Use of Terminology: Update and Commentary on The Attempt to Expell Jews from Mitzpe Shalhevet, Chevron, From Neighborhoods …

“War on Outposts” Update

Commentary;

This author has begun to emphasize the use of different terminology from that which the Sharon/Olmert Regime use to de-humanize and demonize the Jews in keeping with a recent post to this blog based on an email from a friend.

Today’s lesson is what the vilification terms “Outpost”, “Settlement”, “Encampment” actually denote. If a new section is built in Ramat Beit Shemesh or Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Rechovot, it is called a neighborhood (a “Givah’ or “Givat”) A new Yishuv is established and built, it is called a village or town.

And I’ll let all of you fine people living in the Ramat Aviv “Bet” neighborhood of Tel Aviv in on something not so secret. Since you insist on referring to neighborhoods in Yehuda and Shomron as “Hilltops”, “Outposts” or “Encampments” or to such towns as “settlements” (Sh’tachim), then recognize that your great friends, the Arabs, the Islamics consider the entirety of Israel on both sides of your precious ‘Green Line” as theirs and that we are all Sh’tachim. Wasn’t it Arafat who made no bones about the fact that the bogus Arab line that they consider Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa, etc theirs. And as the headline of a recent article said; “Hamas: We never wanted to throw Jews in sea [just out of country].”

So, when are you going to expell me from my neighborhood? MB

And this author sees a connection between the exercise above and Caroline Glick’s latest Commentary;

Column One: ‘Cool’ Anti-Semitism

Excerpts;

“It’s official: Anti-Semitism is “in.” The decision to award the Palestinian film Paradise Now the Golden Globes Award for best foreign film tells us that Palestinian terror against Israelis has become so acceptable that it is now Hollywood kitsch. The sight of the Jewish American diva Sarah Jessica Parker, of Sex in the City fame, excitedly announcing that a film which glorifies the mass murder of Jews in Israel was the big winner for 2005 only served to demonstrate how deep this trivialization of evil now runs.”

“Is Israel about to adopt a policy of fighting Jews rather than defending them against Palestinian terrorists? We’ll know the answer to that question on March 28 when Israelis go to the polls and elect their next government.”