Hamas War

Friday, December 14, 2018

Terror ATTACK, Not "Incident"

I'm a rare breed. I love grammar, and I have a very sensitive ear to the nuances of language. I've written many times about how important it is to word bombing, shellings, rocket attacks, etc in "active" rather than "passive." Also, please don't word things giving the impression that a gun spontaneously aimed itself and shot someone.

Please don't write/say:
"Weapon fired at..."
"Missiles were launched at..."
Calling a terror attack an "incident" also makes me furious. The definition of "incident" is:
  1. an individual occurrence or event.
  2. distinct piece of action, or an episode, as in a story or play.
  3. something that occurs casually in connection with something else
I also go rather ballistic when I read about people/Jews "who perished" in the Holocaust, as if it was a natural disaster, like an avalanche.

By using "parve" gentle words and inaccurate grammatical forms one is actually distorting the truth.

It is not an "incident, something that occurs casually" when Arab terrorists shoot at innocent Jews standing at a junction.
Photo of the "live" via facebook funeral of prematurely born Amiad Yisrael Ish-Ran.
Accurate reporting and writing is extremely crucial in Israel's war for survival against the cruelest of enemies, Arab terrorists and their supporters. Don't be shy about writing clearly and bluntly.


2 comments:

Mr. Cohen said...

Bayta, may G*D grant you that you should see
the Melech HaMashiach and the Geulah Shelemah
in your life time.

If the so-called “Social Justice Warriors”
really believed in Social Justice, then they
would grant Victim Status to the victims
of terrorism, not to the terrorists.

The so-called “Social Justice Warriors”
continue to grant Victim Status to the
terrorists, even when they murder Jewish
teenagers, even when they murder Jewish
children, even when they murder Jewish babies!

I see the Muslims laughing, their bellies a-heaving;
they won’t be laughing when MASHIACH gets even!

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How Torah Can Defeat Terrorism:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/08/defeat-terror-with-torah.html

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Did Captain Kirk believe in negotiating with terrorists?

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/08/can-jews-learn-from-captain-kirk.html

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Who are the Palestinians?

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/06/who-are-palestinians.html

Batya said...

amen
thank you