Israel's Own 1984 Thingy

 Anyone who changes their textbooks, leaving out that which makes them look bad, bear watching

 Israel cuts Palestinian tragedy from textbooks

www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/2009/07/22/D99JFJKO0_ml_israel_...

The Israeli government will remove references to what the Palestinians call the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the country's education minister said Wednesday. The reference to "al-naqba" or catastrophe, what the Palestinian's call their defeat and exile in the war over Israel's 1948 creation, was controversially inserted by a dovish education minister for the first time in 2007. The phrase remains contentious six decades after Israel was founded. "No other country in the world, in its official curriculum, would treat the fact of its founding as a catastrophe," Education Minister Gideon Saar told Israel's parliament on Wednesday. Israeli Arab lawmaker Hana Sweid accused the government of "naqba denial." "It's a major attack on the identity of the Palestinian Arab citizens of the state of Israel, on their memories and their adherence to their identity," he told the Associated Press.

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