8/30/2024–|Last update: 8/30/202411:12 PM (Makkah Time)
What is happening in the West Bank, from the siege of cities and camps to the threat of displacement, cannot be separated from what happened before and what was written in Israeli books and plans. The West Bank is not just a land that took its name from its location on the bank of a holy river, but rather, in Israeli claims, it is “Judea and Samaria.”
According to a report by Fatima Triki on Tel Aviv Tribune, Israel has used these allegations since it established, displaced and killed Palestinians on their land.
Based on biblical interpretations, with the division of the united Kingdom of Israel, Samaria emerged, which was the capital of the north around 930 BC before it was overthrown by the Assyrians. Then they claim falsely that it is located in the north of the West Bank and its most important cities are Nablus, Salfit, Tulkarm and Jenin.
In the southern West Bank, there is another claim that it was the Kingdom of Judah with Jerusalem as its capital, and that it continued until 586 BC, when the Babylonians overthrew it and destroyed the temple they were searching for under Al-Aqsa.
There is no historical evidence to support the Jewish claims regarding “Judea and Samaria,” as there is no unanimous archaeological evidence for their claims, especially in Jerusalem. It is proven that ancient Palestine is a Canaanite land in which indigenous people lived at least 3,000 years before the Israeli narratives, and they have existing traces in Jericho, Ashkelon, Jerusalem, and in the Egyptian and Assyrian records.
The biblical narrative is religiously contrasted with an Islamic belief that has Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa Mosque is located, at its heart and has its religious roots. Those who are called the kings of Israel are, in Islam, prophets following the religion of Abraham, who was not Jewish.
Netanyahu’s Opportunity
The dream of “Judea and Samaria” continues to haunt the Israelis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated in 2020, saying: “We believe that the opportunity is available to restore our sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, and over the strategic areas in Judea and Samaria.”
However, the greatest confusion will remain in the repeated talk about the two-state solution when it collides with the obvious questions: Where will the Palestinian state be established? And will Israel give up, without resistance, a land that it calls by its biblical name and fills with settlements?
Many believe – according to what was stated in the Tel Aviv Tribune report – that the Israeli attack on the West Bank comes in the context of a larger and older plan than a mere military campaign. It is a project fortified by impregnable religious barriers that go beyond the pretext of fear of attacks by young resistance fighters who understood early on what was behind the barriers.
The Israeli occupation launched a large-scale military operation targeting militants in Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank, while the Palestinian resistance factions announced that they would confront the incursions and carry out qualitative operations.
