There is much here that students in America’s Universities would do well to read.
By Victor Sharpe
When did it become an accepted truism that peace between Israel and the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians requires that Israel give to them its very own Biblical birthright in the ancestral and Biblical Jewish heartland? When did the Oslo Accords supersede the eternal possession of the Jewish people to that God-given heartland of Judea and Samaria, the territory a hostile world insists on calling by its illegitimate Jordanian name, the West Bank?
Who are they who dare divide the land that the Almighty bequeathed to Abraham and to his descendants through Isaac and Jacob – to the Law Giver, Moses, who brought down from Sinai the Ten Commandments – and to Joshua who led the Jewish people into the Promised Land? Who are they who would give any part of tiny Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel) away to the Muslim Arabs, they who possess vast territories throughout the Middle East and North Africa?
Unlike the deeply appreciated last incumbent of the White House, President Donald J. Trump, too many previous U.S. presidents displayed pro-Muslim policies, which created clear and present dangers to the very existence of the reborn Jewish state. It is thus with the present Democrat president, Joe Biden. He, like his malign handlers, should take note of Genesis 12:3.
And then there was Barack Hussein Obama, whose hatred of the Jewish state surpassed even that of the lamentable Jimmy Carter. Remember Obama’s Secretary of State, John Kerry? Just like the current Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, he came numerous times to pressure and threaten Israel, thus ushering in an even more baleful time for the embattled Jewish state.
The so-called Palestinian Authority was encouraged by Kerry and Obama to harden its demands upon Israel to insufferable and arrogant levels. It required Israel to essentially commit national suicide. And how many times did we hear Mahmoud Abbas, the Holocaust-denying leader of the fraudulent Arabs who call themselves Palestinians, tell Kerry that the ‘Palestinian Arabs’ will never accept Israel? So much then for a delusional peace!
Kerry insisted, as he stood shoulder to shoulder with Abbas, that Israeli “settlements” are illegal. He deliberately used the pejorative term, “settlements” which in the English parlance demeans and delegitimizes Jewish villages and towns. The PA and the PLO, along with Iranian-funded and supported Hezbollah which occupies Lebanon and Hamas which occupied Gaza, were thus encouraged to initiate more criminal violence and murder against Israelis. The Kerrys and Blinkens of this world have much to answer for as the Jewish death toll relentlessly mounts.
All these malign notions of “land for peace” and a “two-state solution” erode the millennial and inalienable rights of the Jewish people to their tiny land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. But tragically too many Israeli and U.S left-wing politicians still allow themselves to believe in false Muslim promises (tekiyah) of peace. Do they not remember the Biblical Jeremiah’s prophetic words? ”Peace, peace but there is no peace.”
Fifty seven endless years have been squandered by left leaning Israeli leaders since the June 1967 Six Day defensive war against genocidal Arab aggression. This indefensible delay in liberating the Jewish heartland and finally gaining full sovereignty throughout the Jewish homeland has emboldened a hostile world to demonize Jewish towns and villages in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank). Thus, these Jewish communities are delegitimized again and again with the use of the pejorative term: “settlements.”
Remember, there has never in all recorded history ever existed a sovereign, independent state called “Palestine.”
Jewish villages and towns are not inhabited by alien “settlers.” The Jewish population of Judea and Samaria inhabit and redeem their own ancient and ancestral land. These men, women, and children are not “settlers” in what is already theirs by virtue of millennial historical and spiritual attachment. Indeed, many present-day Jewish villages, especially throughout Judea and Samaria, (aka, the so-called West Bank) are built upon the very Biblical Jewish homes, farms and orchards which existed millennia ago. On the Golan, for instance, numerous sites abound where ancient synagogues existed over two thousand years ago – pre-dating Syrian Arab occupation.
Tragically, Judea and Samaria have still not yet been redeemed and brought into sovereign Israel. These lands are the very warp and woof, the very fabric and fiber of Jewish history, both during and since Biblical times. The endless delay by successive Israeli governments for fear of upsetting a hostile world is to betray God’s eternal gift to His people.
I have written in previous articles about Judea, Samaria along with Gaza or, as it appears in the Hebrew acronym, Yesha: meaning in Hebrew, Yehuda, Shomron, and Azza. Yehuda means Judea and yehudim is the plural Hebrew word for Jews. In a sane world that irrefutable connection should impress even the fraudulent Arabs who call themselves Palestinians. But, alas, this is anything but a sane or rational world.
Simply put: The Jewish people are not “settlers” on land that already belongs to them from time immemorial. And the indigenous Jewish people cannot be called “settlers” in their very own ancestral, Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria — or in Gaza for that matter whose territory is the ancient and spiritual inheritance of the Jewish Biblical tribe of Judah.
Finally, the world — whether it likes it or not — must hear about the unassailable Jewish rights to the Land and not the fraudulent claims by Palestinians or from the rantings of miserable Judeophobes who infest the BDS movement, the mainstream media, and increasingly pollute college campuses.
Don’t make the job of the haters of Israel any easier. Help to honor the Jewish villagers and townsfolk living in their ancient and Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria – often in great danger from Arab and Islamist terror — by rejecting the use of the hurtful and illegitimate terms; “settlers” “settlements” and “West Bank.”
Please dignify them with appropriate words to describe the villages and towns of Judea and Samaria. After all, words have meaning and consequences.
Victor Sharpe is a prolific freelance writer and author of several published books including the four volumes of, Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state.