Wars have winners and losers
Peloni: While it is true that wars have consequences, so too does the reluctance to acknowledge that which is rightfully your own. I am reminded of Amb. Friedman’s warning that should Israel persist in not determining her own borders, others will do it for her and the result would most certainly be to Israel’s regret. Indeed, Israel should acknowledge the rights to Judea and Samaria as acknowledged in the international agreements of the Balfour Declaration as defined in the Cairo Conference of 1921 and certified by the League of Nations and supported by the consequence of the ’67 War. Quite simply, this is our land by every measure and every consideration. We only need to have the conviction, fortitude and temerity to acknowledge that which has already been established in international law a century ago to end the ongoing charade to the contrary, which ignores these facts, diminishes our rights, and empowers our enemies. Furthermore, extending sovereignty over the Jewish heartlands should not be exercised as a penalty to balance the perfidies of fallen members of the West, but rather it should be done as a celebration of our own identity, of our connection to these lands, of the history of our forefathers, and a credible demonstration of our own respect for these facts which are constantly being ignored by not just our enemies, but by too many of we Jews as well.
Countries that win wars they did not want to wage, but who retook territory while doing so, are not ‘occupiers’. Those who lose the war they instigated, pay a price for their aggression. That’s how the world works.
The State of Israel’s Eastern border with the Kingdom of Jordan, in the Jordan Rift Valley area, passes through the Jordan River. A pole embedded in the river bed marks the point of the physical border between the two countries. Photo by Fox – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia
There are those who refer to Judea and Samaria as the “occupied ‘West Bank'”. Among the many problems with this claim is the fact that the “Palestinian Arabs” never actually controlled the so-called ‘West Bank.’
Rockets and weapons seized from a Palestinian terror cell during a raid in Samaria, Sept. 19, 2025. (Photo: IDF)
