Why are Israeli homes in Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”) falsely-alleged to be “illegal”?:
The following is how the U.N. Lawfare against Israel works:
> Falsely regarding Israel/the Jewish people as illegally-occupying "Judah and Samaria" ("West Bank, the");
> Then, based on that consequently, Israeli homes and villages (referred to in the Media (and strangely also in Israel) erroneously as "settlements"), within "Judah and Samaria" ("West Bank") become: "illegal in International law";
> Then, consequential U.N. Court decisions based in those biased U.N. policies.
How does the U.N. bias against Israel work?:
The “Palestinian” Arabs start-off in U.N. votes by enjoying a block-vote in their favor of up to 56 Arab and additional Islamic-aligned countries (e.g. U.N. member states that are also members of the “Organization of Islamic Cooperation” and follow its policies when voting in the U.N.), and influence of Arab oil money with consequential trading power; compared to Israel’s one vote.
Security Council resolutions passed against Israel are typically during the tenure of U.S. Democratic Party Presidents who decide not to use their veto to protect Israel from unjust resolutions.
Such U.N. policies are illegal, being in conflict with the international treaty signed by the Israelis and “Palestinian” Arabs - the Oslo Accords which also constitute international law.
Since the “Palestinian” Arabs arrived in the land well after the Jews, this makes the Arabs the “occupier/colonist/settlers”; not the Jews. (See use of terms below.) The whole rationale of alleged “illegality” in relation to Israeli home-building / “settlements” is illogical and should not be accepted on its face value.
The Oslo Accords (agreed to by the “Palestinian” Arabs) separate Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”) into Areas A, B, and C; underwhich Israel is permitted to build homes (aka “settlements”) in Area C.
People often wonder why the Israeli homes (settlements) are Jewish: The reason is that the “Palestinian” Arabs do not permit Jews in the “Palestinian” Arab-controlled Areas, killing any Jew they find near them - Example:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...-west-bank
How did the “Palestinian” Arabs breach the terms of the Accords?
By failing to: Quote: “[...] prevent acts of terrorism crime and hostilities [...]” (Article XV).
This is quite clear because:
The Palestinian Authority aka Fatah lost control of Gaza to Hamas, which fires numerous barrages of rockets at Israeli cities (and committed the barbaric attack and massacre of October 7th, 2023):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinia..._on_Israel
The “Palestinian Authority” aka Fatah (funded by the “European Union”) and the “Palestinian Liberation Organization” by Palestinian Law, pay a reward-“pension” (the “Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund”) for the murder of Israeli Jewish civilians including children:
Here is an example from the “Palestinian” Arab on-going anti-Jewish hate-war, where their propaganda typically refers to any consequential security measures as “Israeli-oppression”:
Israeli girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, aged 13, fatally stabbed in her bedroom in West Bank by a Palestinian terrorist, June 30, 2016, The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/j...iryat-arba
That part of “Judah and Samaria” now wrongly referred to as the “West Bank”, first became known as the “West Bank” when the Jordanians illegally-occupied it in 1948 - See under heading: “Etymology” - West Bank:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank
Jordanian illegal-occupation of Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”) 1948 to 1967:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_..._West_Bank
Why do the Jewish people refer to the “West Bank” as: “Judea (aka Judah) and Samaria”?:
What is now known as the “West Bank” (of the Jordan river) was within two prior contemporaneous Jewish indigenous sovereign states. These were: Israel-Samaria (northern Kingdom), and Judah (aka Judea) (southern Kingdom).
Part of it (what is now referred to as the “West Bank”) was within the one kingdom, while the rest of it was within the other kingdom.
(Both of those kingdoms covered an region greater than just what is now referred to as the “West Bank”.)
Map:
i) Jewish Kingdom of Israel-Samaria, including part of the “West Bank”, and Golan Heights, (its final) capital Samaria; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 720 BCE / 1383 BH - see map link below.
ii) Jewish Kingdom of Judah, including the rest of the “West Bank”, capital of (what is now East) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 586 BCE / 1244 BH (same map for both kingdoms):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kingd...ap_830.svg
There has never been any indigenous “Palestine” / Arab sovereign state in the land of Israel on which the “Palestinian” Arabs could base any claim on any part of the land of Israel.
Therefore just as Israel / the Jewish people logically cannot:
“Invade”,
or “steal”,
or “illegally-occupy”,
or “be a colony on”,
its OWN ancestral-homeland,
it also cannot logically “illegally-settle” its OWN ancestral-homeland.
The matter becomes clear when accurate-terms are applied:
> “Israelis” / "Israeli villagers" (NOT Israeli “settlers”) (being either: Jews whose ancestors have unbroken-presence in their ancestral-homeland of Israel, or Jewish returnee-exiles).
> “Israeli-homes” / "Israeli village” (NOT Israeli “settlement(s)”). (When referring to more than one abode.)
Jews “Re-settling” their ancestral-homeland are therefore “Returnees”.
Israeli “settlers” are either:
> Jews whose ancestors have unbroken-presence in their ancestral-homeland of Israel.
> Jewish-exiles returned to their ancestral-homeland of Israel, who have Judah heritage.
(The clue is in the name: “Jew”=citizen of Judah - Judaism is both an ethnicity as well as a religion.)
The Jews have unbroken presence in their ancestral-homeland of Israel since Biblical times, while the Arabs arrived much later (see below).
> “Palestinian-Arab settlers” (NOT “Palestinian villagers”).
> “Palestinian-Arab settlement” (NOT “Palestinian village”) (when referring to more than one abode.)
Who were the Arabs living in British “Palestine” Mandate administered Israel?
“Palestinian” Arab propaganda alleges the Jews / Israel invaded the land, stole it from the “Palestinian” Arabs. They do this both by falsely-denying the roots of the Jewish people in the Jews ancestral-homeland of Israel, and by failing to mention that the “Palestinian” Arabs mostly originate from Foreign-Arab-Migrant-Workers who came to the land of Israel just prior to, and during the British Mandate:
https://richardmatherblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/
The “Palestinian” Arabs were opposed to being called a “People” until the 1960’s, when they decided it fitted with their intention to steal the land of Israel from its indigenous Jews:
http://www.targetofopportunity.com/pales..._truth.htm
Political description of Israeli “settlements” (Israeli home-building) on the "West Bank", as an “obstacle to peace” / “expansion of “borders” through the alleged building of “illegal-settlements”, in reality is political support for both the “Palestinian” Arab false-claim to Israeli Area C of the West Bank, and for their intention to steal ALL the land of Israel and expel (or murder) the Jews.
[Updated January 21, 2025.]
The following is how the U.N. Lawfare against Israel works:
> Falsely regarding Israel/the Jewish people as illegally-occupying "Judah and Samaria" ("West Bank, the");
> Then, based on that consequently, Israeli homes and villages (referred to in the Media (and strangely also in Israel) erroneously as "settlements"), within "Judah and Samaria" ("West Bank") become: "illegal in International law";
> Then, consequential U.N. Court decisions based in those biased U.N. policies.
How does the U.N. bias against Israel work?:
The “Palestinian” Arabs start-off in U.N. votes by enjoying a block-vote in their favor of up to 56 Arab and additional Islamic-aligned countries (e.g. U.N. member states that are also members of the “Organization of Islamic Cooperation” and follow its policies when voting in the U.N.), and influence of Arab oil money with consequential trading power; compared to Israel’s one vote.
Security Council resolutions passed against Israel are typically during the tenure of U.S. Democratic Party Presidents who decide not to use their veto to protect Israel from unjust resolutions.
Such U.N. policies are illegal, being in conflict with the international treaty signed by the Israelis and “Palestinian” Arabs - the Oslo Accords which also constitute international law.
Since the “Palestinian” Arabs arrived in the land well after the Jews, this makes the Arabs the “occupier/colonist/settlers”; not the Jews. (See use of terms below.) The whole rationale of alleged “illegality” in relation to Israeli home-building / “settlements” is illogical and should not be accepted on its face value.
The Oslo Accords (agreed to by the “Palestinian” Arabs) separate Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”) into Areas A, B, and C; underwhich Israel is permitted to build homes (aka “settlements”) in Area C.
People often wonder why the Israeli homes (settlements) are Jewish: The reason is that the “Palestinian” Arabs do not permit Jews in the “Palestinian” Arab-controlled Areas, killing any Jew they find near them - Example:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...-west-bank
How did the “Palestinian” Arabs breach the terms of the Accords?
By failing to: Quote: “[...] prevent acts of terrorism crime and hostilities [...]” (Article XV).
This is quite clear because:
The Palestinian Authority aka Fatah lost control of Gaza to Hamas, which fires numerous barrages of rockets at Israeli cities (and committed the barbaric attack and massacre of October 7th, 2023):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinia..._on_Israel
The “Palestinian Authority” aka Fatah (funded by the “European Union”) and the “Palestinian Liberation Organization” by Palestinian Law, pay a reward-“pension” (the “Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund”) for the murder of Israeli Jewish civilians including children:
Here is an example from the “Palestinian” Arab on-going anti-Jewish hate-war, where their propaganda typically refers to any consequential security measures as “Israeli-oppression”:
Israeli girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, aged 13, fatally stabbed in her bedroom in West Bank by a Palestinian terrorist, June 30, 2016, The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/j...iryat-arba
That part of “Judah and Samaria” now wrongly referred to as the “West Bank”, first became known as the “West Bank” when the Jordanians illegally-occupied it in 1948 - See under heading: “Etymology” - West Bank:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank
Jordanian illegal-occupation of Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”) 1948 to 1967:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_..._West_Bank
Why do the Jewish people refer to the “West Bank” as: “Judea (aka Judah) and Samaria”?:
What is now known as the “West Bank” (of the Jordan river) was within two prior contemporaneous Jewish indigenous sovereign states. These were: Israel-Samaria (northern Kingdom), and Judah (aka Judea) (southern Kingdom).
Part of it (what is now referred to as the “West Bank”) was within the one kingdom, while the rest of it was within the other kingdom.
(Both of those kingdoms covered an region greater than just what is now referred to as the “West Bank”.)
Map:
i) Jewish Kingdom of Israel-Samaria, including part of the “West Bank”, and Golan Heights, (its final) capital Samaria; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 720 BCE / 1383 BH - see map link below.
ii) Jewish Kingdom of Judah, including the rest of the “West Bank”, capital of (what is now East) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 586 BCE / 1244 BH (same map for both kingdoms):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kingd...ap_830.svg
There has never been any indigenous “Palestine” / Arab sovereign state in the land of Israel on which the “Palestinian” Arabs could base any claim on any part of the land of Israel.
Therefore just as Israel / the Jewish people logically cannot:
“Invade”,
or “steal”,
or “illegally-occupy”,
or “be a colony on”,
its OWN ancestral-homeland,
it also cannot logically “illegally-settle” its OWN ancestral-homeland.
The matter becomes clear when accurate-terms are applied:
> “Israelis” / "Israeli villagers" (NOT Israeli “settlers”) (being either: Jews whose ancestors have unbroken-presence in their ancestral-homeland of Israel, or Jewish returnee-exiles).
> “Israeli-homes” / "Israeli village” (NOT Israeli “settlement(s)”). (When referring to more than one abode.)
Jews “Re-settling” their ancestral-homeland are therefore “Returnees”.
Israeli “settlers” are either:
> Jews whose ancestors have unbroken-presence in their ancestral-homeland of Israel.
> Jewish-exiles returned to their ancestral-homeland of Israel, who have Judah heritage.
(The clue is in the name: “Jew”=citizen of Judah - Judaism is both an ethnicity as well as a religion.)
The Jews have unbroken presence in their ancestral-homeland of Israel since Biblical times, while the Arabs arrived much later (see below).
> “Palestinian-Arab settlers” (NOT “Palestinian villagers”).
> “Palestinian-Arab settlement” (NOT “Palestinian village”) (when referring to more than one abode.)
Who were the Arabs living in British “Palestine” Mandate administered Israel?
“Palestinian” Arab propaganda alleges the Jews / Israel invaded the land, stole it from the “Palestinian” Arabs. They do this both by falsely-denying the roots of the Jewish people in the Jews ancestral-homeland of Israel, and by failing to mention that the “Palestinian” Arabs mostly originate from Foreign-Arab-Migrant-Workers who came to the land of Israel just prior to, and during the British Mandate:
https://richardmatherblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/
The “Palestinian” Arabs were opposed to being called a “People” until the 1960’s, when they decided it fitted with their intention to steal the land of Israel from its indigenous Jews:
http://www.targetofopportunity.com/pales..._truth.htm
Political description of Israeli “settlements” (Israeli home-building) on the "West Bank", as an “obstacle to peace” / “expansion of “borders” through the alleged building of “illegal-settlements”, in reality is political support for both the “Palestinian” Arab false-claim to Israeli Area C of the West Bank, and for their intention to steal ALL the land of Israel and expel (or murder) the Jews.
[Updated January 21, 2025.]
