Word: judea
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Egyptians because he is seen as being less dogmatic than Begin about Israel's need to control all of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Moreover, he would bring to the negotiations none of the biblical fervor that fires Begin to claim the West Bank (or Judea and Samaria, as he calls it) as the historical birthright of the Jews; the Egyptians find that position exasperating and irrational. By contrast, Peres favors a plan that calls for the return of nonstrategic portions of the West Bank to Jordan, which lost the area to Israel during...
...peace. But I ask you, can an old man of 66 change? First to be a hero of peace and after 14 months to become an obstacle to peace? What did I say after [the attacks on the Palestinian mayors]? Horrible crimes were perpetrated in the cities of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank]. I ordered an investigation, and we shall continue with that investigation until we find the culprits. They will be apprehended and brought to a court of justice. Did any Arab ruler ever say so after the murder of our men? At any time for the past...
...Movement, the Gush Emunim (Bloc of Faithful) or Rabbi Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League. By political pressure and sometimes by becoming squatters on Arab land, these zealots have pushed their country into an angry standoff with the Palestinians of the West Bank, which Begin refers to as Judea and Samaria, their names in biblical times. Since Begin's government came to power in 1977, both the number of settlements and the number of their inhabitants in the West Bank have doubled. Today some 14,000 Israelis live in 64 West Bank settlements, 39 of which have been...