Op-ED: Israel, the Apartheid State of 21st Century

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*By: Joanna Zaliki

The so-called democratic government of Israel has two systems of education and two different curricula in its present day Apartheid system of Education.

One set of schools is for the Israeli Jewish children and the other for the Israeli Arabs. The Israeli Arab population is actually the Indigenous population of Israel, but they are treated as outsiders and they are taught that they came from another region and should not even be on this land.

The funding for the so called Arab Schools is at least 50% LESS than that for the Jewish Schools, but that is not all!

The Curriculum and Identity Report, (May 2011) researched by a group of academics and published by the Arab Cultural Association, examined the contents of textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education as well as the Curricula for various Subjects in Arab schools, and found an unbelievable number of mistakes, distortions, and lies with regard to the Arabic language and the history of the area.

Israel is violating a number of Human Rights with regard to the Arab children living in Israel:

These violations are under two categories. In the first case Israel is contravening rights according to The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 33, because the Arabs are the indigenous population of Israel. In the second case Israel is contravening rights according to The Declaration of the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, Article 27, because the Arabs are a minority in Israel, making up 20% of the total Israeli population.

In the Israeli Apartheid System of Education, Arab Palestinian children, who are citizens of the State of Israel are being denied their right to learn their mother tongue correctly, to know and identify with their Arab culture, history and heritage.

Palestinian women and children protesting Israel’s Apartheid

The first violation concerns the children’s right to learn their mother tongue the Arabic language. Thirty-one textbooks for use in Grades three to eight, which were all approved by the Ministry of Education for use in Arab schools, were found to contain more than 16000 mistakes. This means that Arab children are taught their language inadequately. Is this a way to sabotage the Arabic language and therefore the identity of Arab children?

The second violation of rights concerns access to the Arab culture, including music, dance, art, literature, cooking, handcrafts and customs. The State of Israel has NO CURRICULUM for most of the above subjects in Arab schools. However, in Jewish schools Jewish cultural activities flourish! While Jewish schools have Music Rooms full of musical instruments and other relevant equipment, the majority of Arab schools do not even have an electronic keyboard.

There is a curriculum for Arabic Literature, but the material is fraught with errors of all lingual types, including syntax, morphology, semantics, spelling and phonetics. Furthermore the range of Arab writers included in this Curriculum is extremely limited with no modern writers at all. Thus, Arab children are deprived of their right to be familiar with and to learn and appreciate modern Arab literature.

There are also subtle ways in which Arab culture is negated and disparaged, making Arab children feel inferior and marginalized. Examples of these are found in the Hebrew Curriculum for Arab schools in which there is the implication that Arab parents are irresponsible and uncaring, aggressive and materialistic. Furthermore, in the Civics Curriculum for Arab schools, Arab children are overtly instructed that their first allegiance is to the State of Israel, as Israeli citizens. They are also encouraged to have regional and religious associations, but they are never encouraged to acknowledge and be proud of their Arab identity. In these ways, the State of Israel is denying its Arab citizens accurate and positive role models of their culture and ethnicity, while blatantly violating the Arab children’s right to their cultural identity as Arabs.

The third violation of rights concerns Arab children’s right to know their history. The history textbooks for Grades five, six, seven and eight that are used in Arab schools completely ignore the existence of the Arab Palestinian population which lived in this land prior to 1948. Instead, these textbooks are a databank for the Jewish history and emphasize the biblical right of the Jews to the land. This distorted presentation of the history of their country clearly denies the indigenous Arab children their right to know that the Arabs have lived on this land for thousands of years. It denies them the knowledge that the Arabs were the majority in this country until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Therefore, Arab children are deprived of accurate details regarding their history, their connection to the land and the continuity of the Arab Palestinian narrative.

The fourth violation of rights concerns Arab children’s right to know and have a connection with their heritage. Heritage includes the stories, myths and legends of a group, as well as the law, traditions, philosophy, land and property, practices and ways of life which are transmitted from the past. In the Geography Curriculum most traces of the past are erased because the Arab children are only taught the Hebrew names of all villages, towns, rivers, mountains and regions, ignoring the original Arabic names. In addition, any connection to the history of the country is severed in the Hebrew Curriculum when Arab children are taught that they are the descendents of Abraham and Hagar and therefore outsiders, originating from another country.

In conclusion, one wonders at the atrocious behavior of the State of Israel in relation to the education of its Arab citizens! Is it a plan to dehumanize the Arab population? Is it a deliberate strategy to construct an Israeli awareness amongst the Arab population as a means of controlling and manipulating them, while at the same time marginalizing them?

*The author is living and working in Israel

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126 responses to “Op-ED: Israel, the Apartheid State of 21st Century”

  1. Actually all the worlds organizations say that it’s the Pal textbooks that are the ones trying to change history,in and out of the schools.. and 2 diff curriculum?All the Arab countries only have 1,and alot of that is sketchy at best.All you guys over there need to get it together

    1. leobetapar Avatar
      leobetapar

      i know all it’s the fault of the Arabs
      i will tell you: it’s because God shape them wrongly innit?
      for the time being you will better do with Arab Aware

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Almost time for you to be aware … the STL report is coming. 🙂

        1. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          yes lord Nasrallah got his weapons back ready to rule Phenicia

        2. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          yes lord Nasrallah got his weapons back ready to rule Phenicia

        3. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          @ leobetapar  Lord of the Flies

    2. leobetapar Avatar
      leobetapar

      i know all it’s the fault of the Arabs
      i will tell you: it’s because God shape them wrongly innit?
      for the time being you will better do with Arab Aware

  2. Actually all the worlds organizations say that it’s the Pal textbooks that are the ones trying to change history,in and out of the schools.. and 2 diff curriculum?All the Arab countries only have 1,and alot of that is sketchy at best.All you guys over there need to get it together

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      i know all it’s the fault of the Arabs
      i will tell you: it’s because God shape them wrongly innit?
      for the time being you will better do with Arab Aware

      1.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        Almost time for you to be aware … the STL report is coming. 🙂

        1.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          yes lord Nasrallah got his weapons back ready to rule Phenicia

        2.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          @ leobetapar  Lord of the Flies

        3.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          @ leobetapar  Lord of the Flies

    2.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      i know all it’s the fault of the Arabs
      i will tell you: it’s because God shape them wrongly innit?
      for the time being you will better do with Arab Aware

  3. Hm… It’s very sad the author bases her opinion through opinions of others and not self. While most of the article is plain wrong, I wouldn’t waste the time to comment on all of it. But I will make one remark. As long as the financing goes, it is indeed true that the financing is lower for the Israeli Palestinian sector rather than the Jewish sector. However, the facts concealed by the author is that:
    1. Jewish residents usually live in areas where livelyhood is much more expensive than in Arab neighborhoods. For example, as in Arab areas – even of Jerusalem, one of the more expensive cities – the food prices are at least half of cost of same food items in Jewish areas. Same goes for rent, school costs, textbook costs, etc, etc.
    2. Many Israeli Palestinian areas have enormous issues in regards to local management which. For example, many Israeli Palestinian towns pay very low – if any – taxes to the government, and the corruption thrives in those areas. Many Israeli Palestinian municipalities spend next to nothing in terms of education for own population, leave alone paying anything to the state.

    As far as freedom for education goes, wasn’t it Israeli Education Minister Yuli Tamir who pushed just mere years ago for the Arab populations to be taught about the Naqba? Some Apartheid that is.

    It is sad to see the author following Internet memes, instead of doing serious research prior to publishing unsubstantiated accusations. I guess in the Internet age, your keyboard allows you to spew garbare, no matter how wrong.

    1. leobetapar Avatar
      leobetapar

      you freak can you pretend that’s it’s normal that’s withe people are more rich than the Amerindian in America because they have more needs.What it’s sad it’s that the cul benis working for the heretiques zionist dare to intervene on ya libnan Move from here nazi zioniste pro apartheid

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Now you begin to sound like a brainwashed idiot.
        (see below also)

        Like I said, no-body is stopping Arabs from buying their own instruments …

        1. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          you are just an ignorant
          when the ignorant who haven’t got chance to have parents to educated him is incapable to know what going on he start to insult.Ask for a ticket on the pavement for free education guy

      2. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
        Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

        You are brainwashed and allergic to knowledge.

      3. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
        Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

        You are brainwashed and allergic to knowledge.

  4. Hm… It’s very sad the author bases her opinion through opinions of others and not self. While most of the article is plain wrong, I wouldn’t waste the time to comment on all of it. But I will make one remark. As long as the financing goes, it is indeed true that the financing is lower for the Israeli Palestinian sector rather than the Jewish sector. However, the facts concealed by the author is that:
    1. Jewish residents usually live in areas where livelyhood is much more expensive than in Arab neighborhoods. For example, as in Arab areas – even of Jerusalem, one of the more expensive cities – the food prices are at least half of cost of same food items in Jewish areas. Same goes for rent, school costs, textbook costs, etc, etc.
    2. Many Israeli Palestinian areas have enormous issues in regards to local management which. For example, many Israeli Palestinian towns pay very low – if any – taxes to the government, and the corruption thrives in those areas. Many Israeli Palestinian municipalities spend next to nothing in terms of education for own population, leave alone paying anything to the state.

    As far as freedom for education goes, wasn’t it Israeli Education Minister Yuli Tamir who pushed just mere years ago for the Arab populations to be taught about the Naqba? Some Apartheid that is.

    It is sad to see the author following Internet memes, instead of doing serious research prior to publishing unsubstantiated accusations. I guess in the Internet age, your keyboard allows you to spew garbare, no matter how wrong.

  5. Hm… It’s very sad the author bases her opinion through opinions of others and not self. While most of the article is plain wrong, I wouldn’t waste the time to comment on all of it. But I will make one remark. As long as the financing goes, it is indeed true that the financing is lower for the Israeli Palestinian sector rather than the Jewish sector. However, the facts concealed by the author is that:
    1. Jewish residents usually live in areas where livelyhood is much more expensive than in Arab neighborhoods. For example, as in Arab areas – even of Jerusalem, one of the more expensive cities – the food prices are at least half of cost of same food items in Jewish areas. Same goes for rent, school costs, textbook costs, etc, etc.
    2. Many Israeli Palestinian areas have enormous issues in regards to local management which. For example, many Israeli Palestinian towns pay very low – if any – taxes to the government, and the corruption thrives in those areas. Many Israeli Palestinian municipalities spend next to nothing in terms of education for own population, leave alone paying anything to the state.

    As far as freedom for education goes, wasn’t it Israeli Education Minister Yuli Tamir who pushed just mere years ago for the Arab populations to be taught about the Naqba? Some Apartheid that is.

    It is sad to see the author following Internet memes, instead of doing serious research prior to publishing unsubstantiated accusations. I guess in the Internet age, your keyboard allows you to spew garbare, no matter how wrong.

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      Anonymous

      you freak can you pretend that’s it’s normal that’s withe people are more rich than the Amerindian in America because they have more needs.What it’s sad it’s that the cul benis working for the heretiques zionist dare to intervene on ya libnan Move from here nazi zioniste pro apartheid

      1.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        Now you begin to sound like a brainwashed idiot.

        1.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          you are just an ignorant
          when the ignorant who haven’t got chance to have parents to educated him is incapable to know what going on he start to insult.Ask for a ticket on the pavement for free education guy

      2. You are brainwashed and allergic to knowledge.

  6. eblashko Avatar
    eblashko

    The author is so grossly wrong about all of her points, that I’m surprised YaLibnan, which is a newspaper that I thought practiced pretty objective journalism, would print such garbage.

    The proof:

    A 2007 poll among Israeli Arabs about a possible Land (not population) transfer than would see the future border moved so that Israeli Arab villages would be on the Palestinians side of the border in any future Palestinian state:

    *Have you heard of the proposal to annex towns and villages in the Triangle to the Palestinian Authority in exchange for the annexation of the settlements to Israel? (Arab Center for Applied Social Research, November 2007)

    Yes 47.4%
    No 45.1%

    *Would you agree or disagree with such a proposal? (Arab Center for Applied Social Research, November 2007)

    Definitely disagree 72%
    Definitely agree 8%
    Moderately agree 10%
    Do not know 10%

    If it’s so bad here, you’d think they’d be dying to be part of Palestine. I guess they’d miss their world class free education, health care, welfare, and defense provided by the evil apartheid state of Israel, while at the same time, bleeding our budget dry to support their huge families.

    Israel isn’t racist. Druze Arabs are well integrated Zionists. And Arabic is an official language alongside Hebrew. Israel isn’t anti-religion. Muslim Circassians and Bedouins and Maronite Christians are well integrated Zionists. There are Arab judges, generals, members of Parliament, athletes, academics, etc.

    And the author’s claim that “The Israeli Arab population is actually the Indigenous population of Israel”, implying that the Jews aren’t, is part of the same anti-Zionist drivel that has been proven wrong by genetics time and time again. (example, the y-chromosome haplgroups of Jews from Poland are far closer to those of Lebanese people than they are to indigenous Polish Slavs).

    European Jews: (256 individuals) :………………… Lebanese (54 individuals)
    Haplogroup J : 47.3%………………………………….Haplogroup J1 and J2: 51.9%
    Haplogroup E1b: 17%…………………………………Haplogroup E1b : 20.4%
    Haplogroup R1: 26%…………………………………..Haplogroup R1 : 9.3%

    Meanwhile, a different study shows that “the frequency of Haplogroup R1a ranges from 63.39% in the Sorbs, through 56.4% in Poland, 54% in Ukraine, 52% in Russia”. And that’s just R1a. The remainder is vastly made of Haplogroup I, which is virtually absent in Jews and Lebanese. On the other hand, the Middle Eastern haplogroups J and E, which comprise the majority of both Jewish and Lebanese peoples, are virtually absent in in Slavic populations….

    Further proof of the Middle Eastern origins of European Jews and the little contribution of European DNA into our genome. I’m not making any of this stuff up. Plenty of studies have been done. You could check them all out yourselves.

    Actually the author is right. Israel is an apartheid state. Muslim and Christian Arabs don’t have to go to the army while the rest of us (Jews, Bedouins, Maronites, Druze, Circassians, Russians) do. Shameful how Israel treats one of its peoples differently than the other.

    1. leobetapar Avatar
      leobetapar

      ya libnan don’t work for the heretique zioniaste, that’s desapoint you innit?

      1. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
        Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

         Nazism was not created as a reaction to Zionism. I have NEVER read anything quite so ignorant in my life.

      2. shankarees Avatar
        shankarees

        What peasant taught you English?

    2. leobetapar Avatar
      leobetapar

      when you say the zioniste are not raciste it’s has if you say hitler and eichman were not racists because it’s etablish that both names are purely jewish (Hillel it’s the yeddish form of Hillel)

      1. eblashko Avatar
        eblashko

         I don’t know what you mean… but I am a Zionist and I love Arabs. I served in the army with many brave Druze Arabs and would trust them with my life. And Amos Yarkoni, a Bedouin, is one of my heroes. Zionism has nothing to do with Arabs, silly. Only with Jews and Israel.

        1. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          ok good for you what i said it’s that nazism have been created only in reaction to zionism.The first nazi party born two years after the creation of the zionism one and it’s hq was in the same litle road in Vienna.
          And don’t forget as the real jews are still in Exil waiting for the Messiah and telling at Pescha “next year in Jerusalem ” those zionistes are pure heretiques

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        @leobetapar … Economic conditions inflicted on the Germans after WW1 were the reason Hitler came to power … Nazism was created in his warped brain, and a few others who think Jews cause all their money problems. 3000 years of little dictators bashing those who, like the Lebanese, were peaceful and successful trading societies has put your mind where it is today. Isn’t it about time to learn something from them?

        (Later – re: below)
        If I need to come down to your language level …
        GET OFF THE HITLER CRAP … WE GOT RID OF THE BASTARD !! No-body gives a shit about him.
        Then we recorded the history – hoping future humans would never allow a brain like his to surface again anywhere.
        Unfortunately, it seems there are still warped brains who like to distort everything factual – knowing there will be ‘certain’ people who will spout everything stupid that they read and even make up their own distortions to suit a ’cause celebre’ of their own minds.
        I really think ‘tu est fou’ … who made you so crazy? I worry about your childhood …..

        1. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          hy guy those economique conditions have been created by those who kiled Jaures after he state that if there is a war he will not allowed Germany to be burried in a montain of debt which will end by a rebellion and…..they kill him because to clever! Those guy have created hitler herzl the cruzade and the kazar those guy the johannite are the one who created the zioniste state thanks lord those guy have been “nique” and are fucking dead for know.You must know them the muslaims use to call them the spider
          for the jewish they use from before J C two the 17 century to grown people in the ukraine bielorusse border and to sold them everywhere, there is hundres of cardinal and archeveque who wrote leeter complainning about them and their dirty commerce of silent people Why do you think german don’t like them?

        2. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          me learning some thing fromthe Jewish ok we statr by Pericles who were the son of bitch who persuade Pericles that it’s better to allow the economic slvavery in Greece If it’s not the sons of bitch who borrow so much gold to the greecs that they were unable to pay back.
          and better does the SOB were slave in Egypt absolutly nope as Moise put it in the bible (Thora for you) they was just forbidden to be burried since before Joseph (means they were slaves in the afterlife for the egyptians) but why Because those SOB don’t sweat on the earth they don’t work on the field but eat the fruit of the earth they were fucking using slaves to work in the field>So the Africans as they will do today forbid those SOB to be burried for not desacralised the earth
          any time you want others on the SOB i have hundreds waiting

        3. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          how may time i have to remenber you that Hitler (adolph )is a direct descendant of the Great Hillel and that his father who go to salute Herzl is the great son of the great Rabbi S.Hitler who wrote in the Guemarra about the importance of deatails.Don’t mess me i say that nazisme it’s interjewish buzziness that’s all

      3. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        @leobetapar … Economic conditions inflicted on the Germans after WW1 were the reason Hitler came to power … Nazism was created in his warped brain, and a few others who think Jews cause all their money problems. 3000 years of little dictators bashing those who, like the Lebanese, were peaceful and successful trading societies has put your mind where it is today. Isn’t it about time to learn something from them?

        (Later – re: below)
        If I need to come down to your language level …
        GET OFF THE HITLER CRAP … WE GOT RID OF THE BASTARD !! No-body gives a shit about him.
        Then we recorded the history – hoping future humans would never allow a brain like his to surface again anywhere.
        Unfortunately, it seems there are still warped brains who like to distort everything factual – knowing there will be ‘certain’ people who will spout everything stupid that they read and even make up their own distortions to suit a ’cause celebre’ of their own minds.
        I really think ‘tu est fou’ … who made you so crazy? I worry about your childhood …..

        1. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          hy guy those economique conditions have been created by those who kiled Jaures after he state that if there is a war he will not allowed Germany to be burried in a montain of debt which will end by a rebellion and…..they kill him because to clever! Those guy have created hitler herzl the cruzade and the kazar those guy the johannite are the one who created the zioniste state thanks lord those guy have been “nique” and are fucking dead for know.You must know them the muslaims use to call them the spider
          for the jewish they use from before J C two the 17 century to grown people in the ukraine bielorusse border and to sold them everywhere, there is hundres of cardinal and archeveque who wrote leeter complainning about them and their dirty commerce of silent people Why do you think german don’t like them?

        2. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          me learning some thing fromthe Jewish ok we statr by Pericles who were the son of bitch who persuade Pericles that it’s better to allow the economic slvavery in Greece If it’s not the sons of bitch who borrow so much gold to the greecs that they were unable to pay back.
          and better does the SOB were slave in Egypt absolutly nope as Moise put it in the bible (Thora for you) they was just forbidden to be burried since before Joseph (means they were slaves in the afterlife for the egyptians) but why Because those SOB don’t sweat on the earth they don’t work on the field but eat the fruit of the earth they were fucking using slaves to work in the field>So the Africans as they will do today forbid those SOB to be burried for not desacralised the earth
          any time you want others on the SOB i have hundreds waiting

      4. Please do not forget what the Turks did to the Armenians.  Hitler said” who remembers the Armenians”.  So, if you are mentioning and/or debating racism or genocide in public arena such as this cite, keep in mind the Turks. 

        1. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          yeah you are right the only innocents people in the whole of Eurasia are the Kurds and the Shia it’s why the grace will give them the earth to rule

        2. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          yeah you are right the only innocents people in the whole of Eurasia are the Kurds and the Shia it’s why the grace will give them the earth to rule

    3. yalibnan Avatar
      yalibnan

      The views expressed on this website are independent perspectives that do not necessarily represent the views of Ya Libnan. Our objective is to encourage freedom of expression, this is  precisely why we also encourage comments on all the articles that we publish. Your comment is almost as long as the article and as you can tell we published it too even though it does not necessarily represent the views of Ya Libnan

      1. eblashko Avatar
        eblashko

        You’re right. I take back my criticism of the paper. It was misplaced. I’m sorry for venting my frustration with the author on the paper itself and would like to thank you not just for your objective journalism and for allowing talkbalk, but also for allowing such a forum where average Israelis and Lebanese, who would otherwise never have any contact with each other, could discuss issues that affect both our countries.

        Sorry again, and keep up the good work.

        1. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          hey Eblashko why you don’t answer me in the way you answer Yalibnan it will really please me

    4. Henri Gourinard Avatar
      Henri Gourinard

      As far as I know, Druze, Circassians and Maronites do not HAVE TO serve in the army. Only those who wish serve in the army. For the Druze and the Beduin population, this decision is often taken by the community leaders.
      As for saying that the Maronites are well integrated Zionists, this is a gross generalization. It seems you have met only Maronites from the SLA (who are no Zionists either!).

      1. leobetapar Avatar
        leobetapar

        hey Sir you look nice but you forget to notice  and everyone forget to notice that their isn’t point to show the racism or the apartheid or even the devilty of the zioniaste state
        Zionisme is an heresie it have been declared heresie by any of the normal jewish congregations duting the late 19 and early 20 century what is heresie will stay heresie for ever
        the only question sensible here according to me is :How hot it will be for them?

        1. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
          Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

          Zionism is a new word for something that has been a part of our people for more than 1000 years. Do some damn reading.

          1. leobetapar Avatar
            leobetapar

            Zionisme is a word invente at least on it’s actual meaning by Herzl in 1880.It have been condamned as heretical by any Ashkenaze school and totaly ignore as atheisme by the sepharade
            1000 years ago the Johanites (worshipper of mary magdalen the whore) created the ashkenazes as khazars selling silent withe men all over Europe until 17 century (hundred of letter to the popes by at least eveques witness that) you haven’t read the 1/100 of what i have man

          2. leobetapar Avatar
            leobetapar

            you say that i am ignorant and nazisme is not a reaction of zionisme .I think ya libnan got pity for you and not forward it to me but i got at it by anothere means.So man open your eyes When Herzl created the first party zioniste in a small road in vienna there was no nazisme in those time but two years after the first party nazi born in the same little vienna’s road with the same revendication “vital space” and other same shaytanneries Man Zionisme amnd nazism are the same coins with two different face but the same meanning.Adolph Hitler great great son of Rabbi S.Hitler of the Guemarra (descant of Hillel by the elder branch) had with is father check and with Herzl when Adolph was only nine.I live in England we can go to court whenever youo want i will be please to explain everything going back to what the jews do in easten Europe during the second millenium ,The only one who know nothing is the one who have never be allow to look where he want freely like you i mean

    5. 2160John Avatar

      They still do not know if Moses and Abraham were J1 or J2. There is ongoing debate. Real jews are supposedly identified by the Cohenim gene which is widely absent in Israeli society.

      Second, why the huge focus on genetics to justify your stay in historic Palestine??
      More Palestinians are descendants from the Hebrew immigrants to Palestine than Israeli Jews.

      Third, the religous doctrine that claims God promised Israel to the Jews is simply not true. The original Hebrews were a tribe from Sumeria mostly coming from the city of Ur and they migrated and mixed with the original Caananites which inhabited and founded the City of Jeurasalem.
      Those who do good deeds in life to serve humanity deserve the city. People don’t deserve a supposedly holy city just because they’re from a certain religion, color of skin or race. It’s like buying a house in Florida and 2,000 years later having it burnt down and taken away from you because the supposed descendants of  the Seminole Native Americans used to live there 2,000 years ago.

  7. eblashko Avatar
    eblashko

    The author is so grossly wrong about all of her points, that I’m surprised YaLibnan, which is a newspaper that I thought practiced pretty objective journalism, would print such garbage.

    The proof:

    A 2007 poll among Israeli Arabs about a possible Land (not population) transfer than would see the future border moved so that Israeli Arab villages would be on the Palestinians side of the border in any future Palestinian state:

    *Have you heard of the proposal to annex towns and villages in the Triangle to the Palestinian Authority in exchange for the annexation of the settlements to Israel? (Arab Center for Applied Social Research, November 2007)

    Yes 47.4%
    No 45.1%

    *Would you agree or disagree with such a proposal? (Arab Center for Applied Social Research, November 2007)

    Definitely disagree 72%
    Definitely agree 8%
    Moderately agree 10%
    Do not know 10%

    If it’s so bad here, you’d think they’d be dying to be part of Palestine. I guess they’d miss their world class free education, health care, welfare, and defense provided by the evil apartheid state of Israel, while at the same time, bleeding our budget dry to support their huge families.

    Israel isn’t racist. Druze Arabs are well integrated Zionists. And Arabic is an official language alongside Hebrew. Israel isn’t anti-religion. Muslim Circassians and Bedouins and Maronite Christians are well integrated Zionists. There are Arab judges, generals, members of Parliament, athletes, academics, etc.

    And the author’s claim that “The Israeli Arab population is actually the Indigenous population of Israel”, implying that the Jews aren’t, is part of the same anti-Zionist drivel that has been proven wrong by genetics time and time again. (example, the y-chromosome haplgroups of Jews from Poland are far closer to those of Lebanese people than they are to indigenous Polish Slavs).

    European Jews: (256 individuals) :………………… Lebanese (54 individuals)
    Haplogroup J : 47.3%………………………………….Haplogroup J1 and J2: 51.9%
    Haplogroup E1b: 17%…………………………………Haplogroup E1b : 20.4%
    Haplogroup R1: 26%…………………………………..Haplogroup R1 : 9.3%

    Meanwhile, a different study shows that “the frequency of Haplogroup R1a ranges from 63.39% in the Sorbs, through 56.4% in Poland, 54% in Ukraine, 52% in Russia”. And that’s just R1a. The remainder is vastly made of Haplogroup I, which is virtually absent in Jews and Lebanese. On the other hand, the Middle Eastern haplogroups J and E, which comprise the majority of both Jewish and Lebanese peoples, are virtually absent in in Slavic populations….

    Further proof of the Middle Eastern origins of European Jews and the little contribution of European DNA into our genome. I’m not making any of this stuff up. Plenty of studies have been done. You could check them all out yourselves.

    Actually the author is right. Israel is an apartheid state. Muslim and Christian Arabs don’t have to go to the army while the rest of us (Jews, Bedouins, Maronites, Druze, Circassians, Russians) do. Shameful how Israel treats one of its peoples differently than the other.

    1. leobetapar Avatar
      leobetapar

      ya libnan don’t work for the heretique zioniaste, that’s desapoint you innit?

    2. yalibnan Avatar
      yalibnan

      The views expressed on this website are independent perspectives that do not necessarily represent the views of Ya Libnan. Our objective is to encourage freedom of expression, this is  precisely why we also encourage comments on all the articles that we publish. Your comment is almost as long as the article and as you can tell we published it too even though it does not necessarily represent the views of Ya Libnan

      1. eblashko Avatar
        eblashko

        You’re right. I take back my criticism of the paper. It was misplaced. I’m sorry for venting my frustration with the author on the paper itself and would like to thank you not just for your objective journalism and for allowing talkbalk, but also for allowing such a forum where average Israelis and Lebanese, who would otherwise never have any contact with each other, could discuss issues that affect both our countries.

        Sorry again, and keep up the good work.

  8.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    The author is so grossly wrong about all of her points, that I’m surprised YaLibnan, which is a newspaper that I thought practiced pretty objective journalism, would print such garbage.

    The proof:

    A 2007 poll amoung Israeli Arabs about a possible Land (not population) transfer than would see the future border moved so that Israeli Arab villages would be on the Palestinians side of the border in any future Palestinian state:

    *Have you heard of the proposal to annex towns
    and villages in the Triangle to the Palestinian Authority in exchange
    for the annexation of the settlements to Israel? (Arab Center for Applied Social Research, November 2007)

    Yes 47.4%
    No 45.1%

    *Would you agree or disagree with such a proposal? (Arab Center for Applied Social Research, November 2007)

    Definitely disagree 72%
    Definitely agree 8%
    Moderately agree 10%
    Do not know 10%

    If it’s so bad here, you’d think they’d be dying to be part of Palestine. I guess they’d miss their world class free education, health care, welfare, and defense provided by the evil apartheid state of Israel, while at the same time, bleeding our budget dry to support their huge families.

    Israel isn’t racist. Druze Arabs are well integrated Zionists. And Arabic is an official language alongside Hebrew. Israel isn’t anti-religion. Muslim Circassians and Bedouins and Maronite Christians are well integrated Zionists. There are Arab judges, generals, members of Parliament, athletes, academics, etc.

    And the author’s claim that “The Israeli Arab population is actually the Indigenous population of Israel”, implying that the Jews aren’t, is part of the same anti-Zionist drivel that has been proven wrong by genetics time and time again.

    Actually the author is right. Israel is an apartheid state. Muslim and Christian Arabs don’t have to go to the army while the rest of us do. Shameful how Israel treats one of its peoples differently than the other.

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      ya libnan don’t work for the heretique zioniaste, that’s desapoint you innit?

      1.  Nazism was not created as a reaction to Zionism. I have NEVER read anything quite so ignorant in my life.

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        Anonymous

        What peasant taught you English?

      3.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        What peasant taught you English?

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      Anonymous

      when you say the zioniste are not raciste it’s has if you say hitler and eichman were not racists because it’s etablish that both names are purely jewish (Hillel it’s the yeddish form of Hillel)

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        Anonymous

         I don’t know what you mean… but I am a Zionist and I love Arabs. I served in the army with many brave Druze Arabs and would trust them with my life. And Amos Yarkoni, a Bedouin, is one of my heroes. Zionism has nothing to do with Arabs, silly. Only with Jews and Israel.

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          Anonymous

          ok good for you what i said it’s that nazism have been created only in reaction to zionism.The first nazi party born two years after the creation of the zionism one and it’s hq was in the same litle road in Vienna.
          And don’t forget as the real jews are still in Exil waiting for the Messiah and telling at Pescha “next year in Jerusalem ” those zionistes are pure heretiques

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        Anonymous

        @leobetapar … Economic conditions inflicted on the Germans after WW1 were the reason Hitler came to power … Nazism was created in his warped brain, and a few others who think Jews cause all their money problems. 3000 years of little dictators bashing those who, like the Lebanese, were peaceful and successful trading societies has put your mind where it is today. Isn’t it about time to learn something from them?

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          Anonymous

          hy guy those economique conditions have been created by those who kiled Jaures after he state that if there is a war he will not allowed Germany to be burried in a montain of debt which will end by a rebellion and…..they kill him because to clever! Those guy have created hitler herzl the cruzade and the kazar those guy the johannite are the one who created the zioniste state thanks lord those guy have been “nique” and are fucking dead for know.You must know them the muslaims use to call them the spider
          for the jewish they use from before J C two the 17 century to grown people in the ukraine bielorusse border and to sold them everywhere, there is hundres of cardinal and archeveque who wrote leeter complainning about them and their dirty commerce of silent people Why do you think german don’t like them?

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          Anonymous

          me learning some thing fromthe Jewish ok we statr by Pericles who were the son of bitch who persuade Pericles that it’s better to allow the economic slvavery in Greece If it’s not the sons of bitch who borrow so much gold to the greecs that they were unable to pay back.
          and better does the SOB were slave in Egypt absolutly nope as Moise put it in the bible (Thora for you) they was just forbidden to be burried since before Joseph (means they were slaves in the afterlife for the egyptians) but why Because those SOB don’t sweat on the earth they don’t work on the field but eat the fruit of the earth they were fucking using slaves to work in the field>So the Africans as they will do today forbid those SOB to be burried for not desacralised the earth
          any time you want others on the SOB i have hundreds waiting

        3.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          how may time i have to remenber you that Hitler (adolph )is a direct descendant of the Great Hillel and that his father who go to salute Herzl is the great son of the great Rabbi S.Hitler who wrote in the Guemarra about the importance of deatails.Don’t mess me i say that nazisme it’s interjewish buzziness that’s all

      3. Please do not forget what the Turks did to the Armenians.  Hitler said” who remembers the Armenians”.  So, if you are mentioning and/or debating racism or genocide in public arena such as this cite, keep in mind the Turks. 

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          Anonymous

          yeah you are right the only innocents people in the whole of Eurasia are the Kurds and the Shia it’s why the grace will give them the earth to rule

    3.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      The views expressed on this website are independent perspectives that do not necessarily represent the views of Ya Libnan. Our objective is to encourage freedom of expression, this is  precisely why we also encourage comments on all the articles that we publish. Your comment is almost as long as the article and as you can tell we published it too even though it does not necessarily represent the views of Ya Libnan

      1.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        You’re right. I take back my criticism of the paper. It was misplaced. I’m sorry for venting my frustration with the author on the paper itself and would like to thank you not just for your objective journalism and for allowing talkbalk, but also for allowing such a forum where average Israelis and Lebanese, who would otherwise never have any contact with each other, could discuss issues that affect both our countries.

        Sorry again, and keep up the good work.

        1.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          hey Eblashko why you don’t answer me in the way you answer Yalibnan it will really please me

    4. Henri Gourinard Avatar
      Henri Gourinard

      As far as I know, Druze, Circassians and Maronites do not HAVE TO serve in the army. Only those who wish serve in the army. For the Druze and the Beduin population, this decision is often taken by the community leaders.
      As for saying that the Maronites are well integrated Zionists, this is a gross generalization. It seems you have met only Maronites from the SLA (who are no Zionists either!).

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        Anonymous

        hey Sir you look nice but you forget to notice  and everyone forget to notice that their isn’t point to show the racism or the apartheid or even the devilty of the zioniaste state
        Zionisme is an heresie it have been declared heresie by any of the normal jewish congregations duting the late 19 and early 20 century what is heresie will stay heresie for ever
        the only question sensible here according to me is :How hot it will be for them?

        1. Zionism is a new word for something that has been a part of our people for more than 1000 years. Do some damn reading.

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            Anonymous

            Zionisme is a word invente at least on it’s actual meaning by Herzl in 1880.It have been condamned as heretical by any Ashkenaze school and totaly ignore as atheisme by the sepharade
            1000 years ago the Johanites (worshipper of mary magdalen the whore) created the ashkenazes as khazars selling silent withe men all over Europe until 17 century (hundred of letter to the popes by at least eveques witness that) you haven’t read the 1/100 of what i have man

          2.  Avatar
            Anonymous

            you say that i am ignorant and nazisme is not a reaction of zionisme .I think ya libnan got pity for you and not forward it to me but i got at it by anothere means.So man open your eyes When Herzl created the first party zioniste in a small road in vienna there was no nazisme in those time but two years after the first party nazi born in the same little vienna’s road with the same revendication “vital space” and other same shaytanneries Man Zionisme amnd nazism are the same coins with two different face but the same meanning.Adolph Hitler great great son of Rabbi S.Hitler of the Guemarra (descant of Hillel by the elder branch) had with is father check and with Herzl when Adolph was only nine.I live in England we can go to court whenever youo want i will be please to explain everything going back to what the jews do in easten Europe during the second millenium ,The only one who know nothing is the one who have never be allow to look where he want freely like you i mean

    5.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      They still do not know if Moses and Abraham were J1 or J2. There is ongoing debate. Real jews are supposedly identified by the Cohenim gene which is widely absent in Israeli society.

      Second, why the huge focus on genetics to justify your stay in historic Palestine??
      More Palestinians are descendants from the Hebrew immigrants to Palestine than Israeli Jews.

      Third, the religous doctrine that claims God promised Israel to the Jews is simply not true. The original Hebrews were a tribe from Sumeria mostly coming from the city of Ur and they migrated and mixed with the original Caananites which inhabited and founded the City of Jeurasalem.
      Those who do good deeds in life to serve humanity deserve the city. People don’t deserve a supposedly holy city just because they’re from a certain religion, color of skin or race. It’s like buying a house in Florida and 2,000 years later having it burnt down and taken away from you because the supposed descendants of  the Seminole Native Americans used to live there 2,000 years ago.

  9. leobetapar Avatar
    leobetapar

    guy don’t forget the zionisme is the side “face” of the coin called nationalisme when the side “pile” is the nazism.Don’t forget the first nazism party HQ was in the same small road in Vienna where the first zionism party HQ has been etablish (two years earlier) just on the other side of the street
    So no wonder the zionism state is an apartheid …..Zionism is mother of all the nazisms

    1. eblashko Avatar
      eblashko

      And Palestinians wanting to rid Israel of Jews isn’t nationalism??

      I think it’s so funny how people compare Jews to Nazis. Because Jews in pre-World War II Europe used to suicide bomb Germans all the time, and shoot rockets at them, and hijack their planes and kidnap their soldiers…. while Zionists today have systematically gassed 6 million Arabs in concentration camps and forced them to work in labor camps.

      I hope you’re not stupid enough not to get my sarcasm.

      1. leobetapar Avatar
        leobetapar

        yes put in the 4th edition of the zioniste annal published in Vienna in the 1880 we have Herzl welcoming a visitor who came to salute him with his son It was as it write on the picture the great son of rabbi S.Hitler (the same one who write on the importance of details in the Guemarra)the doctor Hitler and his son Adolph 9 years (he haven’t the moustache but the same famous vache qui rit head)
        wait for ur answer

        1. eblashko Avatar
          eblashko

          Stick to the French Language media. I can’t understand a word you’re saying. 

          1. leobetapar Avatar
            leobetapar

            just a liar i will be more clear
            in the 4th edition of the international annal of Zionism published in Vienna in the 1880 there’s is a pic showing Herzl handshaking man who was with a kid.The writting down the pics say Mr Herzl receiving Dct Hitler grand son of rabbi S.Hitler of the Guemarra and his son Adolph So for now don’t forget that Nazism and the big Nazi (mengele eichmann…..) are jewish and son of jewish OK

        2. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Did he play music?

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        He probably is … but in only the line about the music can one begin to doubt the article. Wasn’t there a wedding in Gaza broken up by Hamas (see YouTube) because it dared to have music playing?

    2. eblashko Avatar
      eblashko

      And Palestinians wanting to rid Israel of Jews isn’t nationalism??

      I think it’s so funny how people compare Jews to Nazis. Because Jews in pre-World War II Europe used to suicide bomb Germans all the time, and shoot rockets at them, and hijack their planes and kidnap their soldiers…. while Zionists today have systematically gassed 6 million Arabs in concentration camps and forced them to work in labor camps.

      I hope you’re not stupid enough not to get my sarcasm.

      1. leobetapar Avatar
        leobetapar

        yes put in the 4th edition of the zioniste annal published in Vienna in the 1880 we have Herzl welcoming a visitor who came to salute him with his son It was as it write on the picture the great son of rabbi S.Hitler (the same one who write on the importance of details in the Guemarra)the doctor Hitler and his son Adolph 9 years (he haven’t the moustache but the same famous vache qui rit head)
        wait for ur answer

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        He probably is … but in only the line about the music can one begin to doubt the article. Wasn’t there a wedding in Gaza broken up by Hamas (see YouTube) because it dared to have music playing?

  10.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    guy don’t forget the zionisme is the side “face” of the coin called nationalisme when the side “pile” is the nazism.Don’t forget the first nazism party HQ was in the same small road in Vienna where the first zionism party HQ has been etablish (two years earlier) just on the other side of the street
    So no wonder the zionism state is an apartheid …..Zionism is mother of all the nazisms

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      And Palestinians wanting to rid Israel of Jews isn’t nationalism??

      I think it’s so funny how people compare Jews to Nazis. Because Jews in pre-World War II Europe used to suicide bomb Germans all the time, and shoot rockets at them, and hijack their planes and kidnap their soldiers…. while Zionists today have systematically gassed 6 million Arabs in concentration camps and forced them to work in labor camps.

      I hope you’re not stupid enough not to get my sarcasm.

      1.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        yes put in the 4th edition of the zioniste annal published in Vienna in the 1880 we have Herzl welcoming a visitor who came to salute him with his son It was as it write on the picture the great son of rabbi S.Hitler (the same one who write on the importance of details in the Guemarra)the doctor Hitler and his son Adolph 9 years (he haven’t the moustache but the same famous vache qui rit head)
        wait for ur answer

        1.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          Stick to the French Language media. I can’t understand a word you’re saying. 

        2.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          Stick to the French Language media. I can’t understand a word you’re saying. 

          1.  Avatar
            Anonymous

            just a liar i will be more clear
            in the 4th edition of the international annal of Zionism published in Vienna in the 1880 there’s is a pic showing Herzl handshaking man who was with a kid.The writting down the pics say Mr Herzl receiving Dct Hitler grand son of rabbi S.Hitler of the Guemarra and his son Adolph So for now don’t forget that Nazism and the big Nazi (mengele eichmann…..) are jewish and son of jewish OK

        3.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          Did he play music?

      2.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        He probably is … but in only the line about the music can one begin to doubt the article. Wasn’t there a wedding in Gaza broken up by Hamas (see YouTube) because it dared to have music playing?

  11. Beiruti Avatar

    In Saudi Arabia the textbooks teach kids that Christians and Jews are dogs. Wheres the article about that?

    1. kareemthehippy Avatar
      kareemthehippy

      That article can easily be made.  I think it’s time we remind some people, especially those who support March 14, who funds them the most (Saudi Arabia – the country that teaches kids that Christians and Jews are dogs) 

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Strange case of deciding which ‘good’ to support. Usually relates to business.
         Fighting terrorist thinking and supporting peace and prosperity seems a better goal for businessmen in SaudiA, so they support Lebanon; and it’s a fairly safe bet most children will become brain-dead adults who never look for facts-of-life for themselves in later years, so it’s good for business to support weird religious concepts – which keeps ‘peace’ at home.

  12.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    In Saudi Arabia the textbooks teach kids that Christians and Jews are dogs. Wheres the article about that?

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      That article can easily be made.  I think it’s time we remind some people, especially those who support March 14, who funds them the most (Saudi Arabia – the country that teaches kids that Christians and Jews are dogs) 

      1.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        Strange case of deciding which ‘good’ to support. Usually relates to business.
         Fighting terrorist thinking and supporting peace and prosperity seems a better goal for businessmen in SaudiA, so they support Lebanon; and it’s a fairly safe bet most children will become brain-dead adults who never look for facts-of-life for themselves in later years, so it’s good for business to support weird religious concepts – which keeps ‘peace’ at home.

    2.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      That article can easily be made.  I think it’s time we remind some people, especially those who support March 14, who funds them the most (Saudi Arabia – the country that teaches kids that Christians and Jews are dogs) 

  13. if the Arabs don’t like it they should leave ……The have far more democratic rights in Israel than anywhere else in the Middle East and really they can go to any of the Muslim countries if they feel they are being marginalized here in Israel. 
    Israel is a JEWISH STATE not an Arab state

    1. leobetapar Avatar
      leobetapar

      hey man
      you will got it
      the jews whose forbidden in Egypt for sepultures because they were worse than nazi with their slaves so the african tell them tehy will desacralised their earth and can’t be burried there even for Joseph (the poor the ethnies so bad they forgot them when they go)
      the jews have pervet pericles and the greek take revenge by feddling their money
      the jews destruct the roman peace it’s a senator LEVY who create the law who punished of death any one who use anything else than lead to cook to eat an to hotter his wine
      the jews were growing withe people like poultry in ukraine (the kazars) and exporting them to the rest of the world till the 17th .Thousands of complaint about that exist (cf history of eastern europe)
      the worst people of the 20 th century who killed legion of Romanichels and innocent people where jews or originated from jews I mean Hitler great son of a rabbi of the Guemarra Eichmann Mengele and so on and so on
      and the more important when you said jewish state is that even the only one GOD denies them ,the god of the monotheisme have put them in exile so this state is an heretique state in fact it’s the state of satan and everyone know that the state of saytan has to be on the zenith of it’s power before the fall came and i can assure you that it’s zenith is behind.
      Prepare yourself for the fall of the devil state man
      with all my salutations

  14. if the Arabs don’t like it they should leave ……The have far more democratic rights in Israel than anywhere else in the Middle East and really they can go to any of the Muslim countries if they feel they are being marginalized here in Israel. 
    Israel is a JEWISH STATE not an Arab state

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      hey man
      you will got it
      the jews whose forbidden in Egypt for sepultures because they were worse than nazi with their slaves so the african tell them tehy will desacralised their earth and can’t be burried there even for Joseph (the poor the ethnies so bad they forgot them when they go)
      the jews have pervet pericles and the greek take revenge by feddling their money
      the jews destruct the roman peace it’s a senator LEVY who create the law who punished of death any one who use anything else than lead to cook to eat an to hotter his wine
      the jews were growing withe people like poultry in ukraine (the kazars) and exporting them to the rest of the world till the 17th .Thousands of complaint about that exist (cf history of eastern europe)
      the worst people of the 20 th century who killed legion of Romanichels and innocent people where jews or originated from jews I mean Hitler great son of a rabbi of the Guemarra Eichmann Mengele and so on and so on
      and the more important when you said jewish state is that even the only one GOD denies them ,the god of the monotheisme have put them in exile so this state is an heretique state in fact it’s the state of satan and everyone know that the state of saytan has to be on the zenith of it’s power before the fall came and i can assure you that it’s zenith is behind.
      Prepare yourself for the fall of the devil state man
      with all my salutations

  15. Gedalyah Reback Avatar
    Gedalyah Reback

    The only two education systems in Israel divide between Israeli citizens and the Arab residents of Jerusalem.  Jerusalem Palestinians have collectively refused citizenship in the past, and as a consequence have special residency and other special status. They can choose between Israeli and Jordanian education tracks. Unfortunately, due to Palestinian Jerusalemites’ tendency to elect a Jordanian track of education versus the Israeli one, they do not receive Hebrew education and even have to go through immersion classes when they reach university.  Arabs elsewhere in the country though receive tremendous Hebrew education and have access to Israeli society.  This is something that has put Arabs on a strong footing as a minority relative to certain other countries, and Palestinians in Jerusalem ought to learn from that example. But this is not a racial divide, nor is it external; it is self-imposed division from the rest of the education system.

    Israel has the right to assert its priority for allegiance versus Arab nationalism.  It is self-destructive to instruct a group within the country to act like a fifth column.  The author of this post is accusing Israel of trying to absorb its minority rather than isolate it.  I am lost as to how to call that apartheid.

    1. eblashko Avatar
      eblashko

      Nice to see a familiar face 🙂

  16. The two education systems in Israel divide between Israeli citizens and the Arab residents of Jerusalem.  Unfortunately, due to Palestinian Jerusalemites’ tendency to elect a Jordanian track of education versus the Israeli one, they do not receive Hebrew education and even have to go through immersion classes when they reach university.  Arabs elsewhere in the country though receive tremendous Hebrew education and have access to Israeli society.  This is something that has put Arabs on a strong footing as a minority relative to certain other countries, and Palestinians in Jerusalem ought to learn from that example.

    Israel has the right to assert its priority for allegiance versus Arab nationalism.  It is self-destructive to instruct a group within the country to act like a fifth column.  The author of this post is accusing Israel of trying to absorb its minority rather than isolate it.  I am lost as to how to call that apartheid.

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      Nice to see a familiar face 🙂

  17. DeeCeeBee Avatar
    DeeCeeBee

    Arab apartheid / Muslim apartheid are the largest ‘apartheid systems’, that exist today.[1]

    Virtually all non-Arabs and/or non-Muslims are second class citizens.[2]

    Among minorities that feel the wrath of the bigoted Arab-Muslim world are:

    * Berbers (native N. Africans, before Arab invasion).

    * Copts (indigenous Egyptians suffer from both: Arab racism and Islamic bigotry).

    * Kurds. Examples include: [Saddam’s] Iraq and Syria.

    * Blacks, in Arab lands or in Arab ruled Africa like the genocide in the Sudan and slavery in both Sudan and in Mauritania.

    * Asians, particularly in the Gulf Arab states. [Sex slaves or “plain” slaves).

    * Maronites-Christians [Native Lebanese] suffer from both Arab ethnic racism and religious bigotry, like the massacres in the 1970s by local Muslims and by Palestinian/Syrian forces.

    * Assyrians, are/have been persecuted both racially and religiously. Still very much marginalized in Iraq, for example.

    * Iran is not an Arab country but racism is huge against Kurds, Jews, Turkmens, etc. So is anti-non-Muslim bigotry against Christians, Bahai, Zoroastrians and other in the Islamic republic.

    * Turkey is also a Muslim non-Arab country and Kurds, Greeks, Armenians and other ethnicities have been through much suffering, genocide. Still there’s great wide racism against non-Turkish ethnic groups. Turkey’s policy in Cyprus has also been recognized as a real Apartheid by many. All non-Muslims are automatically branded as “foreigners” at the “moderate” Islamic supremacy of Turkey.

    * All non-Msulims in ‘Islamic Apartheid state’ of S. Arabia.

    * Asians [slaves!] in the Gulf Arab states.

    * Al-Akhdam in Yemen.

    * Gypsies in Jordan.

    Islamic-Arab “Palestine” apartheid:

    * Ahmadiyya Muslims are harshly persecuted in (Pakistan and in) the “Palestinian” Apartheid authority and/or by Hamas.

    * Descendents of slaves of the Bedouins are still stigmatized by racist “Palestinians”.

    * Christians are discriminated, persercuted against [especially since Y. Arafat’s Islamization of Bethlehem], by Palestine authority and Hamas regime.

    From anti-Jewish Apartheid:

    – The Arab racist apartheid against the Jews attempted genocide ever since the 1920s, (Like Mufti of “Palestine” at his incited massacres, and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood who called simply ‘to kill Jews’).
    – Chased out a Million Jews in the late 1940.
    – Has boycotted and demonized [every logical defensive action is branded “racist”] the Jewish democratic-free-equal-to-all state only because it’s the “other”. It is neither Muslim nor purely Arab.
    – The Arab racist world continues to play with Arab-Palestinians (grandchildren of Arab immigrants[3]) like ping-pong against Israel.[4]

    AND THE BEACON OF APARTHEID HAS THE AUDACITY TO CHARGE MULTI-RACIAL ISRAEL’S BEAUTIFUL DEMOCRACY [THAT OFTEN GIVES PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR ITS ARABS OVER JEWS[5]|[6]|[7]|[8]|[9]|[10]] WITH THIS TERMINOLOGY?

    THE ARAB DECEPTIVE PROPAGANDA MACHINE THAT ACTS AS IF ARAB-ISLAMIC GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN IS NOT OBVIOUS TO DETERMINE ISRAEL’S EXTRA SECURITY MEASURES [INCLUDING AN ANTI-TERROR / ANTI-MASSACRES WALL].

    As if we don’t know the ‘Arab oil lobby’s power’ over the UN and other major international organizations and some African officials to go along with the Arab propaganda.

    Despite some non-Arabs who jump on this wagon out of: ignorance, of confusion complex, or of sheer bigotry, never forget, that this entire “apartheid, racism” label was invented by Arab racists ganging up in the UN since 1975.

    Even promoter of the apartheid-slur J. Carter admitted on CNN: “I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis.”[11]

    Radnom fact: Israel is a secular system, its laws are based on the Ottoman and British-Mandate rulings that proceeded the reestablishing of the State in its historic place.

    Incidentally, the lying Pallywood machine also created a fake “memorandum” (written by an Arab propaganist) claiming that N. Mandela ever uttered this crappy analogy.[12]

    Arab Nazism – the origin of the ‘apartheid slur’
    This thesis of falsely comparing Israel to S. Africa’s system was invented by Ahmed Shukeiri in 1961,[13] that’s right, years before the “occupation” excuse ‘appeared’ on the scene. (And of course decades before the security fence against Arab massacres was erected). Not by accident was that very same Mr. Shukairy the aide to the Arab-Islamic Nazi: the Mufti, A. Hitler’s ally, involved assisting in extermination at the period of WWII.[14] He also identified himeself with Nazis (based in Argentina) in front of the United Nations in 1962.[15]

    Last but not least:

    Isn’t it true that the anti-Jewish “apartheid” slur (Treat the ‘A’ word like the ‘N’ word, jpost)[16] campaign is: A) to demonize Jews and B) to hide the real apartheid practice by the Arab-Islamic world?[17]

    A tiny ironic question, What would the bigoted: Arab-Islamic-Palestine-Apartheid regime do with the dreadful “queers-for-palestine”?

    1. leobetapar Avatar
      leobetapar

      hey man
      you will got it
      the jews whose forbidden in Egypt for sepultures because they were worse than nazi with their slaves so the african tell them tehy will desacralised their earth and can’t be burried there even for Joseph (the poor the ethnies so bad they forgot them when they go)
      the jews have pervet pericles and the greek take revenge by feddling their money
      the jews destruct the roman peace it’s a senator LEVY who create the law who punished of death any one who use anything else than lead to cook to eat an to hotter his wine
      the jews were growing withe people like poultry in ukraine (the kazars) and exporting them to the rest of the world till the 17th .Thousands of complaint about that exist (cf history of eastern europe)
      the worst people of the 20 th century who killed legion of Romanichels and innocent people where jews or originated from jews I mean Hitler great son of a rabbi of the Guemarra Eichmann Mengele and so on and so on
      and the more important when you said jewish state is that even the only one GOD denies them ,the god of the monotheisme have put them in exile so this state is an heretique state in fact it’s the state of satan and everyone know that the state of saytan has to be on the zenith of it’s power before the fall came and i can assure you that it’s zenith is behind.
      Prepare yourself for the fall of the devil state man
      with all my salutations

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        No-body is stopping Arabs from buying their own musical instruments ….

        1. leobetapar Avatar
          leobetapar

          sorry i don’t grasp the why and meaning here

      2. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
        Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

        Seek help.

  18. DeeCeeBee Avatar
    DeeCeeBee

    Arab apartheid / Muslim apartheid are the largest ‘apartheid systems’, that exist today.[1]

    Virtually all non-Arabs and/or non-Muslims are second class citizens.[2]

    Among minorities that feel the wrath of the bigoted Arab-Muslim world are:

    * Berbers (native N. Africans, before Arab invasion).

    * Copts (indigenous Egyptians suffer from both: Arab racism and Islamic bigotry).

    * Kurds. Examples include: [Saddam’s] Iraq and Syria.

    * Blacks, in Arab lands or in Arab ruled Africa like the genocide in the Sudan and slavery in both Sudan and in Mauritania.

    * Asians, particularly in the Gulf Arab states. [Sex slaves or “plain” slaves).

    * Maronites-Christians [Native Lebanese] suffer from both Arab ethnic racism and religious bigotry, like the massacres in the 1970s by local Muslims and by Palestinian/Syrian forces.

    * Assyrians, are/have been persecuted both racially and religiously. Still very much marginalized in Iraq, for example.

    * Iran is not an Arab country but racism is huge against Kurds, Jews, Turkmens, etc. So is anti-non-Muslim bigotry against Christians, Bahai, Zoroastrians and other in the Islamic republic.

    * Turkey is also a Muslim non-Arab country and Kurds, Greeks, Armenians and other ethnicities have been through much suffering, genocide. Still there’s great wide racism against non-Turkish ethnic groups. Turkey’s policy in Cyprus has also been recognized as a real Apartheid by many. All non-Muslims are automatically branded as “foreigners” at the “moderate” Islamic supremacy of Turkey.

    * All non-Msulims in ‘Islamic Apartheid state’ of S. Arabia.

    * Asians [slaves!] in the Gulf Arab states.

    * Al-Akhdam in Yemen.

    * Gypsies in Jordan.

    Islamic-Arab “Palestine” apartheid:

    * Ahmadiyya Muslims are harshly persecuted in (Pakistan and in) the “Palestinian” Apartheid authority and/or by Hamas.

    * Descendents of slaves of the Bedouins are still stigmatized by racist “Palestinians”.

    * Christians are discriminated, persercuted against [especially since Y. Arafat’s Islamization of Bethlehem], by Palestine authority and Hamas regime.

    From anti-Jewish Apartheid:

    – The Arab racist apartheid against the Jews attempted genocide ever since the 1920s, (Like Mufti of “Palestine” at his incited massacres, and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood who called simply ‘to kill Jews’).
    – Chased out a Million Jews in the late 1940.
    – Has boycotted and demonized [every logical defensive action is branded “racist”] the Jewish democratic-free-equal-to-all state only because it’s the “other”. It is neither Muslim nor purely Arab.
    – The Arab racist world continues to play with Arab-Palestinians (grandchildren of Arab immigrants[3]) like ping-pong against Israel.[4]

    AND THE BEACON OF APARTHEID HAS THE AUDACITY TO CHARGE MULTI-RACIAL ISRAEL’S BEAUTIFUL DEMOCRACY [THAT OFTEN GIVES PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR ITS ARABS OVER JEWS[5]|[6]|[7]|[8]|[9]|[10]] WITH THIS TERMINOLOGY?

    THE ARAB DECEPTIVE PROPAGANDA MACHINE THAT ACTS AS IF ARAB-ISLAMIC GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN IS NOT OBVIOUS TO DETERMINE ISRAEL’S EXTRA SECURITY MEASURES [INCLUDING AN ANTI-TERROR / ANTI-MASSACRES WALL].

    As if we don’t know the ‘Arab oil lobby’s power’ over the UN and other major international organizations and some African officials to go along with the Arab propaganda.

    Despite some non-Arabs who jump on this wagon out of: ignorance, of confusion complex, or of sheer bigotry, never forget, that this entire “apartheid, racism” label was invented by Arab racists ganging up in the UN since 1975.

    Even promoter of the apartheid-slur J. Carter admitted on CNN: “I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis.”[11]

    Radnom fact: Israel is a secular system, its laws are based on the Ottoman and British-Mandate rulings that proceeded the reestablishing of the State in its historic place.

    Incidentally, the lying Pallywood machine also created a fake “memorandum” (written by an Arab propaganist) claiming that N. Mandela ever uttered this crappy analogy.[12]

    Arab Nazism – the origin of the ‘apartheid slur’
    This thesis of falsely comparing Israel to S. Africa’s system was invented by Ahmed Shukeiri in 1961,[13] that’s right, years before the “occupation” excuse ‘appeared’ on the scene. (And of course decades before the security fence against Arab massacres was erected). Not by accident was that very same Mr. Shukairy the aide to the Arab-Islamic Nazi: the Mufti, A. Hitler’s ally, involved assisting in extermination at the period of WWII.[14] He also identified himeself with Nazis (based in Argentina) in front of the United Nations in 1962.[15]

    Last but not least:

    Isn’t it true that the anti-Jewish “apartheid” slur (Treat the ‘A’ word like the ‘N’ word, jpost)[16] campaign is: A) to demonize Jews and B) to hide the real apartheid practice by the Arab-Islamic world?[17]

    A tiny ironic question, What would the bigoted: Arab-Islamic-Palestine-Apartheid regime do with the dreadful “queers-for-palestine”?

  19.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Arab apartheid / Muslim apartheid are the largest ‘apartheid systems’, that exist today.[1]

    Virtually all non-Arabs and/or non-Muslims are second class citizens.[2]

    Among minorities that feel the wrath of the bigoted Arab-Muslim world are:

    * Berbers (native N. Africans, before Arab invasion).

    * Copts (indigenous Egyptians suffer from both: Arab racism and Islamic bigotry).

    * Kurds. Examples include: [Saddam’s] Iraq and Syria.

    * Blacks, in Arab lands or in Arab ruled Africa like the genocide in the Sudan and slavery in both Sudan and in Mauritania.

    * Asians, particularly in the Gulf Arab states. [Sex slaves or “plain” slaves).

    * Maronites-Christians [Native Lebanese] suffer from both Arab ethnic racism and religious bigotry, like the massacres in the 1970s by local Muslims and by Palestinian/Syrian forces.

    * Assyrians, are/have been persecuted both racially and religiously. Still very much marginalized in Iraq, for example.

    * Iran is not an Arab country but racism is huge against Kurds, Jews, Turkmens, etc. So is anti-non-Muslim bigotry against Christians, Bahai, Zoroastrians and other in the Islamic republic.

    * Turkey is also a Muslim non-Arab country and Kurds, Greeks, Armenians and other ethnicities have been through much suffering, genocide. Still there’s great wide racism against non-Turkish ethnic groups. Turkey’s policy in Cyprus has also been recognized as a real Apartheid by many. All non-Muslims are automatically branded as “foreigners” at the “moderate” Islamic supremacy of Turkey.

    * All non-Msulims in ‘Islamic Apartheid state’ of S. Arabia.

    * Asians [slaves!] in the Gulf Arab states.

    * Al-Akhdam in Yemen.

    * Gypsies in Jordan.

    Islamic-Arab “Palestine” apartheid:

    * Ahmadiyya Muslims are harshly persecuted in (Pakistan and in) the “Palestinian” Apartheid authority and/or by Hamas.

    * Descendents of slaves of the Bedouins are still stigmatized by racist “Palestinians”.

    * Christians are discriminated, persercuted against [especially since Y. Arafat’s Islamization of Bethlehem], by Palestine authority and Hamas regime.

    From anti-Jewish Apartheid:

    – The Arab racist apartheid against the Jews attempted genocide ever since the 1920s, (Like Mufti of “Palestine” at his incited massacres, and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood who called simply ‘to kill Jews’).
    – Chased out a Million Jews in the late 1940.
    – Has boycotted and demonized [every logical defensive action is branded “racist”] the Jewish democratic-free-equal-to-all state only because it’s the “other”. It is neither Muslim nor purely Arab.
    – The Arab racist world continues to play with Arab-Palestinians (grandchildren of Arab immigrants[3]) like ping-pong against Israel.[4]

    AND THE BEACON OF APARTHEID HAS THE AUDACITY TO CHARGE MULTI-RACIAL ISRAEL’S BEAUTIFUL DEMOCRACY [THAT OFTEN GIVES PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR ITS ARABS OVER JEWS[5]|[6]|[7]|[8]|[9]|[10]] WITH THIS TERMINOLOGY?

    THE ARAB DECEPTIVE PROPAGANDA MACHINE THAT ACTS AS IF ARAB-ISLAMIC GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN IS NOT OBVIOUS TO DETERMINE ISRAEL’S EXTRA SECURITY MEASURES [INCLUDING AN ANTI-TERROR / ANTI-MASSACRES WALL].

    As if we don’t know the ‘Arab oil lobby’s power’ over the UN and other major international organizations and some African officials to go along with the Arab propaganda.

    Despite some non-Arabs who jump on this wagon out of: ignorance, of confusion complex, or of sheer bigotry, never forget, that this entire “apartheid, racism” label was invented by Arab racists ganging up in the UN since 1975.

    Even promoter of the apartheid-slur J. Carter admitted on CNN: “I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis.”[11]

    Radnom fact: Israel is a secular system, its laws are based on the Ottoman and British-Mandate rulings that proceeded the reestablishing of the State in its historic place.

    Incidentally, the lying Pallywood machine also created a fake “memorandum” (written by an Arab propaganist) claiming that N. Mandela ever uttered this crappy analogy.[12]

    Arab Nazism – the origin of the ‘apartheid slur’
    This thesis of falsely comparing Israel to S. Africa’s system was invented by Ahmed Shukeiri in 1961,[13] that’s right, years before the “occupation” excuse ‘appeared’ on the scene. (And of course decades before the security fence against Arab massacres was erected). Not by accident was that very same Mr. Shukairy the aide to the Arab-Islamic Nazi: the Mufti, A. Hitler’s ally, involved assisting in extermination at the period of WWII.[14] He also identified himeself with Nazis (based in Argentina) in front of the United Nations in 1962.[15]

    Last but not least:

    Isn’t it true that the anti-Jewish “apartheid” slur (Treat the ‘A’ word like the ‘N’ word, jpost)[16] campaign is: A) to demonize Jews and B) to hide the real apartheid practice by the Arab-Islamic world?[17]

    A tiny ironic question, What would the bigoted: Arab-Islamic-Palestine-Apartheid regime do with the dreadful “queers-for-palestine”?

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      hey man
      you will got it
      the jews whose forbidden in Egypt for sepultures because they were worse than nazi with their slaves so the african tell them tehy will desacralised their earth and can’t be burried there even for Joseph (the poor the ethnies so bad they forgot them when they go)
      the jews have pervet pericles and the greek take revenge by feddling their money
      the jews destruct the roman peace it’s a senator LEVY who create the law who punished of death any one who use anything else than lead to cook to eat an to hotter his wine
      the jews were growing withe people like poultry in ukraine (the kazars) and exporting them to the rest of the world till the 17th .Thousands of complaint about that exist (cf history of eastern europe)
      the worst people of the 20 th century who killed legion of Romanichels and innocent people where jews or originated from jews I mean Hitler great son of a rabbi of the Guemarra Eichmann Mengele and so on and so on
      and the more important when you said jewish state is that even the only one GOD denies them ,the god of the monotheisme have put them in exile so this state is an heretique state in fact it’s the state of satan and everyone know that the state of saytan has to be on the zenith of it’s power before the fall came and i can assure you that it’s zenith is behind.
      Prepare yourself for the fall of the devil state man
      with all my salutations

      1.  Avatar
        Anonymous

        No-body is stopping Arabs from buying their own musical instruments ….

        1.  Avatar
          Anonymous

          sorry i don’t grasp the why and meaning here

  20. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    Does this writer even know what an apartheid is???? This is not journalism but a poorly researched attack on Israel. South Africa did indeed create new countries within her territory but South Africa disenfranchized all non-whites and made them citizens of these countries even though they didn’t live within them. In Israel proper, non-Jews have the right to vote, to move freely, to use all services and form their own parties, even parties that officially try to destroy the country’s character. With regards to the West Bank, it wasn’t a formal part of the country that Israel disenfranchised. It was a territory of undetermined permanent status that Israel couldn’t decide what to do with due to the problems in every possible decision. It is in reality more like a colony, 58% of which is under Israeli military rule and 42% of which is under various levels of autonomy. It is universally agreed that this isn’t and shouldn’t be the permanent solution and Israel has been trying to negotiate a solution.

  21. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    Does this writer even know what an apartheid is???? This is not journalism but a poorly researched attack on Israel. South Africa did indeed create new countries within her territory but South Africa disenfranchized all non-whites and made them citizens of these countries even though they didn’t live within them. In Israel proper, non-Jews have the right to vote, to move freely, to use all services and form their own parties, even parties that officially try to destroy the country’s character. With regards to the West Bank, it wasn’t a formal part of the country that Israel disenfranchised. It was a territory of undetermined permanent status that Israel couldn’t decide what to do with due to the problems in every possible decision. It is in reality more like a colony, 58% of which is under Israeli military rule and 42% of which is under various levels of autonomy. It is universally agreed that this isn’t and shouldn’t be the permanent solution and Israel has been trying to negotiate a solution.

  22. Does this writer even know what an apartheid is???? This is not journalism but a poorly researched attack on Israel. South Africa did indeed create new countries within her territory but South Africa disenfranchized all non-whites and made them citizens of these countries even though they didn’t live within them. In Israel proper, non-Jews have the right to vote, to move freely, to use all services and form their own parties, even parties that officially try to destroy the country’s character. With regards to the West Bank, it wasn’t a formal part of the country that Israel disenfranchised. It was a territory of undetermined permanent status that Israel couldn’t decide what to do with due to the problems in every possible decision. It is in reality more like a colony, 58% of which is under Israeli military rule and 42% of which is under various levels of autonomy. It is universally agreed that this isn’t and shouldn’t be the permanent solution and Israel has been trying to negotiate a solution.

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