Iran provides aid to Palestinian martyrs’ families in Gaza

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): In cooperation with the Palestinian Martyrs’ Institute in Gaza, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s aid was distributed among the families of the martyrs and the wounded Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

With the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran declared the support of Palestine and Quds as the central issue of the Islamic world and has always supported the Palestinian people and resistance in various ways for the past four decades

Nasser al-Sheikh Ali, Head of the Palestinian Martyrs’ Institute in Gaza, told Iran Press on Monday that Iran had supported the families of Palestinian martyrs and wounded in Gaza for years.

He said about 7,000 families of Palestinian martyrs in the Gaza Strip were receiving humanitarian aid from the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Nasser al-Sheikh Ali noted that the Palestinian people live in absolute poverty and stand firm in defending the Palestinian land to have a dignified life under the siege of the Zionist regime.

He also called on the world to support the Palestinians in their homeland.

In an interview with Iran Press in Gaza, some families of Palestinian martyrs praised the support of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the people and the Palestinian resistance in defending their homeland.

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UK minister warns Palestinians on ‘problematic’ textbooks as EU renews UNRWA support

A Government minister has said she would “urge the Palestinian Authority to remove problematic content from its textbooks” after confirming the UK would be taking part in a pledging conference to commit funds for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

Minister for Africa Vicky Ford confirmed the UK’s involvement at the pledging conference in New York on June 23.

Asked about the issue of antisemitism in Palestinian textbooks, she added:” We have robust conversations with the highest levels of the Palestinian leadership, challenging them on the need to prepare their population for peace, including by promoting a positive portrayal of others.

“We have zero tolerance for all forms of incitement to violence or antisemitism.”

Ford added:”It is worth pointing out that the UK does not fund textbooks in the Occupied Territories.”

Her comments, made during Wednesday’s Westminster Hall debate on UNRWA, came as the European Union confirmed it had renewed its support for the Palestinian people with a £200 million assistance package.

This was approved after the EU were satisfied with Palestinian assurances over textbooks in the future.

Sarah Champion, for Labour, told MPs she agreed there should be “zero tolerance” of any antisemitism in textbooks.

But she told MPs the EU’s decision suggested “that issue having now been resolved.”

Ford reaffirmed that the UK was a long-standing supporter of UNRWA, and value the vital role it plays as a humanitarian service and a stabilising force in the Middle East.

She said in 2021,the UK provided the agency with over £27 million of support, including £4.9 million to the flash appeal that it launched following the Gaza conflict in May.

The UK’s annual contribution, she said, also helps UNRWA to provide education to more than 530,000 children every year, and helps 3.5 million Palestinian refugees to access critical health services.

Noting it had been a “difficult” decision to reduce the foreign aid budget, Ford said the UK would look in particular at “bringing back humanitarian aid and girls’ education” when it attends the pledging conference.

Ford was also highly critical of Israel actions over the movement of Palestinians into Gaza.

She said:”We continue to stress to the Israeli authorities that restrictions on movement, access and trade for the people of Gaza are damaging the lives of ordinary Palestinians.

“As I will say again and again, we urge all parties to drive for a durable solution for Gaza and take the necessary practical steps to ensure Gaza’s reconstruction and economic recovery. ”

Ford ruled out the idea of applying sanctions on Israel. She told MPs:” We believe that honest and open discussions, rather than imposing sanctions or supporting anti-Israeli boycotts, best support our efforts to get progress on peace and on getting a negotiated solution. ”

The minister added the government ” were totally appalled by the recent terror attacks in Israel.”

She added:” We condemn them in the strongest possible terms, and reaffirm that our thoughts are with the victims and their families.

“We will engage with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to support co-operation on building stability and economic development.”

On Wednesday the European Commission approved a new bilateral allocation to Palestine worth €224.8 million.

This package complements previous contributions, such as €92 million to support UNRWA, bringing the total EU assistance to the Palestinians in 2021 to €317 million.

This does not include a further €25 million in humanitarian funding announced in May.

Autoridad Palestina para la educación: Ninguna posibilidad para una solución de dos estados

 La Autoridad Palestina tiene tres características fundamentales:

 

        De – legitimización de la existencia de Israel y la sola presencia de Judíos en el país, que incluye la negación de la historia de los Judíos y la existencia de cuaquier sitio sagrado Judío en el país.

 

Demonización de Israel y los Judíos. También religiosa – con implicaciones sobre la imagen de los Judíos en los  ojos de niños que provienen de una sociedad tradicional.

 

La ausencia de un llamado a la paz con Israel.En lugar de ello, hay un llamado a la lucha  violenta destinada a liberar todo el país, incluyendo pre-1967 Israel. A esta lucha  le atribuyen un fervor religioso, por lo que el terror es una parte integrante de la misma, alentando el asesinato de Judíos.

De-legitimizacion

1 – Los ciudadanos judíos de Israel son considerados extranjeros colonialistas.

“Nosotros vamos a pensar y discutir: Yo voy a comparar la tragedia de los Indios, habitantes originales de América con la tragedia del Pueblo Palestino.”

(Estudios Sociales, 8° grado,Parte 2  (2020)  p. 34)

2 – La historia Judía del país es denegada. Incluyendo la existencia de elementos arqueológicos probando que  “El conquistador ha construído por si mismo una entidad artificial que deriva su identidad y la legitimidad de su existencia con cuentos, leyendas y fantasías, y ha tratado por todos los medios y formas de crear evidencia material viva de estas leyendas, o pruebas de arquitectura arqueológica que podrían determinar la verdad y autenticidad de lo que afirman, pero en vano”

(Lenguaje Arabe  Grado Académico  10° curso, Parte 2  (2020) Pág.68

 

3 –   La existencia de lugares sagrados Judíos en el país es sistemáticamente desmentida, incluyendo el Muro Occidental, (Muro de los Lamentos) en Jerusalém. Por favor notar que la foto ha sido cortada de manera tal que oculta la existencia de Judíos que oran allí.

 

“El Muro Al Burak”

 

El Muro Al Burak ha recibido su nombre de “AL BURAK” la  bestia sagrada  que llevó al Mensajero [de Dios, p.e. Muhammad] durante su Viaje Nocturno [desde La Mecca hasta la Mezquita de El Aksa, en Jerusalém, de acuerdo a la creencia Islámica] y la Ascensión [Al Cielo]

El Muro Al Burak es parte de el Muro Occidental de la Mezquita de El Aksa. La Mezquita de El Aksa, incluyendo el Muro, es tierra Palestina, y los Musulmanes tienen derecho exclusivo sobre ella.

 

Educación Islámica, 5° grado (Parte 1)   (2020) pág. 63

4 –  Habiendo sido considerado ocupantes extranjeros, los Judios en el país no son considerados como habitantes legítimos, y las ciudades que ellos construyeron, incluída Tel Aviv, no figuran en los mapas de textos usados por las escuelas de la Autoridad Palestina. El mapa que decimos, se ve mas abajo, titulado “mapa de Palestina”, no muestra ninguna ciudad Judía, excepto la ciudad sureña de Eilat que aparece bajo su nombre Arabe, un lugar desolado donde luego fue consruída – “ Umm al Rashrash”


Estudios Sociales,  6° Grado  Parte 1 (2020) pág.6

5 – Las conexiones históricas y religiosas de los Judíos con Israel son ignoradas.Según los libros de texto de la P.A. Jerusalem fue construida por los ancestros “ Arabes” de los Palestinos (por ejemplo,los “Arabizados” Canaanitas y Jebuseos) y es sagrada  para Musulmanes y Cristianos solamente. Los Judios no son mencionados en el contexto del siguiente párrafo “ Jerusalém es una ciudad Arabe,construída por nuestros ancestros Arabes, hacen miles de años. Jerusalem es ciudad sagrada para Musulmanes y Cristianos solamente.

Educación Nacional y Social 3° grado parte 1 (2020)  Pág. 29

6 -Una corta descripción histórica de los nombres de la ciudad muestra una enorme brecha de 1000 años entre la época de los Jebuseos y los Romanos, o sea, el período histórico Judío.El nombre “Jerusalem” en sus varias formas que es usado en cientos de lenguajes alrededor del mundo está completamente ausente:

 

“La ciudad de Jerusalem era conocida como “Jebus” después que los Jebusitas la construyeron 5000 años atrás Cuando los Romanos la nombraron “Aelia” Después de eso vino a ser conocida como “Al Quds” o “Bayt al Maqdis”, después que los Musulmanes la conquistaron por las manos del Califa Umar ibn al Khattab en el año 637 CE”

“Geografía e Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de Palestina, 10° grado Parte 1, (2020) Pág. 43

Demonizacion

 1-Los Judíos, algunas referidos como “Zionistas” con ninguna diferenciación real entre estos dos términos, son demonizados y acusados de albergar intenciones genocidas hacia los Palestinos.”Los Judíos han establecido su entidad sobre el terror, exterminación y colonialismo. Nosotros explicaremos esto”

Lenguaje Arabe, grado académico  10°  parte 2  (2020) pág.28

 

2 – Los Judíos son demonizados  como infieles y como ayudantes del Demonio. Un verso tomado de un poema: “Dónde están los jinetes (que cabalgarán) a Al Aqsa [Mezquita] para liberarla del puño de los infieles, los ayudantes del Demonio”?

Lenguaje Arabe, 7° grado, Parte 1  (2020) pág. 67

 

3- Los Judíos también son demonizados fuera de contexto de la guerra, como enemigos del Profeta Muhammad y el Islam en sus primeros años. Se les atribuyen rasgos negativos como traidores y hostiles, lo cual los hace eternos enemigos  del Islam al día de hoy:

 

“Pero los Judíos “en la ciudad de Medina”no respetaron el tratado “que habían concretado con Muhammad” y recurrieron a todo tipo de trucos , traiciones y agresiones que obligaron a los Musulmanes a luchar contra ellos”

  Educación Islámica, 7° grado, parte 1  (2020)  pág. 52

 

4 – Es más, Los Judios son presentados como enemigos de los Profetas de Dios, e implícitamente como enemigos del propio Dios en si mismo, una representación que causa un tremendo impacto en estudiantes que provienen de una sociedad tradicional: se debe luchar contra los enemigos de Dios hasta su completa destrucción.El siguiente ejemplo muestra la primera de algunas lecciones que deben ser estudiadas en un capítulo sobre Jesucristo, quien es considerado un profeta en el Islam:

“exponiendo la naturaleza de los niños de Israel y su hostilidad para con los profetas”

Estudio Islámico 9° grado parte 2  (2020) pág. 21

Alentando la muerte de Judíos

La muerte de Judios es presentada como una parte integral de la lucha por la liberación, y bien caracterizada en la primera página de una lección de cuatro páginas, exaltando a la comandante femenino de un ataque terrorista contra un ómnibus civil en la Autopista de la Costa en Israel en el año 1978,   en el cual más de 30 Judíos, ( hombres, mujeres y niños )fueron asesinados.

Dhalal al Mughrabi

 

En el frente del texto: Nuestra historia Palestina con muchos nombres de mártires que sacrificaron sus almas por la patria, entre ellos la mártir Dhalal al Mughrabi, quien con su lucha pintó un cuadro de desafío y bravura, que ha hecho su memoria eterna en nuestros corazones y mentes. El texto inmediato anterior nos muestra su bravura y como la demostró.

Lenguaje Arabe    5° grado  Parte 2  (2020)  pág 51

En conclusión, los libros de texto de la  naciente Autoridad Palestina delegitimizan la existencia del Estado de Israel, y la misma presencia de los 7 millones de ciudadanos Judíos en el país, cuya historia y lugares sagrados allí es negada.

Los libros de texto de la AP no auspician en ninguna parte una solución pacífica. En lugar de ello, los libros llaman a una lucha violenta para la liberación de toda la Palestina, con fuertes características religiosas,liberación que no está limitada por las fronteras de 1967, y en la cual el terror juega un rol central.

 

En otras palabras, la educación en la PA no deja espacio para “una solución de dos estados.”

Israel Advocacy Organizations Misled the Jews

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 30: A small group of pre-schoolers from Gan HaYeled learn how to light a Hanukkah menorah from Rabbi Sarah Krinsky at Adas Israel Congregation November 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. This year, Hanuakka will begin at sundown on December 2 and last until sundown on December 10. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

For well over a year, Israel advocacy organizations led people to believe that the EU would work with Israel to revamp the PA/UNRWA school curriculum, which indoctrinates the next generation of Arabs for total war against Jews.

Having commissioned the examination of more than 1,000 PA texts, beginning with those published in August 2000, when the PA began to produce its own school books, the Center for Near East Policy Research found no surprises as to the content of their text books.

So why were some people surprised when the EU recently took a strong positive position on the PA and UNRWA schools? One major reason is that Israel advocacy groups confused the European Parliament, which is advocating to change the PA texts, with policy-makers, namely, the European Commission of the EU, which expressed passionate support for the PA war curriculum.

Unfortunately, attempts to correct the Israel advocacy groups who confused the European Parliament with the EU proved utterly futile.

Now the damage has been done.

The time has come to mount a new campaign to challenge the EU support for the PA indoctrination of total war on the Jews.

If the allocation of public funds for such “education” is not war crime, then what is?

The PA curriculum of war on the Jews must be shared everywhere.

After 22 years of covering PA education, which is the source of UNRWA education, we can definitivelty state with complete confidence that every aspect of PA and UNRWA indoctrination involves the dispassionate murder Jews.

This message, conveyed without emotion and in a matter-of-fact manner, pervades their texts, their media, their murals and their songs.

The PA and UNRWA leave nothing to the imagination, except for those who delude themselves into thinking that if the European Parliament objects to teaching genocide then the EU will follow suit.

The statesman Edmund Burke famously remarked that he would rather be “an idealist without illusions than an illusionist without ideals”. It would behoove us to remember those words.

Sources:

EU restores PA funding unconditionally

Palestinian Authority education: No room for a two-state solution

Does UNRWA Educational System Prepare the Palestinian Children and Youth for a War against the Jews?

 

‘No strings attached’: EU releases funding to PA despite antisemitic incitement in textbooks

The European Union voted to release millions of dollars in funding to the Palestinian Authority that had been frozen over concerns about PA textbooks that encourage terror and promote incitement and hatred towards Jews, despite the PA reportedly not committing to change or withdraw those texts.

After a vote on Monday night, some $220 million in EU aid will be released, and PA officials hailed the move as a victory, telling Times of Israel that the funding comes “with no strings attached.”

Notably, the release of the funds coincides with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s three-day trip to the region. She is expected to meet with PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Tuesday.

Olivér Várhelyi, the EU Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, said in late 2021 that funding to the PA should only come after the PA pledged to stop using antisemitic and terror-supporting textbooks in its classrooms.

That proposal sparked a months-long internal EU debate, as some argued that financial support for the PA should be unconditional.

Maintaining the PA’s stability appears to have emerged as the EU’s priority over concerns about antisemitism, as the struggling institution continues to wane in popularity and the majority of Palestinians have expressed a preference for Islamic Jihad and Hamas as potential rulers.

Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy told EU Parliament president Roberta Metsola that the current wave of terror Israel is currently facing can be directly traced back to PA educational institutions that promote hatred of Jews.

“It starts with the textbooks in the Palestinian Authority, which erase the existence of the State of Israel; antisemitic lies about Jews are spread, and there are explicit calls for violence; it continues with the money the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists for killing innocent people, while it receives donations and large amounts of money, also from the European Union; all the way to incitement and lies that are disseminated online – supposedly that the State Israel is harming the holy sites,” he said.

“These acts and lies fan the flames, spread hatred, create an atmosphere of violence, and eventually bring about a wave of terror.

“The State of Israel expects from you, Madam President, and from all the members of the European Union, to stand by it in the face of these dangerous phenomena, which fuel terror and murder and will never allow us to bring about a solution to the conflict. You have the power to influence and [protect] the younger generation from incitement in schools that is carried out with your money.”

Palestinian Authority Education: No Room for a Two-State Solution

By David Bedein                

Research: Dr. Arnon Groiss 

 

Palestinian Authority schoolbooks feature three fundamentals:

  1. De-legitimization of Israel’s existence and the Jews’ very presence in the country, which includes denial of their history and the existence of any Jewish holy places there.
  2. Demonization of both Israel and Jews, also religiously – with implications regarding the Jews’ image in the eyes of children who hail from a traditional society.
  3. The absence of a call for peace with Israel. Instead, there is a call for a violent struggle for the liberation of the whole country, including pre-1967 Israel. This struggle is given a religious color and terror is made an integral part thereof, encouraging the murder of Jews. 

De-Legitimization

  1. Israel’s Jewish citizens are considered foreign colonialists:

    “We will think and discuss: I will compare the tragedy of the Indians, America’s original inhabitants, to the tragedy of the Palestinian people.” 

    (Social Studies, Grade 8, Part 2 (2020) p. 34)

  1. The country’s Jewish history is denied, including the existence of archaeological items proving that:  “…[The conqueror has built for himself an artificial entity that derives its identity and the legitimacy of its existence from tales, legends and phantasies and has tried in various ways and means to create live material evidence for these legends, or archaeological architectural proofs that would determine their truth and authenticity, but in vain.”]

    (Arabic Language – Academic Path, Grade 10, Part 2 (2020) p. 68)
  2. Existence of Jewish holy places in the country is denied, including the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Please note that the photograph has been cut in a way that would “hide” the Jews who pray there:

    “Al-Buraq Wall”

The Al-Buraq Wall has been named after Al-Buraq [the divine beast] that carried the Messenger [of God, i.e., Muhammad] during the Nocturnal Journey [from Mecca to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, according to Islamic belief] and the Ascension [to Heaven]. The Al-Buraq Wall is part of the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Aqsa Mosque, including the wall, is Palestinian land and an exclusive right of the Muslims.”

(Islamic Education, Grade 5, Part 1 (2020) p. 63)

  1. Having been considered foreign settlers, Jews in the country are not counted as  legitimate inhabitants and the cities they built there, including Tel Aviv, are absent from maps in the texts used in PA schools. The PA school map here, titled “Map of Palestine”, does not show any Jewish city, except the southern city of Eilat that appears under its Arabic name, desolate place where it was later built – “Umm al-Rashrash”.


(Social Studies, Grade 6, Part 1 (2020) p. 6) 

 

  1. The Jews’ historical and religious ties to Jerusalem are ignored. According to the PA textbooks, Jerusalem was built by the Palestinians’ Arab ancestors (i.e., the “Arabized” Canaanites  and Jebusites) and is holy to Muslims and Christians alone. Jews are not mentioned in this context: “Jerusalem is an Arab city built by our Arab ancestors thousands of years ago. Jerusalem is holy only to Muslims and Christians.”

    (National and Social Upbringing, Grade 3, Part 1 (2020) p. 29)
  2. A short historical description of the city’s names features a huge gap of 1000 years between the Jebusites and the Romans, that is, the Jewish historical period. The name “Jerusalem” with its various forms that is used in hundreds of languages around the world is completely absent: 

“The city of Jerusalem was known as ‘Jebus’ after the Arab Jebusites who built it 5000 years ago. When the Romans occupied it they named it ‘Aelia’. Later on it came to be known as ‘Al-Quds’ or ‘Bayt al-Maqdis’, after the Muslims had conquered it at the hands of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab in 637 CE…”

(Geography and Modern and Contemporary History of Palestine, Grade 10, Part 1 (2020) p. 43)

Demonization

  1. Jews, sometimes referred to as “Zionists” with no real differentiation between these two terms, are demonized and accused of harboring genocidal intentions towards the Palestinians: “The Zionists have established their entity upon terror, extermination and colonialism. We will explain that.”

    (Arab Language – Academic Path, Grade 10, Part 2 (2020) p. 28)
  2.   Jews are demonized as infidels and as the Devil’s aides. A verse taken from a poem: “Where are the horsemen [who will ride] to Al-Aqsa [Mosque] to liberate it from the grip of infidelity, from the Devil’s aides?”

    (Arabic Language, Grade 7, Part 1 (2020) p. 67)

  1. The Jews are also demonized outside the context of the war, as enemies of Prophet Muhammad and Islam in its early years. They are given negative traits such as treachery and hostility, which makes them eternal enemies of Muslims today: 

    “But the Jews [in the city of Medina] did not respect the treaty [they had concluded with Muhammad] and resorted to all types of treachery, betrayal and aggression which forced the Muslims to fight them.”

    (Islamic Education, Grade 7, Part 1 (2020) p. 52)
  2. Moreover, Jews are presented as enemies of God’s prophets and, by implication, enemies of God himself, a portrayal that has an enormous impact on students who come from a traditional society: God’s enemies should be fought against until their utter destruction. The following example features the first out of several lessons to be learned from a chapter about Jesus Christ, who is considered a prophet in Islam:
    “exposing the nature of the Children of Israel and their hostility to the prophets.”

    (Islamic Education, Grade 9, Part 2 (2020) p. 21)

Encouraging the Murder of Jews

The murder of Jews is featured as an integral part of the liberation struggle, and featured on the first page of a four-page lesson exalting the female commander of a terror attack against an Israeli civilian bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway in 1978 where over thirty Jews – men, women and children – were murdered:

“Dalal al-Mughrabi”  

In front of the text: Our Palestinian history is replete with many names of martyrs who sacrificed their souls for the homeland, among whom is the martyr Dalal al-Mughrabi, who painted with her struggle a picture of challenge and bravery that has made her memory eternal within our hearts and minds. The text before us shows her struggle and journey.”  (Arabic Language, Grade 5, Part 2) 

(2020) p. 51)

In conclusion, the nascent Palestinian Authority textbooks de-legitimize the existence of the State of Israel, and the very presence of its 7 million Jewish citizens in the country, whose history and holy places there are denied.

The PA books never advocate a peaceful solution. Instead, they call for a violent struggle for the liberation of all of Palestine, with strong religious characteristics, which is not limited by the 1967 lines and in which terror plays a central role. 

In other words, PA education allows no room for a “two-state solution”.

Does UNRWA Educational System Prepare the Palestinian Children and Youth for a War against the Jews?

Introduction
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees has been
operating since 1950 in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Judea and Samaria (including East
Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. It offers welfare, health and education services to the
1948 refugees and their descendants who are kept under miserable conditions in
dozens of refugee camps. Over half of its budget is directed to the educational field.
This paper discusses UNRWA’s educational activity in the territories of Judea,
Samaria and Gaza only. According to the data appearing on its site (from the 2019/20
school year) it had in Gaza 286,645 students in 278 schools that included grades 1-9.
In Judea and Samaria (including East Jerusalem) it had that year 45,883 students in 96
schools with the same grades, but its two schools in East Jerusalem included grade 10
as well.

Since 2000, I have conducted research projects regarding the attitude to the JewishIsraeli “other” and to the issue of peace with this “other”, as expressed by schoolbooks
and teachers’ guides issued by the Palestinian Authority’s Curricula Center and used in
UNRWA schools. The textbooks have been found to include hate and violence
indoctrination, in sharp contradiction to UNRWA’s commitment, as a UN
organization, to neutrality and to the promotion of a peaceful resolution of the
conflict. This indoctrination is based on three fundamentals:

Palestinian Authority Education: No Room for a Two-State Solution

Palestinian Authority schoolbooks feature three fundamentals:

  1. De-legitimization of Israel’s existence and the Jews’ very presence in the country, which includes denial of their history and the existence of any Jewish holy places there.
  2. Demonization of both Israel and Jews, also religiously – with implications regarding the Jews’ image in the eyes of children who hail from a traditional society.
  3. The absence of a call for peace with Israel. Instead, there is a call for a violent struggle for the liberation of the whole country, including pre-1967 Israel. This struggle is given a religious color and terror is made an integral part thereof, encouraging the murder of Jews. 

De-Legitimization

  1. Israel’s Jewish citizens are considered foreign colonialists:

    “We will think and discuss: I will compare the tragedy of the Indians, America’s original inhabitants, to the tragedy of the Palestinian people.” 

    (Social Studies, Grade 8, Part 2 (2020) p. 34)

  1. The country’s Jewish history is denied, including the existence of archaeological items proving that:  “…[The conqueror has built for himself an artificial entity that derives its identity and the legitimacy of its existence from tales, legends and phantasies and has tried in various ways and means to create live material evidence for these legends, or archaeological architectural proofs that would determine their truth and authenticity, but in vain.”]

    (Arabic Language – Academic Path, Grade 10, Part 2 (2020) p. 68)

  1. Existence of Jewish holy places in the country is denied, including the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Please note that the photograph has been cut in a way that would “hide” the Jews who pray there:

    “Al-Buraq Wall”

The Al-Buraq Wall has been named after Al-Buraq [the divine beast] that carried the Messenger [of God, i.e., Muhammad] during the Nocturnal Journey [from Mecca to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, according to Islamic belief] and the Ascension [to Heaven]. The Al-Buraq Wall is part of the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Aqsa Mosque, including the wall, is Palestinian land and an exclusive right of the Muslims.”

(Islamic Education, Grade 5, Part 1 (2020) p. 63)

  1. Having been considered foreign settlers, Jews in the country are not counted as  legitimate inhabitants and the cities they built there, including Tel Aviv, are absent from maps in the texts used in PA schools. The PA school map here, titled “Map of Palestine”, does not show any Jewish city, except the southern city of Eilat that appears under its Arabic name, desolate place where it was later built – “Umm al-Rashrash”.

(Social Studies, Grade 6, Part 1 (2020) p. 6) 

  1. The Jews’ historical and religious ties to Jerusalem are ignored. According to the PA textbooks, Jerusalem was built by the Palestinians’ Arab ancestors (i.e., the “Arabized” Canaanites  and Jebusites) and is holy to Muslims and Christians alone. Jews are not mentioned in this context: “Jerusalem is an Arab city built by our Arab ancestors thousands of years ago. Jerusalem is holy only to Muslims and Christians.”

    (National and Social Upbringing, Grade 3, Part 1 (2020) p. 29)

  1. A short historical description of the city’s names features a huge gap of 1000 years between the Jebusites and the Romans, that is, the Jewish historical period. The name “Jerusalem” with its various forms that is used in hundreds of languages around the world is completely absent: 

“The city of Jerusalem was known as ‘Jebus’ after the Arab Jebusites who built it 5000 years ago. When the Romans occupied it they named it ‘Aelia’. Later on it came to be known as ‘Al-Quds’ or ‘Bayt al-Maqdis’, after the Muslims had conquered it at the hands of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab in 637 CE…”


(Geography and Modern and Contemporary History of Palestine, Grade 10, Part 1 (2020) p. 43)

Demonization

  1. Jews, sometimes referred to as “Zionists” with no real differentiation between these two terms, are demonized and accused of harboring genocidal intentions towards the Palestinians: “The Zionists have established their entity upon terror, extermination and colonialism. We will explain that.”

    (Arab Language – Academic Path, Grade 10, Part 2 (2020) p. 28)

  1.   Jews are demonized as infidels and as the Devil’s aides. A verse taken from a poem: “Where are the horsemen [who will ride] to Al-Aqsa [Mosque] to liberate it from the grip of infidelity, from the Devil’s aides?”

    (Arabic Language, Grade 7, Part 1 (2020) p. 67)

  1. The Jews are also demonized outside the context of the war, as enemies of Prophet Muhammad and Islam in its early years. They are given negative traits such as treachery and hostility, which makes them eternal enemies of Muslims today: 

    “But the Jews [in the city of Medina] did not respect the treaty [they had concluded with Muhammad] and resorted to all types of treachery, betrayal and aggression which forced the Muslims to fight them.”

    (Islamic Education, Grade 7, Part 1 (2020) p. 52)
  2. Moreover, Jews are presented as enemies of God’s prophets and, by implication, enemies of God himself, a portrayal that has an enormous impact on students who come from a traditional society: God’s enemies should be fought against until their utter destruction. The following example features the first out of several lessons to be learned from a chapter about Jesus Christ, who is considered a prophet in Islam:
    “exposing the nature of the Children of Israel and their hostility to the prophets.”

    (Islamic Education, Grade 9, Part 2 (2020) p. 21)

Encouraging the Murder of Jews

The murder of Jews is featured as an integral part of the liberation struggle, and featured on the first page of a four-page lesson exalting the female commander of a terror attack against an Israeli civilian bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway in 1978 where over thirty Jews – men, women and children – were murdered:

“Dalal al-Mughrabi”  

In front of the text: Our Palestinian history is replete with many names of martyrs who sacrificed their souls for the homeland, among whom is the martyr Dalal al-Mughrabi, who painted with her struggle a picture of challenge and bravery that has made her memory eternal within our hearts and minds. The text before us shows her struggle and journey.”  (Arabic Language, Grade 5, Part 2) 

(2020) p. 51)

In conclusion, the nascent Palestinian Authority textbooks de-legitimize the existence of the State of Israel, and the very presence of its 7 million Jewish citizens in the country, whose history and holy places there are denied.

The PA books never advocate a peaceful solution. Instead, they call for a violent struggle for the liberation of all of Palestine, with strong religious characteristics, which is not limited by the 1967 lines and in which terror plays a central role. 

In other words, PA education allows no room for a “two-state solution”.

By David Bedein                

Research: Dr. Arnon Groiss

When Egypt was in Gaza

When I first visited the Gaza Strip after the Six Day War, I encountered a territory that bore stark witness to Egyptian aggression, callousness and inhumanity. For 19 long years, the area had been run directly by the Egyptian army. Under a “constitution” drawn up by the Egyptians, all legislative powers were invested in the Egyptian military commander, who controlled the civil administration. All political parties, except one endorsed by the Egyptians, were banned. The military governor also acted as the judiciary, and there was no appeal.

There were no elections. A puppet government automatically ratified all legislation that the governor brought before it. In 1965, even this façade of local autonomy collapsed when the Egyptian army dismissed the legislature.

The secret police probed everywhere. No one was immune from sudden arrest and unlimited imprisonment without trial or, at best, a secret trial. The jails were always full and torture was common. There was official censorship of the press and mail, and telephone lines were regularly tapped.

For nearly 19 years, the inhabitants of the Strip were prohibited from leaving their homes from 9 p.m. until dawn on pain of death. This curfew was enforced by roadblocks. Men between 18 and 40 were prohibited from traveling to Egypt unless they were fortunate enough to secure permits. If they failed to return at the expiration of their permit, the military authorities took steps against their families.

The Egyptians seized property at will, while refugees were prohibited from owning land. Thousands of young refugees were forcibly conscripted into the Egyptian army. Many were sent to fight Gamal Abdel Nasser’s war in Yemen; others were sent into Israel to murder, sabotage and disrupt communications.

Three-quarters of the able-bodied were unemployed. Medical and social services were almost nonexistent The Egyptians did nothing to help farmers, create housing or develop industry. The majority of Arabs in the Strip outside the town of Gaza were left to rot, without sewage, running water, electricity or roads.
INDOCTRINATION TO HATRED of Israel started at the very tenderest years. I saw pictures which children had drawn, with the encouragement of their teachers, depicting themselves killing Israeli children. The textbooks dripped venom. One text for the third grade, entitled Arabic Islamic History read:

“The Jews are always the same, in every time, every place. They live only in darkness. They secretly plan to do evil; they fight only from hidden places because they are cowards. We must purify holy Palestine from their filth in order to bring peace back to the Arab homeland.”

So harsh was the Egyptian rule in Gaza that Radio Mecca broadcast this protest on March 10, 1962:

“We would like to ask Cairo: What is this iron curtain that Abdel Nasser and his cohorts have lowered around Gaza and the refugees there? These are the very methods which the dictator Hitler used in the countries he occupied. Imagine, Arabs, how Nasser (who claims to be the pioneer of Arab nationalism) treats the Arab people of Gaza, who starve while the Egyptian governor and his officers bask in the wealth of the Strip…”

 

THE ONLY AREA in which the Egyptian army was active, aside from suppressing human rights, was in smuggling. There was a lively trade between its warehouses in Gaza – stuffed with television sets, French perfumes, Italian silks and US whiskey – and Cairo, with the cooperation of top officials in Egypt. Long convoys would arrive in Cairo biweekly loaded with contraband. When the Israeli forces captured Gaza in 1956 they found these warehouses. (Predictably the military governor and his cohorts had skipped with all the savings that Gazans had deposited in local banks.)

Egypt’s policy for the Strip was succinctly spelled out by the deputy governor, Muhammad Flafaga, in an interview appearing in the Danish newspaper Aktuelt on February 9, 1967:

Question: Why not send the refugees to other Arab countries? Syria would no doubt be able to absorb a vast number of them. Are you afraid that national bonds with Palestine will be loosened, that the hatred against Israel will vanish if they become ordinary citizens?Answer: As a matter of fact, you are right. Syria could take all of them, and the problem would be solved. But we do not want that. They are to return to Palestine.

UNRWA reported in 1956: “One of the obstacles to the achievement of the General Assembly’s goal of making the refugees self-supporting continues to be the opposition of the governments in the area.”

Ralph Galloway, an UNRWA official who quit in frustration, observed bitterly: “The Arab states don’t want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.”

 


 

Some comments by readers of the original article:

1. And these were the good years. No outsiders complained the Gazans were locked in a jail.
What awaits us Jews if Israel were forced to leave the entire W.Bank? The same “gratitude” that we received for leaving Gaza and creating 10,000 homeless Jews. No doubt, the world will scream that the W.Bank is a jail for 2.5 million Palestinians (assume the “settlers” are forced out, too), and Israel must do much more to give them a viable homeland, regardless of how they behave.
Roz – USA (06/04/2009 01:24)

6. Palestinian pawns
Since 1948, the Palestinians have been held captive first as you report in the story by Egypt and after the 1967 War, by the UN through their “good works”. It is also good to remember that all the Arab states hated Y. Arafat. He was their useful idiot in keeping the hatred for Jews and Israel at a fever pitch.
Colin Nelson – Canada (06/04/2009 17:28)
7. Refugees
What I find outrageous is that this information is not screamed from the rooftops, so that people understand the history of this conflict better! This conflict is based on myth, deception, distortion of the truth, and revised history. This is the only case in history that refugees have not been resettled elsewhere, but most people are unaware, atleast outside of Israel. And why is not Israel not calling to light that there were Jewish refugees from the West and Arab lands?
Michelle Paquette Adams – USA (06/04/2009 17:54)

 

Eliezar Whartman, using the pen name Eliezer Ben Yisrael, was the Westinghouse Radio correspondent in Israel in 1967; he was the first to report Israel’s capture of the Temple Mount. He is often cited as the author of the well-known “Letter to the World From Jerusalem” that was originally published in the August 1969 edition of the Times of Israel under the name of Stanley Goldfoot.

On the other hand this note is from Margi and it appeared November 29, 2007 in
http://www.theolive-branch.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=567&p=8567

On November 24, 2006 , at the age of 92, a man named Stanley Goldfoot passed away. He is remembered by family and friends for his love for and devotion to Israel and the Jewish people. Stanley Goldfoot was born in Johannesburg , South Africa . Subsequent to his hearing a speech about the Zionist vision by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, he headed for Palestine where, at the age of 18, he joined a HaShomer HaTzair kibbutz. After the rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel his main goal, which he eventually realized, was to establish a Zionist English newspaper, “The Times of Israel.”

In the first issue of “The Times of Israel”, Stanley Goldfoot wrote his famous controversial “Letter to the World from Jerusalem”, which caused quite a stir. The article is still relevant and, in his memory, I am sharing it with you.

Stanley Goldfoot could certainly be another of Whartman’s or Ben Yisrael’s pen names or, more likely, his actual name before he changed it after settling in Israel, but, according to Margi, Goldfoot died in 2006 and the article on his visit to Gaza that was published in June 2009 makes no reference to his death. If someone can enlighten us, please send your information to editor@think-israel.org

This is the Letter to the World published in the Times of Israel in 1969.

I am not a creature from another planet, as you seem to believe. I am a Jerusalemite-like yourselves, a man of flesh and blood. I am a citizen of my city, an integral part of my people.

I have a few things to get off my chest. Because I am not a diplomat, I do not have to mince words. I do not have to please you or even persuade you. I owe you nothing. You did not build this city, you did not live in it, you did not defend it when they came to destroy it. And we will be damned if we will let you take it away.

There was a Jerusalem before there was a New York. When Berlin, Moscow, London, and Paris were miasmal forest and swamp, there was a thriving Jewish community here. It gave something to the world which you nations have rejected ever since you established yourselves- a humane moral code.

Here the prophets walked, their words flashing like forked lightning. Here a people who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, fought off waves of heathen would-be conquerors, bled and died on the battlements, hurled themselves into the flames of their burning Temple rather than surrender, and when finally overwhelmed by sheer numbers and led away into captivity, swore that before they forgot Jerusalem, they would see their tongues cleave to their palates, their right arms wither.

For two pain-filled millennia, while we were your unwelcome guests, we prayed daily to return to this city. Three times a day we petitioned the Almighty: “Gather us from the four corners of the world, bring us upright to our land, return in mercy to Jerusalem, Thy city, and swell in it as Thou promised.” On every Yom Kippur and Passover, we fervently voiced the hope that next year would find us in Jerusalem.

Your inquisitions, pogroms, expulsions, the ghettos into which you jammed us, your forced baptisms, your quota systems, your genteel anti-Semitism, and the final unspeakable horror, the holocaust (and worse, your terrifying disinterest in it) – all these have not broken us. They may have sapped what little moral strength you still possessed, but they forged us into steel. Do you think that you can break us now after all we have been through? Do you really believe that after Dachau and Auschwitz we are frightened by your threats of blockades and sanctions? We have been to Hell and back- a Hell of your making. What more could you possibly have in your arsenal that could scare us?

I have watched this city bombarded twice by nations calling themselves civilized. In 1948, while you looked on apathetically, I saw women and children blown to smithereens, after we agreed to your request to internationalize the city. It was a deadly combination that did the job- British officers, Arab gunners, and American-made cannon. And then the savage sacking of the Old City-the willful slaughter, the wanton destruction of every synagogue and religious school, the desecration of Jewish cemeteries, the sale by a ghoulish government of tombstones for building materials, for poultry runs, army camps, even latrines.

And you never said a word.

You never breathed the slightest protest when the Jordanians shut off the holiest of our places, the Western Wall, in violation of the pledges they had made after the war – a war they waged, incidentally, against the decision of the UN. Not a murmur came from you whenever the legionnaires in their spiked helmets casually opened fire upon our citizens from behind the walls.

Your hearts bled when Berlin came under siege. You rushed your airlift “to save the gallant Berliners”. But you did not send one ounce of food when Jews starved in besieged Jerusalem. You thundered against the wall which the East Germans ran through the middle of the German capital – but not one peep out of you about that other wall, the one that tore through the heart of Jerusalem.

And when that same thing happened 20 years later, and the Arabs unleashed a savage, unprovoked bombardment of the Holy City again, did any of you do anything?

The only time you came to life was when the city was at last reunited. Then you wrung your hands and spoke loftily of “justice” and need for the “Christian” quality of turning the other cheek.

The truth – and you know it deep inside your gut – you would prefer the city to be destroyed rather than have it governed by Jews. No matter how diplomatically you phrase it, the age old prejudices seep out of every word.

If our return to the city has tied your theology in knots, perhaps you had better reexamine your catechisms. After what we have been through, we are not passively going to accommodate ourselves to the twisted idea that we are to suffer eternal homelessness until we accept your savior.

For the first time since the year 70, there is now complete religious freedom for all in Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans put a torch to the Temple, everyone has equal rights (You prefer to have some more equal than others.) We loathe the sword- but it was you who forced us to take it up. We crave peace, but we are not going back to the peace of 1948 as you would like us to.

We are home. It has a lovely sound for a nation you have willed to wander over the face of the globe. We are not leaving. We are redeeming the pledge made by our forefathers: Jerusalem is being rebuilt. “Next year” and the year after, and after, and after, until the end of time- “in Jerusalem”!

Stanley Goldfoot
Founder Editor
The Times of Israel
August 1969

This article was published June 3, 2009 in the Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244034989178&pagename= JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Recipes for chaos

Definition: “mixture of people and events that will lead to disorder, confusion and trouble.”

This more than adequately sums up the situations which confront us now and in the immediate future.

Whether it is the dysfunctional coalition and Knesset or looming events overseas the potential for mayhem is the highest it has been for a long time.

When the current Government was established a year ago after a series of excruciating elections resulted in deadlock, commentators wished it a long life but everyone knew that the prognosis was one of “Baruch Dayan Emet” rather than “Ad Meir V’Esrim.”

With a coalition of eight political parties spanning the electoral spectrum from the almost post-Zionist delusional left to the nationalist right and for the first time an Arab party, some of whose members are ambivalent of being part of a “Zionist” coalition, this experiment was always designed to implode at some stage.

The amazing and almost miraculous reality is that it has lasted as long as it has and managed to achieve some noteworthy goals, namely the passing of a budget as well as other social and security aims. In the overall scheme of things, given the unwieldy and impossible composition of the coalition, reaching one year in office could be considered a considerable achievement.

Unfortunately, this sort of instability, where because of a vanished majority, any Member of Knesset can hold the whole country to ransom and extort to their heart’s content. This results in chaos and trouble.

So it has come to pass.

Throw in an opposition led by an ex-PM who believes that he alone is worthy of leading the country and partners who are adamantly thirsting to get their hands on the money pot again and want to permanently fossilize Judaism back to the Shtetl and you have a recipe for disorder and confusion.

If it could be guaranteed that a new election would produce a strong, stable government and that the majority of Knesset members were dedicated to the best interests of the country and all its citizens instead of their own narrow and partisan ambitions, then one could agree that this was the best course of action. It is no wonder that among the general public the level of respect for our politicians is at an all-time low. We need a general clean out and an entirely new crop of representatives with fewer parties.

Meanwhile back in the USA which for far too many Jews is still “The promised land” every day it seems heralds yet another gun massacre. The unbelievable simple ability for anyone to acquire lethal weapons via mail order or gun stores and the rising tsunami of violence, looting and crimes against persons and property, plus the insane movement to defund police and push woke policies, leaves most Israelis absolutely dazed.

One would think that given this rising tide of social and gender chaos, reminiscent many believe, of the last days of the Roman Empire, that the President and his colleagues might deem it advisable to stay close to Washington and try to deal with these mounting challenges.

Incredible as it may seem, President Biden and his Democratic cheerleaders prefer instead to visit Israel and make more chaos in an area where mayhem already abundantly exists. Instead of acknowledging the futility of appeasing and cozying up to those who peddle hate, incitement and intolerance, the American Administration is hell-bent on forcing Israel to commit itself to a path that leads to further terror. Promoting Abbas and his failed PA, lauding Abdullah and his mirages of guardianship of religious freedom and pandering to the illusory historical claims of Arab and Muslim sovereignty in

Jerusalem merely creates roadblocks on the road to genuine peace in the region.

Like battered spouses, Biden and Blinken refuse to believe that the insults and threats hurled at them by the PA and allies on a continuing basis constitute anything other than harmless rhetoric. Instead of consequences, the State Department wants to foster the illusion that the Palestinian Arabs have a claim to half of our Capital by establishing a consulate just for them on Israel sovereign territory.

Threats by Abbas to sever all cooperation with Israel and declarations by a senior Fatah official that “we must make the Americans quake in fear” incur neither condemnation nor punishment.

The UN Human Rights Council, which Biden rejoined, continues to target and blame Israel while excusing and sanitizing those who murder its citizens. As the US waffles and wobbles, Iran marches resolutely and without hindrance towards its aim of achieving nuclear capability and fulfilling its goal of ending the “Zionist virus.”

Despite all these clear intentions, President Biden still intends to visit and exert pressure so that the discredited and plainly lunatic agenda to create yet another failed terror-supporting country can be planted in the midst of our historic homeland.

The message from Jerusalem should be loud and clear: “don’t go, Joe. Stay home and deal with all the threats to the lives of your own citizens.”

The President of the EU Parliament meanwhile declared “Europe will always back Israel’s right to exist.” How reassuring, how patronizing and how demeaning these words sound as European countries do everything to ensure that their actions will result in an emasculated Jewish State unable to defend itself and with half its Capital torn asunder.

In a perfect example of how those who constitute the immoral majority at the UN and elsewhere are able to exert their power, the Chinese Ambassador to Israel vociferously objected to an interview with the Taiwanese Foreign Minister which was published in a recent issue of the Jerusalem Post. He of course is perfectly entitled to complain about views that he considers erroneous but demanding that the offending item be immediately struck from the paper and banned from being published anywhere is bizarre. Telling publishers what they can print and force-feeding only officially sanctioned news onto the general public may be standard fare in countries like China but it is an entirely alien concept in a democratic country. The fact that this prize piece of chutzpah did not raise more of a diplomatic or media storm merely illustrates the deplorable depths to which international morality has now sunk.

Most political disasters are a result of peddling half baked recipes.

It’s about time that the perpetrators are sent a clear message.