I said “relevance”, not “significance”. What a newspaper magnate from Austria decides to call his newspapers is one thing and cannot be defined as another.
I may have sourced the Times of Israel in this thread, but that was due to the remarkable headline, not the overall slant of the publication.
The Zionists always intended to call the Jewish homeland “Israel”. It’s in their official Hebrew-language name. Ben Gurion did not come up with it on the spot.
The relevance is simple ... If I’m forming a new paper in the USA, maybe I’ll call it USA Today ... ummm, wait ... that name is taken. Okay, I could call it “The American Newspaper”. Maybe I might call it the “Washington Times (oops, that one is taken too).
Let me tell you what I won’t be calling it ... The Moscow Times, the USSR Chronicle, or Russian Daily ... LOL ...
Now, let’s go over to Israel today, and back a few years to before 1948 — and see what we call a paper. We definitely don’t call it “Israel Today” because there was no Israel there. We don’t call it the Mohammedan Times, because that narrows it down to just a segment of the population.
Well ... we call it The Palestine Post ... because there are Palestinian Jews there, there are Palestinian Arabs there, and the area is managed under the Palestine Mandate. What a novel idea! ... LOL ...
So I don’t care whether you are left, right or up-side-down — naming conventions come naturally to the subject matter at hand.
Of course, I do expect some people to be so dense that they will not understand this - but I don’t offer remedial help.