PA: Israeli Government Re-Launches Anti-Campaign Against PNA Textbooks ["Sharansky Linked With Mafia"]

2005-04-12

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GAZA, Palestine, April 12, 2005 (IPC+Agencies) [Official PA website]---The Israeli government launched a new aggressive campaign against the Palestinian National Authority targeting the Palestinian curriculum, an Israeli official report claiming that Palestinian school textbooks deemed ideologically offensive or antipatriotic and the content of the curriculum as inconsistent with spirit of "peace process".

The report set forth recently by the Israeli minister of absorbing affair Nathan Saranski to the premier Arial Sharon , said that the Palestinian textbooks viewed the so called the "Protocol of the Learned Elders of Zion" as a group of secret decisions outlined by Zionist conference I .

The Israeli radio reported yesterday that Sharanski asserted in his report "such text books overly ignored the real well known features of those protocols as being a forged document drawn by the underground police of the Russian emperor by the end of 19th century, Sharanski claimed.

The report also said "more than 160 PNA textbooks did not include recognition with the existence of Israel as a sovereign state as it (Israel) has not been shown at the geographic maps printed in such textbooks."

Sharanski is a hard-line minister and always adopted radical attitude towards the Palestinians and also whose name linked with the Israeli Mafia loop. Recently the American president George W. Bush's praised Sharansky's book, "The Case for Democracy." The president has often said the book outlines the exact policies he would like his administration to advance.

This is not the first time the Israeli government launched a campaign against the Palestinian school textbook but it coincides with an incitement campaign targeting the Palestinian National Authority. The Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz, who briefed the Knesset committee said that the Palestinian authority leader Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen is not fully control on the situation and the Palestinian are in need to take numerous measures for full control.

Source: IMRA – Independent Media Review and Analysis