Israel

[Erich]

Mal ein ppar Nachrichten aus der Haaretz - quer durch den "Gemüsegarten".....
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* Published 02:36 20.08.10
* Latest update 02:36 20.08.10
Anshel Pfeffer / It's all too easy for Israeli rights groups to call the IDF's bluff
Forty-three years of ruling another people have produced generations of Israelis incapable of seeing their neighbors as human beings.

This week I published in Haaretz the story of a small group of reserve soldiers who last month, while on active duty in the Jordan Valley, decided to make a small modification to their routine: They replaced the standard collection of curt phrases in basic Arabic - used by generations of IDF soldiers to order Palestinian civilians to stop, open their car door, present documents and identify themselves - with the more pleasant greetings and respectful, traditional blessings of which Arabic is so full.

Upon trying out this new lexicon at the checkpoint where they were stationed, "the transformation was immediate," one of the officers said. "They responded in kind and there was not one moment of tension or disturbance throughout the three weeks we were there."
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24.08.2010

Israel baut Sprachunterricht aus
Arabisch für Anfänger

Neue Töne aus Israel: Künftig sollen jüdische Schulkinder früher Arabisch lernen. Es sei ein wichtiges Ziel zur Verständigung der Völker, heißt es aus dem Bildungsministerium. Dabei wollte die Regierung vor kurzem noch die arabische Sicht aus Schulbüchern verbannen.

Jüdische Kinder in Israel sollen künftig früher Arabisch lernen, um die Kommunikation mit ihren arabischen Landsleuten zu verbessern.
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find ich gut;