Saturday, August 22, 2020

The "West Bank" and "Newspeak"

 Michael Lumish

Most people have no idea that the term "West Bank" is brand-spanking new in historical terms. The area has been known as Judea and Samaria (or Yehuda and Shomron in the Hebrew) and has been discussed in those terms for thousands of years.

It was only after the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan decided to erase Jewish history on historically Jewish land in the middle of the twentieth-century that suddenly the "West Bank" came into usage. Today when people use the term "West Bank" they are unknowingly expunging Jewish heritage from the very land of our ancestry.

The reason for this is obvious. 

Most of the Arab world and their progressive-left allies in places like the European Union and the Democratic Party have no intention of letting our Jewish brothers and sisters live in peace in the land of our indigeneity.

Instead, they want to hand-over the Jewish heartland to the very enemies of the Jewish people. People who sided with the Nazis during World War II and who have never ceased trying to chase the Jewish people out of our traditional homeland or, from the seventh century onward, forcing us to live as second and third-class non-citizens under the imperial boot of Sharia law.

This is why terminology is so important.

"West Bank" represents nothing so much as Orwellian "Newspeak."

Wikipedia, citing the Oxford Companion to the English Language, defines "Newspeak" as follows:

"To meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism in Oceania, the ruling English Socialist Party (Ingsoc) created Newspeak, a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the freedom of thought—personal identity, self-expression, and free will—that threatens the ideology of the régime of Big Brother and the Party, who have criminalised such concepts into thoughtcrime as contradictions of Ingsoc orthodoxy."

3 comments:

  1. Well, ya know, "the aboriginal Arabs of Judea" wasn't going to fly. It had sort of an obvious false ring to it. So they changed to the Palestinian Palestinians of West Bank, Palestine, Historic Palestine, between the river and the sea.
    How many people do you think know that "Jordan" comes from Hebrew?

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  2. It's all about speech, language, ideas. I found this at Mark Steyn's website:

    https://www.steynonline.com/10576/ill-be-at-the-beach-thanks

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