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(JNS) Yisrael Medad - U.S. President John Quincy Adams wrote to Mordechai Noah on March 15, 1819, "I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation." The 1946 Palestine Survey uses Judea and Samaria in multiple instances. One of the six administrative districts of the Mandate area was Samaria. The UN 1947 Partition Plan delineates the borders of the projected two states, noting, "The boundary of the hill country of Samaria and Judea starts on the Jordan River." Multiple official documents from the British Mandate period and UN deliberations all employ "Judea" and "Samaria," as well as those in the British Parliament debates from 1923. Throughout the centuries, maps of Palestine included the names "Judea" and "Samaria" - with "West Bank" quite lacking. The term "West Bank" made its appearance in political lexicons only in 1950, when Jordan's Parliament approved King Abdullah's assertion of the "unity between the two banks of the Jordan [River], the Eastern and Western, and their amalgamation in one single state." 2025-01-23 00:00:00Full Article
The Term "Judea and Samaria" Is More Historically Accurate than "West Bank"
(JNS) Yisrael Medad - U.S. President John Quincy Adams wrote to Mordechai Noah on March 15, 1819, "I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation." The 1946 Palestine Survey uses Judea and Samaria in multiple instances. One of the six administrative districts of the Mandate area was Samaria. The UN 1947 Partition Plan delineates the borders of the projected two states, noting, "The boundary of the hill country of Samaria and Judea starts on the Jordan River." Multiple official documents from the British Mandate period and UN deliberations all employ "Judea" and "Samaria," as well as those in the British Parliament debates from 1923. Throughout the centuries, maps of Palestine included the names "Judea" and "Samaria" - with "West Bank" quite lacking. The term "West Bank" made its appearance in political lexicons only in 1950, when Jordan's Parliament approved King Abdullah's assertion of the "unity between the two banks of the Jordan [River], the Eastern and Western, and their amalgamation in one single state." 2025-01-23 00:00:00Full Article
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