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Post by Sayf Udeen Ismaeel on Aug 10, 2009 4:30:33 GMT 10
1948 no catastrophe says Israel, as term nakba banned from Arab children's textbooks Israel's education ministry has ordered the removal of the word nakba – Arabic for the "catastrophe" of the 1948 war – from a school textbook for young Arab children, it has been announced. The decision – which will alter books aimed at eight- and nine-year-old Arab pupils – will be seen as a blunt assertion by Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud-led government of Israel's historical narrative over the Palestinian one. The term nakba has a similar resonance for Palestinians as the Hebrew word shoah – normally used to describe the Nazi Holocaust – does for Israelis and Jews. Its inclusion in a book for the children of Arabs, who make up about a fifth of the Israeli population, drives at the heart of a polarised debate over what Israelis call their "war of independence": the 1948 conflict which secured the Jewish state after the British left Palestine, and led to the flight of 700,000 Palestinians, most of whom became refugees. (Read on...)"Revisionist Israeli historians" isn't exactly what I'd call them. Changing history is never okay, especially when it's for the sole purposing of giving atrocities against the person the smell of roses. Guh.
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Post by Tovarisch on Aug 10, 2009 6:42:24 GMT 10
This reminds me of the totaltarain "Government" in the novel 1984. They had the view if you could control the past, you could control the future. To an extent Communist Russia also did this. Changing one word is not such a big deal, but where does it stop?
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Post by Sayf Udeen Ismaeel on Aug 10, 2009 8:12:32 GMT 10
This reminds me of the totaltarain "Government" in the novel 1984. They had the view if you could control the past, you could control the future. To an extent Communist Russia also did this. Changing one word is not such a big deal, but where does it stop? Changing this world is a huge deal... Do you not see the weight it carries?
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Post by playingpretend on Aug 10, 2009 19:07:29 GMT 10
Hasn't a similar thing happened in Japan and Germany, where the history books were changed to make each country look better? If only I could remember where I read about it =/
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Post by Sayf Udeen Ismaeel on Aug 10, 2009 19:12:09 GMT 10
Hasn't a similar thing happened in Japan and Germany, where the history books were changed to make each country look better? If only I could remember where I read about it =/ Yep. And it's just as wrong in those instances...Not that we can change anything...
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Post by playingpretend on Aug 10, 2009 19:19:09 GMT 10
"History is written by the winners."
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Post by Sayf Udeen Ismaeel on Aug 10, 2009 20:15:53 GMT 10
"History is written by the winners." Which is unfortunate.
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Post by Tovarisch on Aug 10, 2009 21:22:31 GMT 10
Thats life though, thats evolution. We cant move forward if we look on victories as defeats.
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Post by Sayf Udeen Ismaeel on Aug 11, 2009 12:37:20 GMT 10
Thats life though, thats evolution. We cant move forward if we look on victories as defeats. But when truth is being covered, they are defeats until we do something about it.
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Post by playingpretend on Aug 11, 2009 18:33:42 GMT 10
Thats life though, thats evolution. We cant move forward if we look on victories as defeats. I think the point is 'victory' and 'defeat' depend what side of the fence you're sitting on.
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Post by Tovarisch on Aug 11, 2009 18:46:46 GMT 10
I always assumed the side that got decimated was the defeated side
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Post by Sayf Udeen Ismaeel on Aug 11, 2009 22:08:52 GMT 10
I always assumed the side that got decimated was the defeated side The Palestinians have NOT been decimated.
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Post by Tovarisch on Aug 11, 2009 22:28:25 GMT 10
I always assumed the side that got decimated was the defeated side The Palestinians have NOT been decimated. I was more making a generalisation.
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Post by Sayf Udeen Ismaeel on Aug 12, 2009 8:01:20 GMT 10
I apologise for the misunderstanding.
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Post by Tovarisch on Aug 14, 2009 16:56:38 GMT 10
I apologise for the misunderstanding. *Ruffles hair* Its fine.
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