Israel’s
Terrorist Educational System
By Dr. Elias Akleh
08 September, 2007
Countercurrents.org
After
911 the major American media outlets were directed to attack and criticize
Arab and Islamic educational systems to present them as Madrassas (schools
in Arabic) breeding hate, prejudice, religious extremism, and violence.
Barbara Walters from 20/20 program (ABC TV) traveled to Saudi Arabia
to criticize Islamic schools. She selected some Qur’anic phrases
out of context against the Jews, when at the time the Jews broke peace
treaty and betrayed Moslems, and portrayed them as hate provoking and
anti-Semitic. Saudis took her criticism with open mind promising to
“modernize” their curriculum.
Due to political reasons
critics, including Barbara Walters, had ignored to recognize all the
good teachings Islamic schools are offering including acceptance of
Judaic and Christian religions, tolerance to other cultures, moderation
of behaviors, family values, compassion towards the poor, equality of
rights, freedom and slave emancipation, and democracy (Islamic Shoura)
among a long list of others.
Walters and others, on the
other hand, did not dare even to look at the Israeli educational system
and compare it with others. Such an examination would expose Israeli
educational system as racist, chauvinist, elitist, intolerance, hate
provoking, violent, militarized and terrorist system.
Zionist founders recognized
that an Israeli state in the heart of the Arab World on usurped Palestinian
land would never be accepted. To exist Israel needs to use brutal military
force to impose itself. Thus the Israeli society needs to be a militarized
society. David Ben Gurion, first Israeli president, expressed this fact
by stating that “Israel is merely a militarized society”.
Militarization is reflected
in every aspect of the Israeli life; starting in their families and
moving on to their cities, their culture, their businesses, their institutions,
their industries, their education, and even in their art and entertainment.
Virtually every Israeli is a military personnel of one type or the other.
Armed Israeli soldiers are found everywhere you go in any Israeli community;
in the streets, in the markets, in stores, in restaurants, in buses,
on trains, and in every place you could think of. Military and ex-military
generals and personnel run every piece of the Israeli machinery.
To create such a militarized
society, who lives and dies for war, people need to be militarily indoctrinated
since childhood, and what a better way of indoctrinating and programming
the young than within their educational system when their minds are
still pliable and moldable. The Israeli scholar and reporter “Erna
Kazin” noted that the Israeli scholastic curriculums are designed
to raise students, since childhood, within a militarized atmosphere
glorifying the military in order to prepare students to become soldiers
in the Israeli army. Military service in Israel is considered the highest
religious duty that every Israeli citizen aspires to.
The first lesson an Israeli
child learns is the most racist, chauvinist, prejudiced, religiously
extremist, homo-phobic lesson of the persecuted (prejudice) God’s
chosen people in God’s Promised Land. The Israeli child discovers
that he has the Jewish divine birth right of being God’s chosen,
and that this divine privilege comes with the envy, the anti-Semitic
hatred, and the persecution the others (the Goyim; other people) inflicted
on him. He learns that these Goyims are mere animal souls incarnated
in human bodies for the service and pleasure of the God’s chosen
people. He also learns that his God’s Promised Land had been stolen
by heathen thieves (Arabs and Moslems) and it is his religious duty
to follow God’s wish of cleansing that Promised Land from these
heathens and building a house for God.
The Israeli scholastic books
are written with extreme militarized Zionist ideology with a deep color
of distorted religiosity. The Israeli researcher “Eli Bodia”,
at Haifa University, conducted a study of the Israeli scholastic historical
curriculum called “Israeli Struggle in the Hebrew Scholastic History
Books”. “Bodia” concluded that the curriculum perpetuates
the Israeli Arab conflict, and had been a contributing obstacle to any
real peace treaty with Palestinians. He described the curriculum as
deeply distorted by extreme Zionist ideology. It breeds hatred against
Arabs generally and Palestinian specifically by stripping them from
their humanity and describing them as savages, violent, terrorist, retarded,
criminal, dirty, and animalistic. The Israeli scholar “Sigrid
Lehman” stated: “We, the Jews, are inclined to perceive
an Arab as Goyim, as Europeans we perceive him as an Asian enemy against
our national aspirations, and as socialists we perceive him as a representative
to the worst type of retardation”
The Israeli social and religious
curriculums on the other hand are also full with extreme religious prejudice
and social elitism over all the goyim. Religious books are full with
stories of ancient Jewish prophets, who on their murdering god’s
orders, sent the Jews to commit crimes against the goyim, sparing none
and murdering all; infants and old on both sexes, to commit crimes against
farm animals; slaying all the flocks, and to commit crimes against environment;
burning cities, cutting down fruit trees and burning crops. The story
of prophet Samuel and king Saul is just one example of many in the Old
Testament and the Talmud. At times this murdering god joins in the war
and cast down hailstones and fire on Israel’s enemies. Thus Israeli
students learn that murdering goyims and destroying their cities are
not just sanctioned by god but they are religious duties.
God is still talking to Israeli
Rabbis to direct Israel in its war against the Arabs. Israeli Rabbis
publish religious decrees sanctifying Israelis’ aggression against
Palestinians. Rabbi “Murdachai Eliahu”, Israel’s previous
Chief Rabbi, published religious decrees calling for genocide of all
Palestinians as a religious duty. Rabbi “Eleazar Malmid”
published religious decrees encouraging Israelis to steal and burn Palestinian
crops, to kill their farm animals, and to poison their water wells.
Such crimes have become nightly adventurous passing time for Israeli
youth from Israeli colonies against their neighboring Palestinian farming
towns. The extremist religious decrees were published by Israeli Chief
Spiritual Leader Rabbi “Yosef ‘Obadia”, who described
the Palestinians as critters and cockroaches to be stepped on. He also
preaches that the coming Messiah will shove all heathen Arabs in hell.
In September 2005 prominent Israeli Rabbis, led by Rabbi “Dov
Lenor”, sent a religious decree to then Israeli Prime Minister
“Ariel Sharon” permitting him to target Palestinian civilians,
citing ancient Israeli kings such as Saul and David, who were directed
by god to target all goyims without exception; children as well as adults.
These religious decrees become
laws and are taught in Israeli schools side by side with other religious
books that glorify Israeli war criminals describing them as saints for
killing Palestinian goyims, such as the book “Baruch, the Hero”
written by Rabbi “Izhak Genzburg”. The book glorifies the
terrorist “Baruch Goldstein”, who in 1994 murdered 29 Palestinians
and wounded many others while kneeling in prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque
in Hebron before being killed by other prayers. “Baruch”
was called a saint for his crime. He was buried in Israeli colony of
“Kiryat Arba’” and his grave became a pilgrimage to
extreme religious Israelis.
The militarization of the
Israeli educational system has three major characteristics:
First: the system glorifies
military power and war as a way of Israeli life, and reinforces the
concept of might is right. Military service is the ultimate religious
service that god asks from the Israelis. This warring god commands the
Israelis to cleanse his promised land from all Arab goyims and to build
him a temple. It seems that this god wants humans to wage his own war,
and wants to leave his vast universe to live in a tiny earthly temple.
To indoctrinate (brainwash) the new generations with the military spirit
the schools organize school field trips to military bases, where students
can be exposed to military life, to get familiar with all kinds of weapons,
to take pictures with soldiers, and to attend live ammunition training.
They are also encouraged to put their signatures on bombs to be dropped
on Arab neighborhoods as was broadcasted during Israeli attack on Lebanon
in summer 2006. As school assignment the students write letters and
greeting cards to soldiers thanking them for killing the enemies of
god’s chosen people. Military generals and soldiers regularly
visit schools to give speeches about the war, about the undefeated Israeli
army due to god’s help, and about the atrocities of war to desensitize
the students.
Second: the most prominent
characteristic of the Israeli schools is its militarized color, where
military personnel are entrusted with the management of educational
institutions and the teaching of students. A general standing in front
of students demands serious attention and is an example to follow. The
Israeli Ministry of Education had adopted a training program called
“Tsafta” to qualify ex-military and ex-intelligence officers
and generals to become teachers and school headmasters. The director
of this program, “Motti Saji” explained that the goal of
the program is not to find qualified professional teachers but military
leaders with special skills. After “Limor Lifnat” from Likud
party became the Educational Minister in 2000 the extreme military right
was able to occupy the higher positions in the ministry, thus making
the educational system even more militarized.
Third: the establishment
of religious military institutions, known as “Yishovot Hahsadir”,
that combine religious and military extremism. These institutions are
run by Rabbis, where Israeli high school graduates are subjected to
racist Zionist religious teachings as well as military training. Although
the military finance these institutions it has no control over it. These
institutions exist mainly in colonies on the usurped Palestinian land
and in occupied Jerusalem. Their religious curriculum is based on extreme
Zionist religious decrees that are filled with prejudice and hatred
towards the goyims especially Arabs. The Rabbi teachers of these institutions
are known for their attacks on Arabs and their criticism and opposition
to any peace treaty with them. Rabbi “Eli Elbaz”, a prominent
Eastern Rabbi, is known for his overt aggressive attacks on Islam and
its prophet Muhammad. Rabbi “Eliahu Reskin”, from “Efrat”
colony built on usurped land from city of Bethlehem, mocks all attempts
of interfaith dialogue between Jewish Rabbis on one side and Christian
priest and Moslem Sheikhs from Arab World on the other hand. He preaches
that the only language the Arabs understand is the “language of
bullets”.
These Zionist religious military
institutions threaten not only the Arabs but peace in the Middle East
generally and the Israeli state itself specifically. Many observers,
including Israeli military generals, believe that these institutions
are preparing for the overthrow of the secular Israeli government and
turning it into a Zionist religious one. A study done by Israeli Bar-Ilan
University at Ramat Gan had found that 99% of students in these religious
military institutions, and that 90% or Orthodox religious Israelis would
ignore the secular Israeli laws and follow their Rabbi’s religious
decrees when and if these two contradict each other. These findings
were confirmed by an opinion poll done by “Hertzlia Center”
in 2006 indicating that 95% of the religious Israeli soldiers and generals
see themselves following religious decrees rather than secular laws
when they contradict. This was apparent in 2004 while late Prime Minister
“Ariel Sharon” implemented the “Disengagement Plan”
by withdrawing Israeli colonies from Gaza Strip. The prominent Rabbi
“Abraham Shapiro” called on his students and followers to
desert the Israeli army if the plan is implemented, while Rabbi “Haim
Druckman” called on his students and followers to open fire on
the Israeli security forces if they try to implement the plan by force.
These are just few facts
about the terrorist Israeli educational system. I invite concerned reporters,
such as Barbara Walters, to further investigate this matter, and to
do a fair comparison between Arab and Israeli educational systems.
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