Tried to play music of a church praterYNET
Some 250 children of an Arab village's summer camp left a country club in the northern city of Katzrin in tears on Thursday, after the club's manager refused to allow the counselors to play Arabic music.
.... Children from northern Israel, as well as from abroad, take part in the Jish church summer camp every year, and according to Sliman, "It is considered the most successful summer camp among the Christian community in Israel."
This year, as always, the camp planned a day of recreational activities at the Katzirn country club's swimming pool...
.... "We eventually connected the stereo system and I put on music of a church prater, in Arabic."
Sliman says he went to fill a pitcher of water, and was surprised to discover when he returned that the music had stopped.
"The Instructors told me that the workers had come and given them a Hebrew music CD. I turned the system on again, and then Shemi approached the system and turned down the volume to the very end. I asked him, 'Excuse me, what are you doing? If you want something, talk. This system belongs to me.' So he immediately replied, 'I am the one making decisions here.' I asked him, 'What's the problem?' And he said, 'Don't put music in Arabic. If you want, you can put music in Hebrew."
...... "I was surrounded by small children who heard everything and began crying," he recounts. "I took them all out and we waited for an hour until the buses, which had already left for Nazareth, returned. We only had breakfast at 3 pm after arriving at a different swimming pool in Nazareth."... Full story
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