Judea and Samaria

Submitted by Jerome Verlin (United States), Mar 1, 2014 at 14:14

The Turkish maps that don't say 'Judea' and 'Samaria' don't say 'the West Bank' either. Do they say 'Palestine'? The comments were about whether Judea and Samaria were more historical than West Bank, which they are. There are references all through the centuries, and the UN itself referenced "the hill country of Samaria and Judea" in 1947. Ettinger wrote that the Turks and British themselves used Judea and Samaria.

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