Israel is planning to omit the Arabic word "Nakba" from Arabic educational textbooks, reported the BBC. Nakba, which means catastrophe, has been used to describe the 1948 war after which the state of Israel was created. It appeared in the Arabic textbooks, and not the Hebrew ones, in the following passage: " The Arabs call the war the Nakba - a war of catastrophe, loss and humiliation - and the Jews call it the Independence War." Needless to say that the Palestinians are not happy with the change.