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PLO youth mag: Israel is "the occupied Arab lands" and the Israeli city of Jaffa is "occupied Jaffa"

“The Al-Jamil school, including male and female students and the educational staff, went on an outing to the occupied Arab lands. The outing included a visit to occupied Jaffa.”
A girl in 3rd grade wrote about the trip: “How wonderful my school is, and what wonderful activities it undertakes... We went on an outing to the city of Jaffa, which is dear to our hearts. The sky is so beautiful there, and it’s the same sky. And how beautiful the soil of my land – and the land is the same land. The amazing thing was that I went together with my friends, to see the beauty of Palestine, which is the flower of life and the fragrance of the whole world. May Allah lengthen your life, oh my land, with you proud and liberated, and with us planted upon your soil like olive trees.”

Note: Zayzafuna is a PLO magazine for children funded by the PA. The magazine, which includes material written by both the magazine’s staff and child readers, represents the values of the educators and serves as a window into the minds of the Palestinian children submitting material to the magazine. PMW’s book Deception includes a chapter on Zayzafuna. Following PMW’s exposure of Hitler glorification in the February 2011 issue, UNESCO halted its funding of the magazine. View UNESCO’s statement and PMW's bulletin on the December 2011 issue of the magazine.

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