Green-Lined: A topsy-turvy world; at least for the Jews

I have spotted two additional linguistic oddities that confound me. 

As you have read at this blog previously, I prefer "revenant" rather than "settler", or, at the least, "resident".  I use "community" and not "settlement".  I live in Samaria and not in the "West Bank".

Well, it seems that language is fluid and different standards of semantics are being used.

For example, Israel is pilloried for supposedly being a "colonialist" power lording over "occupied territories."

So, imagine my surprise when I read of "oppressed territories" and asked myself, 'Where are those territories?'

Well, they are in Spain that's where. Seems that ETA, the Basque separatist group, has threatened to attack British tourists and second-home buyers in the French Basque Country for destroying the region's culture and heritage. An ETA commander, Gaeuko, was quoted saying: "If these things do not change, these oppressed territories will become leisure areas for the English, for Parisians and people from Bordeaux."

So, are there British and French "illegal settlements?" Does anyone know if there is a "West Bank" anywhere in Spain?

My second example comes from an item of evidence that was introduced at the trial of the Holy Land Foundation which resulted a few days ago in the sentencing of three Muslims to long prison terms in the United States. 

The evidence of a memorandum composed in 1991 highlighted a grand scheme whereby HLF was part of a broad Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy in the United States called the Palestine Committee, which was to serve Hamas. In the memo, the group's goal in America, p. 18 and 19, included a "civilization-jihadist process" and a "grand jihad" that aimed at "eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within ... so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

But what caught my eye there was point 2: "The priority that is approved by the Shura Council for the work of the group in its current and former session which is "Settlement".  "Settlement"? Wait, isn't that a real estate activity Muslims surely believe to be illegal?

But I was wrong.  As explained on p. 19, "Settlement: " That Islam and its Movement become a part of the homeland it lives in". Moreover, another term used, "Rooting", is defined as: "That Islam is resident and not a passing thing, or rooted "entrenched" in the soil of the spot where it moves and not a strange plant to it".

So, if I understand correctly, Jews returning to their national homeland is bad, immoral and illegal.  However, Muslims, according to this group's outlook, can settle and take root anywhere in the world to extend domination while destroying the native (I almost wrote natural) civilization there.

And in Spain, foreigners can be accused of colonialism and creating through their purchases what they call "oppressed territories."

I guess it is a topsy-turvey world.  At least for the Jews.