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<h1 class="reader-title">Friends in Ethnic Cleansing: Myanmar
and Israel Sign Education Deal to Rewrite History<br>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">May 30, 2018<br>
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<p>Controlling how history is taught also gives you
control over how people think about their past and
present, and the Israeli and Myanmar governments are
well aware of that.</p>
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<p>The governments of both governments signed an education
cooperation agreement Monday allowing them to rewrite
their own history in each other's textbooks,
contributing to a more benevolent image of them and
their responsibility in ethnic cleansing against the
Palestinians by Israel and against the Rohingya muslims
in Myanmar. </p>
<p>According to the agreement, of which the Israeli
newspaper Haaretz got a copy, the countries will
“cooperate to develop programs for the teaching of the
Holocaust and its lessons of the negative consequences
of intolerance, racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia as
a part of the school curriculum in the Republic of the
Union of Myanmar.”</p>
<p><strong>“An education agreement with Myanmar.
Cooperation continues with our friends all over the
world.”</strong></p>
<p>However, both countries fail to remember and
acknowledge their own violent, intolerant, racist, and
xenophobic acts against native populations in their
countries or in territories they control.</p>
<p>The agreement will also promote academic cooperation,
including conferences, training courses and even the
development of Israeli and Jewish studies programs in
Myanmar and Myanmar studies in Israel, including
language programs.</p>
<p>The countries will be able to “mutually verify school
textbooks, particularly concerning the passages
referring to the history of the other state and, where
needed, introduce corrections to these textbooks,” a
move that will basically allow them to write their own
nationalist narratives in each others' textbooks and
ignore that fact that Israel and Myanmar have been
respectively ethnic cleansing their territories from the
Palestinian and Rohingya peoples.</p>
<p>The Rohingya, a Muslim minority in the predominantly
Buddhist Myanmar, have been victims of a systematic
ethnic cleansing program by the government for years,
but the process intensified in 2017 when the military
carried out mass executions and rape, forcing about
700,000 of them to flee to Bangladesh and other
neighboring countries.</p>
<p>The United Nations has said Myanmar's campaign against
the Rohingya Muslim population “a textbook example of
ethnic cleansing.”</p>
<p>"Of course Israel sees Myanmar as a friend. Both states
share the same exclusionist world view. Both states
have engaged in mass state crime criminality against
those they have defined as non-citizens. Both states
operate systems of apartheid, structural discrimination
and unfettered state brutality. It is entirely
predictable that they now engage in a shared educational
programme of state crime denial," Penny Green, professor
of law and globalization at Queen Mary University of
London, told Middle East Eye.</p>
<p>But cooperation between Israel and Myanmar is not only
ideological. More than 100 tanks, as well as boats and
light weapons have been sold to the Myanmar government
by Israeli arms companies, according to investigations
by several human rights groups, despite the United
States and the European Union imposing an arms embargo
against Myanmar.</p>
<p>One company, TAR Ideal Concepts, has also trained
Myanmar special forces in northern Rakhine state, where
much of the violence is taking place.</p>
<p>Israel has a long history of contributing to other
countries' own ethnic cleansing.</p>
<p>In 1982, the General Efrain Rios Montt came to power
after a military coup, becoming president of Guatemala
between 1982 and 1983. During an interview with ABC
News, Rios Montt said the coup had easily succeeded
because many of this soldiers “were trained by
Israelis.”</p>
<p>The Israeli military then helped Guatemalan regimes
that carried out a genocide against the Mayan
population. Between 1954 and 1996, the Guatemalan juntas
killed more than 200,000 people, 83 percent of which
were Indigenous Mayans. The period known as the “Mayan
Genocide,” which lasted from 1981 to 1983, coincides
with the peak of Israel-Guatemala military cooperation.</p>
<p>It comes as no surprise that many voices in Guatemalan
politics, especially from the right-wing, deny there had
been any ethnic cleansing in the country.</p>
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