A New Hebrew Blog Post - At News1

For my Hebrew readers, I have a blog post at Yoav Yitzhak's News1 site.

Here.

It's about this article which includes this:

...Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar, who has initiated new educational activities on the 12 Jewish men who were sent to the gallows or committed suicide during the British Mandate. An official at the Education Ministry...protested to Haaretz reporter Or Kashti that the minister was injecting his ideology into the study material. A senior historian added that the fact that these 12 men were victims does not justify turning them into a subject of study.

So what should we tell the little girl who lives on Shlomo Ben-Yosef Street who wants to know about the first person sent to the gallows, who took part in an attack on an Arab bus and was hanged by the British on June 29, 1938? What shall we say to the boy from Etzel Street who asks about the the Etzel pre-state underground that set a "price tag" for the foreign occupier?...

The 12 men who went to the gallows are, for better or worse, part of the Zionist ethos. Nations immortalize and even beautify the stories of the lives and deaths of those who fell on the way to achieving freedom. And we have achieved freedom.

The Palestinians are, at best, halfway there. Of all people, Sa'ar and his colleagues on the right, who foster the heritage of terror and sacrifice, should understand that the Palestinians, too, have a moral and educational obligation to their "fallen."...

However, the ethos of death and the glorification of massacres of Palestinians (or of Jews, such as the case of the Etzel arms ship the Altalena, which was shelled by the newly created Israel Defense Forces) are the complete opposite of the "exemplary values" that Sa'ar writes about in his letter to teachers. The right values - reconciliation, equality and nonviolence - he should seek elsewhere...

Israel's children can get to know Etzel fighter Shlomo Ben-Yosef, who wrote before his execution that "I am going to die, and I am not sorry at all because I am going to die for my country!" But Israel's children should also get to know Yitzhak Frankenthal, who founded the Parents Circle...