“Palestine” no longer exists in the same way that Biafra no longer exists, yet “Palestinian” Arab children are taught through formal and informal education to see a world in which “Palestine” replaces all of Israel, and Israel, for the uninformed, is a legitimate and sovereign nation.  Via Palestinian Media Watch-IMRA:

Palestinian children are taught through formal and informal education to see a world in which “Palestine” replaces all of Israel.

Two children’s quizzes broadcast last week on Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority television show how the PA routinely teaches its children to identify all Israeli cities as Palestinian cities.

In the two quizzes on PA TV, children were asked to identify Palestinian  cities. The suggested answers were exclusively Israeli cities: Haifa, Jaffa, Acre and Tiberias.

The following are the transcripts of the PA TV quizzes:

Quiz 1: Haifa, Jaffa and Acre are “Palestine”
Host reads clue: “Where is Palestine’s most important port, in Haifa, Jaffa or Acre?”
Child: “Jaffa.”
Host: “Is it correct?”
[Checks computer.]
Host: “Bravo!”
[PA TV (Fatah), Aug. 26, 2009]
To view this PA TV quiz, click here
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=408&fld_id=408&doc_id=1288

Quiz 2: Jaffa, Acre and Tiberias are “Palestine”
Host reads clue: “There’s a Palestinian city whose walls are very high and strong, and Napoleon, whom we all know, stopped his battle, because he was unable [to breach] the solid walls. Which city is it, Jaffa, Acre or Tiberias?”
Child: “Acre.”
Host: “Applause, bravo!”
[PA TV (Fatah), Aug. 30, 2009]
To view this PA TV quiz, click here
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=408&fld_id=408&doc_id=1289

The following are examples from PA schoolbooks, which also teach Palestinian children to imagine a world without Israel:

“Coastal states differ in terms of their access to water sources, such
as…: states located on sea coasts with accesses to two seas, for example:
Palestine and Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.”
[Physical Geography and Human Geography, Grade 12, p. 105]
“Palestine has a long coast facing the Mediterranean Sea and a short coast on the Gulf of Aqaba.”

[Health and Environment Studies, Grade 8 (2003), p. 130, the Israeli city of Eilat is on the Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba) - Ed.]

“The Tiberias Lake [Sea of Galilee], in Palestine.”
[Physical Geography, Grade 5, p. 25]

For the full report on Palestinian schoolbooks click here
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=122

Leave a Reply