A Very Bad Idea

I found a piece in a South New Jersey weekly, The Jewish Times, entitled A Bad Idea and it forced me to write this letter:-

In "A Bad Idea" by Stephen Kramer (Nov. 6), we read this assertion: "The Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank after 1946...". But this is wrong.

The 1947 UN Partition Resolution establishing both a Jewish and an Arab state in the area of Mandate Palestine does not mention the West Bank at all. In all British official documents as those of the US State Department as well, the territory is Judea and Samaria. In the section delineating borders, it refers solely to Judea and Samaria. Only in April 1950 did there appear a geopolitical term, the "West Bank", when the Hashemite Kingdom in Jordan illegally annexed Judea and Samaria after occupying it in 1948.