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Education Ministry approves text referring to 1948 as 'Nakba'
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service

Education Minister Yuli Tamir announced Sunday that the ministry has approved a school text describing the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 as 'Nakba', or catastrophe, for use in Israeli Arab schools.

"The Arab public deserves to be allowed to express its feelings," Tamir told Israel Radio.

In an unprecedented move, the ministry approved a text for third grade children that refers to the events of 1948 as catastrophic, saying Arab citizens were expelled from their homes and became refugees after their lands were confiscated by Israel.
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The book also emphasizes that Arabs rejected the United Nations partition plan, calling for the division of the territory between Arabs and Jews, which it says the Jews were prepared to accept.

Tamir informed the Knesset of the Education Ministry's decision on Sunday. Arab factions welcomed the initiative and called for the publication of the same version in Jewish school texts.

"The majority must not be allowed to exist inside its own narrative bubble and deny the existence of other views," said MK Ahmed Tibi of Ra'am Ta'al. MK Hana Sawid of Hadash hailed the move as a positive step towards boosting the Arab community's faith in the education system. He called on Tamir to include classical Arabic poetry in the Jewish school curriculum.

In an interview with Army Radio, Yisrael Beitenu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman slammed the move, calling it an example of the Israeli left wing's "political masochism." Knesset State Control Committee Chairman Zevulun Orlev demanded that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert fire Tamir immediately
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  1.   Now Israelis will describe end of the WW2 as the "German Naqba" 13:58  |  Absolute Sweden 22/07/07
  2.   Very strange 14:17  |  Boozaglow 22/07/07
  3.   The jewish Nakba 14:19  |  Aharon Rosenbaum 22/07/07
  4.   Joint Curriculum Needed 14:28  |  British Leftie 22/07/07
  5.   it`s just like thanksgiving 14:40  |  Yasir 22/07/07
  6.   Teaching kids the truth 14:51  |  whodey 22/07/07
  7.   Yuli tamir must be thrown out 14:58  |  Evan 22/07/07
  8.   Don`t know much about his/her stories 15:04  |  Joel Weltman 22/07/07
  9.   Don`t know much about his/her stories 15:04  |  Joel Weltman 22/07/07
  10.   Doesnt anyone read HISTORY? 15:06  |  Vince 22/07/07
  11.   Nakba 15:06  |  Jacques 22/07/07
  12.   Insanity 15:09  |  Avi 22/07/07
  13.   Education Ministry is a dis educator 15:19  |  Daniel 22/07/07
  14.   #6 Thanks Whodey 15:22  |  British Leftie 22/07/07
  15.   Absurd 15:26  |  ARTH 22/07/07
  16.   Another Olmert government special 15:31  |  Ausssie Michael 22/07/07
  17.   Israel: bend ...B e n d .... BE N D ... B E N D....B E N D 15:38  |  Dr. Dave 22/07/07
  18.   Yuli Tamir shows her incompetence 15:40  |  rich 22/07/07
  19.   truth 15:53  |  David 22/07/07
  20.   Send Home the Ministry the is rotten 16:03  |  Daniel 22/07/07
  21.   Our biggest failure: the lack of a unified curriculum 16:04  |  Israeli 22/07/07
  22.   cleanse the so called holocaust 16:04  |  Amin Nusseibeh 22/07/07
  23.   Revolutionary! A New Beginning! 16:06  |  Yosemite 22/07/07
  24.   An extremely hopeful and significant step 16:13  |  Tzfonit 22/07/07
  25.   Praise for Yuli Tamir 16:16  |  Ben Alofs 22/07/07
  26.   And why is the minority allowed to live in its bubble 16:24  |  McQueen 22/07/07
  27.   Tamir 16:26  |  j10 22/07/07
  28.   #20 Shameful use of the term Holocaust by the Jews 16:28  |  Joel Weltman 22/07/07
  29.   Misleading at best 16:38  |  Natallie Durson 22/07/07
  30.   #22 Amin: is that some kind of sick joke? 16:44  |  Richard S 22/07/07
  31.   3 cheers for Yuli Tamir 16:44  |  Josh Goldman 22/07/07
  32.   There`s nothing wrong with mentioning Nabqa in context 16:46  |  Richard S 22/07/07
  33.   New levels of dumb 16:48  |  suicide 22/07/07
  34.   Good move, now continue the good history 16:56  |  Mark Lincoln 22/07/07
  35.   A Gift From The West To Israel 16:57  |  Tony Anthony 22/07/07
  36.   Totally Nuts 17:04  |  Ron 22/07/07
  37.   To Aharon Rosenbaum # 3. Authentic. 17:06  |  Dagma 22/07/07
  38.   instigating Israeli Arabs 17:09  |  Irv 22/07/07
  39.   #24 -- Summed it up Perfectly 17:20  |  Idan 22/07/07
  40.   Fear of this initiative is cowardly 17:29  |  Brian Freund 22/07/07
  41.   Natallie 18:04  |  James 22/07/07
  42.   AND THE PA JUST CHANGED THEIR TEXTBOOKS TO YOM HATZMAUT! 18:08  |  don 22/07/07
  43.   Bravo Tzofnit 18:08  |  Tom C 22/07/07
  44.   and the Haredim? 18:21  |  Shelley 22/07/07
  45.   E ducation minister has no problem with stupidity 18:21  |  Sal 22/07/07
  46.   Tamir`s acceptance of Al Naqba 18:27  |  Ohan Balian 22/07/07
  47.   Arab Education in Jewish Schools.....? 18:29  |  Natasha 22/07/07
  48.   i am proud to be israeli 18:38  |  Shuki 22/07/07
  49.   some suggestions for yuli 18:41  |  sandu 22/07/07
  50.   OUTRAGEOUS!!!! 18:42  |  Ben Uziel 22/07/07
  51.   The Symbol of Jewish governing Today...pathetic!!!! 18:45  |  josh 22/07/07
  52.   nakba is Olmert 18:56  |  Ariye 22/07/07
  53.   Naqba 18:56  |  Avi Yerushalmi 22/07/07
  54.   KADIMA is the NAQBA 19:14  |  Joan 22/07/07
  55.   To A British Leftie - A Joint Curriculum 20:19  |  Missknowall 22/07/07
  56.   To Ben Uziel #50 20:33  |  Otto Rand 22/07/07
  57.   Yuli Tamir 22:14  |  M 22/07/07
  58.   Thank You Shuki! 00:31  |  Idan 23/07/07
  59.   nakbah 22:17  |  Ak 22/09/09
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