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Book on Israeli-Palestinian love excluded from schools
Shahar Hay
Published: 31.12.15, 10:29
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1. Secular Israel is trying hard to be like nonJewish countries
Reuven   (12.31.15)
or more iniquitous and sink lower to unethical immoral Jewish laws. And then they wonder why the world refuses to regard Israel as a Jewish state.
2. East of Eden
Mark ben Josef ,   USA   (12.31.15)
John Steinbeck's novel was banned in his home town and banned from the reading list at his own high school for 50 years. So every kid in the high school Steinbeck attended bought it and read it - for 50 years. "Banned in Boston" used to be a very successful way to market books and movies. Banning books spurs sales.
3. Brillant! Proscribe a book and everyone will run to buy a co
miki ,   tampa   (12.31.15)
Just ask Nabokov or James Joyce or Pasternak what a great idea government censorship is.
4. Who`s afraid of love?
Miri ,   Israel   (12.31.15)
No we couldn't have that could we, two people in love regardless of nationality or religious beliefs. Better just to continue the hate, and killing in the endless cycle, which lets face it will carry on for the next hundred years. Love unites, religion divides
5. i support decision. not every word written or uttered by le
ralph   (12.31.15)
leftists is right or worthy of reading. self smug, self righteous must stop playung with themselves and look around at the world around them. wake up before you sleep walk off the cliff.
6. #2,3,4 Why no love affairs btwn Jew man Arab Muslim woman?
(12.31.15)
It is because it is forbidden in Islam by punishment of death since the man always converts woman to his religion. This is why in real life and fictional books it is always one way that Muslim man marrying non Muslim woman. If the author dared to write a book about Jewish man marrying Muslim Arab woman she would have received terrorist death threats from Arabs and would have to hide for the rest of her life.
7. Way to go Bennet! Every copy has been sold!!!
miki ,   tampa   (12.31.15)
8. These "writers" need maybe a decent job and not leech on the
olim hadashim ,   tel aviv / israel   (12.31.15)
society. What they write is against the very soul of the Jewish people.
9. 4 Where have you seen that ...
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (12.31.15)
a couple belonging to two different religions has united those religions?
10. taking an example from the 1930's
Michael ,   Haifa   (12.31.15)
They should burn this book (and other unacceptable books) in a bonfire in Kikar Rabin
11. #4. Adolescent rational at best. Love solves some problems..
shadoil79 ,   Jerusalem   (12.31.15)
but not all of them!
12. Is Ms. Fenig a member of Lahava?
Jew-C ,   JewLandia (Israel)   (12.31.15)
Did she have Minister Mr. Bennett's approval on this move? really? and here I thought he was an intelligent enlightened man! Well, now, Minister Mr. Bennett has single-handedly turned this prize winning book into a best seller! Oh my! I think we should continue looking to see how Minister Mr. Bennett continues to push forward his particular brand of Zionism. Will it be racist? Will it be discriminatory? Will it sell more books?
13. 6 Read it!
Mark ben Josef ,   USA   (01.01.16)
Steinbeck didn't write about the Middle East. He wrote about his hometown with all the assimilation and integration issues laid bare. Only the spelling of the names were changed to mask the phonetics.sounds of the same people and places. Integration, assimilation and intimacy, laid bare for the world to see.
14. Teach abiilities, not free sex
Jake ,   Jerusalem   (01.01.16)
The purpose of education is to give the kids skills in reading writing and 'rithmatic so they can take these skills and go further. Teaching them about open sex with strangers only wets their appetite for lust and intermarriage. This is not the purpose of education - unless you are from the loonie left who see the purpose of life as "Everything is Permitted".
15. #14 "Everything is permitted" (including spelling)
Michael ,   Haifa   (01.01.16)
Your 'rithmatic demonstrates your abysmal ignorance, so that all that follows in your talkback is pure rubbish
16. Since your working assumption is that everything every self
Ralph   (01.03.16)
Proclaimed artist produces is art and must be taught at schools, and all artists shit, I demand all students receive cans of canned shit from artists on the grounds everything an artist produces is art, including his shit.
17. #4 miri : love unites,religion divides !
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18. #4 miri
(01.03.16)
Believe it is best to marry someone with a similar religious background . To begin with, no need to date/ continue to meet with someone not jewish. We are talking here abt survival of judaism and preventing assimilation. Guess you don't get it. "love unites, religion divides" !!!!
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