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Saturday, January 11, 2020

About that "Jeopardy!" question



From the Washington Examiner:

The game show Jeopardy! took flak from critics after the answer to one of its questions said Bethlehem was in Israel.

One of the contestants first picked Palestine as the answer to the question "Where's that Church?" with the clue "Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity." The church marking the birthplace of Jesus used to be Israel, but now the Palestinian Authority controls Bethlehem under agreements from Israel. The ambiguity of the answer was enough for liberal critics to come after the game show.

"Unacceptable!!" one such critic said on Twitter. "Bethlehem is in the Palestinian territories which Israel illegally occupies (Katie Needle got the correct answer & was robbed). @Jeopardy owes an apology for endorsing Israel's universally-condemned illegal takeover of Palestinian lands."



The problem is, everyone is wrong.

"Palestine" is not a country and as such is not the correct answer.

Israel never annexed Bethlehem and as such it is not the correct answer.

The legally correct answer is probably something like "disputed regions of Judea and Samaria." (I don't know what the rules for that category were, whether a nation was the only acceptable answer or not, or whether they would have allowed "West Bank" or "Land of Israel" as answers.)

If Israel would have annexed Bethlehem, then there would be no ugly wall surrounding Rachel's Tomb. If Israel would have annexed Bethlehem, it would still be a Christian majority city and the exodus of Christians would not have occurred. If Israel would have annexed Bethlehem, things would be more peaceful today.

But as much as Zionists want to cheer Jeopardy for saying the answer is Israel, unfortunately it isn't.

Maybe one day.



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