A Recipe For Peace and Understanding?…writes Michael Kuttner
The Israel Resource News Agency in Jerusalem recently commissioned a documentary on the subject of education in UNRWA schools. In an explosive exposure of what is really happening behind the scene in these places of learning, the full extent of hate education being carried out in these schools is revealed.
Michael Kuttner
The subject of delegitimisation and denigration combined with the continuing campaign to promote the return of millions of Arabs to towns and villages in Israel which in many cases no longer exist is one which media and politicians alike steadfastly refuse to take seriously. They would prefer to wallow in the illusory dream world of an Islamic and Arab world dying to make peace with Israel and live in tolerance and harmony with those who do not acknowledge Islam as the one and only true Faith.
All this is bad enough but when your money is being used to aid and support an organisation which is complicit in furthering the aims of those whose sole desire is to eliminate the Jewish presence in Israel, then it is time to wake up and make waves. Some important questions need answering: How many people know what it is exactly their money is being used for? What sort of accountability is in place to ensure that the aid given to UNRWA is used for purposes of a humanitarian nature rather than incitement to hatred? Why is UNRWA still being funded when it is perpetuating the refugee problem rather than solving it? Is it not time for these political pawns against Israel to be resettled either in their host countries or in other countries willing to absorb them? Why have their numbers multiplied from 500,000 to over 5 million? Most importantly of all, why does an agency of the UN which has outlived its usefulness, not transfer the problem to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the one and only organisation designated to deal with refugees worldwide? In other words, is it not time to treat the Arab refugees in the same way as every other person in the same situation?
This documentary lays bare in stark reality the poisonous agenda against Israel and Jews being incubated in UNRWA schools. This is without doubt the most troubling and dangerous aspect of a subject which has been ignored over many years. Finally and at long last we have first hand confirmation from the educators and administrators of the education system concerned, that in fact hate education is alive and well and being promoted as part of an official syllabus. If any more proof is needed, just listen to the words of the young and not so young pupils whose minds have been corrupted by this ongoing campaign of contempt. As you listen to their outpouring of hate, ask yourself how on earth the seeds of peace and brotherly/sisterly love can flourish in such barren minds, devoid of any vestige of truth or fact. Here is the next generation being prepared for a future which at best is illusory and at worst lays the ground for terror, murder and mayhem.
Will this latest video convince these individuals that something is rotten? Most probably not, as previous attempts to shine the light of reality failed to shatter the delusions of those who do not want to see and hear. Therefore it is up to the wider community to do something. Look at this video and if you feel outraged, circulate it to all your friends and colleagues. Send it to MP’s and Senators as well as friends in the media. It is only by retrieving this subject from under the carpet that we can we hope to tackle the insidious spread of hate against Jews and the Jewish State.
Michael Kuttner is a Jewish New Zealander who for many years was actively involved with various communal organisations connected to Judaism and Israel. He now lives in Israel and works for The Israel Resource News Agency in Jerusalem.
The only way we will prevail over the relentless Arab propaganda machine is for Jews to relearn their own history and ensure that their children do so also.
In biblical times, all of what is now Israel and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) was Jewish. When the Romans conquered the territory they named the entire area “Philistina” in order to rub salt into the wounds of the defeated Jews, by calling the place in honour of their ancient and mortal enemies the Philistines. By doing so, the Romans acknowledged that the owners of the territory were Jews. Down the centuries the name Philistina was anglicised to Palestine.
At the beginning of the 20th century, if one were referred to as a Palestinian, it was automatically implied that he or she was Jewish. Decades later, Arabs cleverly commandeered the term “Palestinian” .
The facts are that Palestine was a land mass administered finally by the British until the 1947 Partition Plan when only a part was allocated back to its centuries old rightful owners, the Jewish people.
People like Ben Eleijah have bought the attempted Arab re-writing of history because they never knew their own history in the first place.
If there was such a country of Palestine as he so believes, then who were its rulers over the centuries? Was it a Monarchy or a Republic or whatever?
What currency did they use?
Why do we need enemies when we have our own.?
The Arab Higher Committee hoped exaggerated reports about a “massacre” at Deir Yassin would shock the population of the Arab countries into bringing pressure on their governments to intervene in Palestine. Instead, the immediate impact was to stimulate a new Palestinian exodus.
Just four days after the reports from Deir Yassin were published, an Arab force ambushed a Jewish convoy on the way to Hadassah Hospital, killing 77 Jews, including doctors, nurses, patients, and the director of the hospital. Another 23 people were injured. This massacre attracted little attention and is never mentioned by those who are quick to bring up Deir Yassin. Moreover, despite attacks such as this against the Jewish community in Palestine, in which more than 500 Jews were killed in the first four months after the partition decision alone, Jews did not flee.
The Palestinians knew, despite their rhetoric to the contrary, the Jews were not trying to annihilate them; otherwise, they would not have been allowed to evacuate Tiberias, Haifa or any of the other towns captured by the Jews. Moreover, the Palestinians could find sanctuary in nearby states. The Jews, however, had no place to run had they wanted to. They were willing to fight to the death for their country. It came to that for many, because the Arabs were interested in annihilating the Jews, as Secretary-General of the Arab League Azzam Pasha made clear in an interview with the Egyptian paper Akhbar al-Yom before the war (October 11, 1947): “It will be a war of annihilation. It will be a momentous massacre in history that will be talked about like the massacres of the Mongols or the Crusades.”
References to Deir Yassin have remained a staple of anti-Israel propaganda for decades because the incident was unique.
Another for you Ben, but then I should know by now it is pointless.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12304#.UUEir1eGeRM
The writer says it himself. The Palestinians towns and villages no longer exist. The Zionists expelled them with massacres and terror (Deir Yesin was done before the unilateral declaration of the state). And now claim delegitimisation wgile their own media, schools and society chants mevat arvivim.