<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f27e02eb-ef4f-458e-815e-770ffc984ebe/CE14CB00-F7DC-48D8-98D2-E2A972A92B6F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/lebanoneducationliteraturecensor" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/lebanoneducationliteraturecensor" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/lebanoneducationliteraturecensor"><P>BEIRUT (AFP) – <SPAN id="lw_1257513308_0" class="yshortcuts">Anne Frank's diary</SPAN> has been censored out of a <SPAN id="lw_1257513308_1" class="yshortcuts">school textbook</SPAN> in Lebanon following a campaign by the <SPAN id="lw_1257513308_2" class="yshortcuts">militant group</SPAN> <SPAN id="lw_1257513308_3" class="yshortcuts">Hezbollah</SPAN> claiming the classic work promotes Zionism.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/lebanoneducationliteraturecensor"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/CB7AAD81-6FF5-4120-BD4B-B5D9C9F75929" alt="Anne Frank diary offends Lebanon's Hezbollah" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/lebanoneducationliteraturecensor">The row erupted after Hezbollah learned excerpts of "<SPAN id="lw_1257513308_4" class="yshortcuts">The Diary of Anne Frank</SPAN>" were included in the textbook used by a private English-language school in western <SPAN id="lw_1257513308_5" class="yshortcuts">Beirut</SPAN>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/lebanoneducationliteraturecensor"><P> Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel ran a report slamming the book for focusing on the <SPAN id="lw_1257513308_6" class="yshortcuts">persecution of Jews</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/lebanoneducationliteraturecensor">"What is even more dangerous is the dramatic, theatrical way in which the diary is emotionally recounted," said the report aired last week and also published on the station's website.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/lebanoneducationliteraturecensor"><P> It questioned how long Lebanon would "remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/lebanoneducationliteraturecensor"><P> A member of the school board, Jimmy Shoufani, told AFP the school dropped the textbook from its curriculum after the controversy erupted. He asked that the school not be identified.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/lebanoneducationliteraturecensor">Hezbollah officials could not reached for comment.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CE14CB00-F7DC-48D8-98D2-E2A972A92B6F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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