xterm ignores Xresources when run as x-terminal-emulator

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

I set up some setting for xterm in .Xresources as
xterm.foreground=white
...
when running xterm this works fine, when running x-terminal-emulater
when it is pointing to xterm this doesn't work and the same lines for
x-terminal-emulator doesn't seem to help.
how do I set the Xresources for x-terminal-emulator ?