PA SCHOOLBOOKS AND THE PLO CHARTER

The following material comparing Palestinian Authority school books and the Palestinian National Covenant was prepared by Itamar Marcus, Director of Research, Center For Monitoring The Impact Of Peace:

Article 4: "The Zionist occupation"

Schoolbook: "The resistance of the Palestinian people to the Zionist occupation..." [Our Arabic Language For Fifth Grade, pp.69]

Article 7:

"It is a national duty to bring up individual Palestinians in an Arab revolutionary manner...He must be prepared for the armed struggle and ready to sacrifice his wealth and his life..."

Schoolbook: "...there will be a Jihad and our country shall be freed...You must know, my boy, that Palestine is your holy responsibility and that of your generation." [Our Arabic Language For Fifth Grade #542, pp.69-70]

Schoolbook: "Long live the homeland. O my land, my land, my blood will be sacrificed for you. I have given my life as a sacrifice, accept it." [Our Arabic Language, Part Two, Fourth Grade p. 131-133]

Article 9;

"Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine."

Schoolbook: "Without blood not even one centimeter will be liberated." [Reader and Literary Texts for Eighth Grade p. 131-133]

Article 15:

"The liberation of Palestine ...aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine..."

Schoolbook: "Why must we fight the Jews and drive them out of our land?" [Our Arabic Language for Fifth Grade p.66]

Article 15:

"The Arab nation must mobilize all its military, human, and moral and spiritual capabilities to participate actively with the Palestinian people in the liberation of Palestine."

Schoolbook: "How are we going to liberate our stolen land? Make use of the following ideas: Arab unity, genuine faith in Allah, most modern weapons and ammunition, using oil and other precious natural resources as weapons in the battle for liberation." [Our Arabic Language for Seventh Grade Part A, p. 15]

Articles 19-20:

"The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal...The Balfour Declaration...null and void."

Schoolbook: "...the Balfour Declaration is regarded as illegal..." [Modern Arab History and Contemporary Problems, Part Two, for Tenth Grade #613 p.51]

Article 20:

"Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history"

Schoolbook: "The Zionists turn their attention towards Palestine as the national homeland of the Jews, while relying on false historical and religious claims." [Modern Arab history and Contemporary Problems, Part 2, for Tenth Grade, p.50]

Article 20:

"Judaism being a religion is not an independent nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single nation with an identity of its own."

Schoolbook: "The Jews deluded themselves that their religious faith was sufficient to turn them into one nation." [Modern Arab History and Contemporary Problems, Part 2, for Tenth Grade, p. 49]

Article 21:

"The Arab Palestinian people...reject all solutions which are substitutes for the total liberation of Palestine."

Schoolbook: "My brothers! The oppressors have overstepped the boundary, therefore Jihad and sacrifice are a duty...are we to let them steal its Arab nature?....let us gather for war with red blood and blazing fire...Oh Palestine, the youth will redeem your land..." [Reader and Literary Texts for Eighth Grade, p. 120-122]

Article 22:

It [Israel] is racist and fanatic in its nature, aggressive, expansionist colonialist in its aim....a base for world imperialism placed strategically in the midst of the Arab homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab nation...the liberation of Palestine will destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence..."

Schoolbook: "Racism: mankind has suffered from this evil both in ancient as well as in modern times, for, indeed, Satan has, in the eyes of many people, made their evil actions appear beautiful...Such a people are the Jews..." [Islamic Education for Eighth Grade p.95]

Schoolbook: "Write in your exercise book: An event showing the fanaticism of the Jews in Palestine against Muslims or Christians." [Islamic Education for Ninth Grade, p.182]

Schoolbook: "Zionism is a political, aggressive and colonialist movement..." [Modern Arab History and Contemporary Problems, Part Two, for Tenth Grade #613, p.49]

Schoolbook: "The colonial powers regarded the Zionist Movement as the means for the attainment of their greedy colonial aspirations and saw Palestine as the base for the setting up of a Jewish state, thus tearing the Arab Homeland asunder..." [Modern Arab History and Contemporary Problems, Part Two, for Tenth Grade p. 48]

Schoolbook: "Remember: the final and inevitable result will be the victory of the Muslims over the Jews...the Nation will recruit its forces and there will be a Jihad and our country will be freed." [Our Arabic Language for Fifth Grade #542, pp.67-69]

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