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

This is what the government has little girls studying. Or this from Joshua.

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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