Dr. Yitzhak Geiger of the Institute for Zionist Strategies studied the Israeli public school curriculum. He found that it emphasis equal civic society at the expense of the Jewish nation-state, for which the country was founded. Knesset Member Zevulun Orlev (Habayit Hayehudi) identifies the problem as a leftist approach.
One book describes the Oslo Accords as "another step toward peace among the nations." Another book asserts that “a nation-state model increases tensions among the country's citizens.” [Oslo did not bring peace but war.]
A new curriculum is scheduled to be introduced in three months (www.imra.org.il, 11/25). Its approach was not stated.
There would be little problem if the Arabs were tolerant and non-violent. Instead, they sympathize with the hostile Arabs surrounding the country and periodically waging war on it. The Arabs inside and outside the country tried to expel and/or exterminate the Jews. The Arabs still vie for the country, house-by-house. For the Jewish people to preserve their sovereignty and lives, they need education about the continuing struggle and their national rights.
The Palestine Mandate distinguished between Jewish national and Arab civil rights. Anticipating Jewish sovereignty from the edge of Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean, it allotted political rights to the Jewish people and religious and civil rights to the Arabs. Israel allots political rights to the Arabs, but faces the difficulty of maintaining the country as a Jewish state offering equal rights to Arab citizens except the right of return. Even there, Israel has poor control over immigration, and lets many Arabs in; others sneak in. Israel may be carrying democracy too far to survive, but not far enough for the Jews, considering that the parliament is based on parties and not districts, government control over the broadcast media, leftist control over the courts and prosecutors, and police who beat up religious nationalist Jews.
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