Judea and Samaria or West Bank? Religious or secular roots of terminology explained after distortion

  Aside from the double standard or hypocrisy on supporting the UN, by the references to Judea and Samaria in 1947, Michael Berenhaus leaves out the Sept 3, 1990 order

 September 3 [1990]
Israel's state-run TV and radio ban the use of Arabic names of Pale[st]inians villages and towns, requiring all broadcasters to refer to them by their "Biblical" names (1990).


 to Israeli state-run media to only use Biblical, or Hebrew, place names.  The UN is rarely praised for supporting any Israeli government, particularly right-leaning anti-equality party-led Knesset coalition, policies even by Michael Berenhaus himself.



    6.    Speaking of double standards, the United Nations adopts more resolutions against Israel each year than against all other countries combined – more than Iran, Sudan, Syria, Russia, North Korea, China, etc. How is that possible? Why doesn’t the Times report about this double standard? The Times actually quotes the UN to support the case against Israel! With its recognized investigative reporting, the Times should instead challenge the UN and expose the charade.
    7.    The UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently refused to recognize the holiest site of Judaism – the Temple Mount – as a Jewish site. Where was the outrage at the Times?



  Biblical and Hebrew are, and were in the 1990 order, equated by the Israeli government whose right-leaning parties Berenhaus has defended, by letters that get picked for publication, often.  The 1990 order was made by an Israeli coalition government of parties of "religious zealots" in the Likud-led coalition of the late Yitzhak Shamir.  PM Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud-led coalition governments since 1996, and particularly since 2009, have simply repeated the religious (fundamentalist Jewish/Orthodox to Haredi Jewish/radical Judaicist conflated with zionist) zealotry.  




  A letter I sent, back in 2008, that the Washington Post letter selectors decided was not 'fit to print' mentioned the Sept 3, 1990 order.  The text of unpublished letter, with 2017 updates and links, follows: 




  Much ado has been made from the alleged statement by [former] Iranian Pres. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad that Israel should be "wiped off the map."
  Ahmedinejad was mistranslated and he never said those odious, hateful words.

  But 400 Palestinian villages now within Israel's pre-1967 borders were actually wiped off the map.
 
  An Israeli group called Zochrot keeps the memory of these villages alive by posting signs at their former locations. 
 

  The signs are unfortunately removed quickly by others.  [By 2014 Zochrot released a mobile app to identify Palestinian villages abandoned in the 1948 chaos and 'fog of war' where the first casualty of war is truth.]


   Despite English, Hebrew and Arabic road signs in Israel, an Israeli order of Sept. 3, 1990 requires the exclusive use of Hebrew ("Biblical"), not equal use of Arabic, place names in state-run TV and radio news reporting.  This order serves the purpose of wiping the memory of the residences of past non-Jewish populations of Palestine off the map.