Israeli Arab schoolbooks cite Palestinian version of war

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007

JERUSALEM (AFP) — History textbooks for Israeli Arab students this year will for the first time present the Palestinian version of Israel's creation as a "catastrophe," the education ministry said on Sunday.

"For these types of events, both the Israeli and Palestinian versions have to be presented," Education Minister Yuli Tamir said in a statement.

Alongside presenting the Israeli interpretation of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the books will also present the version "that is generally accepted among the Arabs, according to which Israel's War of Independence is perceived as a catastrophe (Naqba) by the Palestinians," Tamir said.

The books will also for the first time say that "some of the Palestinians were expelled following the War of Independence and that...

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