Palestine suspends ties with UNRWA over planned curriculum reform - Polidicks

[URL="http://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-suspends-ties-with-unwra-over-planned-curriculum-reform/"]http://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-suspends-ties-with-unwra-over-planned-curriculum-reform/[/URL] [QUOTE]The Palestinian Authority Education Ministry on Thursday announced it was suspending ties with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) over plans by the international agency to reform its curriculum. The Palestinian ministry, in a statement published on its official website, called the possible revisions to the curriculum an “affront to the Palestinian people, its history and struggles,” and said the suspension would continue until the UN agency’s “positions are corrected.” The changes, according to Arab media reports, include revisions to maps of Palestine to exclude references to cities inside Israel as Palestinian cities, a practice that numerous studies of Palestinian textbooks have labeled as “incitement.” Other changes were reportedly planned to tone down praise for Palestinian prisoners and improve Israel’s image. According to a March report by COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry agency responsible for civilian affairs in the West Bank and Gaza, part of the reform to the UNRWA curriculum “is a balanced representation of Jerusalem as having religious significance to the three major monotheistic religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism), and mentioning that Muslim believers have access to the holy sites.” “UNRWA additionally sought to amend textbooks in cases where the content showed gender bias, lacked objectivity, and incited violence against Israel,” COGAT added. The Israeli government, US State Department, and independent organizations have for many years accused the Palestinian education system, including UNRWA schools, of educating Palestinian children to hate Israel and support violence. [/QUOTE] The UNRWA is a UN agency dedicated solely for Palestinian refugees.

The people who rule Palestine do it no favours whatsoever.

The Palestinian Authority as a whole is a disgusting culmination of Islamic fundamentalism ever since Hamas sunk its claws into the parliamentary procedure and Arafat died, leaving Fatah to being exorbitantly nationalistic. At least when Abu Ammar was alive, he realized that Israel has a right to exist and pushed for a strong two-state solution, instead of belligerently keeping on to his outdated ideologue and continuing to attack Israel. Abbas is a good step in the right direction as well, but both of them failed to strike any true progress because of others' militancy (and corruption, especially due to themselves). It's a sad state of affairs, but the Palestinian people need to realize that they can't see it as a war of independence any longer. Israel has done some foolish and very unethical actions in the past, yet they can't expect to point all of their problems at Israel any longer. They [I]need[/I] to take control of their government.

Remind me again why should we fund the Palestinian Authority if its run by a bunch of jackasses? Also where's the UN resolution against this shit?

[QUOTE=RzDat;52103989] Also where's the UN resolution against this shit?[/QUOTE] It's coming... right?