http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hamas-new-textbooks-to-teach-about-liberation-plans-313939
East Jerusalem Classroom Photo: REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
Hamas
has begun preparing new school textbooks that teach children about
“plans to liberate Palestine and the legitimacy and various forms of
resistance [against Israel].” Jamal Abu Hashem, advisor to the
Hamas-controlled education ministry, said new books would be introduced
as part of National Education Studies for grades 8-10.
Abu
Hashem was speaking during a workshop in Gaza City that was attended by
senior officials of the education ministry and experts from a number of
universities. His statements were published by several Hamas websites.
Some
of the new books will refer to the geographical significance of
Palestine and its religious, strategic and security status, the Hamas
official said. The books will also teach children about Jaffa, Jericho,
Acre, Rafah, Nablus, Hebron, Jerusalem and Beersheba, he added.
The
children will study the history and background of prominent Palestinian
figures such as PLO founder Ahmed Shukairi, his successor, Yasser
Arafat and slain Hamas spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin.
The
new curriculum, which is expected to be introduced into the Gaza Strip
schools next academic year, will also refer to the “Zionist project and
ambitions, the Balfour Declaration, the 1948 Nakba and massacres, the
1956, 1967 and 1973 wars,” according to the Hamas official.
One
teaching unit, he said, will talk about the “right of return” for
Palestinian refugees and the “project to liberate Palestine, including
the issue of resistance and its legitimacy, and various forms.”
The
new books will teach children about the Palestinian “resistance” groups
such as Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine
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