Word: judea
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...before hundreds of cheering supporters last week in Tel Aviv at Likud headquarters?known as "the Castle"?to claim victory. He was asked, as Premier-designate, what his plans were for the occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza. "What occupied territories?" Begin roared. "If you mean Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, they are liberated territories, part of the land of Israel...
...Jewish Agency, headed by Ben-Gurion and other Zionist socialists. The agency sought a Jewish homeland through negotiation with the British and was willing to settle for a Jewish state coexisting with an Arab one in Palestine. The Irgun demanded all of Palestine and Transjordan; its motto: "Judea collapsed in fire and blood...
...Judea will rise in fire and blood...
...17th century might have knelt before the reliquary of Mary Magdalene's foot in the church of Sts. Celsus and Julian. To him it would have been an object dense in its reality and hallowed in association: one of the actual feet that propelled the repentant whore of Judea to her meeting with the Saviour, a direct link across a vaguely understood gulf of time to a crucial mythic event. Its apparent value as evidence was large...
...down that in return for peace we are prepared for territorial compromises." Specifically, as a starter, Rabin suggested the return of the West Bank city of Jericho to Jordan in return for a nonbelligerency pact. He was promptly challenged by religious Jews who marched 5,000 strong into biblical Judea and Samaria for a sitdown strike. The Israeli army managed to hold back all but about 300. One group of religious youths, led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, made their way into a 500-ft. gorge beside an old Turkish aqueduct to squat there until the army or hunger forced them...