{"id":3961,"date":"2025-02-04T22:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T22:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/west-bank-call-it-judea-and-samaria-some-republicans-say\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T22:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T22:38:30","slug":"west-bank-call-it-judea-and-samaria-some-republicans-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/west-bank-call-it-judea-and-samaria-some-republicans-say\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bank? Call It Judea and Samaria, Some Republicans Say."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Donald J. Trump\u2019s return to power as president has bolstered right-wing lawmakers in Israel and the United States who support Israeli annexation of the West Bank, an occupied territory long seen by Palestinians and the international community as part of an eventual Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced bills that would bar the use of the term \u201cWest Bank\u201d in United States government documents and materials, replacing the phrase with \u201cJudea and Samaria,\u201d the biblical names for the region that are widely used in Israel and the administrative name used by the state to describe the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The linguistic proposition is aimed at strengthening and supporting Israel\u2019s historical claim to territory that it captured from Jordan in the 1967 war and has occupied militarily ever since. And it comes as the Israeli military has been conducting intense raids in the area, which it says are intended to eradicate terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Jewish people\u2019s legal and historic rights to Judea and Samaria goes back thousands of years,\u201d Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, said in a statement about the legislation. He called for the United States to \u201cstop using the politically charged term West Bank\u201d; opponents of annexation say it is the term Judea and Samaria that reflects a political agenda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Representative Claudia Tenney, Republican of New York, another sponsor of the bill, also announced the recent creation of a congressional group \u2014 the Friends of Judea and Samaria Caucus \u2014 to advance policies that support Israeli claims to that land. By introducing the bill and creating the caucus, \u201cwe are working to reaffirm Israel\u2019s rightful claim to its territory,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The legislation, which Ms. Tenney first introduced last year, is being proposed again amid drastically changed dynamics in Washington, where Mr. Trump has made his strong support for Israel explicit. Republicans now control Congress, with slim majorities in the House and Senate. The president has indicated support for expansionist Israeli policies, and in his first term <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/28\/world\/middleeast\/peace-plan.html\" title=\"\">proposed Israeli annexation<\/a> of a large part of the West Bank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/02\/04\/us\/trump-administration-rfk-jr-gabbard\" title=\"\">Mr. Trump met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel<\/a> in Washington, Mr. Trump\u2019s first visit with a foreign leader since returning to the White House last month. Asked on Monday at a news briefing, in anticipation of that meeting, whether he supported annexing parts of the West Bank, the president declined to respond directly, but he did not dismiss the idea altogether either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt certainly is a small country in terms of land,\u201d he said in reference to Israel. Mr. Trump used an analogy to illustrate his point: \u201cMy desk is the Middle East. And this pen, the top of the pen, that\u2019s Israel. That\u2019s not good, right? It\u2019s a pretty big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since Israel seized control of the West Bank, hundreds of thousands Israeli civilians have settled there with both tacit and explicit government approval, living under civil law while their Palestinian neighbors, kept stateless, are subject to military law and have fewer rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The growing number and size of the settlements have steadily eroded the land accessible to Palestinians. Expanding Israel\u2019s hold over the West Bank is a stated goal of many lawmakers in Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s far-right governing coalition, and many <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/06\/world\/middleeast\/west-bank-settlers-trump.html\" title=\"\">settlers hope<\/a> Mr. Trump will support the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The international community largely views the Israeli settlements as illegal, and Palestinians have long argued that they are a creeping annexation, turning land needed for an independent state into an unmanageable patchwork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2019, the previous Trump administration declared that the United States <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/18\/world\/middleeast\/trump-israel-west-bank-settlements.html\" title=\"\">did not consider<\/a> Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal, reversing longstanding American policy under both Democrats and Republicans, and removing what had been seen as an important barrier to annexation. Last year, Antony J. Blinken, then secretary of state, said that Israeli settlements were <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/23\/politics\/blinken-west-bank-settlements-international-law\/index.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">inconsistent with international law<\/a> and that the Biden administration opposed them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Brad Brooks-Rubin, formerly a senior adviser in the State Department\u2019s Office of Sanctions Coordination, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/107176\/trump-west-bank-settler-sanctions\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">argued in a recent post on Just Security<\/a>, an online law forum, that the Trump administration\u2019s revocation \u201cprovides a psychological and rhetorical victory\u201d for the settlement movement and its allies, \u201cespecially in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The move also heartened expansionist Israeli lawmakers. Israel\u2019s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, a settler himself and a vocal opponent of a Palestinian state, welcomed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-cancels-sanctions-far-right-israeli-settlers-occupied-west-bank-2025-01-21\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Trump\u2019s reversal<\/a> as an expression of the president\u2019s \u201cdeep connection to the Jewish people and our historical right to our land.\u201d On Sunday, as Mr. Netanyahu was headed to Washington, Mr. Smotrich called Mr. Trump \u201ca lover of Israel\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bezalelsm\/status\/1885957949732081799\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on social media<\/a> and said, \u201cWe must strengthen our grip and sovereignty over the homeland in Judea and Samaria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Republican support for the settler movement and changes to the language of the discussion surrounding their effort have some pro-Israel lobbyists in Washington worried about Israel\u2019s long-term prospects for peace and improved relations with regional neighbors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201c<\/strong>What\u2019s dangerous about this proposal isn\u2019t what they want to call the land; it\u2019s the proposal to affirm Israeli sovereignty over it,\u201d said Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of the Jewish pro-peace advocacy group J Street. \u201cThat\u2019s called annexation, which is not just illegal under international law, but the death knell for any hope of Israel normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia and the Sunni Arab world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/04\/world\/middleeast\/west-bank-annexation-republicans.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. 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