my name is khaled. i live in jerusalem an. i recognize the gtruth when it is in my face. you are the ignorant full of hate here. i like living with israelis and jews. my family prospered here and we have a life like we will never have in any arab muslim country. no, i do not betrway my people, israel gave me an education as english major in tal aviv university. we are free to express opinions and not get killed for doing this. we are free to feel like we want. everything you read in the newspapers about arabs suffering in israel is wrong and a lie. you want it to be like that but it is not and this is the truth. there is no reason for me to lie like you say. there is no reason for me to speak negative of israel. it gave me a life as an israeli citizen and i respect tghe jews for doing this for my family. i would not live anywhere in the muslim and arab kingdoms because here it is much better than over there. if you think i am wrong ask any palestinian to tell you if he wants to live in a new palestinian state. they don't. they would rather be under a democracy that a imam and a mullah dictating their life. arabs in iasrael enjoy freedom that is impossible to find in any muslim arab land where you are exposed to murder and disappearing if you open your mouth. shame on you for not telling the truth as it is and for your propaganda. you are full of lies. there is nothing wrong with israelk protecting against the hamas terror from aza. nothing. every country will do the same. these are animals is aza and you know it. they kill their own people too. stop to live in denial. it make you look stupid and ignorant. khaled jerusalem

Of COURSE we do! We teach all about how Israel accepted partition, while the Arabs did not. We teach that one day following Israel's declaration of modern statehood, five Arab armies attacked the nascent Jewish state. They lost. Boo, hoo, hoo. Every country expected a far different outcome. Oh, well. That's your "Naqba," bubbeleh. Please forgive us for winning a defensive war in which we were outnumbered 1,000 to 1. Do we teach it in our schools? Oh, you bet your sorry frostbitten @$$. Tiny Israel -- unassisted, unaided -- beat back the combined might of five well-supplied Arab armies. Your "Naqba." My "War of Independence." Please don't hate us just because you're unhappy with the outcome. Fool.

Now, now. Why don't you tell me all about us? Why is telling the truth a sign of cowardice to you? Oh, let me guess -- you prefer your fantasies and lies. Poor, poor, pitiful you.

...is educated, modern, open minded, moderate, etc... Bull sh...! The fact that he tolerates such backword and stupid behaviour in his country tells a lot about this person!

The 'King' should just tell the 'investigator' to stop. But he can't (or won't) because he has to go along with the rabid Jew-haters of his pathetic country, lest he be seen as weak in the eyes of Hamas, Hizbollah, Fatah, etc. There is NO Arab leader with any honor today. None. They all sing the same song- smile at the west and pretend to work towards peace while promoting not only Jew-hatred, but kuffar (infidel- that's US folks!) hatred. Maybe it's time to roll the clock back and have England, France, and the USA return to administer the mideast. It's obvious that left to themselves, the Arabs always sink to the lowest common denominator.

We live here in Israel where there protest every year on Nakaba day.... We're better informed about it than you most likely.

peter. i am sure his whole family was on the wrong, inhumane, immoral corrupt side, of history and not humanity but inhumanity. now he must live with this daily and there is no way to reconicle or condone the actions of his predecessors and so he continues blindly in their footsteps. even he can't feel right about it but has no other way out as he is not man enough to get counseling to deal with this unbelievable disaster which became his life. spewing hatred, venom, and ignorance he hopes somehow it will all be alright but unfortunately the hell his ancestors wreaked are visited on him and his future generations. his best course of action would be to get neutered and find escape in mind altering drugs.

Israeli soldiers were never outnumbered by Arab soldiers in any war. even in the war of independence, Jewish soldiers outnumbered Arab ones and acquired much more weapons which far exceeded that of Arabs after the second Hudna.

One of your "brothers" speaks the truth and you get all upset. Just proves that when Khaled says "they ( arabs) still manage to be 100% stupid, ignorant and dumb", you are there as a perfect example.

Now you are on record: "THEIR COUNTRY, THEIR CHOICE." Your words, and I'm keeping this link on my files! I hope you follow your own advice from now on and leave the Jews alone to live like Jews in their own ancient Jewish land without interference from the likes of you and your country, which only a few decades ago was gassing and burning Jews. So long, Peter, and do something about the takeover of your own country which is coming sooner or later. You won't be able to stop them at the Gates of Vienna this time because they are already inside LOL!!!!

The Nakba of how the Arabs tried to slaughter and butcher the Jewish people and destroy their country when they re-established it after a 2000 year exile? Then, yes of course we teach it.

Are you related to N. Kampusch's father?

Isn't denying the holocaust a crime? Shouldn't "King" Abdullah be put on trial? Why not ban Jordan, the "true" (if that exists) home of the "palestinian" (if THEY exist) people? Does Jordan also deny that "Black September" happened? Just a few 10,000 "palestinians" murdered by the bedouin ruling minority. How about when Dullahs daddy decided he wanted no part of Judea and Samaria and dropped it in Israels lap, all the while claiming it was the rightful home of the "palestinian" READ Jordanian people. But the best was, and I'm SURE no Jordanian school kid knows this...Hussie was flying around in his jet when he saw aircraft on his radar in Jordanian airspace. He asked them to identify themselves and they said they were Egyptian. Fine, ahlan wasa'alan said Hussie. The Israeli jets continued to Irag and bombed Saddams nuclear reactor.

Maybe Peters daddy boiled potatoes for the soviet army like the loyal nazi that he was, and dropped his britches on command for any drunken Russian soldier. Maybe that what explain Petes hostility and insecurity, and explain from what hole he fell out of!

You have GOT to be kidding! Are you really, truly that stupid and uninformed? Or are you just making up lies about being outnumbered so that you feel much better about having your sorry asses kicked by a mere handful of Jews?

i think you may be living in the same country i live in. a great country. what nader said is the typical arab line of defense all the time. when people do not see cause and effect they are dead. the palestinian arab people are different than those of mine who remained in israel after 1948 and prospered and moved on. never under no circumstanses we arab israelis will have the same open society and life with prosperity and freedom as we do in israel. it sad that nader cannot enjoy this life because his society made all possible to lose peace offers many times. how sad that palestinians never acept israel as a good nation. it is the loss of the palestinians. i go to the west bank (i live in jerusalem) to buy food and meat and i tell you that most of the arabs there like israel very much. they are free to live as they wish. they can educate themselves and israel help them a lot in creating economy and progres. where will we be in egypt or jordan or iran or lebanon? where? in the garbage of society. this is where we will be. the arab regim treat us like garbage and they can not fool the world any more. khaled jerusalem

I'm in 10th grade at the moment, and I took that book when I was in 7th grade or 8th, and it did not cause ANY commotion at that time what so ever. Plus this book is like 200 pages, and only 3 pages contain fragments of the diary. This is ludicrous. The ministry of Education in Jordan has NO right to question what books private Jordanian schools use to teach the English language/French language, for those subjects are not assigned by them. They only have the right if it has to do with the textbooks that they provide. I am appalled.

Haganah had a mobile force, the HISH, which had 2,000 full time fighters (men and women) and 10,000 reservists (all aged between 18 and 25) and an elite unit, the Palmach composed of 2,100 fighters and 1,000 reservists. The reservists trained 3–4 days a month and went back to civilian life the rest of the time. The Yishuv's total strength was around 35,000 with 15,000 to 18,000 fighters and a garrison force of roughly 20,000. The two clandestine groups Irgun and Lehi had 2,000–4,000 and 500–800 members, respectively. the Yishuv had the additional forces of the Jewish Settlement Police, numbering some 12,000, the Gadna Youth Battalions, and the armed settlers. Those made 55000-56000 troops. Arabs =15,000 to 18,000 Iraqis+ 10000 Egyptians (20000 by second truce) +12000 Syrians + 3500 Lebanese = 31500-44500 troops.

The Israel army increased its manpower from approximately 30,000 or 35,000 men to almost 65,000 during the first truce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

Maybe they`re tired of it being shoved down their throats like a lot of people are around the world.