What they teach in school
If a school in Israel has any connection to the government, if it accepts any of the tax money that the government takes by force from working people, the government places requirements on the school curriculum. One such mandate is that the school teaches Tanach. That's not a bad thing, except that the mandate tells you what books and chapters of Tanach that you must teach. Invariably, it picks that ones that depict war and bloodshed. So you have 10 year old girls in Beis Yaakov reading not the book of Ruth but the most violent parts of Nach. Example from Samuel I
When the Philistine began to advance toward him again, David quickly ran up to the battle line to face the Philistine.David put his hand into the bag; he took out a stone and slung it. It struck the Philistine in the forehead; the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell face down on the ground.Thus David bested the Philistine with sling and stone; he struck him down and killed him. David had no sword;so David ran up and stood over the Philistine, grasped his sword and pulled it from its sheath; and with it he dispatched him and cut off his head.
When the Philistines saw that their warrior was dead, they ran.The men of Israel and Judah rose up with a war cry and they pursued the Philistines all the way to Gai and up to the gates of Ekron; the Philistines fell mortally wounded along the road to Shaarim up to Gath and Ekron.Then the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines and looted their camp.
This is what the government has little girls studying. Or this from Joshua.
Joshua then sent them off, and they proceeded to the ambush; they took up a position between Ai and Bethel—west of Ai—while Joshua spent the night with the rest of the troops.Early in the morning, Joshua mustered the troops; then he and the elders of Israel marched upon Ai at the head of the troops.All the combat troops that were with him advanced near the city and encamped to the north of Ai, with a hollow between them and Ai.—He selected about five thousand men and stationed them as an ambush between Bethel and Ai, west of the city.Thus the main body of the army was disposed on the north of the city, but the far end of it was on the west. (This was after Joshua had spent the night in the valley.)—When the king of Ai saw them, he and all his troops, the townsmen, rushed out in the early morning to the meeting place, facing the Arabah, to engage the Israelites in battle; for he was unaware that a force was lying in ambush behind the city.Joshua and all Israel fled in the direction of the wilderness, as though routed by them.All the troops in the city gathered to pursue them; pursuing Joshua, they were drawn out of the city.Not a man was left in Ai or in Bethel who did not go out after Israel; they left the city open while they pursued Israel.GOD then said to Joshua, “Hold out the javelin in your hand toward Ai, for I will deliver it into your hands.” So Joshua held out the javelin in his hand toward the city.As soon as he held out his hand, the ambush came rushing out of their station. They entered the city and captured it; and they swiftly set fire to the city.The men of Ai looked back and saw the smoke of the city rising to the sky; they had no room for flight in any direction.
The people who had been fleeing to the wilderness now became the pursuers.For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that smoke was rising from the city, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai.Now the other [Israelites] were coming out of the city against them, so that they were between two bodies of Israelites, one on each side of them. They were slaughtered, so that no one escaped or got away.The king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.When Israel had killed all the inhabitants of Ai who had pursued them into the open wilderness, and all of them, to the last man, had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites turned back to Ai and put it to the sword.The total of those who fell that day, men and women, the entire population of Ai, came to twelve thousand.Joshua did not draw back the hand with which he held out his javelin until all the inhabitants of Ai had been exterminated.However, the Israelites took the cattle and the spoil of the city as their booty, in accordance with the instructions that GOD had given to Joshua.Then Joshua burned down Ai, and turned it into a mound of ruins for all time, a desolation to this day.And the king of Ai was impaled on a stake until the evening. At sunset, Joshua had the corpse taken down from the stake and it was left lying at the entrance to the city gate. They raised a great heap of stones over it, which is there to this day.
This is what the government has little girls studying. I have asked several teachers, can you teach something else, like Mishlei or Esther? Every one told me, I can't. I have to teach what the government tells me to. Doesn't matter if it's a Charedi school or a Dati Leumi. They all teach what the government mandates.
The government is not interested in Misheli or Koheles or Tehillim. It's not interested in the parts of Tanach that discuss teshuvah. It is only interested -- as are Israelis -- in war, in conquest, in killing. They have you read the parts of Tanach that seem to match the Israeli newspapers and politicians who brag every day about who they killed and who they will kill. After 10 years in this country, I can see why some call the government leaders erev rav or even Amalek. They just love one thing and that's murder. It's like being around Mafiosi.
And what are they studying in the history class? The Holocaust. 9th and 10th grade is all Holocaust. Why Holocaust? It's an attempt to justify the existence of the state even though the state was envisioned long before the Holocaust, and Ben Gurion himself said the state was not founded as an answer to anti-Semitism. He said, he didn't experience antisemitism in Poland.
For many of us, anti-Semitic feeling had little to do with our dedication [to Zionism]. I personally never suffered anti-Semitic persecution. Płońsk was remarkably free of it ... Nevertheless, and I think this very significant, it was Płońsk that sent the highest proportion of Jews to Eretz Israel from any town in Poland of comparable size. We emigrated not for negative reasons of escape but for the positive purpose of rebuilding a homeland ... Life in Płońsk was peaceful enough. There were three main communities: Russians, Jews and Poles. ... The number of Jews and Poles in the city were roughly equal, about five thousand each. The Jews, however, formed a compact, centralized group occupying the innermost districts whilst the Poles were more scattered, living in outlying areas and shading off into the peasantry. Consequently, when a gang of Jewish boys met a Polish gang the latter would almost inevitably represent a single suburb and thus be poorer in fighting potential than the Jews who even if their numbers were initially fewer could quickly call on reinforcements from the entire quarter. Far from being afraid of them, they were rather afraid of us. In general, however, relations were amicable, though distant. (Memoirs : David Ben-Gurion,1970, p. 36 in Wikipedia)
But the narrative enforced by the "Education Ministry" is like that of radical Zionists, war, war, war, killing, weapons, packing a gun, shooting so that there won't be another Holocaust. I am reminded of the words of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch:
The land of the Divine Torah is there for the people who live in it. Its most valuable product, the purpose and goal of the whole of God's Blessing directed to it, is every human life nourished by it, through its means able to dedicate itself to making God's Torah into a realisation. The land is only given on the condition of every human life respected as being unassailably sacred to the Torah. One drop of innocent blood shed and no notice taken of it drops a stitch in the bond which connects the land with the nation and both with God. (see verses 33 and 34). This holding human life to be so sacred is to be made evident immediately on taking possession of the land in the division of it by instituting the arrangement which the Torah had already referred to in the fundamental laws of Torah social life. (Ex. XXI, 13). Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on Bamidbar 35:10
Nevertheless, the SSOI promotes every kind of killing. It rejoices in it. I was talking to a school principal today, at a girl's school. Somebody came in and dropped some papers on the table. They were projects done by the teenage girls. And here's what I saw on top of the pile. It was a paper with a drawing of soldiers, and written on it was this,
The IDF, killing Hamas since 1985.
This is called a school project for teenage girls in SSOI, bragging about who you killed. I was at a funeral for a soldier a few months back, and his sister said about him, "He loved to kill Arabs." I heard this with my own ears. She said it in English. That's how this "Dati Leumi" girl eulogized her brother. That's his legacy, being a killer. She didn't say that he killed terrorists but that he killed Arabs. This is a result of the educational mandates of the government and the culture in general.
When a central government dictates the curriculum to such detail and when it is all so violent and depressing, you are not living in a democracy but North Korean style tyranny. It's all brainwashing here.
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