Tonight I saw a fine documentary about a bicultural school in Kafr Qara, near Haifa. It an attempt to educate young Palestinian Israelis and Jews about each other, and other campuses in the Hand-in Hand Network have opened up in the country, least of all because of the substantial funding that the project has received from abroad.
Month: March 2009
The AJDS holds and participates in many different events.
The AJDS holds and participates in many different events.
[ME News Service Comments: Anyone following the Israeli media would find that besides being concerned with coalition making, one of the biggest story concerns Navy Chief Major General Eli Marom’s visit to a strip club. The prediction is that he will lose his job because he lied about it. What I have been waiting is for someone to point our the obvious: In Israel’s current warped value system soldiers get punished far more severely for stealing from Palestinians (without authorisation) than for murdering them without authorisation.
[ME News Service Comments: Anyone following the Israeli media would find that besides being concerned with coalition making, one of the biggest story concerns Navy Chief Major General Eli Marom’s visit to a strip club. The prediction is that he will lose his job because he lied about it. What I have been waiting is for someone to point our the obvious: In Israel’s current warped value system soldiers get punished far more severely for stealing from Palestinians (without authorisation) than for murdering them without authorisation.
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