Posts Tagged: Judea and Samaria
Israeli Right Outraged by Prime Minister Bennett’s Use of Term ‘West Bank’
A storm of controversy erupted on the Israeli right on Sunday after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett used the term “West Bank” rather than the traditional...
Government to Spend $3.2 Million to Protect, Repair West Bank Heritage Sites
JNS.org - The Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Ministry has announced plans to allocate approximately 10 million shekels ($3.2 million) to the preservation, rehabilitation, and rescue...
Palestinian Leaders Are Burying Their Own Dream
JNS.org - Last week’s meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas drew harsh criticism both in Israel and from...
Why Rename Judea and Samaria?
There is good reason that the Arab world and the anti-Israel left insist on using the mendacious and geographically inaccurate term “West Bank” when they...
IDF Forces Enter Palestinian Village After Thwarted Terror Attack
JNS.org – Israeli forces entered the village of Ras Karkar in Judea and Samaria early on Friday, following a terror attack in the Sde Ephraim...
IDF Forces Enter Palestinian Village After Thwarted Terror Attack
JNS.org - Israeli forces entered the village of Ras Karkar in Judea and Samaria early on Friday, following a terror attack in the Sde Ephraim...
The Future of Settlement in Israel
Two matters currently in dispute that are on the agenda of the settlement enterprise constitute a key to the future of Israel: the choice of...
Israel Must Look Beyond the Coronavirus Crisis
JNS.org - The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that “noise kills thought.” We are in a period with much coronavirus-related noise. Yet as the world...
Zionism, Messianism and the Question of the Settlements
At least 500,000 Israelis live in territories won in the 1967 Six-Day War, and possibly a great deal more than that. They reside everywhere from...
Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria: Historical and Legal Milestones
JNS.org - The subject of the rights under international law of the Jewish People and the State of Israel in Judea and Samaria involves a...
Fifty-Two Years Late Isn’t Too Late
JNS.org - As Israel considers how and when to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria — drawing its map in cooperation with the...
‘Annexation’ or Sovereignty?
“Annexation Looms” headlined a mournful New York Times article (June 19) co-authored by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David M. Halbfinger and Adam Rasgon, Palestinian affairs reporter...
Washington Post Amnesia on Israel and ‘Annexation’
JNS.org - “History,” the late historian Bernard Lewis wrote, “is the collective memory and if we think of the social body in terms of the...
Annexation Fulfills Zionist Dream
Yossi Klein Halevi has long been one of my favorite Israeli writers. Our shared New York boyhoods -- his in Brooklyn and mine in Queens...
