English As a 2nd Language Gets Muddled By Bezalel Smotrich When Talking About A Palestine

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         

Bezalel talking to David Friedman, US Ambassador to Israel in Sderot, the closest town to Gaza in 2017.  Bezalel Smotrich was born in Haspin, a religious Israeli community in the Golan Heights, and grew up in the Beit El community, deemed illegal under international law, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. His last name is derived from the Ukrainian town of Smotrych, where  his ancestors lived. His grandfather Yaakov immigrated to Mandatory Palestine before World War II and he subsequently lost his parents, who drowned on an Aliyah Bet ship trying to reach Palestine, while his grandmother Bruria survived the Holocaust before immigrating to Israel. His grandfather Shimon was a 13th generation native of Jerusalem and his grandmother Sara was born in Metula to a family of Zionist pioneers.   He's invested in Israel.  He's a Sabra, hard on the outside, butsoft on the inside, but I'm waiting to see the softness (heart).  

   The question of the Palestinian people being a valid title was brought up today by  Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who  denied the existence of a Palestinian people or nationhood over the weekend, prompting a rebuke from the United States just weeks after calling for a Palestinian town to be “erased.”  I'm sorry to see that the United States is not mindful of Israeli history.

   Not the town, G-d forbid, but the name of being a Palestinian town, for now, the land is all Israel, except for Judea and Samaria, which ironically was the original Israel. So it could be called a Judean town or a Samarian town or an Israeli town but NOT a Palestinian town. It was Jordan who called Judea and Samaria "West Bank" which means the west side of the Jordan River.

They, like the Romans, wanted to erase the memory of Israel which had included Judea and Samaria.  Name change results in mind-altering, and they win without a fight.  It's a brain-washing technique. 

It should be referred to as an Israeli town if its in the parameters.                    

Palestinians started as a Roman term for the people living in Judea-Samaria when Bar Kokhba, the Israelite general, fought against the Romans and took back Jerusalem from 132 to 135 CE.  The Romans hadn't ever lost a battle before and were so furious that they renamed the land for the Philistines, the Israelites fiercest enemy.   From then on, both Arabs and Jews were called Palestinians because the Romans had named the land, Palestine.  

Even in the 1920s at the end of World War I, both people were Palestinians.  However, there had been no government over the land except the Ottoman Empire who lost it all by the end of the war because their side, including Germany, had lost.  They were the losers. If anything, the workers or soldiers of the Ottoman Empire were called Turks, because Turkey was the center of the Ottoman Empire.  

There was no capital of any Palestine, government of a Palestine with a king or a president or a Sultan, nothing.  Nothing except the British who were given the 30 year mandate to keep the peace in the land.  

Jews who have come far and wide to live there.  .                    

Bezalel Smotrich's father is an Orthodox rabbi, and Smotrich received a religious education, attending Mercaz HaRav Kook, Yashlatz, and Yeshivat Kedumim. During his short service in the Israel Defense Forces, he served as a secretary in the Operations Division of the General Staff. He earned a BA in law from Ono Academic College, and began a master's degree in public and international law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, though he did not complete it. He is licensed as a lawyer.

 Thought of by a few as one of the most brilliant and influential members of the house, he is proud to be the Knesset’s right-wing bellwether, and is perceived as radical even within the national-religious milieu from which he emerged – the settlement movement. In the brief year and a half since he was sworn in, Smotrich has succeeded in guiding the direction of his party (through his leadership of the struggle to prevent the dismantling of the Amona outpost in the West Bank, which needs a lot of explanation.  .  

                          Kedumim, homes that the world has not accepted as being "kosher" who considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank (Judea/Samaria)  illegal under international law. According to the BBC, as of 2008 "every government in the world, except Israel, considered the settlements to be illegal". The Israeli government, dispute this. 

The Palestinians kept Israel away for a long time by notmeeting them for peace talks.  After so many years, this becomes ridiculous.  They went ahead and moved there. 

It's typical of the international world to deny Jews their origin.

 This was  messed up by the British originally, and accepted bythe Jewish delegation who considered the deal "better thannothing" while the Arabs had rejected ittotally.  Today we are left with the anti-Semitic denial of Jewish-origin land to Jews who have come far and wide to live there. 

 Smotrich is an Orthodox Jew, and is married to Revital, with whom he has seven children. The family lives outside the Kedumim settlement in Judea/Samaria.  To me, he is way too narrow-minded to be in government, period.  His style of being Jewish does not go along with the norm, but is fanatical.  Narrow minded people do not see the whole pictures, only their narrow alley of it.  They do not consider consequences that can take lives.  I'm disgusted. 

Law professor Eugene Kontorovich joined Michelle Makori to lay out the legal case for Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights in 2018:, and I hope to one day see what he thinks about Smotrich's views.  

When the Israelites returned to Canaan they found it already populated after their 400 year Slavery in Egypt.  When Jews fled back to Palestine before WWI to be met by their fellow mishpuka who hadn't left, and then right after WWI, they found Arabs living in the land.  Both times, it's been the challenge to oblige G-ds command as to where Jews were to live.  These so-called cousins have been enemies ever since bible days with Isaac and Esau, non-fraternal twins, both trying to get the upper hand.   

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_for_Palestine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezalel_Smotrich