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Uproar at Tel Hai College: Nakba marked on calendar
Tomer Velmer
Published: 20.10.10, 14:48
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1. The Left built and then destroy it. Lunatics? Fools? Derange
(10.20.10)
2. memorial days
de daniel mostrel ,   paris   (10.20.10)
self destruction poor left what do ben gurion think in his grave ?
3. My 1st reaction is
Johan Sebastian ,   Holland   (10.20.10)
Ymah shimchem. You are the shame and the desolation of the Jewish People. Must you be reminded that Israeli Arabs are ISRAELI and whether they like it or not they are obliged to celebrate the OFFICIAL ISRAELI calendar, not the hamas or the plo one? Really disgusted
4. Student Union
howiej ,   NJ/USA   (10.20.10)
Someone from the Student Union had to have proofread the calendar. The "We didn't know about it," is unbelievable. Did the calendar also mark the death of Baruch Goldstein?
5. good news
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (10.20.10)
This is good news. It helps make clear that this is not about "settlements" in lands liberated from Arab occupation in 1967, but the sadness the Arabs feel because they failed to kill every Jew in Israel in 1948.
6. someone needs to be held accountable for this
disgusted ,   zion   (10.20.10)
this is os disgraceful that words do not do justice to the betrayal of israel by the studen tunion leaders. they must be held accountable and suspended from classes for at least a semster and certainly take away their financial support.
7. Pity that like most Israelis, the Students have no balls..
Mikesailor ,   Miami, FL   (10.20.10)
Why is a notation in the calendar such a problem with zionists? Perhaps because the truth contained by the 'other's narrative is too much for these indoctrinated college students to handle?
8. So what? OUR RIGHT TO SUFFERING IS NOT EXCLUSIVE
Ron ,   Jerusalem   (10.20.10)
It is this same jealously of our superiority, the sureness of our exclusive justness, that allows our politicians to pass blatantly racist laws like the recent amendment to the citizenship law. Until we internalize that Jewish independence meant Palestinian dispossession, we are refusing peace. What's more, we are lying to ourselves. What do you call it when hundreds of thousands of your people lose their homes? Do you call it independence? I'd think catastrophe was as good a name as any. Is there anyone left out there that understands what democracy means??
9. The state should cut off all financial aid
jason white ,   afula,israel   (10.20.10)
to this college. The students responsible should be expelled immediately. There should be a new calendar printed and the dates of the deaths of Rabbi Kahane, Baruch Goldstein and Avraham Stern marked off as memorial days.
10. When do Arabs/Muslims ever consider the other's narrative?
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (10.20.10)
Mikesailor writes, "Perhaps because the truth contained by the 'other's narrative is too much for these indoctrinated college students to handle?" Tell me when Arabs or Muslims have ever considered the "others" of lands they conquered, cultures they destroyed, or peoples they put into "submission".
11. #8 - "lose their homes"?
bob96 ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (10.20.10)
12. Trumpeldor must be rolling in his grave. What a shame!
Arthur ,   SF, CA   (10.20.10)
13. we need to stop apologizing for defeating arabs in war
zionist forever   (10.20.10)
Thanks to Liberman the government introduced a bill banning any public funding of nakba events. There should be a rule in the education system that any body that receives any funding from any educational institution will lose that funding no second chances. We must wipe out this idea of the nakba.and end this apologist culture that the country has developed that years of left wing left wing dominance of the political system and political corectness has brought about Liberman has been the best thing to happen to the Knesset in decades.
14. #8 - "lose their homes"? Give me a break
bob96 ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (10.20.10)
You say: "What do you call it when hundreds of thousands of your people lose their homes? Do you call it independence?" That's the over-statement of the year... That's the arab narrative, pinpointing ONE fact alone. They (and you) conveniently omit that there was an Arab WAR of annihilation againt the jews going on, and we commited the unforgivable sin of not allowing them to slaughter us... Had we lost, we would have lost much more than just "homes"... We owe no apologies to ANY arab (or arab-lover). Get a life.
15. to No8 Mark
David ,   Haifa, Israel   (10.20.10)
do you live in Silwan? I think anti semitic german owned haaretz would be a better paper for you.
16. 14 You forgot that land thievery is land thievery
lydia ,   Brisbane   (10.21.10)
That Israels unilaterally declared Jewish state does not include a sliver of land outside its sovereign borders. That land appropriated by war is illegal. That 250UNres. says Israel annexation is illegal that without Arab approval ie the completion of UN242 the 1967 borders will not be recognized. Your lot can't handle the truth.
17. No Japanese-Americans here EVER celebrate Hiroshima Day
Dr. L. Brnd ,   San Diego, USA   (10.21.10)
Palestinian Arab nationalism has NO place in Israel. They can be Israeli Arabs and support the nationalism of The Jewish State of Israel, or they can get the hell out and move to the Palestinian State. America has many "hyphenated" Americans. German-Americans who acted out pro-Nazi sympathies during WW2 were prosecuted for treason, and those who engaged in pro-German violence and attacks were EXECUTED. Irish-American, Italian-American and Chinese-American ethnicity is all about food, culture and language. NOT about supporting a hostile anti-US foreign power one's heritage identifies with - we are now jailing and deporting hundreds of Pakistani, Somali and Arab-Americans whose idea of being a good citizen was to travel to Afganistan for weapons training so they could come back and commit Jihad over here. EU has the same problem. Time to crack down HARD on anti-israel, anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist sentiments by Israeli Arabs - they don't like the Jewish State, they can emigrate or be booted out. America doesn't stand for this crap, and neither should Israel. America shuts down anti-American mosques preaching violent Jihad, so should Israel. Freedom of religion has limits in America - it stops at treason and sedition, and always has.
18. to #8 do you need that much of attantion?
ghostq   (10.21.10)
sound like you r realy board out of your mind, especialy when the war in 1948 started when the Arabs open fire on Israeli buses. don't make excusses for the people who started the war.
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