Peloni: Bravo Moshe! The cities and towns in Judea and Samaria, and those in the Golan, are deserving of the support and recognition that they are cities and towns, built on Jewish lands whose connection stretches back over three millennia. These are not occupied territories, and the cities are not settlements. These pernicious pejoratives are vehicles of propaganda, no different than the false narrative created by the routine use of the baseless term “West Bank”. While we should have no expectation that the Arabs, even the most moderate of them, would have strength and character enough to admit the truth of these matters, we should have every expectation that the leader of the WJC would be able to not only admit these truths, but to herald them before the world, especially as he has held this post for nearly two decades.
American Jewish leaders must come to understand that to critics of Israel, there is no difference between “settlements” in Judea and Samaria and “settlements” on the Golan.
Moshe Phillips | Dec 8, 2025
View of Syria from the Israeli part of the Golan Heights. Photo by Sam Mugraby, Photos8.com, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia
The bureaucratic diplomats at the United Nations again demonstrated their addiction to attacking Israel’s best interests with a vote on Dec. 2 about the Golan. In a resolution sponsored by Egypt, 123 nations voted for Syrian control over the Golan Heights and for Israel to return to the June 4, 1967 lines.
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