JUDEA
AND SAMARIA
IS ISRAEL
The
indisputable facts of the so-called delusion of "disputed
territories."
The world at large must understand and recognize that our people
are called Jews because we come from Judea . The fact
remains that these territories west of the Jordan
River are an integral part of the State of Israel, and have
always been connected to the Jewish people since time immemorial.
Ten great quotes affirming beyond a doubt that this region belongs
to Israel :
Archeological excavations throughout Israel confirm
and substantiate the Jewish history in the Land of Israel for
thousands of years and that includes territories east of the Jordan
River .
• Yoram Ettinger, a consultant at the Ariel Center for
Policy Research: “Many world-renowned travelers, historians and archeologists
of earlier centuries refer to 'Judea and Samaria ,' while
the term 'West Bank ' was coined only 60 years ago. Jordan which is on
Jewish territory gave the region this name when it occupied it after Israel ’s 1948 War
of Independence. No nation on earth other than Britain and Pakistan
recognized Jordan ’s claim
to Judea and Samaria . … Even
the Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as official British and Ottoman records
until 1950, used the term Judea and Samaria , and not
the West Bank .”
• The San Remo Resolution of 1920 “recognized the exclusive
national Jewish rights to the Land of Israel under
international law, on the strength of the historical connection of the Jewish
people to the territory previously known as Palestine . The
outcome of this declaration gave birth to the 'Mandate for Palestine,' an
historical League of Nations document that carried out the implementation and
while violating agreements by allocating over 77% of Jewish territory east of
the Jordan River to the Arabs and laid down the Jewish legal right to settle
anywhere in western Palestine, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean
Sea.” (This document clearly establishes that Israeli settlements are
completely legal.)
• Books and history which detailed Judea and Samaria include “H.
B. Tristram (The Land of Israel, 1865); Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad, 1867);
R.A. MacAlister and Masterman (“Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly”); A.P.
Stanley (Sinai and Palestine, 1887); E. Robinson and E. Smith (Biblical
Researches in Palestine, 1841); C.W. Van de Velde (Peise durch Syrien und
Paletsinea, 1861); and Felix Bovet (Voyage en Taire Sainte, 1864)."
• “Israel 's days
without Jerusalem , Judea and Samaria are gone
and will not return.” Yitzchak Shamir, former Prime Minister of the State of
Israel
• “Israel won the
war – after they were attacked by Arab nations. In the real world, winners win
– and even when the Jews win, they keep the land.” Ronn Torossian to the winner goes the
spoils and possession is nine tenths of the law.
• "Since the territories of Judea and Samaria were Jewish
territory for over 3,000 years and was never a legitimate part of any Arab
state or any other nation, including the Kingdom of Jordan, it is impossible to
determine that Israel is an occupier in Judea and Samaria and is inconceivable
in the accepted legal definition. What's more is that the Jewish people have a
historic, legal, and physical link to Judea and Samaria ." -- Col. (res.)
Daniel Reisner, former head of the international law department in the Military
Advocate General's Corps
• “Israel 's
presence in the West Bank is its
liberated territory and not occupation, the Israeli communities and settlements
are legal under international law[.]" -- The 2012 Edmund Levy Report
• “We must operate out of a sense of advancing our rights, the
rights of the Jewish people as an indigenous nation in its land. The Jews are
the oldest nation here, but the State of Israel rarely mentioned this. It has
rarely mentioned the fact that these are territories where we have had rights
from time immemorial. It has rarely mentioned international documents like the
Balfour Declaration, the 1920 San Remo Declaration, the U.N. Charter, and the
British Mandate as approved by the League of Nations , all of
which are very relevant as they relate to our Jewish rights here. ... That what
we are dealing with is liberation and not occupation ... It is inconceivable
that the entire world will repeat the false mantra about Judea and Samaria being
occupied territory when from a factual standpoint there is no legal basis for
this. ... When the U.S. claims
erroneously, even before the negotiations ended, that we have no rights in our
historical Jewish territories over which negotiations are being held and where Jewish
communities and settlements are falsely considered illegitimate, they are in
essence adopting the Arab-Palestinian position and harming the negotiations. If
the negotiations are intended to determine the fate of the Jewish communities
and settlements, then by all means. Even if you are the representative of the U.S.
government, don't prejudice the negotiations by stating beforehand that they
are illegitimate." -- Alan Baker, an attorney & former Israel
Ambassador to Canada
• “If Judea and Samaria should ever be ceded up to the Arabs (which
is not likely) by any irrationally imposed Mid-east peace settlement, Jerusalem
the eternal capital of Israel, Tel Aviv and the Coastal Plain would be in
jeopardy.” -- Dani Dayan, Council of Jewish Settlers
• “The connection between the Jewish
people and the Land of Israel has
lasted for more than 3,700 years. Judea and Samaria , the
places where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, David and Solomon, and Isaiah and
Jeremiah lived are not alien to us. This is the land of our forefathers.” -- Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu
Indeed, what Israel should
remember always is that the Jewish right to Israel is
eternal and non-negotiable. Politics – and politicians – too shall come
and go.
As the Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky said
many years ago: “Do not say, so what if we concede Hebron , Nablus and
beyond the Jordan — this
concession is not comprised of words devoid of meaning, and everyone will
understand this to be the case. Do not underestimate the power of a concession!
… Do not underestimate the power of a right, and don’t exaggerate the value of
a building that is being built. I, too, respect the construction of a building,
but woe upon us if we extract the basis of our right to exist from it.”
Zionism and Israel is moral
and just and the Jewish right to the entire Land of Israel is
eternal and not negotiable.
P.S. Historically “The
Land of Israel” is Jewish Land for about four thousand years and any foreign
power that was there, was an occupier and treated the land as occupied
territory abused its resources and turned it into a desolate land. The Jewish
people who were there for thousands of years were joined by the Jewish people
from the Diaspora and turned the Land of Israel into green pastures and a marvel of innovations in
technology and medicine. The Arab/Muslims after WWI received over 12 million
sq. km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves and no-one is questioning
their territorial borders. The Jewish people were allocated the territory known
as Palestine .
The Arabs expelled over a
million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets including homes and
over 120,000 sq. km of Jewish owned Real Estate plus Jordan which is Jewish territory. Most of the Jewish
families expelled from Arab/Muslim countries were resettled in the Land of Israel .