To visit or not to visit? Hebron
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Hebron school trips wrong
Op-ed: Education minister shouldn’t send students to Hebron just to score political points
Dear parents and students, you should listen to Shin Bet investigator known as H. “For long months we’ve been pursuing this cell,” he writes on the Shin Bet website. “They like to surprise their victims from close range, usually out of a car, aim the Kalashnikov out of the window and fire long barrages…thus far ,this cell managed to kill seven Israelis.”
So are you truly planning to send your children, like sitting ducks, on a trip to Hebron? Do you really plan to abandon them in the most volatile place in the region, just because Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar wants to highlight his patriotism?
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Yet this won’t happen, of course. Sa’ar is using the children as a human shield, seeking to send Israel’s students to the Cave of the Patriarchs in order to score political points while showing terrible recklessness in the process.
No one needs to tell me about Hebron. My great grandmother was born there in the 19th Century. Hebron is a holy and inseparable part of our history. In the same breath, the city was not and will not be a part of the State of Israel. As proof of this, even the most “national” rightist governments will never annex it.
A lesson on fraud
It is desirable and mandatory to learn about Hebron, yet there is no logic in traveling there, just like schools do not head to other dangerous sites. Mr. Sa’ar, why don’t you go even closer and take students to Temple Mount? It will be an explosive experience, literally.Such trips will not only jeopardize the children’s lives, they will also taint their souls while perpetuating a distorted “reality.” These students will not see 130,000 Palestinians being forcefully oppressed in order to accommodate the needs of only 500 Jews (!) They will not learn about the racist swamp that gave rise to Baruch Goldstein and other terrorists.
Instead, the students will get a lesson on fraud: They will be impressed by the gravesite of our forefathers, while completely ignoring the acts of their children. This anti-educational initiative must be rejected. However, if you go ahead with this mistake and send your children anyway, make sure they don’t forget to look down when they pass next to Arab neighborhoods.
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