by Yaakov Ahimeir
"There is no chance for peace" between Israel and the Palestinians, says Arabic expert Dr. Arnon Gross, as long as the Palestinian school system continues to teach hate.
On
what values does the Palestinian Authority and United Nations Relief
and Works Agency (UNRWA) school system raise and educate generations of
students? Dr. Arnon Gross, formerly a senior Arabic language broadcaster
at Voice of Israel Radio, read no less than 200 Arabic textbooks from
both past and present to understand exactly what Palestinian students
are taught.
Gross' latest research will be published in
the coming days. His investigation was the result of an initiative by
the Center for Near East Policy Research in Jerusalem, headed by David
Bedein. Gross takes quotes and conclusions from the textbooks, which
amount to libel for all intents and purposes, to demonstrate that the
school system drills into the heads of students that there is no entity
called "Israel." And if indeed it does exist, it should be called by
another name: "The Zionist entity" that must be destroyed.
In conversation with Gross, he is
remarkably straightforward, wasting no time on political correctness.
What were his conclusions after studying some 200 school textbooks
taught in the Palestinian school system? With no ifs, ands or buts,
Gross's answer cuts like a razor: "There is no chance for peace and
reconciliation between the State of Israel and the Palestinian
Authority."
Moreover, he concludes the books clearly
intend to "demonize the Jews and Israel, and encourage the violent
struggle to liberate Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the
[Mediterranean] sea."
The area in question here is not only the
land on the other side of the 1967 Green Line of "the Occupation" but
the whole Land of Israel – as it is drawn in the textbooks, covered with
the Palestinian flag. The ludicrous suggestion here is that Israel does
not exist.
Take, for example, a ninth-grade textbook's
description of Safed, a city in the north of Israel with millennia of
history : "Safed is one of the most beautiful Palestinian cities in the
Galilee. Its magnificence hails back to its Canaanite origin, despite
the fog of occupation that will one day lift."
Looking through Gross's research, it
becomes clear that all this information, invaluable to "knowing thy
enemy," is presented to us slowly, over time, very sparingly. The reason
for this, apparently, is to avoid making some people "uncomfortable."
It may greatly inconvenience the well-wishers and dreamers working to
strike a peace agreement with the Palestinian representation. In any
case, this information is not hidden in top-secret binders by the
intelligence establishment – it is openly printed in Arabic textbooks.
Would it not be more fitting for Gross'
research to be distributed among the 120 MKs who speak day and night
about peace with the Palestinians? Anyone who looks at this research
will arrive at the negotiation table – if negotiations ever restart –
armed to the teeth with clear and publicly available information. This
should be used in public speaking abroad. This is heavy ammunition in
the diplomatic struggle. Israeli diplomats all over the world should
keep the pages of this research within arms' reach and submit a copy to
the government of their host countries.
The research brings truly hair-raising,
dehumanizing examples to demonstrate how the Palestinian education
incites to the annihilation of the Jews. One of the textbooks calls the
1978 Coastal Road massacre – in which Fatah terrorists crossed
from Lebanon into Israel, hijacked a bus and murdered 38 Israeli
passengers – a "barbecue." Why? Because the terrorist cell leader, Dalal
Mughrabi, gave a command to firebomb the bus and burn the Jews alive.
The burning of Jews alive is actually presented as a "barbecue." Gross
stresses that from year to year, Palestinian textbooks have not become
more moderate – quite the opposite, in fact.
Yaakov Ahimeir
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/the-palestinian-textbook-problem/
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