MARIÂNGELA BERQUÓ enfoca a Geopolítica: Reality check on Israeli Miseducation system

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Earlier on Thursday, Israeli warplanes targeted several Hamas positions in the northern part of the strip "in response" to the alleged launch of incendiary balloons from the besieged enclave, the Israeli army said.

Then Hamas, the party that rules the Palestinian besieged enclave for the last 13 years, responded with rocket fire to an Israeli strike of a Hamas post during which two Hamas members were killed.

Since Friday, Israel has escalated and has been bombing Hamas' and civil targets.

As a result, a pregnant Palestinian mother and her one-year-old baby have been killed in a wave of Israeli air raids.
The bombardment on Saturday came after Hamas, which rules Gaza, and the Islamic Jihad movement fired more than 200 rockets towards cities and villages in southern Israel, in retaliation.

At least three Palestinians, including the mother, infant and a 22-year-old male, Emad Naseer, were killed in the air raids, the health ministry in Gaza said, while 13 others were wounded.

After his statement, one-year(old Seba was killed along with her aunt in another IDF strike.
Shrapnel from the Gaza rockets meanwhile wounded two Israelis; one of them was an 80-year-old woman.

The Green Line is the demarcation line set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between the armies of Israel and those of its neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria after the Nakba in 1948.

Yet, surveys conducted in 2015 and 2018 by New Wave Research for the newspaper Yisrael Hayom indicate that every second student and teacher do not know what the Green Line is. One of the teachers wrote that it was “not a real border,” but rather “a border according to which people decided the Land of Israel should be divided.” Other answers to the survey question included “an imaginary leftist line,” “a border between Israeli Arabs and Israel,” “the line demarcating the 1969 borders,” “a border crossing between Israel and Palestine,” “linked to the State of Israel’s borders or something like that” and even “a hotline to report environmental issues.”
Daniel Bar-Tal, an expert on school curricula and decidedly on the left, notes that governments use textbooks to methodically convey broad national narratives. “Textbooks express the ideology and ethos of a society,” explained Bar-Tal. “They instill values, goals and myths that society seeks to broadcast to new generations.”
The ideology expressed in negating the Green Line ties into the de-legitimization of the political camp that supports dividing the land between Israelis and Palestinians along the 1967 lines. If Rabbi Rafi Peretz is appointed Israel’s next minister of education, as appears probable, the chair of HaBayit HaYehudi and of the United Right in the Knesset, will use state schools to instill the Zionist vision of a Greater Land of Israel in the minds of young Israelis.
Even when the Labor Party was in power, its leaders treated the Green Line as if they were walking a tightrope over an abyss. In 1972, Education Minister Yigal Alon, a member of Ahdut HaAvoda, a Labor precursor, ordered the Green Line removed from textbooks. In 2007, Education Minister Yuli Tamir of Labor declared, under pressure from the left, that she had ordered the Green Line reinstated in textbooks. Gideon Saar of the Likud, Tamir’s successor, combed schoolbooks looking for the Green Line but could not find it.
Israel population in general is ignorant about the essence of democracy. They don’t understand why it’s wrong to shoot a bound Arab boy and think that voting once every few years for someone suspected of criminal wrongdoing is fine.
How is a teacher, let alone a student, supposed to deal with the inherent contradictions created by the 2018 Nationality Law codifying the Jewish nature of the State of Israel, Netanyahu’s declaration that “Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people, and them alone,” and the State Comptroller’s demand that schools clearly state that “Israel is a democratic state belonging to all its citizens”?
In a 2016 report, the comptroller wrote, “The State of Israel is doing very little to purge the severe phenomena of racism and hatred among youth and to promote a shared society.” The government watchdog also asserted, “Education for a shared society and prevention of racism has been only partially and inadequately integrated in the education system; teachers for this important area have not been trained.”
Although the Ministry of Education officially allows teachers to express their political views, they avoid doing so. The only ones doing so are the Zionists who talk about the ‘Greater Land of Israel’ because they know the minister of education will back them. Bottomline, Israel school system is full of frustrated reserve service generals and cowards.
However, the day after the elections, dozens of senior educators from around the country began organizing in a bid to free school principals of the fear of deviating from the official straight and narrow.
Better late than never. It's time has come for principals and teachers to wake up and understand that they bear responsibility for the fate of future generations.

The miseducation of Israel

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Israeli occupation forces have just shot and killed another volunteer paramedic during a refugee camp raid, after which the army distributed a misleading propaganda video.

According to the investigation by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, Sajed Mizher – aged just 17 – was shot in the abdomen while rushing to the aid of a wounded resident.

On 27 March, at around 2.30am, soldiers raided Dheisheh refugee camp located south of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank. Soldiers arrested a resident, then withdrew.

A few hours later, dozens of Israeli soldiers raided the camp again, and were confronted by local residents who threw stones at the occupation forces.

“During this raid,” B’Tselem noted, “three residents were injured by live fire – one in the shoulder, another in the hand, and a third in the leg. A team of paramedics and volunteers from the camp affiliated with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) was present during both raids.

Israel has killed 267 Palestinians in Gaza during the Great March of Return protests and wounded more than 30,000 others.

According to a statement by Gaza’s Ministry of Health yesterday, the deaths include 50 children, six women and one elderly person. This morning another Palestinian was killed, bringing the number of deaths to 267, Quds Press reported.

In addition, the ministry said that the deaths included two journalists and three paramedics. Meanwhile, the ministry said that 30,398 others were wounded, including 3,175 children and 1,008 women.

And in the West Bank, the hunting season never ends. Israeli soldiers and settlers keep shooting to handicap or kill Palestinians, mostly youngsters.

Nobody can explain why Palestinian deaths at the hands of illegal Israeli settlers and IDF soldiers is not news.

If a Palestinian dares to attack an Israeli, despite the fact that Palestinians, like all occupied people, have an international right to resist the occupation in whatever way possible, it is screamed across the world as an act of unprovoked terrorism. A quick online search sees reports of Palestinian deaths at the hands of Israelis reported by Aljazeera, the Guardian, the Middle East Monitor and the Electronic Intifada, but next to nothing from other international mainstream medias. Yet the vast majority of the mainstream media is quick to point out any act of aggression by Palestinians.

Occasionally, some crime by an Israeli is so shocking that it does get some minor coverage. In 2015, a 21-year-old Jewish settler, Amiram Ben-Uliel and an unnamed teenage accomplice, murdered three members of the Dawabsheh family, burning alive Ali, the 18-month old son and killing both parents. His 5-year-old brother, Ahmed, spent a year in the hospital as a result of his burns. As of this writing, the perpetrators are not incarcerated and have not been sentenced. The known perpetrators of this horrific crime are free to remain living in their comfortable homes. Palestinians accused of crimes against Israelis immediately have their homes bulldozed, long before any trial is held.

In August of that same year, what was left of the Dawabsheh house was stormed by IDF soldiers under pretext of investigating the crime. Whatever ‘clues’ were found is unknown, but the soldiers were able to steal some of the family’s possessions.

The atrocities against the Dawabsheh family didn’t end there. When compensation from the government was sought for Ahmed, it was refused. “On 3 May 2017 Israel refused to pay compensation to Ahmed and the Dawabsheh family. Yousef Jabareen MK had demanded that Israel’s Defence Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, recognise the Dawabsheh family as victims of a terrorist act and therefore entitled to compensation. In a statement, Jabareen stressed that, ‘If we were talking about Jewish settlers hurt by Palestinians, the victims would automatically receive compensation.’ Lieberman responded with an official letter to Jabareen stating that compensation would not be paid.”

The indignities continued. During the trial of the perpetrators, Hussein Dawabsheh, Ali and Ahmed’s grandfather, who attended the trial, was subjected to unspeakable cruelty by some spectators. Some youths were heard shouting: “Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill,” referring to the burning death of the 18-month-old baby. They also referred to Ahmed, the surviving son: “It’s too bad Ahmed didn’t burn as well.”

In May of 2018, illegal settlers threw a Molotov cocktail into the home of one of Hussein Dawabsheh’s relatives. The resulting fire was extinguished before the house was destroyed.

In March of 2016, Palestinian Abdul Fatah al-Sharif was lying wounded and motionless on the ground when a 19-year-old Israeli soldier/terrorist walked up to him and shot him in the head. This crime was caught on camera. The terrorist, Elor Azaria, became a national hero in Israel, and was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, a sentence that was reduced to fourteen, but he was released after only nine. Some Palestinian children are sentenced to four years in prison for throwing stones at Israeli tanks.

These are just two examples; thousands of Palestinians have been killed by illegal settlers and IDF soldiers. And the killing continues.

Somehow, those news outlets gave these stories short shrift, if they reported them at all. But unlike other world events, they quickly faded from view, displaced by sports news, celebrity gossip or the political antics of U.S. officials. There was little or no follow-up; the bare information was, perhaps, given some notice, but the trials, the cruel taunting, the fact that these were terrorist actions and extra-judicial executions, and therefore crimes against humanity, were never pursued by the media. Note, however, how other stories keep repeating, in one form or another, but atrocities against Palestinians, crimes against humanity committed by Israel, are a mere blip on the news page.

It is now reported that Israel’s Prime Minister, the cruel, racist Binyamin Netanyahu, wants to name a village in the stolen Golan Heights after his U.S. patron, President Donald Trump. The erratic Trump will consider this, the most dishonorable ‘reward’ from one of the most dishonorable leaders in the world today, to be no less than he deserves for all his ‘service’ to the Zionist entity. It will encourage him to do more for Israel, including the so-called ‘Deal of the Century’, which, from the little that has been leaked about it, gives Israel everything it wants and Palestine absolutely nothing.

If Trump can be kept from turning over all of Palestine to Israel for the next two years, it’s possible that some substantive change in U.S. policy will occur. I don't think that any of the potential Democratic presidents will demonstrate statesmanship to such a degree as to adhere to international law, and demand that all its allies support human rights either. But the winds of change are blowing; it’s just unfortunate that, as they do, nothing changes for the suffering Palestinians.

Israeli soldiers too shoot to handicap or/and kill Palestinians in the West Bank almost everyday. No news about those crimes either. Shame on them all! Israeli criminals and the mainstream media.

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