From the BBC: Row erupts over Israeli textbooks

Israel’s education minister has said school textbooks should show Israel’s pre-1967 borders, prompting a storm of criticism from right-wingers.

Yuli Tamir said changes were needed to give Israeli children a proper understanding of their history.

Currently, schoolbooks show Israel’s territorial conquests in the 1967 war – the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights – as part of Israel.

International law deems them occupied land that Israel has illegally settled.

The dovish minister is reported to have ordered the books to be changed. There has been no immediate comment from the prime minister’s office.

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Ms Tamir’s position is seen as a direct challenge to the Jewish settlement movement, which is a powerful interest group in Israel.

Settlers and their supporters have fought hard against any attempt by governments to withdraw from occupied land, either to foster peace with the Palestinians or enhance Israeli security…

Of course historical revisionism works for the settlers. Actually, if they want to be historically and biblically accurate they should claim all the land from the sea to the two great rivers.

Am I correct in assuming that the use of historical revisionism is a sin only when it is done by ones’ enemies?