Weet u een beetje hoe de natte droom van Geert Wilders eruit ziet. Jonathan Cook bericht vanuit Nazareth:

Arab Pupils Expected to Learn Zionist Song

A leading Arab educator in Israel has denounced the decision of Gideon Saar, the education minister, to require schools to study the Israeli national anthem.
 
Officials announced last week that they were sending out special “national anthem kits” to 8,000 schools, including those in the separate Arab education system, in time for the start of the new academic year in September.
 
The kits have been designed to be suitable for all age groups and for use across the curriculum, from civics and history classes to music and literature lessons.
 
The anthem, known as Ha-Tikva, or The Hope, has long been unpopular with Israel’s Arab minority because its lyrics refer only to a Jewish historical connection to the land.
 
Mr Saar’s initiative is widely seen among Israel’s 1.3 million Arab citizens as a further indication of the rising nationalistic tide sweeping policymakers.
 
Last week the ministry also announced that textbooks recently issued to Arab schoolchildren would have expunged the word “nakba”, or catastrophe, to describe the Palestinians’ dispossession at Israel’s founding in 1948. lees verder…

Israeli soldiers enter a Palestinian house after they destroyed it, during a military operation in the Balata Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of Nablus February 19, 2006.

28.07.09 Nablus/PNN - Several homes have been bombed by the occupation in a dawn raid on Balata refugee camp.

Witnesses reported an incursion by dozens of military vehicles in the early hours of this morning. Bombs were set in the doorways of homes near the camp’s clinic, blowing out doors and destroying the facades of neighbouring houses.

There were no reported injuries or arrests.

Balata refugee camp is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with close to 30,000 people living in an area of less than two square kilometres. It was invaded several times during the intifadas, when occupation forces employed the technique of “walking through walls” – blowing holes in walls to pass from one home to another.

The reason for this morning’s invasion is currently unclear.