Nadene Goldfoot
The Palestinians/ rather, Hamas terrorists, expect to take over all of Israel because that is the goal of Hamas terrorism, at least ever since 1967. What they are also planning for certain is to call "The West Bank," PALESTINE." According to the Oslo Accords, it is divided into parts A, B, and C with A being an area for the Arabs, B for both Arabs and Jews, and C, for Jews (Israelis). Jews have several neighborhoods already established within their part C.
Nobody seems to have studied the history of this very important area.
Judea: Joshua had assigned land to the 12 tribes of Jacob when they arrived in Canaan and the tribe of Judah received theirs which lie in the south bordered by Simeon and Benjamin.
Later after King Solomon died in 933 BCE, the 3 tribes were cut off from the others and it became the Kingdom of Judah. The Northern tribes remained as the Kingdom of Israel. These 3 tribes, occupied no more than 1/3 of the area of the northern Israel and was poor and unimportant compared with the northern tribes being cut off from the sea and the great trade-route. Being isolated, it didn't become involved in international rivalries and led a tranquil existence. Their land included Jerusalem and its Temple so continued easily with their Mosaic monotheism in an even purer form. Their dynastic history was more settled going from father to son in the Davidic house.
Samaria was a city and the capital of the Northern kingdom of Israel, founded in about 880 BCE by King Omri(887-876 BCE) fought Moab, won, of Judah on a hill bought from Shemer (I Kings 16-24). In 1 Kings, Shemer is the name of the individual who owned the hill upon which King Omri of Israel built the city of Samaria. Omri purchased the hill from Shemer for two talents of silver and named the new city Samaria after its previous owner. Shemer is not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible, but his name is significant because it is the origin of the name of the city Samaria.
The site was 7 m. NW of Shechem(Nablus) on an isolated elevation dominating a wide countryside. The city was of 25 acres where a royal palace in Assyrian style, had store rooms and ivory inlays. This fell in 721 BCE to Sargon II of Assyria who resettled it with Cutheans, native borned, who mingled with former population becoming ancestors of THE SAMARITANS-people from tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh (keepers of the law) with an admixture of non-Israelite colonists. Samaritans did not help in Jewish revolt of 66-70 CE.
It remained an administrative center in the Persian Period and became a Macedonian colony in 331 BCE. John Hyrcanus took Samaria in 107 BCE and razed it; being restored by the Roman Pompey. King Herod renamed it Sebaste, which was Greek for "Augusta" in honor of Augustus Caesar and the name has been preserved in the modern Sabastiya. He also endowed it with a new wall, a temple of Augustus, a forum, a basilica, and an aqueduct. The city flourished in Roman times, especially in the 3rd century CE and impressive ruins still remain.
It was the traditional burial place of John the Baptist. Samaria decayed in Byzantine times and shrank to a village in the Arab period. It was excavated in 1908-1910 and again in 1931-1935 by Harvard University, the Palestine Exploration Fund, and the Hebrew University.
The name is also applied to the entire northern region of the central highlands of Palestine.
Jordan had the land of TRANSJORDAN which was detached from the rest of the land in 1921 and incorporated under the Palestine Mandate and put under the rule of Prince Abdullah (1882-1951) who was then called King. He was an Emir, 2nd son of Hussein, sherif of Mecca, later king of Hejaz. His support of Britain during WWI led to his being ruler of Transjordan in 1923.
He negotiated with Chaim Weizmann in 1922 but invaded Israel in 1948 anyway and was the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan. He was assassinated in Jerusalem at the instance of the Mufti, Haj Amin el-Husseini, a very bad man.
In 1948, he annexed the eastern part of Cisjordan (calling it the West Bank) which the UN said was now a separate state, and he proclaimed the Kingdom of Jordan and he was king. From 1952 the country was ruled by his grandson, HUSSEIN. In 1967 Hussein entered the 6 Day War against Israel and his army was defeated and Israel took over the WEST BANK. In 1970 he expelled the PLO from his country but later reconciled with Arafat of PLO. He acted as protector of the West Bank Arabs. but in 1988 said he was withdrawing from this and gave the job to PLO. His support came from Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia while a majority of its people were Palestinians. When the population hit 2 million, 85% were Moslem Arabs. Today the population of Jordan is 10,458,413 and 97.2% of this is Moslem. The capital city is Amman.
Oslo Accords:
On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO) Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government
Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord,” at the White House. Israel accepted the
PLO as the representative of the Palestinians, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized
Israel’s right to exist in peace. Both sides agreed that a Palestinian Authority (PA) would be estab
lished and assume governing responsibilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over a five-year
period. Then, permanent status talks on the issues of borders, refugees, and Jerusalem would be
held. While President Bill Clinton’s administration played a limited role in bringing the Oslo Accord
into being, it would invest vast amounts of time and resources in order to help Israel and the
Palestinians implement the agreement. By the time Clinton left office, however, the peace process
had run aground, and a new round of Israeli-Palestinian violence had begun.
The Oslo Accords divided the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) into three administrative areas: A, B, and C. Area A is under full Palestinian Authority (PA) control, while Area B is under Palestinian civil control and Israeli security control. Area C, the largest area, is under full Israeli civil and security control.
CONTINUED HISTORY OF JUDEA/SAMARIA
The Assyrians, with Sargon leading in 721 BCE, attacked and exiled 27,290 Israelites to Assyria and Media, but replaced them with Syrian and Babylonian prisoners. By 700, Sennacherib entered Jerusalem and ravaged it, but King Hezekiah held out and received terms by paying tribute and ceding some territory to him. Later, Sennacherib and his army were hit by a plague and returned home. King Manasseh of Judah was exiled to Assyria in 652 BCE as a result of complicity in a plot against Ashurbanipal from 669-626 BCE). Later, Assyria was taken over by Babylon.
The Babylonians' leader was Nebuchadnezzar II (604-656 BCE) conquered Judah in 597 BCE and again 9 years later on 586 BCE. The also exiled 8,000 Jews of Judah to Babylon. There, they mingled with many of the Assyrian-held Israelites. The Babylonian king was Cyrus, who may have been the grandson of Queen Esther. He permitted a return to Judah. We find some well-remembered people there such as Hillel, the Elder (1st century BCE). He was a scholar, founder of the school (House of Hillel) and ancestor of a dynasty of patriarchs who held office until the 5th century. He was born in Babylonia, lived in Judah studying with famous teachers: Shemaiah and Avtalyon, became president of Sanhedrin, noted for his humility. Wrote 7 rules of interpreting the Torah, Golden Rule (Shabbat 31a).
The Roman Republic officially entered Judah in 63 BCE when General Pompey intervened in a civil war between the Hasmonean brothers, Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II. Pompey's intervention resulted in the conquest of Jerusalem and brought Judea under Roman control. While the Hasmonean dynasty was not immediately dissolved, they became vassals of Rome. Then Rome burned down the city and 2nd Temple of Solomon in 70 CE as a resultof a revolt. It involved a long drawn-out starvation of the population written aboutby Josephus. Jews were taken away as slaves that were caught. Some made it toother lands such as Spain and trading centers such as Germany.
Resource:
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
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