#767 Brith Sholom Media Watch Alert

To:       Brith Sholom Media Watch Subscribers
From:   Jerry Verlin, Editor  (jverlin1234@verizon.net)
Subj:    Brith Sholom Media Watch Alert #767, 9/13/15

WHILE YOU STAND ON ONE LEG:  Ok, on this eve of Days of Reflection on fundamental things, you can only spare time to reflect on fundamentals of the media’s campaign for the Jewish homeland’s delegitimization while you stand on one leg? 

Reflect then on three fundamental Jewish homeland-related terms the U.N. itself used in 1947, and on how we’ve allowed the world, the mainstream Western media (including our hometown Philadelphia Inquirer (Inq)) in the van, to replace these terms with ones slanted against us.

#1: “Arab and Jewish States”:  The U.N. did not attempt to partition Palestine between “Palestinians and Jews,” as the media puts it, akin to partitioning Pennsylvania between Pennsylvanians and Jews.  It said over and over “the Arab State and the Jewish State,” not “Palestinian and Jewish States.”

#2:  “The Two Palestinian Peoples”:  The U.N. did not refer to Palestine’s Arabs as “The Palestinians.”  It referred to Palestine’s Jews and its Arabs as “the two Palestinian peoples.”

#3:  “Samaria and Judea”:  The U.N. did not use the (subsequently invented) expression “West Bank.”  It referred to “the hill country of Samaria and Judea,” the Hebrew-origin place names used throughout history, millennia-honored names the media mockingly calls “the biblical name for the West Bank.”

The ceiling of other people’s respect for us is the respect we show for ourselves.  Regardless how you feel about the looming French U.N.S.C. resolution to drive Israel back to the perilous ceasefire lines of 1949 (what the world, led by the media, mockingly calls “Israel’s 1967 borders”), make the Jewish homeland claim to Judea-Samaria – grounded in homeland history, San Remo, etc. – mean something.

Put your foot down.

L’shana tova,
Jerry