By Victor Sharpe
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar of the Sovereignty Movement speak at the Jerusalem Conference 2018. By Ben Nahum – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia
“Every member of the Jewish and Christian faiths should know and preach these timeless facts.”
The regions of Judea, Samaria known from profound Biblical significance as the heartland of ancient Israel (but known falsely as the so-called Arab West Bank) are territories which are woven into the fabric of Jewish history and religious identity, representing the cradle of Jewish civilization.
Judea derives its God given name from the Biblical tribe of Judah and encompasses the southern portion of the Biblical Land of Israel. This region witnessed many of the most significant events in Jewish history, from the reigns of Kings David and Solomon to the words of the Hebrew prophets that shaped Jewish and Christian faith and law.
Samaria, the northern region, served as the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel and holds equally sacred status in Jewish tradition and history. The area encompasses numerous Biblical sites where the Hebrew prophets walked and taught and where pivotal moments in Jewish history unfolded.
Gaza is also the God given eternal inheritance given to the Biblical Jewish tribe of Judah.
These Biblical verses underscore the God given connection between the Jewish people and these lands:
“For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills” (Deuteronomy 8:7)
“And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God” (Genesis 17:8)
“Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee” (Genesis 13:17)
These sacred texts establish the divine promise of the land to the Jewish people as an everlasting Covenant, providing the spiritual foundation for modern Jewish sovereignty claims throughout every centimeter of the Land of Israel.
The State of Israel is fighting on seven fronts – and with God’s help, it is standing strong and winning. After Iran – all eyes are on Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Sovereignty in Judea, Samaria and Gaza is Israel’s God given defensive shield and Israel’s improved security position creates an opportunity to advance sovereignty and final liberation throughout all the lands illegally occupied by Hamas and PLO terrorists.
Formal Israeli sovereignty over these lost territories would create a “defensive shield” that strengthens Israel’s strategic position while acknowledging its historical and Biblical connection to the ancient Jewish homeland.
Opponents of Israel extending sovereignty to its Biblical heartland falsely claim this will present an obstacle to the proposed “two-state solution,” a deeply hostile and venomous policy, which would create an unprecedented militarized Palestinian state within Israel itself while replacing the 3,000-year-old Jewish capital of Jerusalem with an exclusively Palestinian Arab and Islamic city.
The result would place all of Israel within easy range of yet more Palestinian missiles and overwhelming Islamist terror. This horror is patterned after the tragic and fateful creation of an Islamic state in Gaza in 2005, which resulted in untold thousands of missiles being fired into Israel, and the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas invasion and massacre of Jewish men, women children and babies carried out by Muslim Arab hordes from Gaza.
The Sovereignty movement in Judea, Samaria and Gaza represents both a return to Biblical roots and a strategic response to present day security needs. The moment has never been timelier for implementing formal sovereignty over these Biblically precious and God given territories, which is why Jews and Christians must come together to defeat the demonic war of lies and threats emanating from the Leftist and Islamist Axis which poisons the minds of untold millions throughout the world.
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Here is the impassioned plea made by the Sovereignty Movement in Israel to Israel’s parliament on the eve of Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to President Trump in Washington D.C.
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.
”Before the Prime Minister’s departure on his most important mission to the United States, I joined with other ministers and Members of the Knesset in signing a letter calling on him and expressing support to act toward sovereignty in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Jordan Valley.
”These regions are not geographical margins, but rather the beating heart of our Jewish identity. They are not merely a vision, they are also the front line.
“‘They are Israel’s flak jacket security-wise, historically and spiritually.
“These regions whether it’s Shiloh, Eli, Kedumim, Kiryat Arba, Itamar, Beit El, Elkana, Ma’aleh Ephraim, are not just so-called settlements, they are villages and the embodiment of the Zionist cause.
“When I meet with the pioneering families, the children, the Torah institutions and the thriving agriculture and the Biblical landscape, I see the Land of Israel in all its splendor.
“The events of October 7th proved to us that the conflict with our Arab and Islamist enemies is not over this or that piece of land, but over our very existence in the Land of Israel.
“This is not a dispute over maps, it is a dispute over essence. It is not a question of territory, it is a question of belonging.
“Therefore, I call upon the Prime Minister as part of the expansion of the Abraham Accords, and as a means of realizing our victory over our enemies to act also in the diplomatic arena and apply sovereignty in the Jordan Valley, Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
“Sovereignty is not a privilege, it is our duty to the previous generation who took root where our ancestors once fought.
It is our duty to the next generation, who deserve to grow up in a country that knows its borders and beyond that, knows its soul.
“This move does not contradict our democratic values. On the contrary, it strengthens our moral and legal stance.
“We cannot, on one hand, claim ownership over the land, while at the same time continuing to govern it as though it doesn’t belong to us, or worse, heaven forbid, relinquish parts of it.
“Applying sovereignty is a moral recognition, a vital act for our existence. It removes all doubt, it declares,
We are here by right, not by grace.
“The Jordan Valley will be Israel’s security border, Shiloh and Beit El are our historical backbone.
The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is the burial place of our forefathers, the root of our existence.
“The time has come for action. The time has come to stop being ashamed and start leading.
Sovereignty now! Not as a provocation—but as a necessity. Not as a political gesture, but as an essential and compelling Zionist step.
“It is time to act, to understand. This is ours and ours alone.
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.”
Why is the IL gov not banning legally and officially the use of the term: West Bank?
Good article except for one thing. The author refers to the”Arabs” as “Palestinians!” We, as Jews help perpetuate this myth by referring to the Arabs as such! It’s almost akin to referring to a biological male as a,”Trans woman.” Trans-Jordan?!
Coming back for a moment to the text quoted below:
There is a little more in Genesis 13:
I didn’t read anywhere that Abram was in any way limited in the distance he could walk. If memory serves, some of the 12 tribes of Israel were located on the eastern bank of the Jordan Valley.
By the way, the Jordan is not quite as long or wide as the Mississippi, the Amazon or the Ganges.
Great article by my friend, Victor!
The following fits nicely with it…
https://www.newenglishreview.org/the-answer-to-itbach-al-yahud-is-not-ceasefire-but-victory/