A storm of controversy erupted on the Israeli right on Sunday after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett used the term “West Bank” rather than the traditional Jewish name “Judea and Samaria.”
Bennett used the term during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in the lead up to a joint summit in Israel’s Negev region between the US, Israel, and several Arab states.
Yigal Dilmoni, head of the umbrella settler organization the Yesha Council, said, “A statement like this is another degradation in values by the government. It adds to [the government’s] construction freeze and turning [its] back on the settlements. A government like this must be sent home.”
MK Ofir Sofer of the Religious Zionist party charged Bennett with “erasing his ideology” and said his use of the term “West Bank” is “very dangerous for the future of Judea and Samaria.”
The prime minister’s office said in a statement that he usually uses the term “Judea and Samaria” in both Hebrew and English, and that the remark was “accidental” and should carry “no special significance.”
(c) The Algemeiner Journal
About is accidental as Joe Bide’s comment that Putin needs to be removed as the Russian leader
Bennett is the first Israeli Prime Minister since Rabin to have NOT supported a Palestinian State. That is a much bigger deal than this choice of words.
Oh, okay
A zionist doesn’t change shades