Nakhon David - I'll continue with you directly. But a last word...
Throughout your comments, you specifically note that there are individual
soldiers, settlers, etc. who do shameful things as opposed to the groups
as a whole. And indeed that's true and the proportion of these
individuals to the w
Dear Safranim,
Apropos Bernard Katz's hope that others will join in the discussion
with David and himself, (March 16,2006), I would like to make the
following points.
I have read the review and followed the discussion related to the
book "Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak" f
I just cannot accept Bernard Katz's arguments.
I look at the picture as a whole and not at specific incidents - The
Palestinians are responsible for their own suffering. Yes, we can point out
very unpleasant incidents perpetrated by Israelis, some of which I and most
Israelis, including the Gover
I thank David for continuing this discussion on a good level and now in
a general line for all children's books. It is very important to have
an exchange like this, only I would hope that it could become a
'round-table' discussion involving more of us. With that hope, I'll
respond to David's poi
First let me clarify that I writing about children books in general and not
specifically about "Three Wishes"
The following is in regard to Bernard Katz's statement:
"Israel bears some (by no means all) of the direct and indirect
responsibility for their
suffering. This so patently obvious that I
Shalom David,
My sincere apologies for my memory lapse. I relied on what you had
included from my posting in your own message (you referred to it as
being so included further down) and of course that was only part of
what I had written, as you in fact said it was. I should have gone
back to my or
I trust David will permit me to correct him. I did not say "certain
uncomfortable facts", what I said was that Three Wishes may raise
"uncomfortable questions with our children that we adults must try to
answer, and the contextual material Ellis provides is a good starting
place for [doing] tha
What Bernard regards as "certain uncomfortable facts" (see below), I see as
facts taken out of historical context - I was taught these facts in Hebrew
school along with the history of the area called Eretz Yisrael (Palestine).
There are many publications including James Parkes "Whose Land?" which
David Elazar poses some questions in his posting about book selection
and censorship. However, he tries to draw a parallel between anti-semitic or
Holocaust denial books, or "children['s] books glorifying the acts [of]
Al Qaida", and books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I
believe his rem
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