Keep your eye on this guy
Miami - Dade County's newly elected Mayor is here visiting and Carlos Gimenez apparently gets the Jewish villages in Judea and Samaria. Israel should be describing Jewish communities beyond the Green Line as developments, not settlements, Carlos Gimenez, the recently elected mayor of Miami-Dade County, said on Friday.Indeed. I've been arguing for years that the translations of the words yishuv and mityashvim as 'settlement' and 'settlers' respectively, does us a disservice and conjures up images of the Wild West and pioneers living in tents, when in fact most of the revenants (the term I use in lieu of 'settlers') live in suburban style block housing in places where there are no Arabs for hundreds of meters around.
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“When you conjure up the word ‘settlement,’ you think about the Old West, pioneers and all that,” he said in an interview just after visiting Efrat in the West Bank.
“It is really more like a development, that is all it is,” he said. “Settlement is the wrong word to use. If you want to describe it to Americans, it is really a development.
“We spoke to someone who lived in a settlement. Just a normal person. Basically just someone who wants to live in a suburb. That’s it. Is there conflict there? Obviously. But [Efrat] is not what I thought it was going to be.”
Labels: Carlos Gimenez, Judea and Samaria, revenants
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:29 AM
1 Comments:
I keep telling you guys this. The view presented by the media in the U.S. is NOT what the reality is. Did someone drive this Mayor out of Jerusalem to the east up the highway in the Jordan Valley? That's where you can see the topography ("developments" on the hills to block rocket launching sites) and the much larger amount of open space out there than is intimated by the news coverage.
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