Word: judea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends or so confounding to his critics as did Menachem Begin in his stewardship of that office. He came to power in 1977 after a campaign in which he advocated continued Israeli rule of captured Arab territories. Abrasive and seemingly uncompromising, he talked incessantly of Israel's claim to Judea and Samaria, that part of Israel along the West Bank of the Jordan River that was taken from Jordan in 1967, a territory now inhabited by 1 million Palestinians...
...achieved by a peace treaty with Syria. The same argument theoretically would apply to the West Bank, but security is only one reason for Israel's refusal to let go of that land; an equally important one is the strong religious attachment many Jews feel toward the biblical Judea and Samaria...
...impossible to imagine an America in a position of conflict and vulnerability analogous to Israel's. Milan Kundera once defined a small nation as "one whose very existence may be put in question at any moment; a small nation can disappear and knows it." Czechoslovakia is a small nation. Judea was. Israel...