Thursday, September 3, 2009
This, by Dershowitz, is quite good start to finish. With UN complicity, Hamas is doing its level best to build another backward totalitarian state:
The so-called "spiritual" leader of Hamas has ordered that Palestinian children are not to be taught about the Holocaust.
Younis al-Astal - who is about as spiritual as Al Capone - has declared that the United Nations' proposal to include Holocaust education in a course on human rights would constitute a "war crime."
It would be "marketing a lie and spreading it," he said. Instead, he would have Palestinian children learn only about the so-called crimes of the Israeli occupation and the self-inflicted wound that Palestinians call the "nakba."
I am not so sure I would trust the United Nations, and especially its Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to teach anything relating to Jews, Israel or the Holocaust. That agency has been part of the problem, not the solution, by perpetuating the refugee status of Palestinians who could have been integrated into the Palestinian mainstream over the past sixty years."...
Israel was also created with UN complicity. And it's rapidly becoming a police state. And in Israel Nakba education is also a crime.
As for the Nakba being "self-inflicted," what thinking person would buy this argument? That's like saying that German Jews were responsible for the Holocaust.
You're right. It is good. I have to shake my head at how right he normally is on issues related to Israel and how wrong he is (obviously imo) on U.S. matters which impinge on Israel.
Teaching about the "Nakba" isn't a crime in Israel.
The "Nakba" was self inflicted because the Arabs launched the war, the Jews of Europe were innocents, nor is there anything analogous between the two events in any case.
Doodle, take your hand out of your pocket. Leave your nakba alone.
"UN complicity." Can't have it both ways, boychick. Worshipping at the altar of the UN occasionally has its drawbacks.
@ David -
I agree that not allowing the teaching of the Nakba in Israeli sponsored schools is akin to not allowing the teaching of the Holocaust.
But this brings us to the question of how the Nakba is portrayed.
Your own comments betray the way the Arabs teach the Nakba, portraying the Palestinians as hapless victims faced with the forces of a major power. akin to the Jews during the Holocaust.
In 1947-49 the Palestinians Instigated a war of annihilation against the then only 600,000 strong nascent Israeli state, backed by 5 Arab armies. They were no innocent victims, they lost it was a catastrophe(Nakba) for them, they had a pretty good chance of winning and then it would have been another Jewish catastrophe.
They could have accepted the partition plan and had their Palestinian state, but they rejected it and turned the conflict into a zero sum game, demanding all or nothing, well so far this strategy has gained them nothing.
Nothing accept your support, because in your ignorance, seeing that they have nothing, you accept their claims of victimhud and ignore the rejectionist attitude that got them there.
I'm not saying that Israel is blameless, just that the Palestinians are active participants in bringing about and maintaining their predicament.