Translated from Moshe Feiglin's article in the Yisraeli newspaper.

This week, the Education Ministry authorized Israel’s Arab schools to add studies of the Nakbah -- Israel’s victory in the War of Independence, which the Arabs call The Catastrophe, to their curriculum. This fact is just one of a plethora of decisions of Israel’s political and cultural elite that all point in the same direction. The Supreme Court justices chose not to sing Israel’s national anthem in their swearing-in ceremony so as not to embarrass, G-d forbid, the Arab justices with their “Jewish soul.” Israel’s first Arab minister also refrained from singing the national anthem. And so, through its official representatives, Israel accepts the Arab claim on the Land of Israel.

If it is fine to teach in Israeli schools that the Jewish victory in the War of Independence and the establishment of the State of Israel were a catastrophe, that means that the State of Israel is merely an illegitimate and temporary phenomenon. Of course, these types of decisions are always sugar-coated with arrogant words about understanding the “other.” This post-modern affliction threatens the very foundations of our existence here. We need not imagine what would have happened to the Jews in Israel if these “others” would have triumphed in the War of Independence.

The Arabs are not the problem with the Education Ministry’s appalling decision. It is only natural that Israel’s Arabs will identify with the Islamic jihad being fought against Israel and its Jews. The problem is with Israel’s leadership elite -- its politicians, court system and media. This leadership sees the Arab claims as legitimate. With her decision, Education Minister Yuli Tamir -- one of the founders of Peace Now -- shows that she does not identify with the Jewish claim on the Land of Israel any more than with the Arab claim. For the current Israeli leadership, Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel is but temporary, while the Arab reality here is eternal. With national leadership like this, their conclusion is logical and may, G-d forbid become reality.

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