"The families of the Arab-Druze students at the ONLY high school in the Beit Jann village in Israel will start their fight on Wednesday Sept. 1 2010 “a battle” against the militarization of their school and children by the Israeli Education Ministry. The inhabitants of Beit Jann suffer under harsh discrimination in the civil rights, social, economical, and financial development of their town when compared to the jewish squatter colonies, towns and cities which were established nearby on the land of Arab since 1948. Beit Jann is a Druze village on Mt. Meron, in northern Israel. At 940 meters above sea level. Beit Jann is one of the highest inhabited locations in the country. In 2007, the population was 10,300. Under these hard conditions of discrimination and inequality in their civil rights which the Arab inhabitants of Beit Jann live, Israel intends to open a military air force class in the village and force the students who choose to learn physics, electronics and scientific subjects to enroll in the class of the Israeli Air Force. It is compulsory for every student to go to school wearing military uniform and to stand in the morning singing Israeli military songs and raising the Israeli flag.
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Serves 'em right for collaborating with the occupying power.
ReplyDeleteI can see a time coming when they'll be much less "collaborative". Israel is an ethnic state which is alienting all it's minorities with assertive Judaisation. The Bedouins got it clealy when their villages have been razed and more are slated to be wiped out. The Druze (not all of them collaborated BTW) will see light very soon. It's only a matter of time..
ReplyDeleteYes, TG, a little harsh of me. The sins of the fathers should not be visited upon their progeny. I remember the poet Sami Qasim refusing to serve in the IDF and make war on his Arab brothers. That was the first instance I heard of a Druze refusing to collaborate. Since then the ignorant dual-passport Yankee trumbeniks have managed to alienate many Druze by trying to seizing their land. All Arabushim to them, Israeli law notwithstanding. (J.H.)
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