Allan Wolman to The Star

Reporting on a promotional tourist video in The Star (6 Dec) produced by Israel, seems to have annoyed the Pro Palestinian 972 Magazine. According to the report there is no mentioned of Palestine in the video designed to highlight only biblical areas. The report cites the   “politically – loaded” biblical names of Judea and Samaria, now that’s more than interesting as these are the original biblical names of that area – named long before geopolitics or political correctness was ever thought of yet the magazine accuses Israel of  “politically loading” biblical names, rich indeed.

A quick look at the map of Palestine hanging in any schoolroom, official Palestine Authority office and many private buildings in the West Bank, Palestine, depicts the entire map of Israel and Palestine as one Palestinian state with absolutely no mention of Israel at all – no mention of Tel Aviv or any other Israeli town. This is official Palestinian policy not a “promotional video”. Most official Palestinian documents have the same Palestinian “coat of arms” depicting the map “from the river to the sea” with no mention of Israel. If you look at the neck scarfs draped around those Palestinian supporters again you will see that same map with no mention of Israel. But any official map or document in Israel depicts the true map will clearly show what Israel is and what the West Bank is. This report in The Star is hypocrisy hard at work.

If the 972 Magazine takes issue with an isolated video calling places by their biblical names but makes no mention of the double standards of official Palestinian doctrine than this report should be viewed with the contempt it deserves

Don Krausz: VIDEO DELIBERATELY LEAVES OUT ANYTHING PALESTINIAN.

RE: VIDEO DELIBERATELY LEAVES OUT ANYTHING PALESTINIAN.

By Telesur – 7/12/16.

 What constitutes Palestine? Is it a geographical area with borders, does it have a government and a capital, does it have its own currency? When was it created and by what people?

 History informs us that it was named some two thousand years ago by the Romans with reference to the Philistines, a Greek people who occupied Gaza,Carthage and Troy.

 The area referred to in the advert is today known as the West Bank, so named by the Jordanians who captured it from Israel in 1948. For millennia it was known as Judea and Samaria, and the inhabitants of Judea were known as Jews. Those living in Samaria were known as Israelites. In 1967 it was recaptured by Israel.

 The name Palestinian was created by the Soviets when they formed the Palestine  Liberation Organisation (PLO). The term “Palestinian People” as a description of Arabs in Palestine appeared for the first time in the preamble of the 1964 PLO Charter drafted in Moscow and handpicked by the KGB.

 Part of the West Bank is under Israeli control and the article bewails the fact that much of the tourist profits will go to Israel. It also laments the possibility that tourists will not meet any worthwhile Palestinians.

 Now that could be a shame. Palestinians hate Israelis and have recently broadcast a song:” Slice open the enemy’s chest – slice it!” Palestinian infants are taught in their schools how to kill Israelis and when they succeed they are lauded by the authorities and from pulpits. Streets and events are named after them.

 Foreign tourists could also have the benefit of conversing with people that have been responsible for the deaths of 24,861 Israelis and the wounding of 35,356 in terrorist attacks since 1920.  But then how does one expect Palestinians to react when Jews deprive them of one sixth of one percent of their land and claim that it has been theirs since the days of Abraham