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>JN April 24, 2000, Vol. 8, No. 73
86-year-old Man Suspected of Raping a 14-Year-Old
By IsraelWire
An 86-year-old Holon resident was indicted in the Tel Aviv District Court for the rape of a 14-year-old girl. Isaac Kegel saw the girl on her way to school and invited her to his home later in the day, at which time he promised to pay her for some work. The girl arrived that same afternoon. Kegel then allegedly began tearing the victim's clothing from her body despite her efforts to fight him off.
Pollard Cleans Toilets on Seder Night
By IsraelWire
Jonathan Pollard did not have a Passover seder this year. Instead, he spent seder night scrubbing toilets and washing floors. He was given a direct order to do this work on the first night of the Passover holiday in preparation for a special inspection the next day.
Refusal to obey a direct order has serious consequences and would likely have landed him in "the hole" - a punitive cell in isolation, totally incommunicado, for up to 90 days.
Requesting kosher food for Passover has provided just one more opportunity for Pollard to be harassed and humiliated on a daily basis. Pollard is now subsisting largely on fruits and vegetables.
According to officials seeking Pollard's release, "Neither the Government of Israel nor its Embassy in Washington has made any effort at all to inquire about or to assure Jonathan's Passover needs, his financial needs, his health needs, or his security."
Palestine Radio to Begin Hebrew Broadcasts
By IsraelWire
The PLO Authority's Radio Palestine will in the very near future begin Hebrew language broadcasts, including music and news, which will be heard in the Gaza and southern areas, excluding Eilat. The new station hopes to attract Jewish listeners since it will be playing Hebrew music and broadcast news in Hebrew as well.
According to an Israel Radio report, the new channel will report primarily on issues pertaining to the ongoing Oslo process between Israel and the PLO Authority as well as security related items.
Palestinian Authority Hammers Hate Into Children
Israel Faxx Staff Report
Teachers in Palestinian schools are formally instructed to drill into the minds of their young students the idea that "Zionism is racist and aggressive," and to implant the value of "wrath toward the alien thief who stole the homeland and dispersed its people."
Such are the findings of a new expose released by the Palestinian Media Watch Center, headed by Itamar Marcus, based on its review of the official teacher's guides accompanying textbooks used by the PA in its schools.
For several years, the center has monitored and translated from Arabic mainstream Palestinian newspapers, TV and radio broadcasts, and textbooks used in Palestinian schools for anti-Israel and anti-Semitic content.
In a report last year, Marcus found PA textbooks were filled with inciteful descriptions of Jews and Israelis as cunning, deceitful and treacherous, and routinely referred to Israel as the "Zionist enemy" and "oppressors." The new 19-page study reveals that the official PA guides - which Palestinian teachers are required to use - contain much the same, instructing educators to saturate the minds of their students with incitement against Israel and extreme anti-Semitic views.
For example, PA teachers are required to prepare their students for a "Jihad" (holy war) to liberate all of "Palestine" and to "cherish the Jihad fighters who quench the earth of Jerusalem with their blood." They are to instill in their students the idea that "Jews are dangerous enemies of Allah, Islam and the Arab nation." Students are to asked to emulate the efforts of Saladin, who liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders. PA teachers also are to refer to Israel as the "Zionist occupier," Nazis and fascists.
Further, Palestinian teachers are to promote Zionism as an example of European imperialism and colonialism, whose aim is "the elimination of the original inhabitants of Palestine." And they are instructed to portray Jews as racial and religious zealots, and to explain this as the reason why Jews were persecuted over the centuries by Christians.
Meanwhile, new history books introduced in PA schools define Israel as a "thieving conqueror," while the only map of "Palestine" in new PA textbooks eliminates the state of Israel, while labeling Haifa, Jaffa, Beersheva, and the entire Galilee and Negev as Palestinian cities.
A senior official with the Palestinian Ministry of Education recently defended the use of the inciteful material exposed by Marcus, saying, "We are sovereign and we will determine what we will teach our children, without any interference."
In a recent interview with the Jerusalem Post, Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashwari dismissed Marcus' monitoring work as "too much Israeli paranoia and suspicion," and "highly exaggerated much ado about nothing."
Despite the damaging report, the US has decided to increase its substantial support of Palestinian education with an additional $10 million grant.
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