Apartheid Israel's education system in action

Usual Grauniad One-Sidedness seized upon by the useful idiot and traitor clevenson.

The atory of Est Jerusalem education is full of hypocrisy. After 1967 the East Jerusalem Arabs refused to have their children study in Israeli schools under the Israeli curriculum, so Israel allowed them to run their own system. They used the Jordanian system, partly because other Arab countries in which they may want to continue studying or get jobs later on refuse to recognise Israeli qualifications. That system muddled along until Oslo, when the East Jerusalemites found themselves separated from the PA and from the rest of the Arab world. Undoubtedly there have been mistakes over the years, but now the government is making serious efforts to sort out the mess it inherited. Basically, the East Jerusalemites want autonomy when it comes to curriculum, identification with the PA rather than with Israel, choice of teachers etc. but they want Israel to foot the bill for a system over which they refuse to cede control.

I meant to post this on the Ahava blogged report in response to telegramsam but comments were closed down. However I think it important to counter the demography argument which is used to support the handing over of a substantial part of the Jewish Homeland to a people that does not want to make peace with any Jewish entity.
The fact is that in defiance of fatalistic projections and irrespective of the absence of demographic policy, in 2009 there was a robust 67% Jewish majority west of the Jordan River, excluding Gaza. According to the United Nations Population Division, the average Muslim fertility rate - throughout the world, including Judea, Samaria and Gaza - has taken a dive to 2-4 births per woman, as a result of modernization, emigration from Judea and Samaria has escalated, while Jewish fertility has grown steadily. The number of annual Jewish births has increased by 45% from 1995 (80,400) to 2008 (117,000), while the number of annual Arab births during the same period - in pre-1967 Israel - has stabilized at 39,000. An 80% Jewish majority in Judea, Samaria and pre-1967 Israel is attainable in light of the current demographic trend, bolstered by the implementation of a long overdue demographic policy. Such a policy would highlight Aliyah, returning expatriates, migration from the Greater Tel Aviv area to the periphery (by upgrading Galilee and Negev infrastructures), as well as the equalization of working and studying hours, etc. The upward trend in Jewish demography has critical national security implications. It defies demographic fatalism and its policy derivatives. Well-documented demographic optimism should be accorded due consideration by Israel's leadership and by Israel's friends.
As to apartheid I consider the outrageous claim by "clevenson" is entirely misplaced. Mr Hoffman deals with the detail but in general the Atrabs will not countenance Jews living a future Palestinian State and want the 500,000 or so jews living in Judea and Samaria ethnically cleansed from a future Plaestinian State. In a letter to the Arab league in July Abbas repeated his demand that Israeli completely freeze construction for Jews in areas east of the 1949 armistice line, including north, south, and east Jerusalem, and that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu commit to creating a PA state with borders based on the armistice line. Until those conditions are met, Abbas said, the PA will not negotiate. Apparently pressure has paid off and he has resiled from that condition. However almost no notice was taken of another pre talks decision that the PA chairman revealed, as he announced clearly that if a Palestinian Authority state is created in Judea and Samaria, no Israeli citizen will be allowed to set foot inside. The PA chairman also stated that he would block any Jewish soldiers from serving with an international force stationed on PA-controlled land. "I will never allow a single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land,” Abbas declared. On the other hand Israel is home to a sizable proportion of Arab citizens, who have the vote and are represented by Arab parties in the Knesset even if those representatives have sometimes served not the interests of their constituents but the enemy states surrounding Israel.

this quotation is almost certainly incorrect …

"I will never allow a single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land,” Abbas declared.

it is allegedly from a news conference in cairo, yet it does not seem to be recorded anywhere except in a 29/7/10 report at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138856 (and sites quoting from it)

can anyone find any confirmation of this quotation?

even if true, abbas is not saying that no jew can live on palestinian land as a palestinian citizen (or even eg as a british citizen)

That's wishful thinking , Ad v. Between the Jordan and the med there are 5.7 million Jews. There are also 1.5 million non-Jewish citizens of israel. Add to them 3.5 million non- Jews on the west bank and in east Jerusalem and 1.5 million gazans under Israeli control (disengagement or not, israel controls their space) it comes to 6.5 million non-Jews. And I haven't even included the non-Jews from the former ussr. About half a million?

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