Comments on: CBS Classic Deception Revealed – Meet a REAL Hilltop Settler

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The video titled “CBS Classic Deception Revealed – Meet a REAL Hilltop Settler” (published by media commentator and international spokesperson Yishai Fleisher) focuses on a critique of how 60 Minutes covers Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).

The primary arguments and critiques presented in the video include:

• Distortion and “Hit-Piece” Editing: The video argues that *60 Minutes* segments on Israeli settlers are heavily edited to create a misleading narrative. Rather than offering an objective overview, the criticism highlights how selective footage and narrative framing function as a “hit piece” to demonize Israeli residents.
• Misrepresentation of Local Residents: The segment features an unedited, face-to-face interview with an Israeli sheep farmer/hilltop resident (Binyamin Mordechai Minster) who was featured in a *60 Minutes* report. The critique asserts that mainstream media outlets like CBS mischaracterize ordinary farmers and families, stripping away their context, daily realities, and security challenges to fit a predetermined political agenda.
• Biased Framing of Complex Geopolitics: The commentary contends that the network glosses over the historical, legal, and security contexts of the region, favoring a simplistic narrative that frames Israeli communities entirely as an obstacle to peace while ignoring local hostile pressures and security threats.

 

In short, the video accuses *60 Minutes* of journalistic malpractice, media distortion, and using manipulative editing techniques to misrepresent Israeli settlers to an American audience.

Comment: In the post: The Kfar Darome Miracle Was Not Enough To Save the Jewish Communities in Gaza From the “Deep State” and A Biblical Curse  we showed examples of how the so-called Palestinians tried again and again to attack Jews.
Did it help sway public opinion? Not that much.
Many people on “our side” fail to understand the root of the problem and therefore look for solutions that are not effective:

The Root Issue (A Quote from the Kfar Darome Miracle article)

The Biblical Curse As Explained By Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh

He thus without realizing it, fulfilled the Biblical Curse in Bamidbar/Numbers 33 as explained by Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh:

33:55

ואם לא תורישו את יושבי הארץ, “And if you will fail to drive out the inhabitants of the land, etc.” According to Megillah 10 which says that wherever the word והיה occurs it alludes to something joyful, the meaning of the word here would be that although the reason the Israelites would decide {with joy} to allow some of these inhabitants to remain for the performance of menial duties, etc., i.e. in order to enjoy their services, G-d would see to it, that instead, these remaining inhabitants would prove to be thorns in their eyes and pricks in their sides and that these foreigners would harass the new owners.

וצררו אתכם על הארץ, “and they shall harass you in the land, etc.” The Torah means that not only will they harass you in the part of the land that you did not drive them out of, but they will harass you even in the parts of the country which you have conquered and driven them out of and which you have settled. They will challenge you to leave what they consider to be their country. The meaning of the word על in this context is similar to Numbers 20,24: על אשר מריתם את פי, “because you have rebelled against My word.” We have a similar meaning of the word על in Deut. 32,51.

33:56

כאשר דמיתי לעשות להם, “as I meant to do unto them, etc.” My commandment was meant for your benefit. Seeing you have not fulfilled it, My commandment remains unfulfilled; I therefore have no choice but to fulfill it in respect of these people you have left in the land.

Note: Elsewhere in his commentary, Ohr Hachaim indicates that the curse is not limited to the situation where Canaanites are left in parts of Biblical Israel.

As long as Jews do not bring up the root issue to justify their actions, the other sophisticated PR tactics will not work in the long run.

Do they have to explain this to 60 Minutes? Probably not. To them it is probably best to ignore their requests for an interview. But for supporters and neutral people, the root issue should be raised.

Comment #2: The biblical prophet, Isaiah (Yishayahu) teaches [chapter 54 verse 2] “Expand the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: do not hold back, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes”. The students of the Gaon of Vilna,(as explained in Rabbi Rivlin’s book, Kol Hator, chapter 5 ), believed there are 17 facets of expansion needed to fully fulfill this verse. All the activities that are contained within the commandment of expansion , it is obligatory to do them and strengthen them without stopping and without delay as the words of the prophecy there [in Isaiah] state, “Expand the place of your tent”, etc. “do not hold back” , meaning, don’t stop, and “strengthen your stakes”. In the same chapter [of Isaiah] of which we were commanded to “Expand the place of your tent”, we have a trustworthy promise “No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper and every tongue that rises with you to judgment, you shall make into the guilty party, this is the heritage of the servants of Hashem [G-d] and their righteousness is from me, says Hashem”.