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Israel cuts Palestinian tragedy from textbooks

Source: Associated Press
Jerusalem : Israel | 4 months ago  
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The Israeli government will remove references to what the Palestinians call the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the country's education minister said Wednesday. The reference to "al-naqba" or catastrophe, what the Palestinian's call their defeat...
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