In 2000, then education minister Yossi Sarid suggested including some of Darwish’s poems in the Israeli high school curriculum, but then prime minister Ehud Barak overruled him, saying Israel was not ready yet for his ideas in the school system.
RIP Mahmoud Darwish
August 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Ehud Barak · Fatah-Hamas war · Mahmoud Darwish · non-violent resistance · Occupation · Palestine · poetry · Yossi Sarid