Middle East Focus: Book Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansing, History Cleansing………..

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Book Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansing, History Cleansing………..

“Israel's ministry of education recalled all copies of a history school book to censor passages about the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians during the 1948 war, which the author decried as "unnecessary," press reports said on Monday. The secondary school textbook was removed from shelves because, for the first time in Israel, it sought to present Arab perspectives on the mass exodus of some 750,000 Palestinians during the fighting that erupted after the creation of the Jewish state, Haaretz newspaper reported. “The book, titled "Nationalism: Building a State in the Middle East," contained both versions of the events side-by-side but the ministry was irked by passages like: "The Palestinians and the Arab countries contended that most of the refugees were civilians who were attacked and expelled from their homes by armed Jewish forces, which instituted a policy of ethnic cleansing, contrary to the proclamations of peace in the Declaration of Independence."………… “
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