Editing Menachem Begin (section)

==Tertiated==
Begin, in his first meeting with President Carter, used the word '''tertiated''' to describe how, during the ''Holocaust'' one in three Jews, of the worldwide Jewish population, were murdered.<ref>{{cite news
   |url=https://www.jta.org/1977/08/11/archive/begin-no-u-s-pressure-on-israel
   |title=Begin: No U.S. Pressure on Israel
   |date=11 August 1977}}</ref>  When Carter asked "What was that word, Mr. Prime Minister?" Begin compared it to the Roman army term ''[[Decimation (punishment)|Decimation]]'' and then added "one in three – tertiated!"<ref>{{cite magazine  |magazine=[[Jewish World Review]]
      |url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0903/begin_leadership.php3
      |title=How to negotiate for 'peace'
      |author=[[Yehuda Avner]]  |date=17 September 2003}}</ref>

Begin elaborated later on: "When I use the word "Tertiated" I mean to say that we do not accept the known term of "Decimation".<ref>{{cite web |website=Official Government Document
|url=https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/MFADocuments/Yearbook3/Pages/32%20Toast%20by%20Prime%20Minister%20Begin%20at%20a%20dinner%20in%20ho.aspx
|title=Toast by Prime Minister Begin at a dinner in honour of Secretary of State Vance, 9 August 1977
|quote=M.Begin to US Ambassador: When I use the word "Tertiated" I mean to say that we do not accept the known term of "Decimation". 
|date=9 August 1977}}</ref> [[Avi Weiss]] highlighted: "But the Holocaust is different" and noted "As Menachem Begin once said, during the Holocaust our people were not decimated, but "''tertiated''" — it was not one in ten, but one in three that were murdered."<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Forward]]
|url=https://forward.com/scribe/398549/will-the-holocaust-be-remembered-100-years-from-now
|title=Will The Holocaust Be Remembered 100 Years From Now?
|author=[[Avi Weiss]] |date=11 April 2018}}</ref>