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https://www.frontpagemag.com/jet-blue-effaces-israel-from-its-in-flight-maps/

The airline Jet Blue has recently changed its in-flight maps. Now on its screens appears a map wherein the word “Israel” has been completely overlaid, in text of a much larger size, with the words “Palestinian Territory.” No explanation for the change has been given by Jet Blue. More on this disturbing toponymic effacement can be found here: “JetBlue Airways changes Israel’s borders and name to ‘Palestinian Territories,’” Jerusalem Post, September 4, 2024:

American airline JetBlue Airways has updated their in-flight map to show the words “Palestinian Territories” in significantly larger text than the word “Israel,” to the point where it is overlaid on the entire state of Israel, N12 reported Tuesday evening.

Hodaya Knafo, an Israeli woman studying in the United States, told N12 that she was on a domestic flight from Miami to San Diego when she tried to show another passenger where Israel was located on her seat’s personal screen. “The label was prominently displayed in a way that didn’t seem innocent,” she said, and additionally, the borders were incorrect.”

According to the map, Israel’s northern border does not include the Golan Heights….

Someone at Jet Blue decided to remove from its screen map of Israel the Golan Heights, which was annexed by the Jewish state in 1981. This was not an accident, but a clear political statement: the Golan annexation is illegitimate, and we refuse to show it as part of Israel.

Wanting to show a seatmate just how small her country was, Ms. Knafo was shocked to see it even smaller than she knew it to be, stripped of the Golan Heights. And what’s more, the overlaid large-text “Palestinian Territories” made it almost impossible to make out the small-text toponym “Israel.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/panetta-accuses-israel-of-carrying-out-a-form-of-terrorism-with-beeper-operation/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_

Leon Panetta, one of the 51 former national security officials most connected to the Obama-Biden administration, who sullied his reputation by falsely claiming in a partisan pre-election open letter that the Hunter Biden laptop reporting bore the hallmarks of a Russian influence operation, has joined his co-author, John Brennan, in condemning Israel’s “Grim Beeper” operation.

As I detailed on Saturday, Brennan, who eventually succeeded Panetta as Obama’s CIA director, told NBC News last week that Israel’s infiltration of the communications of Hezbollah — which began bombing Israel in conjunction with Hamas’s October 7 atrocities — was an unacceptable form of warfare.

Panetta, who also served as Obama’s defense secretary, has one-upped Brennan, accusing Israel of executing “a form of terrorism.”

To reiterate what I contended in the column, it is difficult to quantify how idiotic such allegations are. Israel’s attack was narrowly targeted, discriminate, and proportional. To state the obvious, its targets were the operatives of a terrorist organization, which (a) has murdered hundreds of Americans and (b) has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization under federal law for 30 years.

Israel’s explosions were ingeniously designed to harm only the terrorist operatives to whom the terrorist organization distributed pagers in order to facilitate the planning of terrorist operations. Yet, according to Panetta’s meandering in a CBS interview on Sunday, this could amount to “a form of terrorism” because it is the exploitation of common communications devices: “The ability to place an explosive in technology that is very prevalent these days, and turn it into a war of terror” — indeed, “the battlefield of the future.”

Where to begin?

https://www.jns.org/guterres-stands-by-unga-resolution-calling-for-jews-to-be-removed-from-old-city-of-jerusalem/?

A spokesman for the secretary-general told JNS that António Guterres “has called for an end to the occupation, and he has called for the end of settlements.”

Prior to the U.N. General Assembly’s vote on Wednesday calling for Jerusalem’s Old City, Judea and Samaria to be free of Jews, António Guterres, the global body’s secretary-general, told reporters that he would back implementation of the resolution should it pass.

The Palestinian-drafted resolution, which passed by a 124-14 margin with 43 abstentions, is meant to give force to the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion in July, when the U.N. high court in The Hague declared Israeli presence to be illegal in any area over the 1949 armistice line.

JNS asked Guterres’s spokesman Stéphane Dujarric during a press briefing on Thursday whether the secretary-general now backs the resolution, calling for the Old City in Jerusalem to be Judenrein, which he said he would report.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20964/zion-a-place-worth-defending

In essence, Zionism is simply an attempt to re-establish their ancestral home, their place of refuge and sanctuary in an alien world which largely despises them. Zion (now Israel), is a place they can gather to practise their faith without persecution. The six ancient cities of refuge were located only within the Land of Israel, just as, in a microscopic sense, the family is a city of refuge.

The world desperately needs Jewish values and wisdom — those detailed in the holy scriptures. Jewish wisdom was among the first, after the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1,755 BCE), to present the world with social justice — not only in the Ten Commandments — but also in how we treat our fellow creatures:

“But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do” (Deuteronomy 5:14);

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk” (Deuteronomy 14:21);

“If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young” (Deuteronomy 22:6);

“You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns” (Deuteronomy 24:14);

“You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets – for he is poor and counts on it” (Deuteronomy 24:15);

“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbour” (Leviticus 19:15);

“You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child” (Exodus 22:22).

Jews have historically defended liberty against tyranny and moral confusion…

The true calling of the Jews, with “the world’s most moral army,” as the IDF is referred to by military expert Col. Richard Kemp, as they now wage a war that was forced on them, is to bring eternal values such as those above, found in the Torah, to the world at large. The Jews remain, after all, a “kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” They are entitled to their land, a place historically theirs — Zion, Israel, their ancestral home. This land was promised to the Jewish nation forever. It is a place worth defending.