Monday, June 01, 2009

Judea and Samaria

The right way to speak:

At a Sunday cabinet meeting, Israeli ministers openly defied the U.S. demands. Israeli Transport Minister Yisrael Katz told Army Radio,

"I want to make it clear that the current Israeli government will not accept in any way the freezing of legal settlement activity in Judea and Samaria (The West Bank)."


Judea and Samaria are the correct historical geographic terms.

Even UN Resolution 181, the "Bible" of presumed Palestinian statehood, includes this in Part 2:

The boundary of the hill country of Samaria and Judea starts...


...at a point on the district boundary between Haifa and Samaria west of El- Mansi.

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