Knesset Review Reveals: Israel Does Not Exist in PA Textbooks

By Rina Tzvi, Israel Resource Review
israelnationalnews.com/ Tue Jun 25 2013

The textbooks used in UNRWA-funded schools never acknowledge and Jewish rights in “Palestine”, nor any Jewish past in the Land of Israel, said Dr. Arnon Groiss, a respected expert in the promotion of Tolerance in Education at a briefing in the Knesset reviewing the Palestinian Authority Textbooks used in UNWRA schools.

Israel is almost never shown on any map and no city is ever identified as a Jewish city, he said, reiterating the extensive history of Anti-Israel propaganda in Arab textbooks.

The funding for the schools are provided by Western countries, led by the US, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Australia and others.

“Israel is delegitimized, and demonized in these texts and no peaceful solution to Arab-Israel conflict is ever discussed’, Groiss noted, adding, “The rights of 4.5 million Palestinians around the world is heavily promoted.” The event was chaired by David Bedein, Director of the Near East Policy Research Center.

Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who was also in attendence, said, “There is so much to be gained from providing an education to young Palestinians, that paves the way for peace between two people, that is unfortunately not being promoted in Palestinian textbooks currently used in both Gaza and the West Bank.”

“As far as the narrative presented in many of these books, there were two ‘occupations’, the post-1967 war occupation of the west Bank and Gaza and the 1948 ‘occupation’ of the territory called the State of Israel. This isn’t a prescription for peace but for more tragedy, more violence and G-d forbid, more war,” said Rabbi Cooper.

Diplomats from Egypt, Canada, UK, and Norway were also in attendance.

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  7. @ CuriousAmerican:
    yamit82 Said:

    Hitler admired Islam, and thought it would have been a better religion for Aryans than Christianity. Yamit’s anti-Christian attitudes might cause him to agree.

    luke 14: 26-33

    26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

    27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

    28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

    29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

    30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

    31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

    32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

    33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

    Matthew 10:21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 22 You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 23 When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. Truly I tell you, you will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

    Easy to see where Hitler got his inspiration.

    Still waiting !!!

  12. bernard ross Said:

    So you equate yamit with the state of Israel. Do you use charles Manson as an example of american behavior(no offense to Yamit intended 🙂 )?

    Rather be compared to Manson than curious. Manson can be considered at least as someone who was insane; Curious is just acting out his mentor Paul’s directives and Jew hatred. He is not insane, just insidiously vile.

  15. CuriousAmerican Said:

    Let’s be fair. In Yamit’s textbook, Lebanon, Jordan, most of Syria, and parts of Egypt do not exist. He refers to them as future Israel; and the inhabitant as: Yet to be ethnically cleansed. Both sides do this. It just depends on whether one reads the PA’s textbooks, or Yamit’s.

    So you equate yamit with the state of Israel. Do you use charles Manson as an example of american behavior(no offense to Yamit intended 🙂 )? As usual your absurd examples and analogies are disingenuous at the least.

    CuriousAmerican Said to Yamit:

    You are not civil to anyone.

    you expect civility but you offer thinly veiled jew hatred. You find every torturous way to compare the jews behavior to their enemies. But then you are used to torturous rationalizations to explain your patently obvious ideologies and charades. Your real purpose in de-legitimizing the Jews is to prop up your religion, which is of course based on the Jews. Apparently those pesky jews keep popping up to debunk your ludicrous assertions.

  19. yamit82 Said:

    Lived in Newport News Va for about 1 year 4 months. I didn’t understand them and they didn’t understand me

    Y’all
    yamit82 Said:

    I call it identity theft

    I call it a compliment.
    yamit82 Said:

    Nice place to paint,your home.

    Landscape.
    yamit82 Said:

    Mine is Pink

    My house is adobe and dusty rose to match the rocks amd earth.el color de la tierra.

  20. honeybee Said:

    Nice place to paint,your home.

    Can’t understand Southern?

    Lived in Newport News Va for about 1 year 4 months. I didn’t understand them and they didn’t understand me.

    Moab in the desert. Mormons thought they wee in the “Holy Land”

    So did the Pilgrims. They saw themselves as Israelites and North America as the promised land and the New Jerusalem.

    I call it identity theft.

    Nice place to paint,your home.

    As in paints (art) or color of the house?

    Mine is Pink (not really)

  21. @ yamit82:

    Can’t understand Southern?

    yamit82 Said:

    Looks like where i live.

    Moab in the desert. Mormons thought they wee in the “Holy Land”
    Nice place to paint,your home.

  25. CuriousAmerican Said:

    The British were split between Arabist and Zionist sympathizers,

    If there was a split it was overwhelmingly weighted in favor of the Arabs.

    I believe most pro Zionist Brits were Zionist as an antisemitic means of ridding England of her Jews and the more devout ones were supportive due to and according to their eschatological belief: That the Jews needed to be returned before their dead deity can return. There was little love or respect for Jews in their support of the Jewish Zionists.

    Your historical understanding is if anything, revisionism attempting to paint over black with whitewash. If I am not mistaken Germany was a most religious christian nation as was Britain and the British crown and aristocracy were all intermarried and interconnected with Germany and Germans. Still are. Churchill’s post war vision was a United Europe led by Germany aligned with America to divide the world between them using the UN as their collective enforcers. NWO!!!! EU and the UN are products of his grand plan for the world security state.

  28. honeybee Said:

    He’s nice to me,but then I am beautiful in thought,word and deed.

    Took the words from my mind, you forgot that you are smart and are the only one who spells worse than I do, that alone is an ego builder for me. 😉

  29. @ CuriousAmerican:

    An believer who has studied Tanach would know it points to Moshiach Yeshua

    So you think all those millions of Jews throughout history of the last 2000 years didn’t know Hebrew and Aramaic didn’t understand their own source material and needed a bunch of Pagans to enlighten them with the real stuff?

    How stupid and ignorant the Jews must be?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsaRQDxmLqY
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=DK_cYPAtQ-U&NR=1

    but you insult your Moshiach, so I am not surprised you insult me.

    No I do my best to inusult yours. I have no Messiah.

    Rav Nachman asked Rav Yitzhak, ‘have you heard when Bar Nafli will come? ’Rav Yitzhak asked, ‘who is Bar Nafli’…Rav Yitzhak said, the Messiah [Sanhedrin 96b]

    The Messiah will be absolutely mortal, born of a man and a woman [Rambam, Sefer HaVikuah 88]

    The king messiah will be like one of us in every aspect, with a mother and a father. He also will be among the people in exile, suffering the afflictions of exile as his brethren.[Abarbanel, Yeshuot Meschicho 3:3]

    And Moab said unto the elders of Midian: ‘Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.’–And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.– (numbers 22:4)

  31. @ Canadian Otter:

    You are correct about Germany. All those facts are almost unknown to most of us. The first time I read about the Kaiser’s fondness for Islam I couldn’t believe it. Many notable Brits too were seduced by Islam way back, and unrelated to issues of oil or Jewish Palestine. Too many Europeans have romanticized Islam to the point of complete irrationality. Thousands are converting, as we speak. I place European infatuation with Islam alongide other perversions and the current fascination with zombies, vampires, and other violent characters.

    Brilliant summary, but understated.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDGFqDjZ7Pw (Shocking video of Germany’s Islamlust)

    Just before WWI started, the German archeologists brought the Ishtar Gate to Berlin. It is still there.

    The Pergamon Museum is the first or second greatest collection of Arab and Mideastern archeology in the West.

    Almost no one knows about this today. The British were split between Arabist and Zionist sympathizers, but the Germans had no balance. It was all Arab.

  32. @ yamit82:
    Yamit’s textbook is the Tanach, backed up by Jewish memory.

    As an unbelieving Pagan christian I know you don’t believe in Jewish scripture nor it’s divine source, (the G-d of Israel) You got yeshu.

    Ain’t you the pot calling the kettle black?

    An believer who has studied Tanach would know it points to Moshiach Yeshua; but you insult your Moshiach, so I am not surprised you insult me.

    In short, I consider you a piece of shite, dirt and scum and I will not be civil to you.

    You are not civil to anyone.

  35. @ yamit82:
    In short, I consider you a piece of sh***, dirt and scum and I will not be civil to you.

    Your comments speak for themselves.

  36. yamit82 Said:

    In short, I consider you a piece of shite, dirt and scum and I will not be civil to you.

    I think you are praising CA to highly.

  37. CuriousAmerican Said:

    Hitler admired Islam, and thought it would have been a better religion for Aryans than Christianity. Yamit’s anti-Christian attitudes might cause him to agree.

    Historically in the history of conflict between Islam and Christendom where Jews were caught in the middle between these two competing civilizations and religions Jews always sided with the Muslims against the christians not out of love or respect for Islam but because they were treated better under Islamic rule. They chose for them the best of two competing evils.

    I have to assume they knew what was best for them at the time.

    “The true dialectic of our time: the CONFLICT WITHIN WESTERN CIVILIZATION a series of crises nurtured and managed by Western elites with the help of bought and owned local clients. First some background so this ugly truth can be seen in context.”

    “Note well and bear in mind: the concept and urge to jihad was re-ignited after a long slumber by the British after WW I. Initially this was a Round Table project to enable them to, 1) arrange a British Protectorate in the Middle East “with its front door on the Mediterannean,” 2) keep Russia away from the southern oceans and the natural resources of the area, and last but not least, 3) to suppress and cripple the rise of a sovereign Jewish nation, the only genuine nation within the collapsed Ottoman Empire which could be a source of regional prosperity, independence from great power machinations and a shock to the entire identity project of the West which it posits itself as the inheritor of Scriptural promise; which in various forms proclaims itself to be ‘the true Israel.” The West, Edom, is based on mass identity theft & fraud. This generates extreme dynamism, instability, aggression and self-destruction as the culture strains to maintain its false image, its identity fraud.

    One salient example: the British formed the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1920s in Egypt under Hasan al Bana and later a Saudi branch. Initially these tool was to be used against the Jews and for stirring the regional pot generally. Now the MB is within the highest echelons of the American government and is the agent for the ‘Arab Spring’ the Anglo-American dominated media tout as a spontaneous result of the ‘rise of social media,’ the so-called ‘twitter revolution.’ But see the Economist, July 10-17, 2010 for a preview of this ‘spontaneous’ uprising. It’s in the cover story targeting Mubarak, “Thank you & Goodbye” and praising the ‘brothers’ as peaceful democratic group of parliamentarians that abide by ‘the rule of law.’ In the postmodern era of lawless law, whenever one hears such phrases it is a sign that massive injustice is being done.” Read Full Essay Here

  38. CuriousAmerican Said:

    Let’s be fair. In Yamit’s textbook, Lebanon, Jordan, most of Syria, and parts of Egypt do not exist. He refers to them as future Israel; and the inhabitant as: Yet to be ethnically cleansed.

    Both sides do this.

    It just depends on whether one reads the PA’s textbooks, or Yamit’s.

    Yamit’s textbook is the Tanach, backed up by Jewish memory.

    As the influence of the Torah extends, so will the boundaries of Eretz Israel expand accordingly.

    “To your descendants I have given this land, from the Egyptian River (Nile) as far as the great river, the (Euphrates).”
    Bereshit (Genesis) 15:18

    As an unbelieving Pagan christian I know you don’t believe in Jewish scripture nor it’s divine source, (the G-d of Israel) You got yeshu.

    Never ever compare Jews to the Christian German Nazis with how I would treat the vermin or how the government of Israel treats them.

    Did the Jews of Germany say that the land was really theirs, stolen from them by the Germans and that they would work until the day they became the majority and take the land and make it “Judea”? If they did, the Jews of Hitler’s time can be equated with the Arabs. Did the Jews of Europe massacre Germans, rape their women, burn their settlements, and vow to drive them into the sea? If they did, Europe’s Jews and Israel’s Arabs are the same. And if they did – if Germany’s Jews killed Germans and sought to take their state from them – Germans would have been justified in removing them from Germany and saving their country.

    But if, as really happened, the Jews sought, not to destroy Germany, not to separate from Germany, not to be independent of Germany, but to be good, loyal, fervent, assimilated Germans, then what the Germans did was horrible, and what YOU Jew haters who try to equate the murderous Arabs with the murdered Jews do is obscene. With no apologies, no defensiveness, no hesitation, this Jew rejects with contempt your constant attempts of trying to equate me with Nazis and Jews in Israel with moral equivalency and relativism to past present and future murderers of Jews.
    The Jewish response to threats to destroy our people and state: “If one comes to slay you, slay him first” (Sanhedrin, 72d). “Do not be overly righteous” (Ecclesiastes 7). “Said Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish: He who becomes merciful unto the cruel is destined to be cruel unto the merciful.”

    In short, I consider you a piece of shite, dirt and scum and I will not be civil to you.

  39. @ CuriousAmerican:
    You are correct about Germany. All those facts are almost unknown to most of us. The first time I read about the Kaiser’s fondness for Islam I couldn’t believe it. Many notable Brits too were seduced by Islam way back, and unrelated to issues of oil or Jewish Palestine. Too many Europeans have romanticized Islam to the point of complete irrationality. Thousands are converting, as we speak. I place European infatuation with Islam alongide other perversions and the current fascination with zombies, vampires, and other violent characters.

  40. @ Canadian Otter:
    The DDR (Communist Germany) was also a great promoter of Muslim terror. Those Germans didn’t miss a beat, going from perpetrating the Holocaust to contracting out the job to Arab terrorists.

    The Germans were alway Arabists. Even before WWI.

    The British were split between Arabists (Col Lawrence) and Biblical Zionists(Lloyd George),but the Germans had no such balance.

    The Germans were funding the Turks around 1900, strengthening them for jihad.

    In 1898 the Kaiser declared himself protector of Muslims throughout the world (Click Here).

    The fool went so far as to say that were he not Christian, he would be a Muslim. The Muslims called him Hajj Wilhelm.

    Ironically, the idiot was prejudiced against Catholics. So he would not promote enough Catholics to officer rank. So Germany lost the First Battle of the Marne, which it should have won, and lost WWI.

    Hitler admired Islam, and thought it would have been a better religion for Aryans than Christianity. Yamit’s anti-Christian attitudes might cause him to agree.

    You would see nothing like this in Western leadership so truly imbecilic until Obama apologized for the Crusaders, which were actually waging a defensive war of Christians to take back Spain, Italy, Malta, etc. What the Muslims had stolen; and to prevent the collapse of the Eastern Christian Byzantine Empire.

    For an article on this by Mike Konrad: How the Europeans saved Islam

    The DDR was nothing new.

  41. Let’s be fair. In Yamit’s textbook, Lebanon, Jordan, most of Syria, and parts of Egypt do not exist. He refers to them as future Israel; and the inhabitant as: Yet to be ethnically cleansed.

    Both sides do this.

    It just depends on whether one reads the PA’s textbooks, or Yamit’s.

  42. Another explosive British idea – former British Labour Defence Minister Baron John Gilbert suggested that UK should drop a neutron bomb on the Pak-Afghan border for creating impassable sanitary cordons between the two countries. – http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_11_29/Is-the-neutron-bomb-the-only-solution-to-the-Afghan-problem/

    Sorry I’m posting unrelated items, but as Laura indicates above, Israelis need to show less deference to other countries and their evil and lunatic leaders.

  43. Israelis need to stop wasting their time pleading their case to the world and explaining how evil their enemies are. This should already be self-evident. It’s been evidently clear for decades that the goal of Israel’s enemies is for her annihilation, but the world does not care. It’s time for Israel to exercise raw power. That is ultimately what will gain Israel respect.

  44. Not news to us – New book reveals how the Soviet Union seeded Muslim organizations with anti-USA and anti-Jewish propaganda, laying the ground for terror http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348191/EXCLUSIVE-KGB-operation-seeded-Muslim-countries-anti-American-anti-Jewish-propaganda-1970s-laying-groundwork-Islamist-terrorism-U-S-Israeli-targets.html

    The DDR (Communist Germany) was also a great promoter of Muslim terror. Those Germans didn’t miss a beat, going from perpetrating the Holocaust to contracting out the job to Arab terrorists.

  45. @ yamit82:
    This may be of interest to you, Yamit, and other readers. It is a diagram summarizing decisions and events in domestic surveillance in the US that are leading to the United ‘Stasi’ of America, as some call it.

    Full timeline of legislation, rulings, and events related to domestic surveillance in the United States (based on credible accounts and information found in the media, congressional testimony, books, and court actions).
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-25/complete-annotated-history-spying-ourselves

    PS: Thank you for the beautiful pictures of big cats. I love them!

  46. NEWSFLASH: FBI to take down posters showing Muslim terrorists because they are offensive to Muslims. This is not a joke. –

    Controversial bus ads featuring the faces of international terrorists wanted by the FBI will be taken off buses in King County (Washington state). Congressman Jim McDermott’s office confirmed the decision Tuesday. McDermott and others are outraged that most of the 16 people on the ad are clearly Middle Eastern. He wrote a letter to the FBI, the U.S. Justice Department and others last week asking that the Joint Terrorism Task Force ‘Faces of Global Terrorism’ ad be removed.

    http://mynorthwest.com/11/2302897/Controversial-bus-ads-to-be-removed-in-King-County

    In these parts of Canada only “Caucasian” suspects are described by ethnic characteristics. It’s almost funny to hear a suspect’s description when the only clues to go by are the color of his hoodie or sweatshirt. 🙂

  48. Israeli elites do not want to rock the boat and declare the pretend “peace process” in truth is over. Revealing Judeophobia and anti-Semitism is widespread among both the Palestinian Arabs and in the Muslim Arab World would reveal the Peace Emperor Has No Clothes!

    Israeli leaders have been brazenly telling the Jewish people a Big Lie for over twenty years – that peace is sight with just one more tiny Israeli concession to secure it. All of which has gone nowhere. The Arabs are no more ready for peace with Israel today than they were at the dawn of the Oslo Era in 1993. But to declare the farce over would mean that peace is impossible. I don’t see Netanyahu getting ready to level with the people of Israel and the world on this subject.

    After all, he is not the kind of man to tell US Secretary Of State John F. Kerry the truth when he cannot face it himself.

  49. On that 2011 article I cited before, journalist David Bedein attributes Israeli reticence to allow the US to punish the PA to Israeli private business interests in the PA and Gaza. That may be true. But there are darker forces at play. How about this?

    Former Israeli Consul General to the US Yoram Ettinger revealed that Israel prevented a move that would have relocated the US Embassy to Jerusalem. “The US Senate was ready to do away with the waiver that allows the president to defer the moving of the embassy to Jerusalem. There were over 80 senators – enough to override any [presidential] veto. It was the Israeli government who intervened on behalf of leaving the Embassy in Tel Aviv. The problem is that both houses of congress have been firmer on Jerusalem than any Israeli government since 1993.” http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125331

  50. The worst kept secret in Israel for many years. And that’s the mildest side of the story. The other is just as well known: the demonization of Jews and Israel on PA-TV and in youth activities. Your authorities know all about it. They have been presented with textbook translations, and Palestinian Media Watch has been documented their virulent anti-Semitism and indoctrination of their youth. To no avail. The Israeli govt continues to hail the PA as Israel’s partner for “peace”.

    Ted Belman wrote this article back in 2011 – It’s still very relevant.

    Officials in the White House explained that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had asked the U.S. to continue providing aid to the PA, including to PA schools and to UNRWA, one of the primary sources of incitement. In an interview with Arutz Sheva, (David) Bedein explained that he has spoken to many members of Congress, and has repeatedly been told that they agree U.S. aid should not go to Gaza as long as incitement against Israel continues – but that Israel’s government has been pressuring them to send it anyway. https://www.israpundit.org/archives/41179