{"id":26629,"date":"2015-09-12T18:09:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=26629"},"modified":"2015-09-10T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T04:35:00","slug":"israels-supporters-must-stop-using-these-13-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=26629","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Supporters Must Stop Using These 13 Phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Israel\u2019s Supporters Must Stop Using These 13 Phrases<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

by Lee S. Bender and Jerome R. Verlin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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View of the Har Homa in Jerusalem. Photo: James Emery.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Mainstream Western media coverage of Israel is laced with expressions intentionally crafted to delegitimize the Jewish State. The good news is that these terms weren\u2019t written in stone 3,300 years ago, but are post-Israel independence creations. By forfeiting this language, we forfeit our history. Here are 13 phrases we must stop repeating.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

#1<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cWest Bank:\u201d\u009d Claims that \u201cJudea and Samaria\u201d\u009d is simply the \u201cbiblical name for the West Bank\u201d\u009d stands history on its head. The Hebrew-origin terms \u201cJudea\u201d\u009d and \u201cSamaria\u201d\u009d were used through 1950, when invading [Trans]Jordan renamed them the \u201cWest Bank\u201d\u009d in order to disassociate these areas of the Jewish homeland from Jews. The UN\u2019s own 1947 partition resolution referred not to \u201cWest Bank,\u201d\u009d but to \u201cthe hill country of Samaria and Judea.\u201d\u009d This term is not shorthand for \u201cJudea and Samaria.\u201d Under this formulation, Jordan is the \u201cEast Bank\u201d of the original Palestine Mandate, which was designated as the homeland for the Jewish People.<\/span><\/p>\n

#2<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cEast\u201d\u009d Jerusalem or \u201ctraditionally Arab East\u201d\u009d Jerusalem: From the city\u2019s second millennium BCE origins until 1947 CE, there was no such place as \u201cEast\u201d\u009d Jerusalem. The 19 years between when invading Jordan captured part of the city in 1948 and was ousted by Israel in 1967 was the only time in history, except between 638 and 1099, when Arabs ruled any part of Jerusalem. Palestinian Arabs have not ruled an inch of it for one day in history. In the past three millennia, Jerusalem has been the capital of three native states \u2013 Judah, Judaea, and modern Israel \u2013 and has had a renewed Jewish majority since 19th century Turkish rule. Eastern Jerusalem is a neighborhood of the city that Israel reunified in 1967.<\/span><\/p>\n

#3<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cThe UN sought to create Jewish and Palestinian States:\u201d\u009d It did not. Partitioning Palestine between \u201cPalestinians\u201d\u009d and Jews is like partitioning Pennsylvania between Pennsylvanians and Jews. Over and over in its 1947 partition resolution, the UN referenced \u201cthe Jewish State\u201d\u009d and \u201cthe Arab\u201d [not \u201cPalestinian\u201d\u009d] State.<\/span><\/p>\n

#4<\/strong> \u2013 1948 was the \u201cCreation\u201d\u009d and \u201cFounding\u201d\u009d of Israel: Israel wasn\u2019t \u201ccreated\u201d\u009d and \u201cfounded\u201d\u009d in 1948 artificially and out-of-the-blue. Israel attained independence that year as the natural fruition into renewed statehood of a people that had twice before been independent in that land, and after centuries of hard work to re-establish a Jewish State in this historic homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n

#5<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cThe War that Followed Israel\u2019s Creation:\u201d\u009d Israeli did not choose this war; it was hoisted on Israel by almost every Arab state, which rejected the UN partition and tried to push the Jews of Israel into the sea. And it was a homeland Jewish army, Haganah, which became the IDF, that threw back that multi-nation foreign invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

#6- \u201cPalestinian Refugees of the War that Followed Israel\u2019s Creation,\u201d\u009d or the \u201cPalestinian Refugee Issue:\u201d\u009d It was the invading Arab nations bent on Israel\u2019s destruction that both encouraged and caused the bulk of the Arabs to flee Israel. And a greater number of media constantly ignore the indigenous Middle Eastern Jews who were expelled from vast Arab and other Muslim lands in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War. Their number is greater than the amount of Arabs that fled tiny Israel. That Israel absorbed the bulk of these Jews, while Arab \u201chosts,\u201d\u009dincluding in Palestine itself, isolate the Arab refugees\u2019 descendants in Western-supported \u201crefugee camps\u201d\u009d does not convert the Arab-Israeli conflict\u2019s two-sided refugee issue into a \u201cPalestinian\u201d\u009d refugee issue. Had the Palestinian Arabs accepted the UN partition plan, they would also have been celebrating their 66th anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n

#7<\/strong> \u2013 Israel \u201cSeized\u201d\u009dArab Lands in 1967: It did not. The 1967 war, like its predecessors, was a defensive war forced upon Israel. Israel\u2019s neighbors did not want to compromise; they simply wanted to destroy the Jewish State. The new Israeli territory was meant to provide a security barrier and ensure this could never happen. Moreover, these were not \u201cArab Lands.\u201d\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

#8<\/strong> \u2013 Israel\u2019s \u201c1967 Borders:\u201d\u009d The 1949 Israel-Jordan Armistice Agreement expressly declared the \u201cgreen line\u201d\u009d it drew between the two sides\u2019 ceasefire positions as a military ceasefire line only, without prejudice to either side\u2019s political border claims.The post-\u201967 war UN resolution 242 pointedly did not demand Israel retreat from these lines.<\/span><\/p>\n

#9<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cIsraeli-Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem:\u201d\u009d That the media insistently calls Israeli presence in the heart of Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria \u201cIsraeli occupation of Palestinian territories\u201d\u009d does not make it so. \u201cOccupation\u201d\u009d is an international law term referencing foreign presence in the sovereign territory of another state. The land of Israel\u2019s last sovereign native state before modern Israel was Jewish Judaea. The land ratio of Arab lands to Israel is 625-1, 23 states to one.<\/span><\/p>\n

#10<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cJewish Settlers and Settlements\u201d\u009d vs. \u201cPalestinian Residents of Neighborhoods and Villages:\u201d\u009d A favorite media news article contrast is referencing in the same sentence \u201cJewish settlers\u201d\u009d in \u201csettlements\u201d\u009d and \u201cPalestinian residents\u201d\u009d of nearby \u201cneighborhoods\u201d\u009d and \u201cvillages.\u201d\u009d Jews are not alien\u201d settlers\u201d\u009d in a Jerusalem that\u2019s had a Jewish majority since 19th century times or in the Judea-Samaria Jewish historical heartland.<\/span><\/p>\n

#11<\/strong> \u2013 Israel\u2019s \u201cJewish State\u201d\u009d recognition is \u201ca new stumbling block\u201d\u009d: New since Moses\u2019 time. The Jewish homeland of Israel, including continuous homeland-claiming Jewish presence, has always been central to Jewish peoplehood. In 1947, British Foreign Secretary Bevin told Parliament that the Jews\u2019 \u201cessential point of principle\u201d\u009d was Jewish Palestine sovereignty.<\/span><\/p>\n

#12<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cPalestinians accept and Israel rejects a Two-State Solution:\u201d\u009d Wrong on both counts. Both the U.S. and Israel define \u2018Two States\u2019 as two states for two peoples \u2013 Jews and Arabs. Many on the Arab side insistently rejects two states for two peoples. Many Israelis, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, support that plan \u2013 conditioned on an end to Palestinian terror. The Arabs continuously and consistently deny Israel\u2019s right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish People, no matter where its borders are drawn.<\/span><\/p>\n

#13<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cThe Palestinians:\u201d\u009d The United Nations\u2019 1947 partition resolution called Palestine\u2019s Arabs and Jews \u201cthe two Palestinian peoples.\u201d\u009d Nothing is more self-delegitimizing and counter-productive to achieving peace based on Arab recognition of Jews\u2019 right to be there, than that Jews should go around calling Palestinian Arabs \u201cThe Palestinians.\u201d\u009d They have no distinguishing language, religion, or culture from neighboring Arabs, and have never been sovereign in Palestine, whereas the Jews, with a presence stretching back three millennia, have had three states there, all Jerusalem-based. Most Palestinian Arabs cannot trace their own lineage to the land back more than 4 generations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s Supporters Must Stop Using These 13 Phrases by Lee S. Bender and Jerome R. Verlin View of the Har Homa in Jerusalem. Photo: James Emery. Mainstream Western media coverage of Israel is laced with expressions intentionally crafted to delegitimize the Jewish State. The good news is that these terms weren\u2019t written in stone 3,300 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26629"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26634,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions\/26634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}