What the World Gets Wrong About Judea and Samaria (West Bank)

When it comes to Judea and Samaria, what outsiders love to call the “West Bank”, the conversation is so laced with propaganda, historical amnesia, and blatant anti-Israel bias, you’d think the land had dropped out of the sky sometime in 1967. But here’s the truth the media doesn’t want to say out loud: Judea and Samaria aren’t occupied.

Israeli community near Jerusalem (Shutterstock)

The War on Truth

What the world gets wrong, again and again, is assuming this is a territorial dispute between two equal sides. It’s not. This isn’t about land. This is about identity. About a 4,000-year-old promise. About the fact that Judea and Samaria are the heart and soul of ancient Israel. Not Tel Aviv. Not the beaches. Not the tech hubs.

The anti-Zionists will never tell you that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob walked those hills. That Shiloh, the first capital of ancient Israel, stood right there, not in Europe or Brooklyn or somewhere more convenient for anti-Zionist activists. They won’t mention that King David was born in Bethlehem or crowned in Hebron.

And yet, the world insists on calling Jews who live there “settlers,” like they’re aliens invading someone else’s home. The hypocrisy is criminal. No one says Arabs “settle” in Israel when they build in Jaffa, Haifa, or the Galilee. But when Jews return to the hills their ancestors prayed on? Suddenly it’s an international crisis.

Biblical Shiloh ruins of historic town in Samaria (Shutterstock)

Let’s Talk Facts, Not Feelings

Judea and Samaria were never part of a Palestinian state. Ever. Not before 1948. Not after. When Jordan took over those lands in 1948, they did so illegally, and the world shrugged. Not a peep. Jordan kicked out every Jew, demolished synagogues, used Jewish gravestones to pave roads, and the world yawned.

Then, in 1967, Israel won them back in a defensive war. The kind of war every sovereign nation has the right to fight. We didn’t steal anything. We took back what was ours and what had been under illegal occupation. According to international law, beginning with the 1920 San Remo Resolution and confirmed by the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, Jews have the legal right to live and build in all of Judea and Samaria. That legal foundation has never been revoked. The rights of the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland aren’t just biblical; they’re codified in international law.

But who cares about the law when the anti-Zionists' goal is to erase Jewish history?

The global obsession with the so-called “two-state solution” is built on a lie: the idea that if we just give the Arabs more land, they’ll suddenly decide to love us. It’s madness. Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. What did we get in return? Hamas rockets and a terrorist statelet. You think Judea and Samaria would be different?

Handing over that land to a corrupt Palestinian Authority, or worse, letting Hamas take over, isn’t peace. It’s national suicide.

Ruins of the Hurva Synagogue, Jerusalem, 1967, destroyed by Jordanians during their occupation (Wikimedia)

Bible > CNN

You want real authority on this land? Open your Bible.

God told Abraham in Genesis 15:18: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.”

That promise wasn’t revoked. It wasn’t rented out to the UN. And it certainly wasn’t contingent on whether CNN or any other mainstream media outlet approves.

The very names, Judea and Samaria, are a slap in the face to modern propaganda. How can a place be called Judea and somehow be “Juderein”—free of Jews? That's Nazi logic.

And let’s not forget the elephant in the room: the Palestinian leadership has never accepted a Jewish state. Not in 1948. Not in 1967. Not in 2000, 2008, or any of the countless times Israel said, “Okay, let’s try peace.” Every offer was rejected. Why? Because the issue isn’t borders. It’s our existence.

Call It What It Is

Judea and Samaria aren’t “occupied territories.” They’re liberated territories. They are the land of the Bible, where the prophets walked and where Jewish life was crushed and is now resurrected. The world wants to amputate Israel’s heart and expect it to live. That’s not peace. That’s slow execution.

And yet, despite the chaos, there’s hope.

The Jewish people are back. Back in Shiloh. Back in Hebron. Back on the mountains that King David knew like the back of his hand. Back, because we refused to vanish. Refused to bow. Refused to rewrite our story to suit the world’s twisted moral compass.

God doesn’t need the UN’s permission to fulfill His promises.

The Bible is not a metaphor. It’s a deed. And no amount of boycotts, resolutions, or media spin can cancel that. The world may never get it right. But Israel must. We can’t afford to be polite about it anymore.

If we abandon Judea and Samaria, we don’t get peace. We lose our soul.

And we will not lose our soul. Not again. Not ever.

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