CNN's Emphatic News About Judea-Samaria Fighting We Don't Need

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

 

The Oslo Accords (specifically the 1995 Oslo II Accord) divided the West Bank, historically known as Judea and Samaria, into three administrative areas, A, B, and C.   This system was originally intended as a temporary, five-year arrangement to facilitate the transition of governance to the Palestinian Authority. 

CNN's news has been about Jewish teens attacking Palestinians, a switch if I ever heard one.  No doubt it's true, but why during the NATO goings on in Ankara, Turkey?  So let's see:  
                                                                             

Under the Oslo Accords, the West Bank was divided into three temporary zones to outline administrative and security control between Israel and the Palestinian Authority: 

According to Jewish records:

Area A: for majority of Palestinian population

Area B:  Both Arabs and Jewish population

Area C:  which is most vacant of any Palestinians up to now, all for the Jews.  Area C comprises about 60% of Judea and Samaria. It is under full Israeli administrative and security control and is home to the vast majority of the Jewish population in the region.  Wikipedia has this:  In 2023, Area C was home to 491,548 Israeli settlers and 354,000 Palestinians. The Jewish population in Area C is administered by the Israeli Judea and Samaria. I'd say this has been negotiated, at least through October 7, 2023.   

Settlements are Israeli civilian communities, overwhelmingly inhabited by Jews1, in territories acquired by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War that are not under Israeli sovereignty.

While Israeli settlements previously existed in Sinai and the Gaza Strip prior to Israel’s withdrawal from those territories (in 1982 and 2005, respectively), today the term is largely used to refer to Israeli communities in the West Bank (also known as Judea and Samaria).2

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1 There are 33 settlements with registered Arab residents. Ariel has the largest Arab population out of the settlements, with 573 Arab residents (mostly Ariel University students.) Several others, including Maale Adumim, Kfar Etzion, and Giv’at Ze’ev, have a few dozen (Shaul Arieli, Deceptive Appearances, 99). 

2 Some also refer to Israeli communities in the Golan and neighborhoods in East Jerusalem as settlements, but given that Israel has annexed these areas, such communities do not function as settlements under Israeli law.

I notice that CNN is not helping any in the USA's problem of anti-Semitism.  They have been using the news about Judea and Samaria's youth rising up against the Palestinians there.  

One thing before you turn the dial;  ask yourself this:  Why are Palestinians so near Jewish teens that they are attacking them or is it each other- like a Los Angeles fight between gangs?  

The West Bank received that name over the heads of the Jewish people because it was Jordan who named it.  Soon after receiving Palestine in WWI  as the future home of the Jewish People and given the mandates to Great Britain and to France to care for it, Jordan gave about 80% of it to Prince Abdullah of Arabia so he could rule a piece of land.  Jordan got it and called it Trans-Jordan, and Palestine what was left of it, went to the Jewish committee who had verbally fought for it with the Balfour Doctrine and other important documents.  

This is just to let readers know why Judea and Samaria are important;  it was the original site of Judah, one of the 12 tribes of Jacob's sons who were given their piece of land according to Joshua's authority.  After King Solomon died in 920 BCE, Judah was the only state left fighting the Romans who destroyed their lives and Jerusalem in 70 CE.  Since then, it's been a long story of hoping and praying to be able to return and re-establish their designated Land that G-d had spoken of, a place of refuge for them.  

I feel that a long long time has gone by since then, and perhaps, just perhaps prophets knew what they were talking about when rabbis have mentioned that we are in special times;  already we see the RETURN OF JEWS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD RETURNING TO ISRAEL, like the Ethiopians.  Christians and Muslims also speak of the End of Times with amazing forecasts for each of them.  Everyone is searching for the moshiach to return.  Jews, coming for the first time, and Christians for the 2nd time as they see Jesus as their messiah.  

And talk about the end of the world, here we are with the whole world except maybe a few, have hatred only for Israel.  Only the United States with Trump at the helm has liked us;  and now is angry with us for standing up and not cow-towing to him over the Straits.  Israel is not parasite or a state within the USA but a state of their own creation, blood and tears, fought for from 1947-1949. 

June 2014, when three Israeli teenagers were abducted and murdered. The three students—Gilad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel, and Eyal Yifrah—were kidnapped by Hamas operatives while hitchhiking near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. Their disappearance sparked a massive Israeli search effort known as Operation Brother's Keeper. Their bodies were discovered over two weeks later in a field near the Palestinian city of Halhoul.The kidnappers and masterminds of the attack, Marwan Kawasme, Amer Abu Aysha, and Hussam Kawasme, were identified and subsequently killed or captured by Israeli security forces.  

 Trump is angry so is now threatening to see the best fighter jet they have to Turkey, Israel's enemy;  an enemy actually from way back to the Ottoman Empire when they took over Palestine.  During World War I, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) lost Palestine to the British Empire (and its Allied forces), culminating in the Sinai and Palestine campaign that effectively ended Ottoman control over the region.  Netanyahu is making a choice trying to hold onto his government where many religious factions sit.  If he makes them angry, they will pull out and destroy his government right now.  Oy vey, yes, an oy vey day.  I know this.  CNN knows this.  Time and again, I've written about Jews in Judea-Samaria being attacked by adults and killed there.  

During new clips on CNN, I saw nothing but how our boys were attacking-first time this has turned out to happen, attack the Palestinians.  That's all viewers have to see to join in with the hatred for Israel.  There was so much other stuff about NATO they could have gotten into, as I did in a few articles previously.  So, CNN, I'm onto you.  Netanyahu was trying to tell the commentator lady how Israel tries all the time not to injure or kill Palestinian civilians, but what he said was interrupted in every other word he said with her butting in;  and Netanyahu just kept going on anyway with what he was saying.  What he didn't mention, though, is that it's almost impossible to tell terrorists apart from civilians.  They are all wearing the same clothing.  Basically, it's the men as terrorists and women as civilians-maybe, with civilians being held by terrorists as someone to hide behind.  They are not honorable fighters.  

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