I
encourage you to write these down or print them out for use when you write
letters and articles, give presentations, or have conversations with your
friends.
1. Use ‘Judea and Samaria’ instead of ‘
2. Use ‘Jewish
community’ instead
of ‘settlement‘.
How in the world can anyone call communities such as Maaleh Adumin (40,000) and
Modin Illit(45,000), and Ariel (20,000) ‘settlements’?
3. Use ‘construction
of Jewish homes, schools, and hospitals’ instead of ‘settlement
activity‘. By obscuring what the activities
are, the activities are delegitimized.
4. Use ‘new Jewish communities’ instead of ‘outposts‘. An outpost is a small
military encampment not a place where people are planning to permanently live.
5. Use ‘Jewish community member’ instead of ‘settler‘. Are we living in
the wild west? Most Jewish community members are suburbanites commuting to jobs
in Tel Aviv and elsewhere.
6. Use ‘conservative
politicians’ instead
of ‘right-wing
politicians‘. Smearing someone as
‘right-wing’ is a convenient way of dismissing what they have to say.
7. Use ‘PLO’ or ‘Palestine Liberation Organization’ instead of ‘Palestinian
Authority‘. Mahmoud Abbas has made it clear
that the PLO runs the show in Judea and Samaria, and the United Nations
recognizes the PLO–not the Palestinian Authority.
8. Use ‘Palestinian Islamic Terrorist Organization–HAMAS’ instead of merely ‘Hamas‘. HAMAS is an acronym for “Harakat al Muqawamah al Islamiyya” which
means ‘Islamic Resistance Movement’. It is easier to say or write
HAMAS, but the acronym does not tell what the organization is about.
9. Use ‘Israeli
men, women, and children’ instead of ‘Israeli citizens‘ when
referring to those of us assaulted by terrorists. After all, Palestinian
terrorists delight in trying to kill all Israelis–regardless of age or gender.
10. Use ‘Palestinian cities’ instead of ‘Palestinian
refugee camps‘. Who is kidding whom? Cities
such as Kalandiya are huge places with massive construction going on all the
time–the city’s residents are not
nomads living in tents.
Acknowledgements: thanks to israelstreet.org



