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Monday, November 10, 2014

Those right-wing medieval Christian Latin scholars kept saying "Judea and Samaria"

Sunday night I tweeted this:



Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, replied:




At any rate, the use of the terminology Judea and Samaria are prevalent throughout the entire history of printed books.

Here:

Here:


And hundreds of others.

Perhaps that terminology should be recognized as the "status quo" that must be respected? Or does the "status quo" only go in one direction - towards any time period, no matter how short, that Arabs tried to erase all traces of Jewish history from certain areas?