007 09:01:

quote:
Originally posted by LazFX
Oh so violence solves it all.
Teaching little children that suicide is an honor, teaching children hate and murder is what will continue to bring this to a head. You say 50years?? Inside of just a fraction of that time, look what MLK did; look what ghandi did. Apparently the suicede bombs and kidnappings are doing wonders and now you have a few generation ready to die for what?? MORE PEOPLE TO FOCKING DIE!!

When the hell are you people going to realize that the Radical Muslim's point of view is just plain stupid! How many more of your brothers and sisters are going to die! Acting like this will not solve a damn thing. If you could stop the radicals yourself...weed them all out and kill them, cause they are a cancer on your religion/culture...and show the world that Palastine can be a productive member of the world. then do you think for one second the Zionist will be so outspoken. They will be seen as rouges and racists, much like all of history's back ward ass racists, KKK, Nazi, Nation of Islam(US), Iran's Current Admin and the occasional radio talk show host... and do you really think that Israel will do unjust things to the palestinians when your side stops acting like savages.

The Middle East Culture was seen as exotic just a few hundred years back. When I met Middle Eastern people I loved to hear them talk; hear about thier land and most of the world saw them as good, honest people.

Then Radical Islam came into the picture and just took that charm, that grace and shit all over it in the name of a god. And as long as you people continue to not LOOK INSIDE YOUR OWN SELF, then this shit will never end.

quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Wow...just wow...

Where are the Palestinian-apologists now?
THIS is a religion of peace??? This stuff is broadcast to their kids people, KIDS!

quote:
Originally posted by Q5echo
Golda Meir, 1974 �We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us�.

DEATH CULT


Hamas TV programmme Mickey Mouse is apprehended

But there'are also many DAMN DISGUSTING facts must be mentioned that

in Israel..........


quote:
Jerusalem- Ma'an- The Committee of West Bank and Gaza Strip Settlement Rabbis issued a Jewish religious edict permitting the killing of innocent women and children, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth.

According to the newspaper's electronic website, the religious edict was issued against the backdrop of Israeli aggression against Lebanon.The rabbis claimed that the edict was based on the Torah.

According to the edict,"those who have mercy on the children in Gaza and Lebanon are tough with the children of Israel.'

The rabbis called on crowds of Israelis to go to the "Haith Al Buraq", or the Western Wall as it is known by Israelis, to perform collective prayers on Monday afternoon to extricate Israel from the hardship that it is living in.

THE Source

of course this'snot mentioned in Torah
but by

Zionism rabbis

quote:
Israeli Incitement

Israel repeatedly, and falsely, alleges that Palestinian textbooks teach children hatred, violence, and jihad. But how are Israeli children taught to hate Arabs, and trained to kill them?


Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronot, May 7th 2002, published a letter titled Dear Soldiers, Please Kill a Lot of Arabs. That came from Israeli children who sent such letters to Israeli soldiers serving in the Tulkarm area during the so-called Operation Defensive Shield . The letters sent by Israeli school students encouraged soldiers to disregard rules and regulations and to kill as many Arabs as possible. According to Yedioth Ahronoth , dozens of the letters were sent to soldiers, mostly from children in the 7th through 10th grades, who attend national religious schools.

Ruth Firer and Sami Adwan, an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar, who conducted research comparing Palestinian and Israeli textbooks, March 2002, wrote about Israeli books:"These texts enhance religious-national education, strongly emphasizing the collective values connected to the history of the Jewish nation in 'their land' and God's promises to the Jews that give them an absolute right on the land. The land of Eretz Israel described in the books includes the territories of the PNA from 1967."

A study by Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel-Aviv University, 124 Hebrew language books approved for use in 1994 by the Ministry of Education, were reviewed, The study concludes that "the majority of [Israeli school] books stereotype Arabs negatively." In one children s book, Bar-Tal offers this sampling, "We were lonely pioneers surrounded by a sea of enemies and murderers." In elementary school books, according to Bar-Tal, Arabs are often stereotyped negatively and portrayed as "uneducated people and enemies."

In a report titled "Israeli Textbooks and Children s Literature Promote Racism and Hatred toward Palestinians and Arabs," free-lance journalist Maureen Meehan concluded that "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." (Washington Report for Middle East Affairs September 1999)

A study presented at the hearing of the political committee of the European Parliament, 24 October 2003, titled "The attitude towards Palestinians in Israeli textbooks," by Dr. Nurit Elhanan, of the Hebrew University, revealed that "the Palestinians are absent from all textbooks, The Occupation is never mentioned, and the area where Palestinians live is presented in the maps either as an empty space referred to as 'an area without data' (Man and Space-maps) or it is incorporated into the state of Israel (The Geography of the land of Israel- maps). In both cases use of the term 'occupation' is out of the question, since you cannot occupy illegally what is yours anyway and you cannot occupy illegally an empty space."

Dr. Elhanan added: "When reference is made to date in the West Bank it is only to Jewish colonies or to main cities like Nablus, Hebron or Beth Lehem as Israeli tourist sites (maps) In Israel today there is already a second generation of children who don t know there are occupation, illegal domination and illegal settlements."


The Convention on the Rights of Child of November 1991, Article 2, obliges State Parties to respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child within their jurisdiction. Israel has repeatedly violated these rights and ignored it obligations. In its 20 November 2004 press release, Defense for Children International (DCI), appealed "to the international community and world leaders to abide by their declared commitment to protect the rights of all children, including the children of Palestine. We urge them to bring pressure on the Israeli government, to abide by international law and end the occupation which is incompatible with any declared commitment to promoting and protecting the basic human rights of all."

In the same press release DCI reported that: "Since the start of the second Intifada on 29 September 2000, Palestinian children have borne the brunt of the upsurge in Israeli violence. Over the course of the past four years, more than 660 Palestinian children have been killed and almost 9,000 injured hundreds of whom have been left with permanent physical disabilities. Many thousands more are suffering psychological trauma from the daily horrors they witness. An estimated 3,000 children have been arrested during this Intifada, while currently there are still 335 children being held in Israeli prisons and detention centers."


The Source

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, September 1999, pages 19-20
Special Report

quote:
Israeli Textbooks and Children�s Literature Promote Racism and Hatred Toward Palestinians and Arabs

By Maureen Meehan

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.

�The early textbooks tended to describe acts of Arabs as hostile, deviant, cruel, immoral, unfair, with the intention to hurt Jews and to annihilate the State of Israel. Within this frame of reference, Arabs were delegitimized by the use of such labels as �robbers,� �bloodthirsty,� and �killers,�� said Professor Bar-Tal, adding that there has been little positive revision in the curriculum over the years.

Bar-Tal pointed out that Israeli textbooks continue to present Jews as industrious, brave and determined to cope with the difficulties of �improving the country in ways they believe the Arabs are incapable of.�

Hebrew-language geography books from the 1950s through 1970s focused on the glory of Israel�s ancient past and how the land was �neglected and destroyed� by the Arabs until the Jews returned from their forced exile and revived it �with the help of the Zionist movement.�

�This attitude served to justify the return of the Jews, implying that they care enough about the country to turn the swamps and deserts into blossoming farmland; this effectively delegitimizes the Arab claim to the same land,� Bar-Tal told the Washington Report. �The message was that the Palestinians were primitive and neglected the country and did not cultivate the land.�

This message, continued Bar-Tal, was further emphasized in textbooks by the use of blatant negative stereotyping which featured Arabs as: �unenlightened, inferior, fatalistic, unproductive and apathetic.� Further, according to the textbooks, the Arabs were �tribal, vengeful, exotic, poor, sick, dirty, noisy, colored� and �they burn, murder, destroy, and are easily inflamed.�

Textbooks currently being used in the Israeli school system, says Bar-Tal, contain less direct denigration of Arabs but continue to stereotype them negatively when referring to them. He pointed out that Hebrew- as well as Arabic-language textbooks used in elementary and junior high schools contain very few references either to Arabs or to Arab-Jewish relations. The coordinator of a Palestinian NGO in Israel said that major historical events hardly get a mention either.

�When I was in high school 12 years ago, the date �1948� barely appeared in any textbooks except for a mention that there was a conflict, Palestinians refused to accept a U.N. solution and ran away instead,� said Jamal Atamneh, coordinator of the Arab Education Committee in Support of Local Councils, a Haifa-based NGO. �Today the idea communicated to schoolchildren is basically the same: there are winners and losers in every conflict. When they teach about �peace and co-existence,� it is to teach us how to get along with Jews.�

Atamneh explained that textbooks used by the nearly one million Arab Israelis (one-fifth of Israel�s population) are in Arabic but are written by and issued from the Israeli Ministry of Education, where Palestinians have no influence or input.

�Fewer than 1 percent of the jobs in the Education Ministry, not counting teachers, are held by Palestinians,� Atamneh said. �For the past 15 years, not one new Palestinian academic has been placed in a high position in the ministry. There are no Palestinians involved in preparing the Arabic-language curriculum [and] obviously, there is no such thing as affirmative action in Israel.�

In addition, there are no Arabic-language universities in Israel. Haifa University, Atamneh points out, has had a steady 20 percent Arab student population for the past 20 years. �How can that figure have remained the same after all these years when the population in the north [of Israel] has grown to over 50 percent Arab?�

Answering his own question, Atamneh rattles off statistics that reflect excellent high school scores among Arab students which he contrasts to their subsequent lower-than-average performance in Hebrew-language college entrance exams given by the state.

�No major scholarships have ever been awarded to an Arab; there are no dorms for Arabs and no college-related jobs or financial aid programs. They justify this legal discrimination by the fact that we do not serve in the army. There are numerous blatant and official methods used to keep Palestinian Arabs out of the universities.�


Absence of Palestinian Identity in Schoolbooks

Dr. Eli Podeh, lecturer in the Department of Islamic Studies and Middle East History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, says that while certain changes in Israeli textbooks are slowly being implemented, the discussion of Palestinian national and civil identity is never touched upon.

�Passages from �experts� about the existence of a Palestinian identity were introduced, but in general it appeared that the textbook authors were not eager to adopt it,� said Dr. Podeh, adding that �the connection between Palestinians in Israel and Arabs in Arab countries is not discussed. Especially evident is the lack of a discussion on the orientation of Palestinians to the [occupied] territories.

�While new textbooks attempt to correct some of the earlier distortions, these books as well contain overt and covert fabrications,� said Dr. Podeh. �The establishment has preferred�or felt itself forced�to encourage the cover-up and condemn the perplexity.�

One Israeli public high school student told the Washington Report that the contents of the schoolbooks and the viewpoints expressed by some teachers indeed have a lasting negative effect on youngsters� attitudes toward Palestinians.

�Our books basically tell us that everything the Jews do is fine and legitimate and Arabs are wrong and violent and are trying to exterminate us,� said Daniel Banvolegyi, a 17-year-old high school student in Jerusalem.

�We are accustomed to hearing the same thing, only one side of the story. They teach us that Israel became a state in 1948 and that the Arabs started a war. They don�t mention what happened to the Arabs�they never mention anything about refugees or Arabs having to leave their towns and homes,� said Banvolegyi.

Banvolegyi, who will be a high school senior this fall, and then will be drafted into the Israeli army next summer, said he argues with his friends about what he regards as racism in the textbooks and on the part of the teachers. He pointed out a worrisome example of how damaging the textbooks and prevailing attitudes can be.

�One kid told me he was angry because of something he read or discussed in school and that he felt like punching the first Arab he saw,� said Banvolegyi. �Instead of teaching tolerance and reconciliation, the books and some teachers� attitudes are increasing hatred for Arabs.�

Banvolegyi spoke about his schoolmates who, he says, �are dying to go into combat and kill Arabs. I try to talk to them but they say I don�t care about this country. But I do care and that�s why I tell them peace and justice are the only ways to work things out.�


Racist Israeli Upbringing

Considering what the schools have to offer, both Banvolegyi and Atamneh agree that the oral tradition is one of the few ways to get the story straight.

�Unfortunately Israeli children�s books are not an option for promoting equality in this society,� said Atamneh, citing a book written by Israeli writer/researcher Adir Cohen called An Ugly Face in the Mirror.

Cohen�s book is a study of the nature of children�s upbringing in Israel, concentrating on how the historical establishment sees and portrays Arab Palestinians as well as how Jewish Israeli children perceive Palestinians. One section of the book was based on the results of a survey taken of a group of 4th to 6th grade Jewish students at a school in Haifa. The pupils were asked five questions about their attitude toward Arabs, how they recognize them and how they relate to them. The results were as shocking as they were disturbing:

Seventy five percent of the children described the �Arab� as a murderer, one who kidnaps children, a criminal and a terrorist. Eighty percent said they saw the Arab as someone dirty with a terrifying face. Ninety percent of the students stated they believe that Palestinians have no rights whatsoever to the land in Israel or Palestine

Cohen also researched 1,700 Israeli children�s books published after 1967. He found that 520 of the books contained humiliating, negative descriptions of Palestinians. He also took pains to break down the descriptions:

Sixty six percent of the 520 books refer to Arabs as violent; 52 percent as evil; 37 percent as liars; 31 percent as greedy; 28 percent as two-faced; 27 percent as traitors, etc.

Cohen points out that the authors of these children�s books effectively instill hatred toward Arabs by means of stripping them of their human nature and classifying them in another category. In a sampling of 86 books, Cohen counted the following descriptions used to dehumanize Arabs: Murderer was used 21 times; snake, 6 times; dirty, 9 times; vicious animal, 17 times; bloodthirsty, 21 times; warmonger, 17 times; killer, 13 times; believer in myths, 9 times; and a camel�s hump, 2 times.

Cohen�s study concludes that such descriptions of Arabs are part and parcel of convictions and a culture rampant in Hebrew literature and history books. He writes that Israeli authors and writers confess to deliberately portraying the Arab character in this way, particularly to their younger audience, in order to influence their outlook early on so as to prepare them to deal with Arabs.

�So you can see that if you grew up reading or studying from these books, you�d never know anything else,� said Atamneh.

�But in the case of Palestinians, we grow up 500 meters away from what used to be a town or village and is now a Jewish settlement. Our parents and grandparents tell us all about it; endlessly they talk about it. It�s the only way.�


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Posted by LazFX on May-15-2007 09:29:

quote:
Originally posted by M.Johan
Hamas TV programmme Mickey Mouse is apprehended

But there'are also many DAMN DISGUSTING facts must be mentioned that
in Israel..........


Posted by Jake Benson on May-15-2007 10:05:

quote:
Originally posted by M.Johan
But there'are also many DAMN DISGUSTING facts must be mentioned that

in Israel..........


And none of what you posted had anything to do with TV programming for children. Interesting.


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