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Jewish aliens who came from europe are beginning to modify villages names to hebrew in order to create something new history
Israels plan to wipe Arabic names off the map
New battlefront over road signs
by Jonathan Cook
Nazareth. Thousands of road signs are the latest front in Israels battle to erase Arab heritage from much of the Holy Land.
Israel Katz, the transport minister, announced this week that signs on all major roads in Israel, East Jerusalem and possibly parts of the West Bank would be standardised, converting English and Arabic place names into straight transliterations of the Hebrew name.
Currently, road signs include the place name as it is traditionally rendered in all three languages.
Under the new scheme, the Arab identity of important Palestinian communities will be obscured: Jerusalem, or al Quds in Arabic, will be Hebraised to Yerushalayim; Nazareth, or al Nasra in Arabic, the city of Jesuss childhood, will become Natzrat; and Jaffa, the port city after which Palestines oranges were named, will be Yafo.
Arab leaders are concerned that Mr Katzs plan offers a foretaste of the demand by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israels prime minister, that the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state